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Blue Danube blues

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Item data

Title

Blue Danube blues

Collection

Sheet music of songs from various musicals, plays, movies, and television (M.C. file)
Sheet music, 1921.

Names

Caldwell, Anne, 1867-1936 (Lyricist)
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 (Composer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1921
Place: New York
Publisher: T.B. Harms

Library Location

Music Division
Shelf locator: M.C. (Good morning, dearie, 1921)

Subjects

Songs

Genres

Sheet Music
Scores

Notes

Content: First line of chorus: Bluest of the blue.
Content: First line of text: When a chap would utter words to make him stutter to a girlie sweet.
Content: For piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Content: Staged by Edward Royce--Cover.
Content: Sung by the characters Bill and Rosemarie.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Statement Of Responsibility: words by Anne Caldwell ; music by Jerome Kern.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 vocal score (6 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPG99-C273
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14533094
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 827d90d0-c5ff-012f-c7b1-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Blue Danube blues" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1921. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/827d90d0-c5ff-012f-c7b1-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1921). Blue Danube blues Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/827d90d0-c5ff-012f-c7b1-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Blue Danube blues" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/827d90d0-c5ff-012f-c7b1-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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