Content: As sung by Bert Williams in 'Flo Ziegfeld's production Follies of 1910--Cover.
Content: Caption title.
Content: Cover illustrated by Gene Buck.
Content: Cover photograph, by White N.Y., of Bert Williams.
Content: First line of chorus: O that minor strain, Lawdy how that music creeps into my brain.
Content: First line of text: Miss Janie Shadd was music mad.
Content: For voice and piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Statement Of Responsibility: words by Cecil Mack ; music by Ford Dabney.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (4 p.) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Center seam separated and repaired with tape; edges torn.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPG00-C121
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14693447
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d4b30270-c5fe-012f-ae06-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "That minor strain" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d4b30270-c5fe-012f-ae06-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1910). That minor strain Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d4b30270-c5fe-012f-ae06-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "That minor strain" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d4b30270-c5fe-012f-ae06-58d385a7bc34

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