Content: On cover: As sung by Marie Dressler in "Courted into court." Cover includes a photograph by Elmer Chickering of Marie Dressler carrying a baton and leading various well-dressed guests who carry band instruments.
Content: Summary: The narrator describers her father as the leader of a band that no one wanted to hear; the President takes her father to be a drum major leaving his daughter (the narrator) to be the leader of the band.
Statement Of Responsibility: words by S.B. Alexander ; music by Summit L. Hecht.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (6 p.) ; 36 cm.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10826013
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21759246
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21760500
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f85fd410-c591-012f-d256-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

Date Issued

1897

Cite this item

MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "The daughter of the leader of the band" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1897. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f85fd410-c591-012f-d256-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1897). The daughter of the leader of the band Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f85fd410-c591-012f-d256-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "The daughter of the leader of the band" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f85fd410-c591-012f-d256-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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