May Pollard printed music scores and music manuscripts, ca. 1887-1949

MLMSS 8740/Boxes 1X-2X

fonds

ca. 1887-1949

Textual Records, Manuscript Notated Music, Notated Music

412228

0.47 metres of textual material (2 outsize boxes)

May Pollard, was born in 1868 at Launceston, Tasmania. She was the daughter of James Joseph Pollard founder of 'Pollard's Liliputian Opera Company', a children's opera company mainly made up of Pollard's own large family. May Pollard toured New Zealand and India with Pollard's Junior Opera Company and at the age of fifteen joined J. C. Williamson. She later played in London. May Pollard died in 1970.

Music scores, mainly printed, along with some ms.items.

BOX 1X
Printed music scores and albums published in Australia and overseas, ca. 1887-1949:

Piano sheet music mainly published in Australia includes compositions by Maurice Randall, and Percy Grainger, ca. 1910-1918

Songbooks and albums of popular songs mainly published in Australia, includes Songs my mother taught me and Three O’Clock in the Morning: Allan & Co, Favourite Songs Album: Albert & Son, Beloved It Is Morn, Jealousy and Bird Songs at Eventide: Chappell and Co, Songs of Old London: J.H. Larway, Palings Album Series No. 23 National & Patriotic Songs, ca. 1912, 1929-1942

Musical and movie scores including Love is All from It’s a Date, Irving Berlin’s Russian Lullaby and song from J.C. Williamson’s South Pacific and songs by Walter Donaldson, some signed by May Pollard/May Edwards, ca. 1927-1949

Popular music scores for voice and piano, mainly love songs published overseas some signed by May Pollard/May Edwards, includes The Life of a Rose : Boosey & Co signed by composer Liza Lehman, She is Far From the land signed by composer Frank Lambert and A Lover In Damascus signed by Amy Woodforde-Finden, ca. 1892-1946

Vocal scores mainly published overseas, mainly German and Italian by Erik Meyer-Helmund and Brahms album for piano with German words and Vorrei signed by F. Paolo Tosti, ca. 1887-1920

Extracts from Palings Xmas Annual No. 26 with picture of Dame Nellie Melba, no date

BOX 2X
Piano music scores published overseas, ca. 1891-1914

Vocal scores for comic operas and operettas including Ivanhoe and The Gondoliers : Chappell & Co, La Cigale and The Scarlet Feather signed by Harry Greenbank : Hopwood & Crew, ca. 1889-1919

Manuscript music scores, ca. 1905:
Life and O Wondrous Day by Frances E. Bone for piano, no date
Moonstruck, Philosophy and In My Aeroplane for piano, no date
A Bowl of Roses, by Robert Coningsby Clarke, ca. 1905
Mary, Our farm, The Rosary, Sleep On, no date

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