- Title Information
- Title
- If the man in the moon were a coon
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Fisher, Fred
- Name Part:
Date
- 1875-1942
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- composer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Murray, Elizabeth
- Name Part:
Date
- 1870-1946
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- performer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Bonita
- Name Part:
Date
- b. 1885
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- performer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Carus, Emma
- Name Part:
Date
- 1879-1927
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- performer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Moore, George Austin
- Name Part:
Date
- b. 1876
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- performer
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Nichols Sisters
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- performer
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Will Rossiter (Music publisher)
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- publisher
- Type of Resource
- notated music
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Geographic Area Code)
- ilu
- Place Term:
Text
- Chicago, Ill.
- Publisher
- Will Rossiter
- Date Issued
- 1905
- Issuance
- monographic
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Form (marcform)
- print
- Extent
- 8 p.
- Note:
Statement of Responsibility
- by Fred Fischer
- Note
- For voice and piano
- Note
- Cover title
- Note
- At head of title on cover: "A combination of classical music & comical words"
- Note
- At head of caption title: "Biggest ’hit’ in 20 years"
- Note
- As sung by: Elizabeth Murray, Ferguson & Passmore, Emma Weston, and others
- Note
- Variant advertisements
- Note
- Cover illustration: drawing of elderly Black man entering chicken house, under a moon with a Black man's face; photograph of Elizabeth Murray
- Note
- Also published for: violin, violoncello, trombone, cornet, and orchestra accompaniment
- Note
- Library's cop. 1 has stamp on cover: H. Lockwood Abrams, Jr.
- Note
- Cover photographs: cop. 2, the Nichols Sisters; cop. 3, Bonita; cop. 4, Emma Carus; cop. 5, George Austin Moore
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- African Americans
- Topic
- Songs and music
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Popular music
- Geographic
- United States
- Subject (LCSH)
- Geographic
- Moon
- Topic
- Songs and music
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- African American Sheet Music
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/afam/index.html
- Identifier:
COLID
- 3
- Record Information
- Record Content Source
- RBN
- Record Creation Date
(encoding="marc")
- 981204
- Record Identifier
(source="RPB")
- b27286770
- Part
- Extent
- Start
- 2
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.