Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI Search this
Physical description:
[3] pages of music 35 cm
Type:
Songs and music
Advertisements
Sheet music covers
Sheet music
Place:
United States
Date:
1918
1911-1920
1910-1920
Notes:
Illustrated title page features a large biplane in flight among the clouds. On the corners of the page are four ace playing cards with portraits of pilots
Publisher's advertisement on page following the last page of music showing the chorus of a song: There waves the flag / words by Charles Horwitz ; music by Gaston Borch. Text of the verses also included. Back page, captioned "Big 5 hits," has incipits for piano pieces: Fighting tommies : Great Britain's pride : march / by John Boulton. Aces high : over the clouds : march / by Ed. Roberts. Hunkatin : a half-tone one-step / Sol P. Levy. Blue devils : Alpine chasseurs : march / by Sol P. Levy. Over the top, boys : march / by S.M. Berg
For piano
Also available online
Another copy with different illustration on title page in the NASMRB Landauer collection
