Description
Author: Daniel Decatur Emmett
Publisher: The F. J. H. Publishing Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Format: Vintage sheet music
Date of Publication: early 20th century (Beaux Arts Edition)
Condition:
Good. Original early 20th-century sheet music with age toning, edge wear, and light surface wear consistent with age and handling. Minor creasing and small edge wear present. Interior music pages remain intact and legible. Paper is fragile. Preserved in an archival sleeve.
Description:
Dixie Land is a patriotic song credited to Daniel Decatur Emmett, one of the most influential American songwriters of the 19th century. Emmett is best known as the composer of “Dixie,” one of the most recognizable and historically complex songs in American musical history, as well as a foundational figure in early American popular music and minstrel-era composition.
This Beaux Arts edition presents the song within a patriotic visual framework, featuring an illustrated eagle and flowing American flag motif rendered in a restrained blue-and-cream palette. The design reflects early 20th-century efforts to frame familiar songs within refined, decorative settings suitable for home performance and display.
The interior includes additional period music, reinforcing the publication’s role as part of the patriotic and popular song tradition that bridged the 19th and early 20th centuries. This is an original period printing, not a reproduction, and survives as a historically significant example of American song publishing and patriotic imagery.