University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Archives and Special

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Archives and Special

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Archives and Special Collections
Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives
Emily Motta Sheet Music Collection
MC 103/PAA
Extent: .5 linear feet (1 small manuscript box)
Biographical Note: Emily Motta, the daughter of João Carlos da Motta, was a graduate of the
New England Conservatory (Boston) who had a fairly successful career as a piano and singing
teacher in New Bedford during the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s; she was also the
organist for Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church.
Scope and contents note: The collection consists of sheet music for twenty-six, Portuguese
language, songs published between 1915 and 1935.
Acquisition: Collection gifted by, the great-nephew of Emily Motta, Arthur Motta.
Language: Materials entirely in Portuguese
Access: unrestricted
Copyright: Retained by publisher. Any use of the sheet music beyond research purposes is
prohibited without written permission of the publishing company.
Repository: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American
Archives, Claire T. Carney Library, 285 Old Westport Road, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747.
Telephone: 508-999-8684.
Processing note: March 2011 by Sonia Pacheco
Inventory:
Music
Abranches,
Albino
Andrade,
Ilídio
Babo,
Lamartine
Lyrics
João de
Vasconcellos
e Sá
José Barbosa
Lamartine
Babo
Title
O teu sorriso
Genre
Fado
Editor
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
Date
1935
A Guarda da
Chuva (Marcha
da revista
“Lanterna
Mágica”)
Linda Morena
March
Evaristo P.
Sousa, Ponta
Delgada
1938
March
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
1933
Bernard,
Wilfred A.
Entre-Nous
Polka
Canaro, F.
Nobleza de
Arrabal
Tango
Coelho,
Alves
Coelho,
Alves e Raúl
Portella
Ernesto
Rodrigues,
Felix
Bermudes,
João Bastos e
Henrique
Roldão
Silva
Tavares,
António
Carneiro and
José Romano
Ruy Coelho
Cantiga Nova
(da Revista
“Lua Nova”)
Wilfred A.
Bernard Fall
River, MA
Breyer
Hermanos,
Buenos Aires
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
1900
c. 1920
c. 1920
Fado do
Trabalho
Fado
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
c. 1920
Hino do
Ressurgimento
As Moleiras
Hymn
1933
Fado March
Selfpublished
Lisbon
1934
Sedução
Waltz
Lisbon
1935
Terras de
Portugal
A Gruta (da
opereta “A
Moreninha”)
Fado March
Lisbon
1934
Opereta
Valentim de
Carvalho,
Lisbon
1912
Maldito Fado
Fado
A. Moraes,
Lisbon
c. 1918
Greco,
Vicente
Ojos Negros
Tango
c. 1920
Lemos,
António
Orchideas
Waltz
Breyer
Hermanos,
Buenos Aires
União,
Portugal,
Porto
Lithografia
Alves, Lisbon
Lithografia
Alves, Lisbon
Breyer
Hermanos,
Buenos Aires
Coelho, Ruy
Cruz e Sousa
Cruz e Sousa
Dr. José
Galhardo
Mário
Marques
Cruz e Sousa
Duarte,
Filippe
Ferrão, Raúl
Limpos,
Bertha Rosa
Limpos,
Bertha Rosa
Lomuto, Fco
D. José Paulo
de Câmara e
Luna de
Oliveira
Redro
Bandeira and
Álvaro Leal
Laura Chaves
Laura Chaves
Adolfo C.
Herschel
Trovas Simples
no. 1
Trovas Simples
no. 2
Muñequita
Tango
c. 1915
1927
1927
1920
Menano,
Francisco
Menano,
Francisco
Menano,
Francisco
Menano,
Francisco
Monteiro, Dr.
Bento
Orejon, F.
Pacheco,
Luiz
Pinto, Xouxa
Sarti, Alberto
Francisco
Menano
Francisco
Menano
Francisco
Menano
Francisco
Menano
C.el Cardoso
dos Santos
Pedro
Bandeira
Luiz Pacheco
Xouxa Pinto
José Coelho
da Cunha
Sarti, Alberto Dr. Arthur
Taveira
Victoria, João Traditional
verses
A minha
guitarra
Amor perdido
Fado Antigo
Um sonho
desfeito
Novos de
Portugal
O Tejo
Responsário IX
: Libera,
Espírito Santo
Os teus olhos
tentadores
Rouxinol
Mulher
Portugueza
Virgem Linda
Coimbra
Fado
Coimbra
Fado
Coimbra
Fado
Coimbra
Fado
Hymn
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
Sassetti &
Co., Lisbon
Portugal
Tango
A. Moraes,
Lisbon
1929
Fado
Jayme Pinto
c. 1920
Fado
P. Santos &
Co., Lisbon
Sarti, New
Bedford, MA
Portugal
c. 1915
March
Arrependimento Brazilian
Waltz
c. 1930
c. 1930
c. 1930
c. 1922
1933
1921
c. 1920