Having lived in Kansas for most of my life, I've been amazed at the variety of songs about the state. Please feel free to email me about songs I don't have here. For the most part, all these songs will have been written and will be arrangements published before 1923, or I will have permission from the composer. Any song published more recently than 1923 may be covered by copyright, so be careful. There are more notes at the bottom of the page. Any and all rights remain with the copyright holders, I've just tried to make a collection for reference.
I'd love to have a brief history on any of the composers or time periods referred to. If you've written a paper or have relevant information and would like to see it here, feel free to contact me. My purpose really is to make these songs available and understandable, but I have much music to enter, and no spare time to write histories.
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| Crimson and the Blue (1891) |
Fight for Kansas (1919) |
I'm a Jayhawk (1920) |
| Song of the Jayhawk (1948) |
We're from Kansas (1922) |
The format is basic HTML, nothing fancy. If I need to change anything, please let me know, on my browser they all look fine. MIDI files for the tunes are available for some, some are just the tune, some are the full arrangement, done with Noteworthy Composer. NWC files can be read with a free player available here
. If you need music, Noteworthy (and other music programs) can take MIDI files and turn them into written music.
For the most part I have no intention of making "great" MIDI files. On these songs with sheet music, I will attempt to make it clear when the song starts, but I'm not staying up at night worrying about it. For those who don't want to bother with Noteworthy, but want sheet music (and I really think you should check the program out, it's both inexpensive and easy to use), I have listed on each page where I got the music.
I will welcome contributions, either of lyrics and midis (if you made them) or of sheet music. The note I have about not owning any K-State music is quite true. Someplace I've got some old songs from Emporia State, but nothing from K-State. I'll also take suggestions for songs to look for, but make no promises as to when it might happen.
I'm also interested in information about the composers. The "mainstream" composers are probably well documented, but the Kansas State Historical Library has a large number of songs written by people who just loved the state. More information about these people would be welcomed.
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