From Camp-Fire Musings by William Cunningham Gray, 1894.

From Na Úsvitě Nové Doby by Josef Jakub Touzinsky, 1848.

"A probable combustion," from Elizabeth College's Caps and Belles yearbook, 1901.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

"There is dark, and there is light": a musical Yin/Yang from Beauty and the Beast: A Humorous Cantata by Edmund Rogers, 1882.  Note how the sharp and double-sharp symbols offer shimmers of light.

You've heard of "a little night music," but here's how it's properly notated.  From Очеркъ тысячелѣтней борьбы Балтійско-Полабскаго Славянства съ Нѣмцами до возрожденія Сербо-Лужицкаго племени, 1897.

"I'm/he's sole captain of this fine vessel.  Blow, my bonny boys, blow."  From Home-Theatricals Made Easy, or, Busy, Happy, and Merry by Frances Elizabeth Callow, 1891.

Luckily, our organ has a stop for "Trumpets behind the scenes."  From The Echo, An Opera in One Act by Frank Patterson, 1922.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

She's "at it," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

The music of the future will be notated on cats' whiskers, as we see in The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

Ramses the Great as depicted in Sketches in Egypt by Charles Dama Gibson, 1899.  (The likeness is uncanny!)

"The 'Big Drum' in a state of abstraction," from Tom Burke of Ours by Charles James Lever, in Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"Auld Lang Syne" traces back to times long past, as we see in St. Nicholas magazine, 1909.