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Anita Owen was an American composer and publisher of popular music believed to have been born in the 1870s. A prolific composer she is said to have written more than 200 works among them an opera and the radio signature song The Girl of Yesterday. In ragtime circles she is remembered for her cakewalk Dance of the Collywobbles (1899). She died in New haven, Connecticut.
List of Anita Owen's works.

Sheet Music:

  1. [§] Dance of the Collywobbles (1899), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass) Ditty Box Enterprises Listen. Artist: Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble
  2. [§] Fire Fly (1909), Descant/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass) Ditty Box Enterprises Listen. Artist: Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble
  3. [§] Sans Toi (1917), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass) Ditty Box Enterprises Listen. Artist: Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble
4. More sheet music at Ditty Box Enterprises
Websites:
Anita Owen , biography and list of works by "Perfessor" Bill Edwards
Ragtime Music CDs:
CD tracks/info Nora Hulse on "Cake Walks, Two Steps and Rags by Women Composers" 
CD tracks/info Nora Hulse on "Ragtime Refreshments"