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    Music from the Bob Hope collection, 1932-1997 In a career that spanned nearly seventy years, American comedian and entertainer Bob Hope performed in theater, radio, film, television, and numerous public appearances, including his tours in support of the U.S. military. Music from the Bob Hope Collection contains manuscript scores, instrumental parts, and lyrics for nearly 500 works used in Hope's films, television programs, and personal appearances. These materials are part of...
    • Contributor: Rogers, Shorty - Wolpe, Dave - Myers, Pete - Alberti, Bob (Pianist) - Perito, Nick - Hope, Bob - Hill, J. (James L.) - Harmon, Manny - Comstock, Frank
    • Date: 1932
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    A catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-06-26 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Stern, Alfred Whital
    • Date: 1960

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    The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."
    • Date: 1581

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    Amazing Grace This collection highlights the history of the hymn “Amazing Grace” from the earliest printing of the song to selected performances of it on published and field recordings. These items have been collected from several divisions in the Library of Congress, including the Music Division, the American Folklife Center, the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, and the Rare Books Division. Also available here...
    • Date: 1930

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    Jim the Penman Photocopy. [S.l. : s.n., 1991?] Piano or organ reduction for silent film. New
    • Date: 1991

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    Ragheb Moftah collection of Coptic Orthodox liturgical chants and hymns, 1926-1997 The collection consists of transcriptions of Coptic chant music by Ernest Newlandsmith and Margit Toth. Both contain transcriptions of the Liturgy of St. Basil. Basil. Marian Robertson Wilson created a guide to Moftah's audio tapes in 1996, which consists of transcriptions, transliterations and translations into English of the texts sung on the tapes. Wilson also devised a new order for the pieces on the...
    • Contributor: Wilson, Marian Robertson - Newlandsmith, Ernest - Moftah, Ragheb - Tóth, Margit
    • Date: 1926
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    America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Contains 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth century to the 1880s, although a majority of the song sheets were published during the height of the craze, from the 1850s to the 1870s. Held by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
    • Date: 1999

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    The Gerry Mulligan Collection [Portrait of Gerry Mulligan, ca. 1980s] by William P. Gottlieb. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. As a saxophonist, composer, arranger and band leader, Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) is a jazz legend. The Library of Congress serves as the repository for the Gerry Mulligan Collection, which it obtained in the late 1990s. In this initial Web offering, the Library of Congress is making available...
    • Contributor: Grusin, Dave - Mandel, Johnny - Cohn, AL - Dankworth, John - Boras, Tom - Handy, George - Forman, Mitchel - McFarland, Gary - Mulligan, Gerry - Holman, Bill - Lee, Julian - Brookmeyer, Bob
    • Date: 1940

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    Orchestration of Intolerance Photocopy. [S.l. : s.n., 1991?] Piano reduction of orchestral acc. for silent film. New
    • Date: 1991

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    K-4 Pacific vocal score | 1 score (13 p.) ; 29 x 44 cm. | Arranged by the composer for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone/clarinet, baritone saxophone, 2 trumptets, french horn, trombone, tuba, piano, bass, and drums. Manuscript score. On title page "1992". Copyright Gerry Mulligan. Used by permission. (Copyright Notice). Copyright Gerry Mulligan. Used by permission. (Copyright Notice). Vocal Score (Form). Manuscript Score (Form).
    • Contributor: Mulligan, Gerry
    • Date: 1992

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    Ella Fitzgerald collection, 1956-1992 Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) was a popular and highly-respected American jazz and pop vocalist and recording artist. The Ella Fitzgerald Collection chiefly consists of musical arrangements made for her by more than fifty arrangers and orchestrators. Arrangers whose works are found in this collection include Buddy Bregman, Benny Carter, Frank DeVol, Russ Garcia, Billy May, Marty Paich, Nelson Riddle, and Gerald Wilson. The arrangements consist...
    • Contributor: Carter, Benny - Riddle, Nelson - Ellington, Duke - Wilson, Gerald - Devol, Frank - Feller, Sid - Doggett, Bill - May, Billy - Fitzgerald, Ella - Hughart, Jim ... Carter, Benny - Riddle, Nelson - Ellington, Duke - Wilson, Gerald - Devol, Frank - Feller, Sid - Doggett, Bill - May, Billy - Fitzgerald, Ella - Hughart, Jim - Paich, Marty - Garcia, Russell - Holman, Bill - Bregman, Buddy - Weston, Paul - Bulling, Erich - Carson, Tee
    • Date: 1956
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    Tommy Newsom arrangements, 1947-1999 Tommy Newsom (1929-2007) was a saxophonist, arranger, bandleader, and composer. The collection contains musical arrangements that he wrote for dance band, symphonic orchestra, and small ensemble. The arrangements include manuscripts, printed copies, and photocopies for both full scores and orchestral parts. Most of the music dates from his thirty-year stint with the Tonight Show band. A few of the arrangements are by other arrangers...
    • Contributor: Newsom, Tommy
    • Date: 1947
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    Hymn of the Trisagion vocal score | 11 ½ x 9 in. ; 8 p. | From Moftah, Ragheb, Tóth, Margit, and Roy, Martha. The Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St. Basil with Complete Musical Transcription. Cairo: The American University Press in Cairo, 1998, pages 227-233 and 271. (Source Note). This work includes transcriptions by Hungarian ethnomusicologist, Margit Tóth, and it is the pinnacle of Moftah's long career of...
    • Contributor: Roy, Martha - The American University in Cairo Press - Moftah, Ragheb - Tóth, Margit
    • Date: 1998

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