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Book/Printed Material Jerome Kern collection

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Title

  • Jerome Kern collection

Created / Published

  • Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005, monographic.

Headings

  • -  Kern, Jerome -- 1885-1945
  • -  Kern, Jerome -- 1885-1945 -- Correspondence
  • -  Saddler, Frank.
  • -  Bennett, Robert Russell -- 1894-1981
  • -  Composers -- United States -- Correspondence -- Catalogs
  • -  Musicals -- Scores
  • -  Musicals -- Vocal scores with piano -- Catalogs
  • -  Musical sketches -- Catalogs

Genre

  • finding aid

Notes

  • -  Finding aid to the Jerome Kern collection (1874-1961, bulk 1910-1961), Music Division, Library of Congress.
  • -  The Library of Congress also has other Kern material classified elsewhere in the Music Division: scores, full and vocal, holograph and Saddler and Bennett mss., scripts, and correspondence.
  • -  Jerome David Kern, composer, well known for his musicals which were produced from 1906 to 1939. He was born Jan. 27, 1885, and died Nov. 11, 1945, in New York City.
  • -  The bulk of the material, discovered in a Warner Bros. warehouse in Secaucus, N.J., in 1982, was acquired from Betty Kern-Miller (the composer's daughter) between 1986 and 1990. Additional items were donated by Rodgers & Hammerstein, T.B. Harms, and John McGlinn, or purchased.
  • -  Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress. (statement of responsibilty)
  • -  Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Music Division, 2006. (statement of responsibilty)

Form

  • PDF Document
  • print

Extent

  • 144 p. ; 21 cm.

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Jerome Kern collection. Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., monographic, 2005. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200033531/.

APA citation style:

(2005) Jerome Kern collection. Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., monographic. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200033531/.

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Jerome Kern collection. Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., monographic, 2005. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200033531/>.