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    Richard Rodgers collection, 1917-1980 The collection primarily consists of Rodgers' music holographs--sketches, vocal scores (many with lyric sheets) and short scores. In addition, the collection includes full scores for eight of the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows. The collection also includes a small number of programs, photographs, miscellaneous papers, and other items.
    • Contributor: Hammerstein, Oscar, II - Hart, Lorenz - Rodgers, Richard
    • Date: 1917
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    Wililam A. Newland and Charles Zeuner collection of music, circa 1735-circa 1900 Primarily music (printed and manuscript) for piano, 2 or 4 hands, and songs, with a concentration in sacred vocal works in Latin and English. (The music in Latin may represent the only known source of pre-Cäcilienverein 19th-century American Catholic Church music.) Composers range from Mozart and Rossini to George F. Root and Oliver Shaw. The collection contains the largest extant source of music by...
    • Contributor: Newland, William Augustine - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Shaw, Oliver - Root, George F. (George Frederick) - Rossini, Gioacchino
    • Date: 1735
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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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    Billy Byers collection, 1964-1980 Billy Byers was a composer, arranger, orchestrator, and musician (trombonist). The collection primarily contains full scores in Byers' hand. It represents a sampling of Byers' work as a composer, arranger, and orchestrator. The material shows the diverse styles, musical forces, and variety of performing venues in which he worked. The scores include works for recordings, live performances, television, and film; for small combos, big...
    • Contributor: Byers, Billy
    • Date: 1964
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    Tams-Witmark (Original Library of Congress collection), 1701-1915 The Tams-Witmark Music Library was established in 1925 through the merger of the Arthur W. Tams Music Library and the rental library of M. Witmark & Sons. The Tams-Witmark (Original Library of Congress Collection) contains music (manuscript and printed scores) that was being performed in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The scope of the collection ranges from eighteenth-century...
    • Date: 1701
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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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    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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    Songs of Edward Lipton, 1967-1984 Edward Lipton (1934-2011) was a songwriter and performer primarily known for writing children's songs. The collection contains manuscript scores for songs he wrote for both children and adults. Many are accompanied by lyric sheets.
    • Contributor: Lipton, Ed
    • Date: 1967
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    Leo Feist collection, 1880-1930 Leo Feist was an American music publisher. The collection primarily consists of a set of twenty-six bound volumes containing most of the music published by Leo Feist Inc., between the years of 1880 and 1930. These include approximately 2000 titles, mostly of popular music. The collection also includes vocal scores for Paoletta, Irene, and M. Beaucaire, as well as a Feist dance folio of...
    • Contributor: Feist, Leo
    • Date: 1880
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    George L. Tracy collection of music manuscripts, 1877-1920 George Lowell Tracy was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and instructor. The collection documents his professional career as composer and arranger and is comprised entirely of music.
    • Contributor: Tracy, George Lowell
    • Date: 1877
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    Harry and Sara Lepman collection, 1890-1945 Dentist Harry Lepman and his wife Sara collected American political memorabilia and artifacts. The collection consists of sheet music, mostly songs, the majority of which were composed to rally public support for military efforts in the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II. The patriotic titles are enhanced by colorful cover art depicting American patriotic themes and images. Many notable songwriters of...
    • Contributor: Lepman, Harry - Lepman, Sara L.
    • Date: 1890
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    Lord Saltoun collection of guitar music, 1810-1850 The collection consists almost entirely of music manuscripts, most of which are in the hand of copyists, although the pieces dedicated to Lord Saltoun may be autograph manuscripts. There are approximately sixty compositions, including many arrangements and original works for guitar in various ensemble settings, several pieces for solo guitar, and a few short piano pieces.
    • Contributor: Legnani, Luigi - Giorgis, Domenico - Sor, Fernando - Molino, Francesco - Cimarosa, Domenico - Call, Leonhard Von - Ella, John - Paganini, Nicol - Carulli, Ferdinando - Saltoun, Alexander George Fraser, Lord
    • Date: 1810
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    Henry Cowell music manuscripts, 1909-1965 Henry Cowell was an American composer, theorist, writer, pianist, and teacher. A member of the 1920s "ultra-modernists," Cowell's experimental compositions explored a myriad of unusual instrumental techniques and non-Western musical sounds. Works such as The Aeolian Harp (1923), The Banshee (1925), and Mosaic Quartet (1935) are seminal examples of his exploration of 'tone clusters,' or secondal harmonies, for expanding the musical sound palette. Cowell...
    • Contributor: Cowell, Henry
    • Date: 1909
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    George H. Moss collection of sheet music, 1885-1935 George H. Moss (1923-2009) was a local historian in Monmouth County, New Jersey, who also had an interest in early American theater. The collection consists of printed sheet music dating between 1885 and 1935, the majority of which is for American popular songs dating from 1900 to 1925. The composers and music publishers represented in the collection include Irving Berlin, Fred Fisher, George Gershwin,...
    • Contributor: Stromberg, John - Silver, Abner - Cohan, George M. (George Michael) - Porter, Cole - Hubbell, Raymond - Berlin, Irving - Edwards, Gus - Gershwin, George - Levi, Maurice - Wenrich, Percy ... Stromberg, John - Silver, Abner - Cohan, George M. (George Michael) - Porter, Cole - Hubbell, Raymond - Berlin, Irving - Edwards, Gus - Gershwin, George - Levi, Maurice - Wenrich, Percy - Monaco, James V. - Robyn, Alfred G. (Alfred George) - Burke, Joe - Howard, Joseph E. (Joseph Edgar) - Van Alstyne, Egbert - Moss, George H. - Tierney, Harry - Von Tilzer, Harry - Meyer, George W. - Stamper, Dave - Fall, Leo - Warren, Harry - Carroll, Harry - Friml, Rudolf - Schwartz, Jean - Williams, Gus - Hoffmann, Max - Herbert, Victor - Caryll, Ivan - Kern, Jerome - Rodgers, Richard - Gumble, Albert - Fisher, Fred - Romberg, Sigmund - Donaldson, Walter - Hirsch, Louis A. (Louis Achille) - Hein, Silvio
    • Date: 1885
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    Med Flory arrangements for Supersax, 1970s-1980s Med Flory was an American saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and screenwriter. He began working on arrangements of Charlie Parker choruses in 1956 and eventually founded Supersax in 1972, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of Parker's repertoire. The collection contains manuscript scores and several parts for Flory's arrangements for Supersax.
    • Contributor: Flory, Med
    • Date: 1970
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    Anton Gloetzner music manuscripts, 1870-1920 Anton Gloetzner (1850-1928) was a German-American composer, organist, and educator who taught at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., from 1873 to 1928. The Anton Gloetzner Music Manuscripts consist of holograph scores, parts, and sketches for his original compositions and arrangements of works by other composers. A significant quantity of unprocessed sketch material remains; descriptions of these items will be added to the finding aid...
    • Contributor: Rheinberger, Josef - Wagner, Richard - Brahms, Johann - Gloetzner, Anton - Liszt, Franz
    • Date: 1870
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    Mayhew Lake music manuscripts, 1912-1955 Mayhew Lake was an American conductor, arranger, orchestrator, and educator who served as the editor-in-chief of the band and orchestra department at Carl Fischer music publishers for thirty-five years. The collection contains holograph music composed or transcribed by Lake and includes marches, a concerto, a rhapsody, songs, ensemble exercises, and two operas.
    • Contributor: Lake, Mayhew
    • Date: 1912
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    Arthur Foote music manuscripts, 1888-1919 Arthur Foote was a American composer, pianist, educator, and church musician. As a member of the Boston Six, also known as the Second New England School, Foote and his colleagues were considered pivotal in the establishment of American classical music. The collection contains ten of Foote's works, most of which are manuscripts in his hand. Included are scores for orchestral, chamber, and solo piano...
    • Contributor: Foote, Arthur
    • Date: 1888
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    Harry Tierney music manuscripts, 1929-1964 Harry Tierney (1890-1965) was an American musical theater composer and songwriter best known for the musical Irene, as well as many popular songs. He wrote and worked for multiple publishing companies before moving to musical theater and film scores in a career that spanned four decades. This collection primarily contains lead sheets, vocal parts, and lyric sheets for published and unpublished popular songs, as...
    • Contributor: Tierney, Harry
    • Date: 1929
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    Florence B. Price music manuscripts, 1928-1953 Florence B. Price was a composer and pianist who rose to prominence during the 1930s when she became the first African American woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. She is predominantly known for her songs and arrangements of spirituals, but also composed symphonies, concertos, instrumental chamber music, vocal compositions, instructional piano music, and music for radio. This finding aid...
    • Contributor: Tobin, Lew - Price, Florence
    • Date: 1928
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    Music of the Sousa Band and Victor Grabel, 1861-1954 Conductor, composer, and arranger John Philip Sousa shared a portion of his early music library with fellow band conductor, composer, and arranger Victor Grabel, a small section of which comprises this collection. The materials include arrangements and transcriptions of songs, arias, overtures, dances, and suites created for the Sousa Band, printed arrangements, and original compositions by Sousa and Grabel. The works are chiefly represented...
    • Contributor: Clarke, Herbert L. (Herbert Lincoln) - Boccavecchia, Giuseppe - Sousa, John Philip - Godfrey, Dan, Sir - Grabel, Victor
    • Date: 1861