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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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    Charles Hambitzer music manuscripts, circa 1910-1918 Charles Hambitzer (1878 or 1881-1918) was an American pianist, teacher, and composer. His best known piano student was the teenage George Gershwin. Hambitzer's compositions include orchestral tone poems, incidental music for plays, two operettas, and a variety of shorter pieces.
    • Contributor: Hambitzer, Charles
    • Date: 1910
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    Lauro Ayestarán collection, 1830-1966 The collection consists primarily of art and popular music scores and holographs written by Uruguayan composers, with a comprehensive sample of the best composers in each group. In addition, there is a representative number of works written by European composers who settled in Montevideo during the 19th century, mainly from Spain and Italy. Included are photographs of the holographic items, as well as portraits...
    • Contributor: Ayestarán, Lauro
    • Date: 1830
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Edison sheet music collection, 1830-1958 The collection consists chiefly of American sheet music published in the United States between the years 1830-1930. While a significant minority of the music in the collection is instrumental music, the vast majority is for voice and piano. Notable in this collection are imprints from California dating from before 1850, first editions by Irving Berlin and others, and many European imprints among the instrumental...
    • Contributor: Pixley, Frank - Meyerbeer, Giacomo - Johnson, Howard - Grobe, Charles - Millöcker, Carl - Heller, Stephen - Russell, Henry - Gilbert, L. Wolfe (Louis Wolfe) - Maylath, H. (Heinrich) - Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache) ... Pixley, Frank - Meyerbeer, Giacomo - Johnson, Howard - Grobe, Charles - Millöcker, Carl - Heller, Stephen - Russell, Henry - Gilbert, L. Wolfe (Louis Wolfe) - Maylath, H. (Heinrich) - Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache) - Meyer, Louis - Weatherly, F. E. (Frederic Edward) - Grant, Bert - Kinkel, Charles - Herz, Henri - Cooper, George - Sudds, William F. - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Moelling, Theodore - Sterling, Andrew B. - Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare) - Jerome, William - Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) - Holland, Justin - Lamb, Arthur J. - Bryan, Alfred - Whiting, Richard A. - Kahn, Gus - Young, Joe - Webster, Joseph Philbrick - Root, George F. (George Frederick) - Strelezki, Anton - Dubin, AL - Bellak, Ja's (James) - Harrigan, Edward - Maeder, J. Gaspard (James Gaspard) - Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay) - Mack, Edward
    • Date: 1830
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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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    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