MUS/Cl. Classical

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This collection contains the musical score for "Cortex and Ankle: Songs after Texts of Christopher Middleton," composed by Michael Hersch, 2016.

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This collection consists of two autographed music manuscripts by Richard Danielpour titled "An American Requiem for Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone, Chorus (SATB), and Orchestra".

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This collection contains index card research and papers and sheet music created for classes with music professor Vernon Taylor of Peabody College.

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The Edwin A. Price, Jr. Collection contains 85 assorted theatre and concert programs from 1941-1958.

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The Albert Schweitzer Collection reflects Albert Schweitzer's life as a theologian, organist, doctor, and humanitarian. It consists of a diverse array of materials, including printed documents, correspondence, calendars, posters, printed music, and artifacts, many of which came from Tennessee Players, Inc. production of the show “The Words of Albert Schweitzer and the Music of Bach.”

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Alice Baldwin was a professor of history and administrator at the Woman’s College of Duke University. The collection comprises popular vocal sheet music originating from the early 20th century.

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This collection contains three pieces of sheet music written by Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. while he was stationed at Vanderbilt in 1944.

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This collection contains playbills and programs from orchestra concerts, operas, plays, and other performances.

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Isabel Howell served as a librarian at Vanderbilt University from 1931 to 1939. Her collection, spanning from 1843 to 1976, includes correspondence, sheet music, and writings by Howell and other authors.

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This collection contains 4 scrapbooks of theatre clippings and announcements of productions at Nashville theatres, including the Vendome Theatre and Masonic Theatre. The scrapbooks are dated 1879-1916.

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A working short-score manuscript for Sinfonisches Vorspiel for the entire work notated in pencil on 32-stave "Star Nr. 37" music manuscript paper, containing numerous corrections, amendations, directions, indications pertaining to scoring, and furnished with lists of numbers (in cm) indicating the space to be allowed for the width of each bar in the successive fair-copy autograph.

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The Louisa F. France Collection documents over six decades of musical performances staged in the United States and Europe. Measuring 4.2 linear feet, the collection is organized chronologically and represents a wide spectrum of classical performers and musical styles.

Abstract The Papers of Louis Thurston Nicholas, which cover the years 1894-2006, consist of 208 linear feet of material and are concerned with Nicholas’s personal and professional life. Major series in the papers include Personal and Professional Correspondence; material relating to his activities in the National Association of the Teachers of Singing (NATS); Personal and Biographical papers; his Musical and Academic Career and programs from the George Peabody College Concert Series; ...

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This collection is composed of .5 Hollinger box with ten folders inside. More specifically there is incoming correspondence to Brown, a press release and photo of Richard M. “Pek” Gunn, the Fulbright program from 1956 to 1957, a report of the Fulbright program, and the music program at Peabody College. Productions tied to Brown include the play “The Beautiful People,” sheet music to “My Homeland, Tennessee,” and various other performances. Finally, there are writings by Brown.