Music

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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 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.”

Abstract The Dinah Shore collection consists of the personal and professional materials of Dinah Shore, an award-winning singer and television host. The collection spans the 1920s through the 2010s, with the bulk of the materials from 1960-1989, coinciding with the peak of Dinah’s television career. Materials include photographs (both professional and personal), newspaper clippings, limited correspondence, books and booklets, and manuscripts. Highlights include the professional photographs, which are...

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The Philip Slates Collection (3.36 linear feet) consists of autographs, music scores, sketches, essays, writings, letters, notes, drawings, newspaper clippings, event programs, photographs, and various administrative documents. The materials reflect the teaching and composition work of Slates (1924-1966) during his time as a faculty member at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee.

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The Stax Records Promotional Photographs collection consists of 48 promotional photographs of artists and musicians from the 1960s represented by the now legendary Stax Records Co. Studio in Memphis, including photographs of Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Staple Singers, Sam and Dave, Johnie Taylor, Booker T. & The M.G.’s, The Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd.

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The Irving Wolfe Collection reflects the work of Wolfe as a former Head of Division of Music at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee. It consists of materials related to music pedagogy for children including songbooks, music scores, lyric sheets, pamphlets, sound recordings, and letters and correspondence.

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The WSM Radio & Television Collection, 1928-1966, is composed of correspondence, photographs, scripts of the Grand Ole Opry and other radio programs, promotional material, and business papers of radio station WSM, 1925-present.