Sheet music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Emma L. Ashford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0027
Abstract

The Emma L. Ashford collection is comprised mostly of music composed by Mrs. Ashford, as well as by others. Mrs. Ashford’s music is in both manuscript and printed form. Most of her works contained in this collection pertain to Vanderbilt University. All the printed works of other composers in the collection relate to Vanderbilt.

Dates: 1890s-1930

Lee H. Bristol, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0674
Abstract

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

Dates: 1944

Mary Bang Connell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0087
Abstract

This collection contains two flat boxes of sheet music, mostly from the turn of the twentieth century, collected by Mary Bang Connell of Nashville while she was attending Belmont College.

Dates: circa 1840-circa 1910

Cortex and Ankle Manuscript Score

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0947
Abstract

This collection contains the musical score for Cortex and ankle: songs after texts of Christopher Middleton, by Michael Hersch.

Dates: circa 2016

 

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