Sheet music
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Emma L. Ashford Papers
The Emma L. Ashford Papers, 1890-1930, primarily consists of music composed by Emma Louis Hindle Ashford, 1850-1930.
Lee H. Bristol, Jr. Collection
This collection contains three pieces of sheet music written by Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. while he was stationed at Vanderbilt in 1944.
Burge Plantation Spirituals Collection
The Burge Plantation Spirituals Collection, 1920-1929, consists of approximately 600 spirituals sung by the descendants of enslaved workers on Burge Plantation, recorded by Dorothy Gray Bolton, 1880-1964, descendant of Burge Plantation owners, and annotated by composer Harry T. Burleigh, 1866-1949, and photographs of the African American men and women who lived and worked at Burge in the early twentieth century.
Mary Bang Connell Collection
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.
Cortex and Ankle Manuscript Score
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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