Physical description:
4 items.
Dates:
Undated.
Provenance:
Purchased from Bibliophil, Nashville TN in October 1987.
Scope and Content:
Holograph copies of words and music for Now the Day is Over (soprano and bass); Slumber Song by H.R. Palmer; Hail to the Brightness by Handel (soprano and alto); and While Shepherds Watched by F.J. Zeisberg (soprano solo and chorus).
Location:
This material is filed by accession number with other miscellaneous
manuscript music.
MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT MUSIC
87-041
Physical description:
3 items.
Dates:
Undated.
Provenance:
Purchased from J and J Lubrano in November 1987.
Scope and Content:
Two holograph copies of words and music of Pyrmont I.M. Holograph copy of words only to the hymn O thou great God, whose piercing eye.
Location:
This material is filed by accession number with other miscellaneous manuscript music.
Physical description:
1 folio.
Dates:
Undated.
Provenance:
Purchased from Rare, Foreign and More, Nashville TN in October 1987.
Scope and Content:
Folio of holograph copies of Cavatevi [Cavatini?] Patroni with variations by C.A. Forster; When the Summer Sunlight Closes by Wilhelm Such; and The Pilgrim Fathers, words by Mrs. Herman and music by her sister Miss Brown. The fly leaf of the folio is inscribed "Presented to Miss Mary Jane Underwood by her friend Amelia W. Lichtenthacker [?], Bethlem Pennsylvania".
Location:
This material is filed by accession number with other miscellaneous manuscript music.
Physical description:
1 item.
Dates:
Undated.
Provenance:
Purchased from J and J Lubrano in June 1989.
Scope and Content:
Holograph copy of The Louile Waltz by J. Bonning [?].
Location:
This material is filed by accession number with other miscellaneous manuscript music.
Physical description:
2 items.
Dates:
Undated.
Provenance:
Purchased from J and J Lubrano in June 1989.
Scope and Content:
2 holograph copies of guitar music to Let Her Go Galop.
Location:
This material is filed by accession number with other miscellaneous manuscript music.
MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT MUSIC
88-067
Physical description:
3 items.
Dates:
Undated.
Provenance:
Purchased from J and J Lubrano in June 1989.
Scope and Content:
Holograph copy of Tell Me My Heart and of Peser's Highland March. Holograph copy of Negro Medley of Jordan Hard Road to Travel, Nip Cat [?] and Poor Uncle Robin's Gettin' Old selected and arranged by C.S. Grafula [?], New York bound with Negro Medley of Wait for the Waggon and Sweet Mississippi selected and arranged by C. S. Grafula [?], New York.
Location:
This material is filed by accession number with other miscellaneousmanuscript music.
Physical description:
6 items.
Date:
Undated.
Provenance:
These items were found in a published gospel song book purchased by the Center and transferred to the miscellaneous manuscript collection.
Scope and content:
Holograph copies of I'm A Pilgrim; Thorns and Roses (2 copies, one labelled "Tenor");A Message of Love; and Hymn to the Angels. The last copy, which appears to be a different handwriting from the other items, is signed Weldon Bond, Jefferson School.
Also a holograph copy of unidentified music signed by J.D. Shaver. Notes on the verso, presumably by Shaver, that he has made the copy for use in practices by an unidentified group; he also writes of "the poetry you sent me" and his difficulty to create a melody to suit the words.
MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT MUSIC 91-011
Physical description:
2 items.
Dates:
Undated.
Provenance:
Received with the papers of Margaret (Grooms) Ragland as of gift from Robley M. Ragland through his father Bob Ragland, Murfreesboro TN, son of Margaret Ragland.
Scope and content:
Holograph copies, presumably in the hand of Margaret (Grooms) Ragland of Mighty Lak a Rose by Ethelbert Nevin and Old Fashioned Garden by Cole Porter.
Location:
This material is filed by accession number with other miscellaneousmanuscript
music.