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Edison Sheet Music Collection, 1830-1958, (bulk 1890-1940)

Title: Edison Sheet Music Collection 1830-1958 (bulk 1890-1940)

The collection consists chiefly of American sheet music published in the United States between the years 1830-1930. While a significant minority of the music in the collection is instrumental music, the vast majority is for voice and piano. Notable in this collection are imprints from California dating from before 1850, first editions by Irving Berlin and others, and many European imprints among the instrumental pieces.

ArchivalResource: circa 13,000 items; 148 containers; 444 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002003 View

The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording], 1940-1968

Title: The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording] 1940-1968

Weekly 30-minute NBC radio broadcasts, featuring classical and light classical music, which began on Apr. 29, 1940 and continued until 1958. In September, 1959, the Bell Telephone Hour made its television debut as a monthly musical special. It remained a regular television program until April 26, 1968. Library's holdings incomplete. Broadcasts chiefly originated from New York City, sponsored by the Bell Telephone Company (American Telephone and Telegraph). Each 30-minute program generally features a guest singer or instrumentalist, with the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, conducted by Donald Voorhees, and the Bell Telephone Hour Chorus. Frequent guest artists include Marian Anderson, Robert Casadesus, Nelson Eddy, Josef Hofmann, Fritz Kreisler, Oscar Levant, James Melton, Grace Moore, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Bidú Sayão, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas, Helen Traubel, and Eileen Farrell. Chief announcer: Floyd Mack.

ArchivalResource: 1579 sound discs

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20502 View

Hungerpiller, John C. John C Hungerpiller papers, 1872-1978 (bulk, 1907-1978).

Title: John C Hungerpiller papers, 1872-1978 (bulk, 1907-1978).

Consisting chiefly of correspondence and other papers re Hungerpiller's anthology, South Carolina Literature (1931), including correspondence with authors, and replies (1928) to his survey of principals and teachers re the need for an anthology which could be used as a text in schools. Also including manuscript poetry by John C Hungerpiller; circular letters of the S.C. Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association; and manuscript, 14 Mar. 1924, "Specific Working Plans for the Co-operative Teaching of English in All Subjects," a paper read by Hungerpiller before the Department of Teachers of English of the S.C. Teachers Association. Correspondents include Lily Strickland Anderson, Henry Bellamann, John Bennett (12 Aug. 1922), W.G. Blake (1 Aug. [19]27), DuBose Heyward, Edwin Nungezer (4 Nov. 1927, 9 Jan. 1931), Julia Peterkin ([1931]), James Henry Rice, Jr. (16 July 1925), Franklin D. Roosevelt (14 Nov. 1932), Archibald Rutledge (12 July 1928, 10 Aug. 1933), Stanhope Sams (2 Feb. 1931). Other correspondents include Herbert Ravenel Sass, E.T.H. Shaffer, Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons (27 Aug. 1925, 4 Sept. 1925), Yates Snowden (21 Jan. [19]29, [ca. 1929]), William Peterfield Trent (25 Sept. 1930), Patterson Wardlaw (14 June 1930), and George Armstrong Wauchope (6 May 1922). Bound volumes, 1872-1977, include 3 volumes, 1911-1932, re farm accounts of tenants of James Edward Hungerpiller, of Elloree, S.C.; record of sales, 1930-1933, of his book, South Carolina Literature, during depth of the Great Depression; and photocopied volume, 1977, genealogical charts and notes re the Hungerpiller family. Microfilm reel (R809) contains 211 printed items, 1924-1974, newspaper articles re various S.C. authors; reviews of their works; published poetry, and Patterson Wardlaw; editorial, 18 Aug. 1940, published in The State newspaper, "The Negro and the New Deal: Archibald Rutledge in The South Atlantic Monthly"; newspaper article, 9 July 1967, "Years in College--Remembered" by Archibald Rutledge; and essay, 14 Apr. 1940, re visit of Marquis de Lafayette to South Carolina during March 1825 . Reel also includes obituary notices of Bernard M. Baruch, John Bennett, Julia Peterkin, Alexander S. Salley, Stanhope Sams, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Patterson Wardlaw, and Yates Snowden.

ArchivalResource: 843 items and 6 v.1 reel microfilm (35 mm. : negative)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37216381 View

Church, Frank M. Your eyes met mine : sonnet / words by Lily Strickland ; music by Frank M. Church.

Title: Your eyes met mine : sonnet / words by Lily Strickland ; music by Frank M. Church. 195-?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([4] p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78762783 View

Strickland, Lily, 1887-1958. Pickaninny sleep-song / words by Van Zandt Wheeler ; music by Lily Strickland.

Title: Pickaninny sleep-song / words by Van Zandt Wheeler ; music by Lily Strickland. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 2 ms. scores ([2], [3] p.) ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24084604 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View

Strickland, Lily, 1887-1958. Spring rapture / words by Teresa Strickland ; music by Lily Strickland.

Title: Spring rapture / words by Teresa Strickland ; music by Lily Strickland. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([5] p.) ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24084606 View

Christopher A. Reynolds Collection of Women's Song, circa 1800-1985

Title: Christopher A. Reynolds Collection of Women's Song circa 1800-1985

Christopher A. Reynolds, Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis, has identified and collected sheet music written by women composers active in North America and England. This collection contains over 2200 songs and song publications mostly published between 1850 and 1950. The collection is primarily made up of songs, but there are also many works for solo piano as well as anthems and part songs. In addition there are books written by the women song composers, a letter written by Virginia Gabriel in the 1860s, and four letters by Mrs. H.H.A. Beach to James Francis Cooke from the 1920s.

ArchivalResource: 8.4 linear feet

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1t1nf085 View