New York: May 31, 1946. She Broke the Color Barrier in American Opera. In 1946, the year Van... Read More about Portrait photograph of soprano Camilla Williams
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Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press for Private Distribution, [October], 1897. First edition, number 41 of 100 copies. RARE — One of 100 Copies. Read More about Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat
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Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1830. "Neue, unveränderte Ausgabe". Third (revised) edition (first published 1802 and 1817). The Father of Acoustics. Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827) was a German physicist, amateur musician and instrument maker. Fascinated by the phenomenon of sound, Chladni estimated the speed of sound and is now famous..... Read More about Die Akustik
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Carls[---indecipherable]: 1846. Read More about Choix d'airs pour une Flûte avec accompagnement de Guitare
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Atlanta, GA: Conference on Education and Race Relations, n.d. [ca.1936]. The songs were selected from the anthology "Southland Spirituals" (Rodeheave Hall-Mack Co, 1936). Inserted in this copy is a program from the American Friendship Candle Light Service, February 9, 1941, from the Grace Universalist Church (Franklin, Massachussetts), and a few..... Read More about Songs of the South. Words and Music of 17 Favorite Negro Spirituals
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N.p., [Watertown or Woburn, Mass.]: n.d. [ca 1731]. Fascinating early colonial American manuscript book of tunes, with family provenance suggesting connections to Watertown and Woburn, Mass. The manuscript is a compilation of psalm and hymn tunes, with some material deriving from the two American tune books published in the 1720s. There..... Read More about American Manuscript Tune Book, 1731/2
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New York: January 14, 1940. Superb, large portrait of the singer, taken a year after the famous incident in 1939 when she was banned by the Daughters of the American Revolution from singing at concert in Constitution Hall (prompting Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation from the DAR). Her popularity soared all the..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Marian Anderson
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Venice: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1770. No Copy in OCLC. A truly magnificent and well-preserved example of this genre of liturgical printing in both red and black, which, in design and format, carried on with the manuscript tradition, but which, by the late 18th century, had already become impractical. For obvious..... Read More about Antiphonarium Romanum de tempore et sanctis ad normam Breviarii ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii...
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New York: May 17, 1960. Read More about Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen
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[np]: 4 February 1970. Armstrong graciously and innocently responds to a party representing himself as "The American Hall of Fame Library": "I received your very fine letter. And it made me feel very happy. That is the nicest thing that has happen [sic] to me since I have been playing..... Read More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED ("SATCHMO / LOUIS ARMSTRONG"
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First Edition. Interesting inscription, "Purchased at a concert given by some of the students from Hampton .....Brooklyn" These concerts were a fund raising campaign for Virginia Hall. Read More about Hampton and Its Student by Two of Its Teachers With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by...
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Chicago and New York: McKinley Music Company, 1897. Turn-of-the-Century Sheet Music. “How many times I've wandered with a home-made rod and line / To the softly running brook and shady glen...”. An attractive turn-of-the-century angling item. Read More about When I Was a Boy: sheet music
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New York: Alfred Scott Publisher, [1946]. First Edition. Read More about Carnegie Hall Program, SIGNED BY CLAUDIO ARRAU
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New York: Alfred Scott Publisher, [1945]. First Edition. Read More about Carnegie Hall Program, SIGNED BY CLAUDIO ARRAU
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London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1888. First edition, Number 45 of only 100 copies on Large Paper. Read More about Modern Street Ballads
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Los Angeles: 29 March 1993. "if it was easy everyone would be doing it" Responding to Hartley's enquiry into the importance of education to his career. The Cowboy-singer responded "I have always considered a good education extrememly important and one of the best tools to take along with you in..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Gene"
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Glasgow: John S. Marr, 1866. First edition. Read More about One Hundred Songs
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London: Princes Theatre, St. James's Square, n.d [received 20 Nov. 1849]. Notifying the editor of Fraser's that he and a friend will be places on the Dramatic Free List of the Theatre and that they would appreciate his friendly support. Morris (1800-1856) was an actor and also wrote several comedies..... Read More about Autograph letter in the third person “Mr. Morris Barnett and Mr. John Barnett”
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n.p. [Paris?]: n.d [ca. 1920-1954]. Inscribed to his Sister. A lyrical piece in A minor, with a central section in A major, composed for the piano and inscribed by Lionel Barrymore to his sister: “Dédieé à Mlle. Ethel Barrymore.” Barrymore composed a variety of music, from solo pieces to large orchestral works..... Read More about Autograph music manuscript, "Ossity Hongroise, op. trente"
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London: Printed & Sold by J. Fentum No. 78 corner of Salisbury Street, Strand, n.d. [c. 1770-1781]. A Jovial Jig to TNUC. A very rare bawdy song issued by Fentum, music engraver, seller and publisher, who was at this address from ca. 1770-1781. The key is in F, the meter..... Read More about T N U C or the Roundelay
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À Vienne: chez Hoffmeister & Comp; à Leipsic :; Chez Hoffmeister et Kühnel au Bureau de musique, [1802]. First edition thus. Publisher's Catalogue No 110 & 111. Price engraved titles: 1 Rthlr. Beethoven's septet for woodwinds, arranged for string quintet by Hoffmeister and published thus for the first time. Read More about Quintetto pour deux violons, deux altos et violoncelle ... Oeuvre 20 No. I [ ... No. II
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![Sechs Lieder von [Christian Fürchtegott] Gellert, am Klavier zu singen ... [Opus No. 48]....](/pictures/thumb/220648.jpg?v=1534805042)
Bonn: bey N. Simrock, n.d. [ca. 1803]. Later issue (?0 of ca. 1803 ed., without the price and publisher's no. on title page. The exact date of the composition of Opus 48 (six songs for voice and piano) has not been definitely established, but the last was finished no later..... Read More about Sechs Lieder von [Christian Fürchtegott] Gellert, am Klavier zu singen ... [Opus No. 48
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New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed a role in the film Carmen Jones, and in the year Van Vechten photographed him in this series, Belafonte was starring in the Broadway musical "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", for which he..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte in "Almanac"
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New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed a role in the film Carmen Jones, and in the year Van Vechten photographed him in this series, Belafonte was starring in the Broadway musical "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", for which he..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte in "Almanac"
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New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Reproduced (this very print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl van Vechten (1978). Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed a role in the film Carmen Jones, and in the year Van Vechten photographed him in this series, Belafonte..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte, face uplifted in song, in "Almanac"
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Richmond, IL: May 14, 1886. Bennett (1836-1898) composed the lyrics to what was to become one of America’s most well known hymns in 1861, with music by Joseph P. Webster. The account of its composition, in less than 30 minutes, is given in this manuscript “History”: “… I said, ‘Webster, what..... Read More about Autograph Transcription, signed (“S. Fillmore Bennett”), of his hymn “The Sweet...
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