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Alliker Sheet Music Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-MUS-002
Scope and Contents

Sampling of various kinds of popular songs arranged for voice and piano, many with guitar, ukulele, and/or banjo chords. Among them: "Till the end of Time" based on Chopin; "Tom Dooley" arranged by Alan Lomax; and "The Waltz You Saved For Me". Many in this collection have markings as if they were used in performance.

Dates: 1920 - 1957

Civil War era sheet music volume

 Item
Identifier: MS-0565
Scope and Contents

Volume of Civil War era sheet music. Approximately 65 individual compositions.

Dates: 1860s

Clements sheet music collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-MUS-046
Dates: 1900 - 1950

Conrad Gebelein papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0458
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence, two scrapbooks and other ephemeral material related to Gebelein's association with the Johns Hopkins University.

Dates: approximately 1920-2005

Friedman Sheet Music

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-MUS-011
Dates: 1986 - 1987

Harry S. Dickey collection of Byroniana

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0072
Abstract Harry S. Dickey was a Baltimore business man and collector, who was born in 1891 and received his B.A. degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1912. Dickey an admirer of the English poet, Lord Byron. This collection is composed of handwritten letters and poems relating to Byron, as well as published or printed sheet music, engravings, and article clippings. Notably, there are a few handwritten Oscar Wilde letters and poems, as Dickey was a collector of Wilde as well. The collection spans...
Dates: 1815-1959, 1981

John C. French collection of sheet music based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-034
Scope and Contents This collection consists of music inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe--including both vocal settings of Poe's actual text as well as instrumental programmtic pieces more loosely based on a particular work of Poe--dating from 1865 to 1957. There are published and manuscript copies, as well as a few photostatic copies. Especially well-represented are the original manuscripts of Joseph Holbrooke, an English composer working in the first half of the 20th century, whose long-standing...
Dates: 1865 - 1957

John Carbonell sheet music collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-0064
Abstract

John Cole was one of the earliest and most prolific sheet music publishers in Baltimore. This collection spanning his publishing career was collected by John Carbonell and subsequently organized by engraving plate number.

Dates: 1824-1838 and undated

John Charles Thomas papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0074
Abstract

John Charles Thomas was an internationally known baritone who attended Peabody Institute from 1909 to 1912. His papers include scores, personal and business papers, concert programs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and recordings.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1903-1991
Found in: Peabody Archives

Johns Hopkins University assorted sheet music collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-0058
Scope and Contents

This is an artifically assembled collection with sheet music from various origins. Accruals in this collection are selected by the curators of Special Collections or donated by patrons. See component levels for more information about the items in this collection.

Dates: 1770 - 1971

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Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973 1
Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869 1
Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792-1860 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Carbonell, John 1
Carner, Sam 1
Chapin, Patti, 1903-1990 1
Coleman, Ralf M., 1896-1976 1
Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889 1
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1
Dickey, Harry Stanley, 1891-1971 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Foster, Frances, 1924-1997 1
Frary, Richard, 1947- 1
French, John Calvin, 1875- 1
Gebelein, Conrad, 1884- 1
Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983 1
Glanville, Maxwell, 1918-1992 1
Glover, Stephen, 1813-1870 1
Gould, Robert 1
Hoffman, Daniel, 1923-2013 1
Holbrooke, Joseph, 1878-1958 1
Holt, Stella 1
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915‏ 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Jefferys, Charles, 1807-1865 1
Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham 1
Johns Hopkins University Bands 1
Johns Hopkins University. Glee Club/Choral Society 1
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 1
Karamu Theatre 1
Keepers, William Lloyd 1
Leigh, Augusta, 1784-1851 1
Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984 1
McCaffrey, Henry 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Moore, Thomas 1
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1
Murray, John, 1778-1843 1
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 1
Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981 1
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943 1
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 1
Russell, Henry, 1812-1900 1
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878 1
Seibert, F. (Fred) 1
Sills, Beverly 1
Sorrentino, Paul 1
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 1
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 1
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1
Thomas, Dorothy 1
Thomas, John Charles, 1891-1960 1
Turner, Huntley S. 1
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950 1
Wertheim, Stanley 1
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 1
Zara, Louis, 1910-2001 1
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