Sheet music
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Adolph Schellschmidt collection
Collection
Identifier: L610
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sheet music from Adolph Schellschmidt in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana ranging from 1884 to 1939 regarding music parts for the cello, violin, and piano.
Dates:
1848-1939, undated
Cornelius family collection
Collection
Identifier: L485
Scope and Contents
This collection includes family documents, newspaper clippings, sheet music and songbooks of the Cornelius family of Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1884 to the 2009. The collection contains genealogical documents of the Cornelius family and correspondence, manuscripts, and paste up items regarding the unpublished book "The Cornelius Story: Four Generations of Printers." The collection also includes promotional cards, recital programs, travel guides, and other documents of Melissa Jane...
Dates:
1884-2009
Edna May Green papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2627
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, tear sheets, music copyrights, stock certificates, sheet music, news clippings, songs, poems, other writings, and a photograph from Edna May Green in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1918 to 1954, regarding Edna May Green, her compositions and other works. Correspondants, include Josiah K. Lilly and various music publishers; most correspondence deals with Green's attempts to have her music more widely played and recognized. The tear sheets and...
Dates:
1918-1954
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Edna May Green papers
Flora Gardiner Kling collection
Collection
Identifier: L344
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters to Flora Gardner Kling, principally from the period 1900 to 1935, from writers, poets, illustrators, and musicians responding to her letters about their work, and to her requests for examples of their bookplates; correspondence regarding her collection of bookplates, particularly with other bookplate collectors; and her bookplate collection.Correspondents include:Louis Adamic, George Ade, Ambrose Bierce, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Richard...
Dates:
1886-1938
Frances Marvel Gnass collection
Collection
Identifier: L042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items from Frances Marvel Gnass’s family, including Joseph Brown’s ciphering book of mathematical operations and business accounting practices (1840-1843); a promissory note for payment to Isaac Brown (1857), and a page of accounting notations of the Brown family (1869-1877); Edith Walker’s autograph book (1888-1893); and a full-page from the Crawfordsville Journal and Review that lists soldiers buried in Montgomery County, Indiana by...
Dates:
1840-2008
"Indiana" sheet music
Collection — Folder OB101
Identifier: OB101
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sheet music for the song, "Indiana," from Margaretta Brown, Carroll Webster, and Burrell Van Buren from 1940.
Dates:
1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
"Indiana" sheet music
Marietta Kem sheet music
Collection
Identifier: S0768
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sheet music from Marietta Kem in New Castle, Indiana ranging from 1941 to 1942.
Dates:
1941-1943, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Marietta Kem sheet music
Music collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1628
Scope and Contents
This collection has been divided into three folders. Folder one has information about Diapason Singers who performed at the Main Street Christian Church, Rushville, Indiana, on May 9, 1909. The Diapason class sang on the 100th anniversary of the Missouri Harmony Singers in Morrison. There is a three page typed narrative about the history of "how the Southerners came by their 'fasola' mode of singing." Folder two, labeled Miscellaneous, has brochures, song sheets, and the 1941 annual...
Dates:
1924-1956
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Music collection
Nancy Johnson collection
Collection
Identifier: L764
Scope and Contents
This collection includes programs, pamphlets, and other items collected by Nancy Johnson from events she attended and from the Indiana Statehouse Tour Office where her husband Jim volunteered, ranging from 1983 to 2020 and undated. Most of the events, which included government swearing-in and award ceremonies, services, conferences, meetings, and celebrations for historic events and holidays, took place at the Indiana Statehouse. There are also materials about the Indiana Supreme Court and...
Dates:
1983-2020, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Nancy Johnson collection
New Albany American Legion band music books
Collection
Identifier: L331
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a series of music books used by the New Albany American Legion marching band. There are two sets and each book is labeled for a different instrument. Song titles in the books include: "March-Blazing the Trail," "On the Picket Line," "Spirit of Peace," "Under the American Flag," "The Hague Conference," and "Florizel Overture." Books in the H-64 set are stamped with the name of the store where they were purchased, "H.H. Dreyer, New Albany, Indiana."
Dates:
circa 1920s
