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Sheet music

 Subject
Subject Source: BGTCHM

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Mary K. Sarlow collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00255
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscript materials that were written by Mary K. Sarlow along with correspondence, articles, personal materials, sheet music, demo records, poetry, lyrics, and photographs.

Dates: 1914 - 1984
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Patricia Johannes collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.416
Scope and Contents The Patricia Johannes collection consists of the history of the Michigan State University Carillon and Beaumont Tower and MSU carillonneurs including biographic information, event information, articles, and photographs. Also included is sheet music that was arranged for the carillon, a thesis titled, "Carillon at Beaumont Tower" by Sally Harwood, and biographical information about a MSU carillonneur, William E. Vajda. The folders are in chronological order from 1995 to 2017 and...
Dates: 1985 - 2018
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

R. Nathaniel Dett papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00206
Scope and Contents

The collection includes scores of Dett's music, autographed sheet music, newspapers clippings, a program from a concert of Dett's music, and a copy of the Fisher Edition News, a music industry publication.

Dates: 1913 - 1943
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Raymond Lyon Bowers papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00193
Scope and Contents The bulk of the Raymond Lyon Bowers papers consist of his original sheet music. The sheet music covers early compositions in school to later unpublished works. The music is either on loose paper or in composition notebooks. Bowers had numbered all of his sheet music and created a numerical list. This order has been maintained in the collection, with the exception of the materials on his opera, Legends of Alhambra. The materials relating to the opera have been pulled from the sheet music and...
Dates: 1902 - 1970
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

School of Music records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.86
Scope and Contents The collection includes annual reports, band rehearsal attendance, marching band formation charts, news clippings, magazines, and marching band halftime programs. The Music Department information includes correspondence, reports, and pamphlets. There are also Michigan State Institute of Music and Allied Arts materials that includes music programs and press releases. The collection also includes scrapbooks containing concert programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and service bulletins...
Dates: 1870 - 2007
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wallace De Pue papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.334
Scope and Contents The Wallace De Pue papers consist of sheet music composed by Wallace De Pue. Some of the compositions include drafts as well as the finished piece. The pieces include choral music, orchestral music and a few operas. The collection also contains a small amount of correspondence as well as concert programs, and honors and awards. Also included is a reminiscence about the influence of Mary Tolbert in Wallace De Pue's childhood. There are also CDs and a cassette of some of De Pue's works, a...
Dates: 1947 - 2014
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wendell Westcott papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.398
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a CD of Wendell Westcott playing the carillon at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Green Bay, Wisconsin, titled "Carillon-Recital," an audio cassette tape of the Michigan State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project interview of Westcott (2001), a copy of an issue of The Graduate Post, MSU Graduate school newsletter, with an article about Beaumont Tower and Westcott (1995), and photocopies of sheet music for the carillon.

Dates: 1995, 2001, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections