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Music Through the Ages

Primary Source Set

 

Collections:

Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties

Captian Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Hispanic Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection

William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music (1820-1860 & 1870-1885)

Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920

American Singing Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets

Band Music from the Civil War Era

Performing Arts Encyclopedia (includes Civil War Sheet Music, Jazz Photos by William P. Gottlieb, The March King: John Philip Sousa, Ragtime, and Song of America)

General Music:

Music Education Book (fragment)

Thomas Jefferson, March 3, 1788, Church Chime Music-Description

Music by the "Contra-Band." [Pictorial envelope]

Slave songs of the United States.

Works Progress Administration Federal Music Project of New York City Theatre of Music Presenting chamber operas, symphony concerts, grand operas, [and] chamber music at popular prices.

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Practice indoors on string instruments

String quartet. Quartet seated playing instruments

[Guarnerius violin and bow]

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band seated playing or holding instruments, Galax, Va. Includes band leader, Doc Davis, with autoharp; Uncle Alex Dunford with fiddle; Crockett Ward with fiddle; Wade Ward with banjo; Fields Ward with guitar]

Whaltes & Charters piano, [build 1803]

[Leonard Bernstein, half-length portrait, facing right, seated at piano, making annotations to musical score] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al. Ravenna.

 

Classical:

Ludwig van Beethoven - studied from the death mask [i.e. life mask]

Beethoven / L. Balestrieri pinx Paris 1900 ; W. Leo Arndt sculps.

Beethoven / L. Balestrieri pinx Paris ; W. Leo Arndt sculps.

Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827

Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1770-1827

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven, 177001827

Ludwig van Beethoven

Mozart / engraved by J. Thomson.

Mozart at Vienna--He plays his opera Don Juan for the first time before an assembly of lords and artists

W.A. Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791

Mozart

Mozart rehearsing his XIIth mass.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750

J.S. Bach

Letter from Johannes Brahms, addressee unknown, 18 June 1882

Johannes Brahms, frontispiece of Johannes Brahms, a biography by Hans Gal, to be published by Knopf

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Joseph Haydn

Romance / by Joseph Haydn.

Mass in B-flat, no. 16 / by Joseph Haydn.

[Franz Liszt, 1811-1886; full, seated, playing piano duet with violinist Arena Sencrat (?)]

Franz Liszt

 

Orchestra:

Orchestra at High School, 1941

Orchestra at Alamosa High School, 1941

Interior of Radio City Music Hall in New York City, showing audience, the Rockettes on stage, and the Music Hall Symphony Orchestra in the pit

Chicago Orchestra, founded by Theodore Thomas, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Feb. 5, 1907

Lennox Hill settlement orchestra

American music festival - Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra - Frank Foti, conductor

Personnel of National High School Orchestra, Interlochen, Mich., 1930

Theodore Thomas and his orchestra at Steinway Hall, N.Y. / Bolles, fecit., Bklyn.

Illinois symphony orchestra

Illinois symphony orchestra

Seattle - Baby Symphony Orchestra, Mary Louise Barbour, director. National Institute of Music & Arts / W.F. Goodrich, photography, Seattle.

Seattle Baby Symphony Orchestra, National Institute of Music and Arts

Fifth Symphony Concert, Greek Theatre, May 15, '06

 

Bands:

[Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Band posed at the bandstand]

'Navassar Ladies Band' 'A'

Greenbelt, Maryland. High school band in green uniforms giving a band concert on Memorial Day. Membership in the band is competitive, on the basis of talent. The band bought secondhand instruments and reconditioned them. It had made itself completely self-sufficient financially by giving benefit performances

Marine Band concert on the White House grounds,July 16, 1921

Washington, D.C. Listening to U.S. Army band play at a free concert in front of the Capitol

 

Buildings:

New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass..

Maguires Music Hall, Historic View, Pine Street, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

School of music, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Knight-Campbell Music Store / photo. by L. C. McClure, Denver.

Knight-Campbell Music store / photo. by L. C. McClure, Denver.

Denver University Conservatory of Music

Music school, Greeley, Colorado

[Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio].

Music Hall, 154 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York, New York, NY

[Music hall, Carnegie Library and music hall, Allegheny City, Pennyslvania]

[Reading room, view toward the delivery room, Carnegie Library and Music Hall, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania]

 

John Philip Sousa:

John Philip Sousa--Leader of U.S. Marine Band, 1880-1892--Headstone of Sousa's grave in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. / Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps).

John Philip Sousa--leader of U.S. Marine Band 1880-92. Sousa, in Navy uniform, marching at the head of his "Jackie" band during World War I, (1917-1919) / Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps).

Paris Exposition 1900 Sousa Band "Stars & Stripes forever"

Sousa's band at the Grand Palace of Beautiful Arts, Paris Exposition, 1900

Paris Exposition 1900--Sousa's band--"Stars & Stripes forever"

Mr. Sousa's father and mother / Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps).

U.S. Marine Corps Band at Cape May, New Jersey, about 1891 - John Philip Sousa, leader / Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps).

Bandmaster Sousa

[John Philip Sousa, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front]

[John Philip Sousa, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

The United States Marine Band (John Philip Sousa, Leader), 1891

 

Blues:

Statue of W.C. Handy, father of the blues (1873-1958) located in Wilson Park in Florence, Alabama

[Ray Charles, half-length portrait]

Ray Charles / Kunz.

[Aretha Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait]

[John Coltrane, head-and-shoulders portrait, holding saxophone]

Memphis Music neon sign, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

 

Jazz:

Jazz Primary Source Set

 

Opera:

D'Oyly Carte's Opera Co. in Utopia, limited Gilbert & Sullivan's new opera.

[Chester Watson, Irene Jordan, Judith Raskin, and Fred Cushman appearing in the NBC Opera Company's production of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio"]

[Bayonne Opera House (Opera House Hall), Ave C and West 26th St., Bayonne, New Jersey] / AFD 1935.

[New Detroit Opera House (Grand Opera House), Randolph St. corner of Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1924.

[Old French opera house--Café de l'Opéra--Bourbon Street at Toulouse Street, New Orleans]

The William J. Gilmore Opera Company, presenting Richard Stahl's Romantic Opera Comique, "The Seal King"; Palmer's Theatre

[The Opera House, the inauguration of the opera, Paris, France]

Broadway Theatre Opera Co. presenting the DeKoven & Smith's greatest success, The highwayman

Grand Opera, the largest theatre in the world, cost six million dollars, Paris, France / photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn.

Madama Butterfly Metropolitan Opera / / Larry Rivers.

Performance of "The Flying Dutchman" Opera in Mobile, Alabama

Historic Opera House, New Harmony, Indiana

[Manhattan Opera House, New York, N.Y.]

Du Bois Opera house programme. Elgin Illinois. Opening night! The opera house will be opened to the public for the first time on Tuesday evening, Nov. 1st, 1870, by a dramatic and musical entertainment ... Elgin, Ill. 1870.

 

Rock and Roll:

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio

[Rev. John Oates (left) playing bass with a teenage rock and roll band aboard a railroad car while two girls dance]

Screaming teenagers wave a crude sign as they welcome "The Beatles" - Britain's shaggy-haired rock n' roll singers - upon their arrival at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, February 7th

Youngsters dancing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand

It's that jailhouse rock by Elvis

[Elvis Presley, full-length portrait, performing onstage]

Ed Sullivan & the Beatles, who will return to our show in Sept., 1965

[The Beatles performing on stage]

 

Websites:

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (San Jose State University)

Quincy Symphony Orchestra Association

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

U.S. Marine Band

The United States Air Force Band

Radio City Music Hall

New England Conservatory

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The Conservatory of Central Illinois

Chicago College of Performing Arts

John Philip Sousa (U.S. Marine Band)

The Works of John Philip Sousa

The Blues Foundation

The Blues (PBS)

Jazz (PBS Kids)

Jazz (PBS & Ken Burns)

Metropolitan Opera

Boston Opera House

Grand Ole Opry

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum

Elvis Presley

 

 

Books:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia ~ ISBN-10: 0516445413 or ISBN-13: 978-0516445410 --- Ages 6 & up

Ludwig Van Beethoven (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia ~ ISBN-10: 0516200690 or ISBN-13: 978-0516200699 --- Ages 6 & up

Beethoven for Kids: His Life and Music with 21 Activities (For Kids series) by Helen Bauer ~ ISBN-10: 1569767114 or ISBN-13: 978-1569767115 --- Ages 9 & up

Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? by Yona Zeldis McDonough and illustrated by Carrie Robbins ~ ISBN-10: 0448431041 or ISBN-13: 978-0448431048 ---Ages 8 & up

Story of the Orchestra : Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music! by Robert Levine and illustrated by Meredith Hamilton ~ ISBN-10: 1579121489or ISBN-13: 978-1579121488 --- Ages 9 & up

Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes and illustrated by Karmen Thompson ~  ISBN-10: 0152002227 or ISBN-13: 978-0152002220 ---Ages 4 & up

The Orchestra: An Introduction To The World of Classical Music (A First Guide) by Alan Blackwood ~ ISBN-10: 1562947087 or ISBN-13: 978-1562947088

The Orchestra, The Orchestra! by Suzanne Guy and Donna Lacy ~ ISBN-10: 0967288568 or ISBN-13: 978-0967288567

Orchestra!: Music Pops by Sheri Safran and illustrated by Nicola Robinson ~ ISBN-10: 1857078101 or ISBN-13: 978-1857078107 ---Ages 5 & up

A Band of Angels by Deborah Hopkinson and illustrated by Raul Colon ~ ISBN-10: 0689848870 or ISBN-13: 978-0689848872 --- Ages 5-9

Little Pig Joins the Band by David Hyde Costello ~ ISBN-10: 1580892647 or ISBN-13: 978-1580892643---Ages 4 & up

Magnificent Women in Music (Women's Hall of Fame Series) by Heather Ball ~ ISBN-10: 1897187025 or ISBN-13: 978-1897187029 --- Grade 4-7

Music (DK Eyewitness Books) by Neil Ardley ~ ISBN-10: 0756607094 or ISBN-13: 978-0756607098 ---Ages 8 & up

M is for Melody A Music Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Alphabets) by Kath-jo Wargin ~ ISBN-10: 1585362158 or ISBN-13: 978-1585362158 --- Ages 4 & up

A Young Person's Guide to Music by DK Publishing ~ ISBN-10: 0756605407 or ISBN-13: 978-0756605407 ---Ages 10 &up

John Philip Sousa (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia ~ ISBN-10: 051626401X or ISBN-13: 978-0516264011 ---Ages 6 & up

John Philip Sousa (Lives and Times) by Jennifer Blizin Gillis ~ ISBN-10: 140346751X or ISBN-13: 978-1403467515 --- Ages 7 & up

Blues (History of American Music) by Christopher Handyside ~ ISBN-10: 1403481482 or ISBN-13: 978-1403481481 ---Ages 10 & up

Roots and Blues: A Celebration by Arnold Adof and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie ~ ISBN-10: 0547235542 or ISBN-13: 978-0547235547 ---Ages 8 & up

The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World by Julius Lester ~ ISBN-10: 0786804637 or ISBN-13: 978-0786804634

The Blues: Birth of an American Sound (Journey to Freedom: The African American Library) by Pamela J. Dell ~ ISBN-10: 1592962300 or ISBN-13: 978-1592962303 --- Ages 10 & up

Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis and illustrated by George Ford ~ ISBN-10: 1584300183 or ISBN-13: 978-1584300182 --- Ages 8 & up

Black Cat Bone: The Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Gary Kelley ~ ISBN-10: 1568461941 or ISBN-13: 978-1568461946

Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities (For Kids series) by Stephanie Stein Crease ~ ISBN-10: 1556527241 or ISBN-13: 978-1556527241--- Ages 9 & up

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Pickney and illustrated by Brian Pickney ~ ISBN-10: 0786814209 or ISBN-13: 978-0786814206 --- Ages 5 &up

Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin': A History of American Musical Instrument Makers by Susan VanHecke ~ ISBN-10: 1590785746 or ISBN-13: 978-1590785744 --- Ages 11 & up

Jazz On A Saturday Night by Leo & Diane Dillon ~ ISBN-10: 0590478931

Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits with Art Print by Wynton Marsalis and illustrated by Paul Rogers ~ ISBN-10: 0763634344

Jazz by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers ~ ISBN-10: 0823421732 or ISBN-13: 978-0823421732 ---Ages 8 & up

Louis Armstrong and the Jazz Age (Cornerstones of Freedom: Second) by Dan Elish ~ ISBN-10: 0531208370 or ISBN-13: 978-0531208373 ---Ages 9 & up

Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll by Holly George-Warren and illustrated by Laura Levine ~ ISBN-10: 0618432299 or ISBN-13: 978-0618432295 ---Ages 5 & up

The Rock & Roll Alphabet by Jeffrey Schwartz and Photographed by Chuck Boyd ~ ISBN-10: 0615495214 or ISBN-13: 978-0615495217

Who Was Elvis Presley? by Geoff Edgers and illustrated by John O'Brien and Nancy Harrison ~ ISBN-10: 0448446421 or ISBN-13: 978-0448446424 ---Ages 7 & up

ELVIS: A Graphic Novel (Graphic Library: American Graphic) by Terry Collins and illustrated by Michele Melcher ~ ISBN-10: 1429662662 or ISBN-13: 978-1429662666 ---Ages 8 & up

Elvis Presley (Up Close) by Wilborn Hampton ~ ISBN-10: 0142411485 or ISBN-13: 978-0142411483 ---Ages 11 & up

Who Were the Beatles? by Geoff Edgers ~ ISBN-10: 0448439069 or ISBN-13: 978-0448439068 ---Ages 7 & up

 
 
 
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