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Songs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: For works consisting of songs of an individual ethnic group, additional subject entries are made under the headings [ethnic group]--[place]--Music and Music--[place]. For works consisting of songs of a national group, additional subject entry is made under the heading Music--[place].

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

The Leonard Woolsey Bacon Papers

 Collection
Call Number: Misc. Ms. 54
Overview: Music and correspondence by the American composer and physician Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Jr. (1865-1939)
Dates: 1887-1926

The Parker Bailey Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 34
Overview: Music, correspondence and other writings, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer, pianist, and lawyer Parker Bailey (1902-1982).
Dates: 1899-1977 (inclusive)

The H. Leroy Baumgartner Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 22
Overview: Music and other materials by and about the American composer, organist, and teacher H. Leroy Baumgartner (1891-1969)
Dates: 1908-1980 (inclusive)

The Marie Corelli Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 19
Overview: Manuscript scores of songs composed by or otherwise connected to the British author and musician Marie Corelli (1855-1924)
Dates: 1880-1927 (inclusive)

The Duane A. Davidson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 17
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, and photographs by the American composer Duane A. Davidson (1934 or 1935-1964)
Dates: 1955-1977 (inclusive)

The Zo Elliott Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 18
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs; and miscellaneous items by and about the American composer Zo Elliott (1891-1964)
Dates: 1861-1977 (inclusive)

The Henry Gilbert Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 35
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer Henry Gilbert (1868-1928)
Dates: 1821-1980 (inclusive)

Selected Compositions of Elliot Griffis

 Collection
Call Number: Misc. Ms. 53
Overview: Published and unpublished music and other materials by and about the American composer Elliot Griffis (1893-1967)
Dates: 1919-1964

The E.Y. Harburg Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 83
Overview: Writings and other papers by and about the American lyricist E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg
Dates: 1929-1968 (inclusive)

The Charles Ives Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 14
Overview: Music, correspondence and other writings, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and insurance executive Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Dates: 1874-1983 (inclusive)

The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 21
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the African-American musician, writer, actor, and educator J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954).
Dates: 1879-1975 (inclusive)

James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection manuscript music

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 355
Scope and Contents: Autograph manuscript and manuscript reproduction scores and parts for circa 50 works, most by African American composers, including music for voice and piano, chorus, band, or orchestra, 1902-1957, with most 1931-1945 or undated. Circa 20 composers are represented, including Margaret Bonds, H. T. Burleigh, William L. Dawson, George Gershwin, W. C. Handy, Hall Johnson, Ulysses Kay, Florence Price, William Grant Still, Roberta Russell Summers Stone, Howard Swanson, and Will H. Vodery. Vocal music...
Dates: 1902-1957, bulk 1931-1945

The Charles Martin Loeffler Collection

 Collection
Call Number: Misc. Ms. 270
Overview: The Charles Martin Loeffler Collection contains sketches, manuscript scores, and printed editions of 23 musical compositions by the Alsatian-American composer Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935)
Dates: 1895-1936

The Armin Loos Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 20
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and miscellaneous items by and about the German-American composer Armin Loos (1904-1971)
Dates: 1918-1979 (inclusive)

The Lowell Mason Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 33
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and educator Lowell Mason (1792-1872)
Dates: 1813-1980 (inclusive)

Orpheus M. McAdoo and Mattie Allen McAdoo papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 60
Overview: The collection consists of material documenting the entrepreneurial and performance activities of Orpheus M. McAdoo as a member of the Jubilee Singers and director of the Virginia Concert Company and Jubilee Singers, as well as material relating to Mattie Allen McAdoo and the McAdoo and Allen families. Highlights include scrapbooks containing announcements, clippings, and ephemera for the Fisk Jubilee Singers Tour of Australia in 1886-1888 and "McAdoo's Virginia Jubilee Singers and Concert...
Dates: circa 1850-1966, bulk 1886-1936

Baruch Nadel papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1393
Overview: The papers consist of Baruch Nadel's research materials for a proposed book on Abraham Stern, the founder of Lohamei Herut Israel ("Lehi"), an armed underground organization in British Palestine. The papers include more than 150 transcribed interviews conducted by Nadel, interviews by others with members of Lehi, memoirs by Lehi members and Stern aides, and poems and letters by Stern. Also included in the papers are Nadel's research materials concerning the emigration of Jews from Iraq between...
Dates: 1847-1992, bulk 1971-1985

The Leo Ornstein Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 10
Overview: Music, photographs, and additional materials by and about the Russian-American composer Leo Ornstein (ca. 1893-2002)
Dates: 1892-1989 (inclusive)

The Horatio Parker Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 32
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs and additional materials by and about the American composer and educator Horatio Parker (1863-1919)
Dates: 1863-1972 (inclusive)

The Cole Porter Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 82
Overview: Musical manuscripts, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and lyricist Cole Porter (1891-1964)
Dates: 1901-1992 (inclusive)