Category Archives: Sheet Music

Spring has sprung in our collections

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Amy Chen | Posted in: Acumen, Amy Hildreth Chen, Photography, Publishers' Bindings, Ragland Collection, Richard Minsky Collection, Sheet Music, Wade Hall Collection | Leave a comment

By: Amy Hildreth Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Spring’s sprung all across our collections! Let’s investigate what’s sprouted. Among our literary collections are Martha Young’s papers. Martha Young wrote the poem “The Keys of Spring,” although you can see that was … Continue reading →

Have you booked your session this spring?

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Amy Chen | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Pedagogy Series, Sheet Music | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow We’re one month into the spring semester, but requests are still coming in for sessions in the Division of Special Collections. The information below is no longer accurate, so links to reference documents and … Continue reading →

Confederate Entertainment: “The Southern Soldier Boy”

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Amy Chen | Posted in: Clay A. McCollum, Confederate Imprints, Sheet Music | Leave a comment

By: Clay A. McCollum, Master’s student in the School of Music George Washington Alexander’s “The Southern Soldier Boy,” an aria from his 1863 The Virginia Cavalier, stands out among the wealth of Confederate imprint sheet music housed in the W.S. … Continue reading →