Composition (Music)

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A handwritten score with lyrics of Jacoby's composition "March of Triumph," bearing the inscription "Sincerely Dedicated to my Alma Mater The University of Alabama and the Famous Crimson Tide of 1931." That year also witnessed the publication of Jacoby's "March of Triumph: March fox-trot" (New York: Thornton W. Allen).

Scope and Contents This collection contains four Civil War broadsides from the field press of Dr. G. H. Sutherland. The first is entitled "A Prison Song," which Sutherland claimed to have written while he was a prisoner of war. On the left and right of the title, two U.S. flags appear. An introduction states the lyrics recount a "correct history" of Union soldiers' "confinement, treatment and suffering" as well as Southerners' "habits and customs." A second broadside is entitled the "Negro...

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Musical compositions, correspondence, photographs, and recordings by Harry Garrett Phillips.

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Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.

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Letters from family and friends, recipes, sheet music and handwritten compositions, including "Diary of a Private" - 1914 autobiography of __ Hubbard, private in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.

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The collection consists of handwritten and printed musical compositions by Paul Hedwall, featuring works for a variety of instruments, including piano, strings, percussion, wind, vocal, and mixed ensembles. The materials are housed in four document boxes containing smaller scores and two oversized flat boxes with larger scores intended for conductor podiums. These larger scores are on sheets designed for performance and rehearsal.

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Handwritten letter and sheet of music from Geneva (Switzerland) professor Dr. R. Landesberger to President Woodrow Wilson, dated January 7, 1919. A typed transcript of the letter is also included.

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Includes books from the poet's father, Peter Snow, to him containing handwritten songs and musical scores and two scrapbooks, one of which contains early 1900's newspaper articles about the Snow family from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as well as one of clippings of poems and religious articles.

Scope and Contents This collection contains the musical score for "The Contraband Schottische," a dance composed by Septimus Winner, a popular nineteenth-century songwriter. The cover of the piece contains an illustration of a slaveholder with a whip. The slaveholder is shaking his fist at enslaved men, who are tumbling down a set of stairs and depicted as childlike. The piece is dedicated to Benjamin Butler, the Union General who declared enslaved people "contrabands of war" when they ran to his lines....