Scores
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Music at Amherst College Collection
Collection
Identifier: MA.00063
Abstract
This collection documents the evolution of musical instruction, performance, and composition at Amherst. Includes printed and manuscript music, photographs, printed material, personal correspondence and documentation, sound recordings, books, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and concert programs.
Dates:
1833 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1965
Samuel French Company Theater Collection
Collection
Identifier: MA.01009
Abstract
The Samuel French Company Theater Collection is more than four hundred and fifty linear feet of material including thousands of plays and publications, photographs, costume design illustrations, theatrical ephemera, and documentation of the Samuel French Corporation’s business transactions dating back to the mid 1800’s.
Dates:
1794-2012; Majority of material found within 1840-2012
Series 4: Sheet Music
Series
Scope and Contents
Series 4: Sheet Music - is a collection of 19th century scores by chiefly Hungarian, German and French composers. The scores were included within the papers of Mr. and Mrs. Mead. The series is arranged alphabetically by the (often presumed) name of the composer. The inventory for this series was prepared without any working knowledge of Hungarian and without scrupulous notations of foreign diacritics and punctuation; it is, therefore, only a rough approximation of the chief information about...
Dates:
1840 - 2001; 1846 - 1950