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Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895.
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Keffer, Edward I. (Edward Iungerich), 1862-1933.
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--To 1901.
- Popular music.
- Music title pages.
- Songs.
- United States.
- Songs--United States--19th century.
- Piano music--19th century.
- Piano music.
- Music title pages--United States.
- Genre:
- Notated music.
- Penn Provenance:
- Keffer, Edward I.
- Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 48 boxes (ca. 2537 items)
- Other Title:
- Keffer collection of sheet music
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1790-1895.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1790-1895?]
- Contents:
- Box 1. Revolutionary songs, marches
- Box 2. Benjamin Carr
- Box 3. Carr's Volume of instruction, etc
- Box 4. Carr's comtemporaries
- Box 5. Carr's miscellany ; Carr's journal
- Box 5A. Carr's compositions and arrangements in sheet music
- Box 5B. Madame Le Pelletier's Journal of musick ; VIII hymns from the Prayer Book of the Episcopal Church
- Box 6. Music of the 18th century
- Box 7. [Two boxes] Music, 1800-1820 : songs
- Box 8. Music, 1800-1820 : instrumental
- Box 9-10. Early opera
- Box 11-11A. Early well-known songs
- Box 12. Early imprints of Haydn, Mozart, etc. & spurious Beethoven compositions
- Box 13. Battles and military dedications
- Box 14. Civil War, color lithographs
- Box 15-16. Civil War, lithographed title-page
- Box 17. Civil War: Lincoln & George F. Root
- Box 18. Civil War: pacifists
- Box 19. Civil War: Southern
- Box 20. Ethiopian
- Box 21. Dixie
- Box 22. Stephen C. Foster
- Box 23. Septimus Winner
- Box 24. Orchestras : Jullien
- Box 25-26. American stage
- Box 27. Philadelphia prints
- Box 28. Songs of Work, Mack, Hays, White, Thomas
- Box 29, 30, 30A, 31. Miscellaneous songs
- Box 32. Miscellaneous piano
- Box 33. Gottschalk, Thalberg, Strakosch, etc.
- Box 34. Earl dances
- Box 35. Cotillions & quadrilles
- Box 36, 36A. Polkas
- Box 37. Schottisches
- Box 38. Galops
- Box 39, 39A. Waltzes
- Box 40. Color-lithographed title-pages
- Box 41. Marches & quick-steps
- Box 42. Rondos, rondinos & mazurkas.
- Notes:
- Early American sheet music ca. 1800-ca. 1860, many with illustrated title-page, collected by Edward Iungerich Keffer, D.D.S. (Univ. of Penn., 1883), 1862-1933, Philadelphia, bequeathed to the Musical Fund Society 1933, deeded by the Society to the University of Pennyslvania 1993.
- Ten manuscript scores originally part of this collection were separated from the collection to form Ms. Coll. 126, under the title Keffer Collection of Music Manuscripts.
- Local Notes:
- All items in this collection are digitized and available in Colenda
- OCLC:
- 37734120
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