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Title: Gourd fiddle
Creator : Gene Horner
Date Created: 1850 - 1950
Abstract: This gourd fiddle was made by Gene Horner in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Museum of Appalachia
Contributing Institution: Museum of Appalachia
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001869
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| 77 |
Title: Only for thee
Composer : Geo Linley
Date Created: 1859 - 1868
Abstract: This love song has no publication date listed. However, this piece was published during the span of 1859 through 1868, which has been inferred from the years during which the publisher operated under the specified name and location, as listed in the Handbook of Early American Sheet Music 1768-1889 by Harry Dichter and Elliott Shapiro (Dover, 1977). Included in a bound volume of sheet music that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner of Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002681
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| 78 |
Title: Concert Singers of Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Teachers College, 1934
Photographer : George H. Anderson
Date Created: 1934-05-27
Abstract: The Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Teachers College Concert Singers were popular during the 1930s. The performed for radio broadcasts, the Century of Progress Exposition, and were asked to sing for President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: TSU Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State University - Special Collections and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002010
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| 79 |
Title: Ever of Thee
Lyricist : George Linley, 1798-1865
Composer : Foley Hall
Date Created: 1850-1851
Abstract: This composition is one of six within a compilation entitled "Evenings At Home Six Popular Ballads by Eminent Composers." A love ballad, the song declares everlasting affection and states "Fondly I'm dreaming ever of Thee." This piece is part of a bound volume of sheet music that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002589
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| 80 |
Title: Virginia Reels
Arranger : George P. Knauff
Date Created: 1851
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennesee resident. This particular piece is a compilation of "Virginia Reels" and includes the following compositions: "Old Virginia" (006210-SMVOL), "Richmond Hill" (006211-SMVOL), "Villalave" (006212-SMVOL), "Petersburg Ladies" (006213-SMVOL), "The Hero" (006214-SMVOL), "Peter Francisco" (006215-SMVOL), "22d. of February" (006216-SMVOL), "The Island" (006217-SMVOL), and "The Richmond Blues" (006218-SMVOL). The cover page is "Dedicated to Thomas Ritchie Esq. of Washington City." There is no publication date listed. However, it was most likely published in the years 1851 to 1852, inferred from Goertzen and Jabbour, American Music 5 (1987).
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002557
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| 81 |
Title: Sing Brothers Sing: Fifty New-Old Songs in the American Folk Tradition
Collector; Editor : George Pullen Jackson
Composer : Charles Faulkner Bryan
Illustrator : Margaret Bradfield
Date Created: 1945 - 1955
Abstract: This is six pages from the handwritten and illustrated manuscript for a songbook that was never published. George Pullen Jackson, collected and edited fifty American folk songs. The first pages, including the table of contents and one song is included here, "George Buck is Dead." Charles Faulkner Bryan created the piano arrangements, and Margaret Bradfield added illustrations.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Charles Faulkner Bryan Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee Tech University- Volpe Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002607
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| 82 |
Title: Bonny Eloise (The Belle of Mohawk Vale)
Lyricist : George W. Elliott
Composer : John Rogers Thomas, 1830-1896
Date Created: 1858
Abstract: This piano forte is part of a bound volume that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, who was a Tennessee resident. Incribed on the cover page is "Nora Garner College Hill, Tenn."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002594
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| 83 |
Title: E Pluribus Unum An American National Song
Author : George Washington Cutter, 1801-1865
Arranger : Mrs. E.H. Pendleton
Date Created: 1849
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident. This patriotic poem was "Adapted and Arranged for the 'Baltimore Olio,'which was a monthly music publication specifically for women according to the article "Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals A Case Study", by Mary Wallace Davidson published in the journal Notes (1997).
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002584
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| 84 |
Title: Thy Minstrel Boy
Composer : Gibson
Arranger : B.O.
Date Created: 1859
Abstract: A song to serenade a sweetheart, this piece is dedicated to "the Cadets of the W.M.I Nashville, Tenn." and has an inscription written in pencil on the cover page that reads "Nora Lee Gardner College HIll Columbia, Tenn Dec. 22, 1861." This piece is part of a large bound volume of sheet music that once belong to Miss Nora Gardner, who was a Tennessee resident.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002590
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| 85 |
Title: The Gypsy's Wild Chaunt
Lyricist : H.R. Addison
Date Created: 1848 - 1855
Abstract: The cover to this piece states that this is "from the Opera of Io Zingaro As Sung by Mrs. Franklin." Inscribed in pencil on the top of the cover is "To Nora from Monnae." Included in a bound volume of sheet music that once belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner. The publication date was inferred from the dates in pencil on the cover of the piece.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002631
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| 86 |
Title: Union March
Composer : Hans Krummacher
Lithographer : A. Hoen & Co.
Date Created: 1860
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume once owned by Miss Nora Gardner, a resident of Tennessee. This particular piece is a piano march and is dedicated to "the Hon. J. Alfred Pearce. Maryland." and has on the cover a lithograph by A. Hoen & Co. of an eagle holding a fireball in one talon and what could be interpreted as Lady Liberty holding a silver chalise surrounded by flowering vines. In the upper right corner of the cover is a pencil inscription that reads "Nora E. Gardner Columbia Tenn."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002574
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| 87 |
Title: I Hope the Monkey's Win
Composer; Lyricist : Harry O. Beck
Arranger : Roland E. Gans
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music for a tongue-in-cheek, pro-evolution song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. Makes direct reference to Dayton, TN and Scopes. Contains an indirect reference to prohibition in stanza 5. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001498
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| 88 |
Title: By-Gone Hours
Composer : Helen Selina Blackwood Baroness Dufferin and Clandeboye, 1807-1867
Date Created: 1851-1854
Abstract: This song laments the loss of friendships and family. Inscribed on top - "Nora Lee Gardner, Columbia Fem. Col., Columbia, Tenn. Dec. 14th [?], 1861." This piece is part of a bound volume of sheet music that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, who was a resident of Tennessee. No publication date is listed. However, this piece was published during the span of 1851 through 1854, which has been inferred from the years during which the publisher operated under the specified name and location, as listed in the Handbook of Early American Sheet Music 1768-1889 by Harry Dichter and Elliott Shapiro (Dover, 1977).
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002593
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| 89 |
Title: Empress Henriettas Waltz
Composer : Henri Herz, 1803-1888
Date Created: 1851 - 1854
Abstract: This short composition is entitled "The Celebrated Empress Henrietta's Waltz" and is included in a bound volume of sheet music once belonging to Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident. There is no printed publication date. However, this piece was published during the span of 1851 through 1854, which has been inferred from the years during which the publisher operated under the specified name and location, as listed in the Handbook of Early American Sheet Music 1768-1889 by Harry Dichter and Elliott Shapiro (Dover, 1977).
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002644
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| 90 |
Title: Babylon is Fallen!
Composer : Henry C. (Henry Clay) Work, 1832-1884
Date Created: 1863
Abstract: Listed on the front cover as the "Sequel to 'Kingdom Coming.'" The cover depicts six black uniformed men holding rifles with one black uniformed man holding a sword on one white uniformed man, presumably a Confederate soldier, since the song lyrics state in slave dialect that "Dem is only darkeys, Come to jine an' fight for Uncle Sam." "Miss Nora Lee Gardner from a friend A. B. Wall" is inscribed in pencil at the top of the cover. Included in a bound volume of sheet music once belonging to Tennessee resident Miss Nora Gardner.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002640
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| 91 |
Title: Come Home Father
Lyricist : Henry C. (Henry Clay) Work, 1832-1884
Composer : Henry C. (Henry Clay) Work, 1832-1884
Date Created: 1864
Abstract: "'Tis the Song of Little Mary, Standing at the bar-room door, While the shameful midnight revel Rages wildly as before." is printed at the top of the first page. Included in a bound volume of sheet music that belonged to Miss Nora Gardner of Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002682
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| 92 |
Title: The Blue and the Gray
Composer : Henry M Butler
Date Created: 1886
Abstract: Sheet music cover illustration showing Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee shaking hands amidst discarded, broken remnants of the Civil War.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Kenneth D. Rose Sheet Music Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001447
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| 93 |
Title: The Vacant Chair
Lyricist : Henry S. Washburn
Date Created: 1864
Abstract: Handwritten lyrics of the song "The Vacant Chair" on the back of a piece of sheet music [006289-SMVOL]. "The Vacant Chair" was written by Henry S. Washburn in 1861. This handwritten copy is signed "'Eloise'" and dated "Enterprise Miss Oct 26th 1864." Included in a bound volume of sheet music that belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002663
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| 94 |
Title: Centennial National Song
Composer; Lyricist : Henry Weber
Date Created: 1875
Abstract: Sheet music cover of a song published in Nashville, Tennessee to commemorate the Centennial of the United States.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: Kenneth D. Rose Sheet Music Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001441
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| 95 |
Title: The Southern Boys
Adapter : Herman L Schreiner
Date Created: 1861
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that belonged to Tennessee resident Miss Nora Gardner. This is a Confederate fight song, urging the Confederate soldiers to "Cheer, boys, cheer" to do their "duty" and fight for the Confederacy. On the back of the last page there is a handwritten poem, presumably written by Miss Gardner.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001502
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| 96 |
Title: Love-Spell Mazurka
Composer : Hermann L. Schreiner
Date Created: 1864
Abstract: This piece of Confederate sheet music has "To Sister Nora from her Bro Will Crawford Miss Nov 14/64" inscribed in pencil along the top of the cover. Included in a bound volume of sheet music that was owned by Miss Nora Gardner of Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002667
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| 97 |
Title: Take Me Home
Composer : Hermann L. Schreiner
Printer : J.F. Weeks
Date Created: 1864
Abstract: This piece of Confederate sheet music reflects a longing to return to the South. "To Sister Nora from Bro Will Crawford, Miss. Nov 14/64" is inscribed in pencil on the cover. Included in a bound volume of sheet music once owned by Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002661
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| 98 |
Title: Empire State Grand March
Composer : Hermann L. Schreiner
Lithographer : Gray & Valory
Date Created: 1864
Abstract: This piece of Confederate sheet music is an homage to Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown, who served in that capacity from 1857 through 1865. "To my Sister Nora from her Brother Will," "Crawford, Miss. Nov. 10/64" and "Gov. Brown of Georgia" are inscribed in pencil along the bottom of the cover, which has a lithograph of Gov. Brown. It is included in a bound volume of sheet music once wned by Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002653
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| 99 |
Title: Sitting By The Sea
Lyricist : Horace Halvey
Arranger : A. (Adolph) Willhartitz
Date Created: 1866
Abstract: A song about a woman waiting by the sea for the return of her love, a sailor. Inscribed in pencil on the front cover are the words "Compliments of Pud."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002626
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| 100 |
Title: Kentucky Once So Proud and Free
Composer : Hugo de la Fourche
Lyricist : Cordie Elliott
Date Created: 1863
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume once belonging to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner. This song is a plea to the state of Kentucky to stay with and fight for the Confederacy. On the cover is a handwritten inscription to "Miss Nora Gardner from a Friend May 1863."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001501
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