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Title: Floyd's Retreat from Fort Donelson
Composer : Skedaddles
Date Created: 1865
Abstract: The full title of this composition is "Floyd's Retreat from Fort Donelson, with a running description of the Battle." Over the musical notations there are headings such as "Trumpet Call to arms." Within the musical notations are lyrics.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002622
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| 177 |
Title: Old Dog Tray
Composer : Stephen C. Foster
Date Created: 1853
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident. In the upper right corner of the cover is an inscription written in pencil that reads "Nora Lee Gardner." An ode to a dog that states "I'll never, never find A better friend than old dog Tray."
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=200800000002583
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| 178 |
Title: Central Star
Publisher : Students of Dickson Central High School, Dickson, Tennessee
Date Created: 1926-03
Abstract: This is a reprint of a student oration given at a contest sponsored by the Nashville Tennessean in 1925; It appeared in the Central Star, March 1926. Published by the Students of Dickson Central High School, Dickson TN.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Central Star folder
Contributing Institution: Dickson County Public Library and Life Long Learning Center
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003377
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| 179 |
Title: Recital, Miss Irene Hunter Presents Her Expression Class in Recital at Sulphur Springs School
Host : Sulphur Springs School
Date Created: 1917-06-23
Abstract: This is a program for a recital and the play, "The Lost Prince" at the Sulphur Spring School. Admission is 10 and 15 cents.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Elnora Miller Papers
Contributing Institution: Dickson County Public Library and Life Long Learning Center
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003375
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| 180 |
Title: Cerro Gordo Quick Step
Composer : T. (Thomas) Bricher
Date Created: 1847
Abstract: A piano forte quickstep musical composition relating to the expansionism ideals during James K. Polk's presidency. Cerro Gordo is a city in California, which aquired along with New Mexico and California by America after the Mexican War.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: James K. Polk Sheet Music Collection
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001481
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| 181 |
Title: O! Touch Not My Sisters Picture
Composer : T. Martin Towne
Lyricist : Kellogg
Date Created: 1863
Abstract: This piece of music relates a story told by A "Rebel Prisoner" who, when looking through fallen soldiers' belongings on a battlefield comes across a young, dying boy. The boy pleads to keep a locket that has inside a picture of his sister.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Civil War in Tennessee Sheet Music Collection
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001493
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| 182 |
Title: Don't Monkey with Evolution
Composer : T. N. Davies
Lyricist : J. A. Veazey
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music for an anti-evolution, pro-creationism song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. 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=200700000001496
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| 183 |
Title: The Ingle Side, A Popular Scotch Song
Composer : T. V. Wiesenthal
Date Created: 1860
Abstract: This composition for the piano is a scotch song that extols the virtues of a place called "Ingle side," and finds it more beautiful than anything in nature. This piece is part of a bound volume of sheet music that once belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner. Her name is inscribed in two different places on this piece of sheet music.
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=200800000002588
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| 184 |
Title: The Maiden's Prayer
Composer : Thekla Badarzewska, 1834-1861
Lithographer : J. H. Bufford's Lith.
Date Created: 1860?
Abstract: This piece has a lithograph on the cover of a kneeling, finely dressed young woman with her hands folded as if in prayer. Inscribed on the cover is "Presented to NOra E. Gardner by Eliza Gooding, 'My Sorority,' Columbia, Sep. 1, 1861." There is no date of publication; however, the date of 1860 was inferred from another piece of sheet music in the same bound volume belonging 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=200800000002553
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| 185 |
Title: Little Maud
Lyricist : Thomas B. Aldrich, 1836-1907
Date Created: 1859
Abstract: Included in "Songs of the Land of Sunset" and "Miss Nora Lee Gardner from her friend A.B.W. Sunny Side, KY" is inscribed in pencil on the cover. This sad song tells of the loss of a small child and is 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=200800000002660
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| 186 |
Title: The Separation
Lyricist : Thomas Moore
Date Created: 1850
Abstract: A love ballad that has on the cover inscribed in pencil "Miss Mary Gardner from H.Walls." Included in a bound volume of sheet music once owned by 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=200800000002630
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| 187 |
Title: Farewell But When Ever You Welcome The Hour
Lyricist : Tom Moore
Arranger : Joseph Benedict
Date Created: 1852
Abstract: This piece is one included in a bound volume of sheet music that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, who was a resident of Tennessee. On the front cover is an inscription that reads "Nora Lee Gardner Nashville, Tenn. Aug. 1860."
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=200800000002596
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| 188 |
Title: A Hammered Dulcimer
Artist : unknown
Date Created: 1850 - 1920
Abstract: This hammered dulcimer comes from Washington County, Tennessee. It is rectangular in shape and made of pine. There are two bridges are arranged in a trapazoidal pattern and two sound holes in the shape of teardrops.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum of Appalachia
Contributing Institution: Museum of Appalachia
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000503
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| 189 |
Title: Banjo from Roane County, Tennessee
Artist : unknown
Date Created: 1850 - 1930
Abstract: This five-string banjo is made in a primitive style. It has no frets and the drum-like head is believed to be made of cathide. The hide is merely stretched over the rim and tacked. The neck is made of walnut. The banjo comes from Roane County, Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum of Appalachia
Contributing Institution: Museum of Appalachia
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000499
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| 190 |
Title: Dixie Land
Author : unknown
Date Created: 1861-05-21
Abstract: This clipping from an unknown newspaper is adhered to the back of a piece of sheet music included in a bound volume that once belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner. These words,disparaging Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, listed as created in Newman, GA., May 21, 1861" were to be sung to the popular tune "Dixie."
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=200800000002581
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| 191 |
Title: Evangeline
Author : unknown
Date Created: 15 1866
Abstract: This handwritten song is on the reverse side of a piece of sheet music [006303-SMVOL] that is bound in a volume of sheet music once owned by Miss Nora Gardner of Tennessee. There is no author name, but it is dated June 15, 1866.
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=200800000002677
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| 192 |
Title: [Letter] 1846 Nov. 6, Salem, Miss[issippi] [to] Mrs Susan Taylor
Author : unknown
Recipient : Susan Taylor
Date Created: 1846-11-06
Abstract: The following document is a letter, dated November 6, 1846, to Susan Taylor from her sister-in-law. In the letter, the sister-in-law discusses piano lessons she will be giving as well as her current lodging and living conditions.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Taylor Family of Fayette County, Tennessee Letters
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003028
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| 193 |
Title: Farewell to Yankee Doodle
Author : unknown
Date Created: 1861 - 1865
Abstract: This is a clipping from a newspaper that is adhered to the back of a piece of sheet music bound in a volume that once belonged to Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident. This clipping is a poem entitled "Farewell to Yankee Doodle," which is a derogatory account of the North and its reasons for the Civil War as well as a call to the South for independence. The newspaper publisher is unknown, as is the year of publication. However, since this poem's content reflects the Southern attitudes regarding the issues of the Civil War, the creation date and publication dates are inferred from the range of 1861-1865.
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=200800000001511
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| 194 |
Title: Within A Mile of Edinburg Town
Composer : unknown
Singer : Jenny Lind, 1820-1887
Date Created: 1859
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume once owed by Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident. This particular composition has an inscription on the front cover in pencil that reads "Nora Gardner Columbia Tenn Jan 30th 1863." The song is a Scotch ballad sung by Jenny Lind that tells of the courtship of a Scottish lass by her "Bonny Jocky" and the fact that she would not give in to his affection unless he married her.
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=200800000001508
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| 195 |
Title: Hob Nob or The Campbells are Comin
Composer : unknown
Date Created: 1848-1855
Abstract: This composition for the piano was printed on the same page with "The Morning Star" and was published during the span of 1848 through 1855, 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). The inscription at the top of the page reads "Nora E. Gardner, D. [Dresden] F. [Female] Academy," and is part of a bound volume of sheet music once owned by Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident.
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=200800000002567
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| 196 |
Title: Marseillais Hymn
Composer : unknown
Date Created: 1750-1850
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner, and is inscribed in pencil on the front cover with these words "Presented to Nora by Dr. J. Frank Bell November [date unclear]" At the bottom of that page is another handwritten note "Compliments of J. Frank Bell." The hymn has the lyrics in both English and French and is a patriotic cry for freedom from tyranny. No publication date is listed. However, this piece was published during the span of 1845 through 1856, 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=200800000001506
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| 197 |
Title: The Morning Star
Composer : unknown
Date Created: 1848-1855
Abstract: This composition for the piano was printed on the same page with "Hob Nob or The Campbells are Comin" and was published during the span of 1848 through 1855, 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). The inscription at the top of the page reads "Nora E. Gardner, D. [Dresden] F. [Female] Academy," and is part of a bound volume of sheet music once owned by Miss Nora Gardner, a Tennessee resident.
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=200800000002568
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| 198 |
Title: Oh, Dear, What Can The Matter Be.
Composer : unknown
Date Created: 1848-1855
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that once belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner. This particular piece was printed on the same page as "Over the Water to Charle." There is no publication date. However, it was most likely published during the range of 1848-1855, 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=200800000002555
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| 199 |
Title: Minuet
Composer : unknown
Date Created: 1848-1855
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner. This piece was printed with another composition entitled "Fishers Hornpipe." There is no publication date. However, the piece was published during the span of 1848 through 1855, 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:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002559
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| 200 |
Title: Fishers Hornpipe
Composer : unknown
Date Created: 1848-1855
Abstract: This piece of sheet music is included in a bound volume that belonged to Tennessee resident, Miss Nora Gardner. This piece was printed with another composition entitled "Minuet." There is no publication date. However, the piece was published during the span of 1848 through 1855, 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:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Nora Gardner Sheet Music Volumes
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002558
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