Sheet music.

Abstract Howard Serwer (1928-2000) joined the University of Maryland in 1968 as a musicologist in the School of Music. He was a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Gesellschaft from 1968 to 1995. Serwer, along with Paul Traver, was one of the driving forces behind the 1975 Handel Festival held in Washington, DC. His own collection of papers consists of research materials pertaining to various topics in music. This bound set of 18 pianoforte duets comes...

Abstract Arthur Morton Godfrey (1903-1983) was the leading personality in American broadcasting during the 1950s. He appeared regularly on network radio from 1945 to 1972, and on television from 1948 to 1959. His radio career began on WFBR in Baltimore in 1930 and concluded with Arthur Godfrey Time on the CBS network in 1972. Through most of the decade of the 1950s, Godfrey not only hosted a daily radio program but two top-ten prime time television shows, ...

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The Hugo Keesing collection on Jacoba Feenstra’s sheet music consists of a single bound collection of sheet music. This sheet music was bound in the early-mid twentieth century and covers the period 1881–1911. The collection is organized in a single series.

Abstract Contemporaneously referred to as "the war to end all wars," the First World War officially began in July 1914 and lasted until November 11, 1918, when Germany, the last of the Central Powers still standing, signed an armstice. This was one of the largest and deadliest wars in the history of the world, involving over 70 million military troops, not to mention the millions of civilians that were affected and lost their lives. Hundreds of songs were written in the United States during and about...

Abstract The Hugo Keesing collection on popular music and culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, memorabilia, and teaching and research materials related to twentieth-century American popular music, and to rock and roll music in particular. The materials were collected by Hugo Keesing, a popular culture scholar and former professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, and by Dr. Keesing's brother, Wouter Keesing. The bulk of the collection covers the...

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Joan Baxter (1927–2008) was an amateur pianist, writer, and collector of sheet music originating from the 1880s to mid 1900s. A native of Rochester, New York, Baxter also lived in Washington, DC and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The contents of this collection include sheet music for voice and piano, clippings and articles, and correspondence with other collectors and music historians.

Abstract Due to the limited information concerning the origins of this particular collection of items, it is our responsibility to inform readers of the uncertain identity of the original owner of these bound folios, “Mrs. Shippen.” According to accessible vital records, there were eight women on the east coast of the newly independent United States who would have gone by the name, “Mrs. Shippen,” at the time of these publications (early to middle 19th century). All eight eligible Mrs. Shippens were...