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Music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Art Song of Williamsburg Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2007.58
Scope and Contents This collection contains the records and paperwork related to Art Song of Williamsburg.  This organization existed from 2000 through 2007 and was responsible for an average of three concerts a year.  Their records include papers relating to their creation and termination, financial and tax records, biographies and contracts for the artists they featured, as well as inter-organizational correspondence between board members.  Genevieve McGiffert was the founder and features prominently in the...
Dates: 2000-2007

Bound Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 1.12
Scope and Contents This collection contains a large variety of bound volumes of sheet music, spanning the 18th to the 20th century. The PDF versions of the inventory for volumes 1-83b must be viewed in sections. For description of volumes 84 onward see finding aid link further below. Music Volume Index A: Music Volume Index B: ...
Dates: circa 1800-1970

Frances Breeze Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2014.003
Scope and Contents

Book and individual sheet music of musical scores, probably collected by Frances Breeze.  Scrapbooks created by Josephone Carey Stanton and possibly others. Roland Halstead's collection of ephemera from trips abroad and musical production programs and guides. Undetermined parts of the collection were given by Dianne Webb (via Frances Breeze) in memory of Manny and Harold Chapman. Includes a handwritten score by Harold Chapman.

Dates: 1890-1980

Eleanor Calkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1992.02-3
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of College of William and Mary Professor of Mathematics Eleanor Calkins' 32 gradebooks from 1927-1961, a notebook with A-Z listings of her favorite musical recordings (the exceptional ones noted in red), and three yearbooks, 1915-1917, entitled Mossoks, from Columbia College in Lake City, Florida.

Dates: 1915-1961; Majority of material found in 1927-1961

Christopher Wren Singers Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.067
Scope and Contents

Contains letters, post cards, scrapbooks, audio CDs and other material related to the Christopher Wren Singers, an a capella student organization that specializes in singing madrigal music. Included in the accession are letters and postcards from alumni, scrapbooks of events from 1991-2001, and a 2012 book celebrating 25 years of the Cristopher Wren Singers.

Dates: 1989-2012; Majority of material found in 1993-2003

Documenting Life During COVID-19 collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00326
Scope and Contents

Collection includes social media posts, music recitals, podcasts, video recordings, digital photographs, self-portraiture, original music compositions, poetry, personal journal entries, and other materials created by members of the William & Mary and the greater Williamsburg community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.

Dates: 2020 March - ongoing

The Gentlemen of the College records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.006
Scope and Contents The records of the College of William and Mary men's a capella group Gentlemen of the College include internal and external correspondence related to public performances; the constitution and by-laws; fliers advertising performances and auditions; a history of the group; membership lists; photographs; an extensive collection of audiovisual material documenting both live performances and studio sessions; and several scrapbooks. A portion of the collection was created to mark the group's 10th...
Dates: 1990-2023

Charlotte Kaufman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00339
Scope and Contents Acc. 2007.92: Original and copies of individual parts for musical instruments and scripts for voices for five ballad operas: Robin Hood, Devil to Play, Mock Doctor, Thomas and Sally and the Beggar's Opera. Photographs, copies of miscellaneous theater airs and songs, research material, programs, posters, and working papers. These operas were performed by Friends of Dr. Burney who later changed their name to Boston Musical Theater and were directed by Charlotte Kaufman....
Dates: 1980-1990

Mexican Satirical songsheets

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01790
Content Description

28 illustrated songsheets that use verse to satirize news stories from Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th century. The sheets credit Antonio Vanegas Arroyo as publisher, while the accompanying illustrations are attributed to José Guadalupe Posada.

Dates: 1899-1918

Addie Rogers Bound Sheet Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2007.48
Scope and Contents

Two bound volumes of sheet music, 1828-1860, which belonged to Addie Rogers, Atlanta Female College. Volumes have contemporary tooled leather patch on front cover, "Addie M. Rogers/Atlantic Female College" "Vol. I and II" "1860." Inaccessible due to mold. Please see staff member for assistance.

Dates: 1827-1860

Ruffin-Pollard Bound Music Volume

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00172
Scope and Contents One bound music book with the following names penciled in the front and within the book:  Eliza Dandridge Pollard, Mary Ellen Wills and Jam. Edw. Ruffin. Over 100 pieces of sheet music, including: Rail Road March (1828, second edition); The Harrison Song, Illustrated,  Boston (1840); Baltimore Convention, Old Tippecanoe, A Patriotic Song, Illustrated, Philadelphia (1840); Florida Polka by Albert Holland, Independent Blues Band, Baltimore (1849); Bllomer Or New Costime Polka,  New...
Dates: 1828-1860

Straitjacket collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.354
Content Description

The collection contains materials that document the activities of the hardcore punk band Straitjacket. Collection includes a cassette tape, T-shirt and buttons.

Dates: 2021-2023

William & Mary Choir records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.065
Scope and Contents This collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, programs, and other material relating to the William and Mary Choir at William & Mary. Some records included in this collection pertain to the Women's Chorus and the Botetourt Chamber Singers, an a capella student organization at the College of William and Mary. The scrapbooks contain clippings, programs, and photographs of performances and other activities by the groups during the academic year. A few of the scrapbooks document the...
Dates: 1974-2017

William & Mary Hip Hop Collection

 Series — Box 1-9
Identifier: 01/Mss. 1.19
Scope and Contents Established by American Studies Ph.D. Kevin Kosanovich working in Swem Library’s Special Collections, the William & Mary Hip Hop Collection is the most comprehensive of its kind dedicated to Virginia’s hip hop culture and history from the 1980s to the present. The collection includes oral histories committed to preserving and documenting Virginia’s rich hip hop past, as well as recordings of hip hop music, publications, and ephemera created by Virginia and Virginia-based artists,...
Dates: circa 1985-2014; Majority of material found in 2012-2014

Ye Olde Summer Band School Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 326
Scope and Contents

This collection contains fliers for the College of William and Mary's Ye Olde Summer Band School for junior and senior high school students interested in music.

Dates: 1953-1976