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[Binder's Collection: Mrs. Bright]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music compiled by Mrs. Bright. Almost all selections in the volume were published in London, with songs in English, German, and Italian. Six out of the forty-six titles in the volume are by Henry R. Bishop, with several works by J. Augustine Wade and Peter von Winter as well, among others.
Date: 1795/1850
Creator: Bright, Mrs.

[Binder's Collection: Minnie Greene, Book 1]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music. The dates of publication range between 1840 and 1880, and most of the publishers' imprints were located in New York or Philadelphia, along with several other locations. Discard stamps from the Columbus, Ohio public library, and a stamp for R.B. McAdow, Music Dealer in the same city suggest the compiler's residence was also there; the name Minnie S. Greene is written in pencil on the first page of music. Page 127 of the scan, or 114 of the music, is also inscrib… more
Date: 1840/1880
Creator: Greene, Minnie S.

[Binder's Collection: Works by Brahms]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music consisting of six works by Johannes Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Paganini (1); Clavierstücke, op. 76: Heft 2 (2); Fantasien für Pianoforte (3); Drei Intermezzi, für Pianoforte, Op. 117 (4); Klavierstücke, op. 118 (5); and Klavierstücke, op. 119 (6).
Date: 1866/1892
Creator: Oppel, Reinhard

[Binder's Collection: Fannie Schieffelin]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music collected by Fannie K. Schieffelin. The volume contains a variety of composers, though Diederich Krug is most prominent as a composer and arranger, along with three works each by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Many kinds of works are present, though two adjacent compositions are funeral marches. Numerous publishers are present, and are more or less evenly divided between the East Coast of the United States and Europe (particularly Leipz… more
Date: 1850/1873
Creator: Schieffelin, Fannie K.

[Binder's Collection: Columbus Public Library, Parts]

Description: Bound compilation of parts to accompany the volume M218.C67. This collection's contents do not overlap entirely with those of main volume. The library catalog record follows the handwritten numbering in the main volume, which generally assigns numbers to titles held in common between the two volumes. Therefore, some works are described by their position relative to numbered items. The set of parts also has several short manuscript pieces added at the end; some parts are for both violin or flute… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Columbus Metropolitan Library (Franklin County, Ohio)

[Binder's Collection: Columbus Public Library, Scores]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music for violin and piano, assembled by the Columbus Public Library (now the Columbus Metropolitan Library). This volume consists of scores and piano parts, although its contents do not overlap entirely with those of the accompanying set of violin parts. The library catalog record follows the handwritten numbering in the volume, which generally assigns numbers to titles held in common between the two volumes. Therefore, some works are described by their position rela… more
Date: 1834/1879
Creator: Columbus Metropolitan Library (Franklin County, Ohio)

[Binder's Collection: Florence Paulson, Book 2]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music, collected by Florence B. Paulson. This volume consists primarily of ballads and love songs, most of which were published in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.
Date: 1850/1874
Creator: Paulson, Florence B.

[Binder's Collection: E. M. Peachey]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music from the collection of Thurman Morrison. The contents were assembled by Edith Mills Peachey, and the 57 works in this volume include multiple ballads, quadrilles, polkas, and waltzes, with five different compositions by Henry Russell. Other composers with two works in the collection include Edwin Flood, Charles E. Horn, Louis Antoine Jullien, and Camille Schubert. About half of the works were published or co-published by the Musical Bouquet Office. All titles we… more
Date: 1820/1879
Creator: Peachey, Edith Mills

[Binder's Collection: Minnie Greene, Book 2]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music. The dates of publication range between 1852 and 1879, and most of the publishers' imprints were located in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, with others from Cleveland and New Orleans. Several items have the name of Minnie S. Greene on the first page, and some have the location of the Southern Home School in Baltimore, or Patapsco [Ins. or Tns.]. A wide variety of composers and lyricists appear in the volume, with multiple entries from Virginia Gabriel, Luigi… more
Date: 1852/1879
Creator: Greene, Minnie S.

[Binder's Collection: Mary Waddington]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music from the collection of Thurman Morrison, compiled by Mary Alsop King Waddington, an author who was born in New York, but lived in France beginning in 1871, and was married to French statesman William Henry Waddington. This volume consists largely of excerpts from operatic works, particularly by Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, Gioacchino Rossini, and Giuseppe Verdi. Most works were published in Paris, with a few published in Mayence (present-day Mainz), Vi… more
Date: 1820/1859
Creator: Waddington, Mary King, 1833-1923

[Binder's Collection: Schieffelin, Book 1]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music with the surname Schieffelin attached. Nearly all works in this volume are derivative works by Henri Herz, with two by Jacques Herz. The titles are largely fantasies or variations on works by other composers (including four by Gaetano Donizetti), with a particular emphasis on operas. A majority of works were published in Mayence (present-day Mainz), and some in Anvers (better known as Antwerp), Paris, Bonn, and New York. B. Schott or Fils de B. Schott published … more
Date: 1825/1855
Creator: Schieffelin

[Binder's Collection: Oliver Brett]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music collected by Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher. The front cover is monogrammed O.S.B., with a bookplate reading "Ex libris Oliver Brett" on the front inside cover. Nearly all items contain a primary or secondary publishing location imprint in London. The collection is unusual for its inclusion of arrangements for banjo. The titles are generally in alphabetical order, beginning with the letter "K," which suggests the existence of a prior volume. Man… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Esher, Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, Viscount, 1881-1963

[Binder's Collection: S. L. Schieffelin]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music compiled by S. L. Schieffelin. As is the case with the other Schieffelin binder's collections, this volume emphasizes variations and derivative works based on other compositions, and particularly operas. Works in this volume are entirely from the 1830s, with many by Henri Herz, Carl Czerny, and Franz Hünten, and include material frequently sourced from Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioachino Rossini, and Gaetano Donizetti. Most works were published in Mayence (present-day … more
Date: 1830/1839
Creator: Schieffelin, S. L.

Chant pages used as binding

Description: Liturgical chant pages used as binding for another work with a partially legible German title. Chant appears upside-down on the front cover; the first line, "...nt ga est flos filius" matches the text of Stirps Jesse. It is followed by a doxology (Gloria Patri) including some abbreviated text, and then the text of Veni in hortum meum soror, associated with Matins for the Assumption of Mary. The back cover has an upside-down portion, "dominus in suis virtutibus vincula manuum relaxavit suamque f… more
Date: 1643

Agenda Ecclesiae Moguntinensis

Description: Agenda ecclesiae from the Catholic archdiocese of Mainz. This extensive volume includes calendars for movable feasts, a daily listing of feast days for commemoration, days for fasting and abstinence from eating meat, and instructions for priests on administering the sacraments, texts of various blessings and prayers, with text in Latin and German. The volume includes notated musical settings, and a catechism in German.
Date: 1599
Creator: Catholic Church — Archdiocese of Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)

Gretchen am Spinnrade: aus Göthe's "Faust"

Description: A first-edition printing of Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade, made during his lifetime. The edition is dedicated to Mortiz Reichsgrafen von Fries
Date: 1821
Creator: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828

Rigoletto: Oper

Description: Piano-vocal score for Verdi's Rigoletto. The libretto, by Francesco Maria Piave, is based on Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse.
Date: 1800
Creator: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 & Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876

Evangelisches Gesangbuch

Description: Collection of hymns with notated melodies, and lyrics in German.
Date: 1869
Creator: Evangelical Synod of North America

Spinner-Lied von Wagner

Description: Franz Liszt's arrangement for piano of Richard Wagner's Summ' und brumm' du gutes Rädchen, from Der Fliegende Holländer.
Date: 18XX
Creator: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
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