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LMU Music Instructor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 80.7568.1453

Scope and Contents

A collection of music scores, and course material used by various music instructors of the years. The material arrived in a box with no information concerning the names of the instructors or when the material was accumulated.

The collection is divided into 4 series. Series I is catalogue of the sheet music presumably in the ALLM archive. The location information in the catalogue is no longer valid as the material has been reorganized.

Series II is a collection of Civil War era music. Most is photocopied, such a the Instructor for the Drum manuscript.

Series III is miscellaneous material, again source unknown. The music compositions by H. E. Beidinger are original. He worked for the Lincoln Financial Foundation and composed music as a hobby.

Series IV is instructional music examples for students. There is no information as which music instructors contributed to this material or when these music examples were created.

Dates

  • 1867 - 1990
  • Majority of material found within 1897 - 1920

Extent

2 Legal-sized Hollinger Box (2 boxes or 21 folders)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

A collection of music scores, and course material used by various music instructors of the years. The material arrived in a box with no information concerning the names of the instructors or when the material was accumulated.

Content Index

Series I Box 1 - Music Catalogue

Catalogue of historical American sheet music. Presumably music held in the ALLM vault. Covers years from 1861 through 1920(?).

Series II Box 1 - Civil War Music and Instructions

Tomlin, W. L. 1910. The Laurel Song Book: For Advanced Classes in Schools, Academies, Choral Societies, Etc.

The President’s Hymn. November 26, 1863. Scores and news article about the hymn.

Song for the Union (1862-1863). 6 photocopies of war songs published 1862 t0 1863.

Col. H. C. Hart’s New and Improved Instructor for the Drum. 1862. Photocopy of original manuscript.

Dirge Sung at the Consecration of the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg

Series III Box 1 - Miscellaneous

H. E. Beidinger Music – Original music written by Beidinger of the Lincoln Financial Foundation.

REMEMBER THAT SONG Newsletter, Sept. 1990, Vol. 10, No. 7. Article about the ALLM music collection.

The Company of Fifers & Drummers Newsletters

Series IV Box 2 - LMU Music Instruction Materials

Chain Cotillion – for fife

Garry Owen

Baltimore, and Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself

The World Turned Upside Down

York Fusiliers – for fife

York Fusiliers

Stoney Point

Norman Toy

Welcome Here Again

America – Words by Mather Byles, Music by William Billings

Belles of Newport, and Haymaker

Here’s to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen

First of September

King William’s March

Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself, and Tecumsh

Music Theory Papers – St. Martin’s Fife and Drum Corps

Note Chart
Title
LMU Music Instructor Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Lawrence V. Mott
Date
2022
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum Repository

Contact:
Lincoln Memorial Univesity
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway
Harrogate Tennessee 37752 United States