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Articles 181 - 210 of 1963

Full-Text Articles in Music

Ua68/9/2 The Symphony, Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra Jan 2010

Ua68/9/2 The Symphony, Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra

WKU Administration Documents

Program outlining the 2010-11 season of the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra. Includes article by Jonathan Jeffrey entitled "Homecoming" regarding the return to the renovated Van Meter Hall. Also a description of the Pre-College Strings Program.


Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Starr, Tommy - Collector (Sc 2095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2095. Promotional material, tour information and cue sheets related to bands playing in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area.


Music (Sc 1969), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Music (Sc 1969), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1969. Two pieces of manuscript music: a benediction featuring the words of Psalms 19:14 and a piece featuring the text of the Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:9-13.


Worley, William Robert, 1853-1946 (Sc 1958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Worley, William Robert, 1853-1946 (Sc 1958), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1958. Memoirs of Worley's early life in North Carolina and Arkansas, his family history, and his hand-written collection of song lyrics, some composed by Worley. His drawings accompany some of the reminiscences.


Denton, Richard (Fa 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Denton, Richard (Fa 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan ("Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 385. Paper: “Jim Buchanan and His Music,” written by Denton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1653. Paper titled: "The Higher Road" about the life of long-time Western Kentucky University music professor Nelle Gooch Travelstead. The paper was written by Nancy Marshall for a history class at Western Kentucky University.


Bell, Carol Alice (Wanich) (Fa 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Bell, Carol Alice (Wanich) (Fa 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid for Folklife Archives project 373. Interview with Richard R. Bell related to traditional jazz festivals conducted by Bell for a Western Kentucky University class.


Carver, Noble, 1896-1978 (Fa 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Carver, Noble, 1896-1978 (Fa 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 372. Copies of two personal songbooks belonging to country musician Noble "Uncle Bozo" Carver of Barren County, Kentucky. They possibly date from the early 1930s.


Niles, John Jacob, 1892-1980 (Sc 1831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Niles, John Jacob, 1892-1980 (Sc 1831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1831. Letter 12 May 1978 to a Mr. Moody discussing a piece of music. Typed letter is signed by Niles.


"The Varied Carols I Hear": The Music Of The New Deal In The West, Peter L. Gough Jan 2009

"The Varied Carols I Hear": The Music Of The New Deal In The West, Peter L. Gough

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Federal Music Project and subsequent WPA Music Programs served as components of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" efforts to combat the economic devastation precipitated by the Great Depression. Operating during the years 1936 to 1943, these programs that engaged unemployed musicians mirrored similar efforts of the Federal Theatre, Art and Writers' Projects. Though the Federal Music Project proved to be the largest of the cultural programs in terms of both employment and attendance, to date it has received the least attention from scholars. This dissertation demonstrates that, given the societal landscape of 1930s America, a regional perspective is …


Brown, James, Monica Berger Jan 2009

Brown, James, Monica Berger

Publications and Research

Encyclopedia article on James Brown focusing on his impact on African American history and the Civil Rights movement as well as, to a lesser degree, his impact on the history of music.


Potter, Phyllis M. (Fa 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2008

Potter, Phyllis M. (Fa 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 326. Paper: "Psalm-singing in 17th Century New England" written by Potter for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Brown, William, 1916-1981 (Sc 1813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2008

Brown, William, 1916-1981 (Sc 1813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1813. Gospel songs collected by William Brown, some handwritten and some photocopied from songbooks, and placed in a scrapbook.


Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 1790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1790. Research material, including news clippings and several letters, related to William Shakespeare Hays, a Kentucky musician and journalist. Also includes typescripts of poems written by Hays under the pseudonym Hayseed.


Lewis, Fred (Sc 1777), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Lewis, Fred (Sc 1777), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1777. Musical scores for songs transcribed by Fred Lewis for the Hawaiian guitar.


Cooper, Laura (Fa 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Cooper, Laura (Fa 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 314. Paper: "Cowboys and Songs" written by Laura Cooper for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Johnson, Erleen (Sc 1771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Johnson, Erleen (Sc 1771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1771. Scripts written by Erleen Johnson of programs related to Stephen Collins Foster and the Rowan family presented at Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky. Includes lyrics, to be sung to the tune of "My Old Kentucky Home," which promote the beauties and attractions of the state of Kentucky.


Hogan, Ernest, 1865-1909 (Sc 1673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Hogan, Ernest, 1865-1909 (Sc 1673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1673. Application to secure a Kentucky historical marker for Bowling Green, Kentucky native Ernest Hogan (Reuben Crowdus), considered to be the father of ragtime music. Includes 28 supporting letters and a photo of Hogan.


Helm, Virginia Stockton (Beck), 1900-1992 (Sc 1647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Helm, Virginia Stockton (Beck), 1900-1992 (Sc 1647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1647. Letters, programs, and clippings related to musical events in Warren County and information related to musicians and composers Franz Joseph Strahm, Roy Harris, and John Vincent, who had all been faculty members at Western Kentucky University.


Hume, Archie, 1892-1963 (Sc 1599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Hume, Archie, 1892-1963 (Sc 1599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Smalll Collection 1599. Pages from the diaries of Archie Hume, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, related to singings and singing schools he was involved with in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1945-1963. Also, 1989 letter from Lynwood Montell concerning Hume's diaries.


Music - Books (Sc 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Music - Books (Sc 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and images of cover and selected interior pages (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 8. Manuscript music book hand-sewn into a crude leather cover. Some of the songs are folk songs having a love theme, while others are spiritual songs. Letters f,s,l,m are used instead of notes.


Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 194. Scrapbooks (3) of manuscript music, chiefly gospel music, written and composed by Arlis Odell Harmon, of Allen County, Kentucky.


Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.


Autographs - Musicians (Sc 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Autographs - Musicians (Sc 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1321. Piece of paper containing autographs of band leader Kay Kyser and some of his band members, who performed at the Bowling Green, Kentucky Armory on 3 July 1936. Includes some biographical data.


Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 28. Correspondence, poems, lyrics for songs, newspaper marine columns, and royalty and copyright contracts related to William Shakespeare Hays, a poet, composer, and newspaper columnist of Louisville, Kentucky. Many clippings of a biographical nature and of his works. Attached (Click on "Additional Files" below) is full text scan of a diary kept by Hayes from 1864 to 1865 and titled "My Leisure Moments to Belle McCullough." This diary is found in Box 3, Folder 4 of the collection.


Grise, George Calvin, 1918-1960 (Sc 1312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Grise, George Calvin, 1918-1960 (Sc 1312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1312. Thesis entitled "Will S. Hays[:] His Life and Works", written by George Calvin Grise, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Bush, William Pope Duvall, 1823-1904 (Sc 1508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Bush, William Pope Duvall, 1823-1904 (Sc 1508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1508. Letter from William P. D. Bush, Hawesville, Kentucky, to Annie White, Grandview, Iowa, in which he recounts the conditions under which White purchased a piano from him in 1855.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs Sep 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Chamberlain, William W. (Sc 1492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2007

Chamberlain, William W. (Sc 1492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1492. "Folk Music in the Kentucky Barrens," a thesis (268 p.) prepared by Chamberlain at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Discusses folk music traditions and ballads common to south central Kentucky.