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Jerome Kern collection [finding aid]
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Jerome Kern collection [finding aid] - Place of Publication/Creation
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Washington, D.C. - Type of Material
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text collection - Genre
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finding aid - Published/Created
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2005 - Publisher
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Music Division, Library of Congress - Issuance
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monographic - Language
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English - Form
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print - Physical Description
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144 p. ; 21 cm. - Abstract
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The collection consists primarily of Kern's show music, some holograph sketches; most are manuscript full and vocal scores of Kern's orchestrators and arrangers, especially Frank Saddler and Robert Russell Bennett. Film and other music also is represented, as well as a small amount of correspondence. There are ca. 7,450 items (102 boxes, 45 linear ft.). - Subjects
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Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 -
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945--Correspondence -
Saddler, Frank. -
Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981 -
Composers--United States--Correspondence--Catalogs -
Musicals--Scores -
Musicals--Vocal scores with piano--Catalogs -
Musical sketches--Catalogs - Notes
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Finding aid to the Jerome Kern collection (1874-1961, bulk 1910-1961), Music Division, Library of Congress. -
The Library of Congress also has other Kern material classified elsewhere in the Music Division: scores, full and vocal, holograph and Saddler and Bennett mss., scripts, and correspondence. -
Jerome David Kern, composer, well known for his musicals which were produced from 1906 to 1939. He was born Jan. 27, 1885, and died Nov. 11, 1945, in New York City. -
The bulk of the material, discovered in a Warner Bros. warehouse in Secaucus, N.J., in 1982, was acquired from Betty Kern-Miller (the composer's daughter) between 1986 and 1990. Additional items were donated by Rodgers & Hammerstein, T.B. Harms, and John McGlinn, or purchased. - Statement of responsibilty
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Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress. -
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Music Division, 2006. - Identifier
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hdl:loc.music/eadmus.mu002004 - Finding aid
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002004
Last Updated: 06-27-2006