Title: Plantation Melodies Sheet Music

Date/Date Range :   1884

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists several pages of sheet music by the "Original Nashville Student's Choir" . It was compiled by H.B. Thearle in 1884.

Call number: MS-2928

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

The University of Tennessee Special Collections Library purchased this collection on September 25, 2006.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Plantation Melodies Sheet Music, MS-2928. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection consists of one folder.

African American spiritual choirs became popular in the years following the Civil War. The choirs were often composed of former slaves or their children, and they traveled the states singing hymns. Many of these hymns had been sung on plantations for decades, but were published by white men.

This collection consists of sheet music sung by the Nashville Students Choir. The compilation is credited to their conductor H. B. Thearle and is dated 1884.

• African Americans -- Music.
• Nashville (Tenn.) -- History.
• Popular music.