The wreck of the Titanic: piano solo
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Item data
Title
The wreck of the Titanic: piano solo
Collection
Popular instrumental sheet music
General
Names
Hendrick, Z.A. (Illustrator)
Baltzell, William (Composer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1912
Place: Chicago
Publisher: Aubrey Stauffer
Library Location
Music Division
Shelf locator: P.I. (General)
Subjects
Lifeboats
Titanic (Steamship)
Smith, Edward John, 1850-1912
Popular music -- United States -- 1911-1920
Program music
Genres
Notes
Content: "In memoriam -- To the brave musicians who played the last requiem for the passengers of the Titanic"--on back cover.
Content: A descriptive compostition for piano solo--Printed beneath cover title.
Content: Caption title.
Content: Cover illustrated with a drawing, perhaps by Z.A. Hendrick, depicting a life boat full of women in the ocean, the iceberg-ravaged Titanic in the background with other life boats being lowered into the water. Superimposed on the drawing are two photographs?, one of the sinking Titanic, the other, perhaps the luxury liner's captain.
Content: For piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Content: Programatic content notes written between and above the music staves.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Statement Of Responsibility: by William Baltzell.
Physical Description
Extent: 4 p. of music : ill. ; 34 cm.
All pages separated and enclosed in plastic; all edges torn; some tears repaired with tape; some corners missing.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG00-C145
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14693423
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a5b5ab20-c6b6-012f-394a-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1912
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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "The wreck of the Titanic: piano solo" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1912. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a5b5ab20-c6b6-012f-394a-58d385a7bc34
APA format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1912). The wreck of the Titanic: piano solo Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a5b5ab20-c6b6-012f-394a-58d385a7bc34
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