According to NASA, today’s total solar eclipse is the first to sweep across the United States in nearly a century. As the largest U.S. city in the eclipse’s path, Nashville will watch day turn to night as the moon completely blocks the sun from the sky for about two minutes. In honor of this celestial event, we highlight some sheet music from the Rose Music Collection that features the “sun” as a theme.
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| “Sunrise, Sunset.” Composed by C.A. White. Rose Music Collection. |
Kenneth Rose was an accomplished violinist and oversaw the violin department at Ward-Belmont College. In addition to being one of Nashville’s preeminent musicians, he was a collector of sheet music.
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| “Sunbeam Scottisch.” Composed by Ferdinand Lellner. Rose Music Collection. |
The Kenneth D. Rose Sheet Music Collection contains first editions and imprints of sheet music pertaining to a variety of subjects, including the Civil War, politics, presidents, wars, ships, sports, minstrels and comic songs.
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| “Sunset and Dawn” from Moods: A Series of Songs, Composed by E.L. Ashford. Rose Music Collection. |
The collection has more than 20,000 pieces of music, most of which was acquired by the Tennessee State Library and Archives before 1956. The remainder of the collection was bequeathed in 1956.
For more from the Kenneth Rose Music Collection see: http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/rosemusic
The Tennessee State Library and Archives is a division of the Office of Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett
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