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Box 0087

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Contains 41 Results:

Medley by J. Derf Ellow (J. Fred Wolle spelled backwards

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents Written on first page of score in pencil. Entire score covers two pages:Text reads: “We meet again tonight boys with mirth and song. Let melody flow where ever we go. Dwell in friendship ever so true and strong with his tail cut short and his ears cut long. Where can he be. Where did you get that hat, where did you get that tile Isn’t it a nobby one and just the properstyle I should like to have one just the same as that. Where-e’er I go they shout HelOh the bulldog on the banks and the...
Dates: 1884 - 1915

“Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” Wagner. Transcribed by J.Fred Wolle. Four sheets of penciled score for organ.

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The arrangement of this collection is alphabetical according to title of musical score. The chronology is thought to be from approximately 1884 to 1915 for the music scores and 1956 for a program of a concert in Central Moravian Church’s Sesquicentennial Service May 20, 1956. Included in this service was J. Fred. Wolle’s hymn “He leads us on” which was composed in August of 1888 while Wolle was organist and choirmaster of the church. This hymn became his best known anthem and is included...
Dates: 1884 - 1915

“Palmarum”/”Ride On, Ride On In Majesty”/My Heart Speaks Out on those who Sin”

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents musical score written in pencil measures14 x 26.5 cm. The tune “Palmarum” was written in 1888 for the Central Moravian Church and published in 1891 in the Moravian Office of Worship and Hymns. The tune was first used as a setting for “Ride On, Ride On in Majesty” (Hymn #114 in Hymnal of the Moravian Church, 1969 edition) this title is written on this score with a notation in upper left corner “For Lent.” Later the tune was used for a missionary hymn “Fling Out the Banner.” In Gray’s...
Dates: 1884 - 1915

“Uber den Sternen”

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Thirteen scores: six for Tenor , five for Soprano measures 17.5 x 26.5 cm, one each for Alto, and instrumental Score , the remaining scores measure 34 x 26.5 cm. The text: “Ueber den Sternen da wird es einst tagen da wird dein Hoffen dein Sehnen gestillt; Was du gelitten und was du getragen dort in all machtiges Wesen vergillt; Dort in allmachtiges Wesen vergillt.”

Dates: 1884 - 1915

Assortment of related material: Untitled music scores, program, Library catalog cards.

 Series — Box: 0087, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The arrangement of this collection is alphabetical according to title of musical score. The chronology is thought to be from approximately 1884 to 1915 for the music scores and 1956 for a program of a concert in Central Moravian Church’s Sesquicentennial Service May 20, 1956. Included in this service was J. Fred. Wolle’s hymn “He leads us on” which was composed in August of 1888 while Wolle was organist and choirmaster of the church. This hymn became his best known anthem and is included...
Dates: 1884 - 1915

Tune 99b Music sheet

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 15, Item: 01
Scope and Contents

Music sheet measures 26.5 x 20.5cm score written in ink; text: “Oh, there’s a sight that sends my heart, Nor can it from my mind depart, How Thou on Olive didst languish; O Lord, for Thy soul’s agony, When wrestling there with death for me, Make me a trophy of Thine anguish.”

Dates: 1884 - 1915

Three Keys.

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 15, Item: 02
Scope and Contents

Musical Nonsense by J. Fred Wolle. Music sheet measures 26.5 x 34 cm double paged but score is written only in top third of sheet.

Dates: 1884 - 1915

Sesquicentennial Services, 1806 - 1956

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 15, Item: 03
Scope and Contents

The Central Moravian Church May 20, 1956. Among several trombone chorales and vocal choirs, program includes J. Fred Wolle’s “He leads us on” sung by Miss Nellie Musselman, Soprano and Mr. Eric Belar, Base. A history about the origins of the hymn as well as the entire poetic text is presented

Dates: 1806 - 1956

Photocopy of Bethlehem Globe Times, 1956

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 15, Item: 04
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of Bethlehem Globe Times May 1956 describes the presentation of the Wolle manuscripts to Lehigh University by Wolle’s daughter, Mrs. Gretchen Wolle Prescott Baker.

Dates: 1956

Six library cataloging cards with the notation 784.2 W864

 File — Box: 0087, Folder: 15, Item: 05
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The arrangement of this collection is alphabetical according to title of musical score. The chronology is thought to be from approximately 1884 to 1915 for the music scores and 1956 for a program of a concert in Central Moravian Church’s Sesquicentennial Service May 20, 1956. Included in this service was J. Fred. Wolle’s hymn “He leads us on” which was composed in August of 1888 while Wolle was organist and choirmaster of the church. This hymn became his best known anthem and is included...
Dates: 1884 - 1915