5/17/2023 0 Comments Kevin lynch music collector![]() The dedicatees, Messers Sparr and Parks, were the original lessees of this spectacular hotel, which also burned, in 1867, ten years before the Southern Hotel. ![]() Interestingly, this sheet music was both lithographed and published in Cincinnati to promote a St. Lithographed and printed in tints and hand coloring by Ehrgott, Forbriger and Company, Cincinnati, 1863, horizontal format, folio. Sadly, the Southern Hotel burned in a spectacular fire in 1877, the burgeoning fire shooting up the elevator shafts in the structure. As only locates this at Yale University – not even at the Library of Congress – you can get a sense of the difficulty of locating this in an unbound, uncut state, as originally published. Binding into personal volumes, or sammelbands, was what protected so much of American music from this time period. One of the interesting things about this copy of the Southern Hotel Polka is that it is full size and unbound, unlike at least ninety-five percent of nineteenth-century music that has survived. The ornately titled piece adds to the allure. These views of buildings have proved to be very popular with collectors. This litho demonstrates the tendency to highlight and draw to perspective by deliberately setting off the shaded side of the building from the sunny side. The hotel was designed by architect George Barnett, who built other famous buildings in St. Lithographed and printed in tints by McLean Lithography, St. ![]() In part two, Kevin takes a look at views of two St. In this three-part series, Kevin Lynch explores the variety of music title-page design through three sets of unusual and rare pieces from the Lynch Archives along with his own commentary on what makes these covers so special. It is based principally on prominent nineteenth-century publications of American and British music, although many European prints are included as well. The collection of published popular music dating from 1736 to 1987 is uniquely sorted by subject, archived, and conserved. Kevin Hugh Lynch is a steward of the Lynch Archives, begun more than one hundred years ago by his father, band leader and art dealer Francis Lynch. The Lynch Archives is one of the premier private collections of American sheet music.
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