Kenneth Fischer Craft, Musician, Popular Sheet Music and Other Material, 1889-1975 , A&M 3499

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Abstract

Popular sheet music collection of Kenneth Fischer Craft, a pianist and performing musician in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. Kenneth Craft was born in Triadelphia, West Virginia in 1905, attended high school in Wheeling, West Virginia, and went to college at Carnegie Institute of Technology; during his college years he was a member of the "Collegiate Six Orchestra." He was also a member of the Pittsburgh Musical Society. Includes: approximately 1000 pieces of popular sheet music (ca. 1920-1940, boxes 1-7); 57 popular music anthologies in book form arranged for solo piano (ca. 1908, 1920-1935, boxes 8-11); 2 in. of popular and non-popular music published as sheets and books, including songs and solo piano pieces (ca. 1900-1918, box 12); 3 in. of classical, light-classical, and pedagogical music for solo piano published as sheets and books (ca. 1900-1940, box 13); 2 in. of miscellaneous music (ca. 1919-1975, box 14) including dance band arrangements (2 items, ca. 1930-1935), jazz techniques and pedagogy for the saxophone (9 items, 1889, 1924-1936), silent film music sheets (13 items, 1915), popular music magazines (4 items, 1919, 1974-1975), and materials of local interest (6 items, including two piano pedagogy items published by Volkwein Bros. Music House from 1916 and 1932, sheet music with cover photo of Miss Pittsburgh from 1925, sheet music published by Wheeling Savings and Loan, the Pennsylvania State Song from 1926, and one other); 2 in. of fragments (box 15).

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Kenneth Fischer Craft, Musician, Popular Sheet Music and Other Material, A&M 3499, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.