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BOX 1/3-27 Music, 1907-1937
This series consists of published music for twenty-five compositions by Simmons. These are primarily piano-vocal or chorus scores for his gospel music. Two works, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me (1922) and O Clap Your Hands, All Ye People (1925), are choral anthems with organ accompaniment that have lyrics based on Biblical texts. This series also includes a spiral bound collection of his choral works, Soul Appealing Anthems and Sacred Selections, which was published in 1913. The only instrumental work in this collection is his piano solo The Afro-American Musicians: March and Two-Step (1907), which is the earliest dated composition in the collection.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 The Afro American Musicians: March and Two Step, 1907
Score for solo piano
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Dear Old School Days, 1920
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Eternal Lord, Creator, King, 1927
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 Heavenly Father, Bless Us To-day, 1909
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 Heavenly Father, Bless Us To-day, undated
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 I Love to Hear That Voice, 1914
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/9 I'll Serve Thee Lord Jesus, 1936
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/10 Is There Joy and Peace?, undated
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/11 The Lord Will Provide, 1935
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/12 My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? , 1922
Score
BOX-FOLDER 1/13 O Clap Your Hands, All Ye People, 1925
Score for mixed voices
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 Oh, I Want to Feel My Savior, 1934
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/15 Our March Song, 1920
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/16 Our School Song, 1920
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/17 Sing Aloud, La, La, 1920
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 Song of the Lilies, 1920
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 The Song that Leads to Heaven, 1920
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 The Story of Our Lord's Supper, 1919
Score
BOX-FOLDER 1/21 The Story of the Cross, 1937
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/22 Soul-Appealing Anthems and Sacred Selections, 1913
Spiral-bound collection of choral music
BOX-FOLDER 1/23 Sunshine, 1920
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/24 Te Deum, undated
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/25 There Is a Hill, Far, Far Away, 1915
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/26 Thinking of Jesus, Always, 1935
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/27 While Thee Are Young Thee Should Enter his Fold, undated
Chorus score
BOX 1/1-2 Papers, 1919, 1980
The Papers consist of a black and white photograph of Simmons and a biographical sketch written by Alexander Davis. This document outlines Simmons’s activities as a teacher, music publisher, organist, and composer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Arranged by material type.
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Biographical sketch, circa 1980
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Photograph of Hiram Simmons, 1919
25 x 20 cm, signed "Mosby, 1919"

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