Sheet Music, Seventh Heaven: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Seventh Heaven: date made: 1937. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
The term "seventh heaven" was used to describe an ideal celestial realm by Jewish and Muslim religious authorities. It subsequently came to refer more generally to a place of delight. This sheet music features a song from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "Seventh Heaven." The lyrics are by Sidney D. Mitchell with music by Lew Pollock.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1937
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 21.5 cm x 28.6 cm; 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in x 11 1/4 in
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.021
- catalog number: 1988.3086.021
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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