Sheet Music, Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand: date made: 1918. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
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Military sources sometimes are reflected in the numerical images in religious music. This sheet music is based on a poem by Dean Alford with music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. The song describes "armies of ransomed saints" arrayed ten thousand by ten thousand.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1918
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 27 cm x 35 cm; 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 13 25/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.045
- catalog number: 1988.3086.045
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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