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TitleHodges family collectionOther Titles (e.g. Variant)Hodges collectionGeorge Hodges collectionTypeNotated MusicCollectionSubjectSacred vocal music (LCSH)Instrumental music (LCSH)Music--Manuscripts (LCSH)Hodges, Edward, 1796-1867Hodges, Edward, 1796-1867--Manuscripts. (LCSH)Hodges, J. Sebastian B. (John Sebastian Bach), 1830-1915Hodges, J. Sebastian B. (John Sebastian Bach), 1830-1915--Manuscripts. (LCSH)Hodges, Faustina Hasse, 1823-1895 (LCSH)Hodges, Faustina Hasse, 1823-1895--Manuscripts. (LCSH)Hodges family (LCSH)Music--Instruction and study (LCSH)Organ (Musical instrument)--New York (State)--New York (LCSH)Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.) Contentnotated music (ntm) Notelanguage: Materials in English, German, and French.SummaryThe collection is comprised of manuscript and printed music, writings, and other materials compiled and collected by Edward Hodges and subsequently by his son, John Sebastian Bach Hodges. Noteworthy among Edward Hodges' writings are the Annuary, an attempt in later life to depict his earlier life, and documents relating to the design and construction of the 1846 Erben organ at Trinity Church in New York. Music scores and sketches in the collection may well be the largest extant source of Hodges' manuscript music, including both original music and transcriptions and arrangements of the works of others, mostly intended for performance during religious services. In addition, there are manuscript and printed scores of works by two of Edward Hodges' children, Faustina Hasse Hodges and John Sebastian Bach Hodges.Sacred music in the collection not composed by Hodges family members provides insight into the kind of music that was typically performed in Episcopal churches in this country during the 19th and early 20th centuries: chants, psalm and hymn tunes, litanies, introits, offertories, oratorios, etc. Especially interesting are the Breitkopf & Härtel publications of Haydn's Die Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze from 1801 and an early publication of Beethoven's Christus am Oldberge. Among the scores of secular music, John Stafford Smith's Musica Antiqua (London, 1812), an anthology of music from the 13th through the 18th centuries, is particularly noteworthy, as is Chant lyrique pour l'inauguration de la statue votée à sa Majesté l'empereur et roi by Etienne Méhul. Also included in the collection are sixteen volumes of late 18th- and 19th-century sheet music that were presumably compiled by one or more members of the Hodges familyOrigin Date(s)circa 1790-circa 1909 Authorized Access PointHodges family collectionCollection ArrangementCollection Organization: Organized into the following series: I. Writings of the Hodges Family, II. Music of the Hodges Family, III. Sacred Music, IV. Secular Music, V. Sixteen Compiled Volumes, VI. Musical Instruction, Study, or Performance Guides, VII. Miscellany