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Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress, circa 1000-circa 1990

Title: Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress circa 1000-circa 1990

The archives consist primarily of music (both manuscript and printed), correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, books, newspaper clippings, printed programs, drawings, and engravings. They span years from the Middle Ages to the present, and include documents of composers, musicians, and literary figures, among others. The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schoenberg, Webern, and many others. Also included is historically important correspondence, such as letters of Metastasio and Handel. Some composers (Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, for example) are represented by numerous manuscripts. A sample of other composers, musicians, and literary figures that are represented by both music and nonmusical materials includes George Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Anton Bruckner, Charles Burney, Feruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, Hermann Hesse, György Ligeti, Federico Garca Lorca, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Wedekind, Kurt Weill, and Gioseffo Zarlino.

ArchivalResource: 3,600 items; 131 boxes; 206 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003012 View

The Parker Bailey Papers, 1899-1977 (inclusive)

Title: The Parker Bailey Papers 1899-1977 (inclusive)

Music, correspondence and other writings, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer, pianist, and lawyer Parker Bailey (1902-1982).

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (2.9 linear feet)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0034 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993,. The Listening room [sound recording] : interview with Marian Anderson : June 13, 1974.

Title: The Listening room [sound recording] : interview with Marian Anderson : June 13, 1974. [1974]

Marian Anderson discusses her musical tastes, her temperament, what factors shaped her career, how she met her accompanist Kosti Vehanen, the beginning of her career in Europe, her ability to learn languages, her relationship with accompanist Franz Rupp and how they met, her premiere at the Metropolitan Opera and how it came about, how she prepared for her role at the Metropolitan opera with conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, how she met Sol Hurok, how she met Frida Sarsen Bucky, the meaning of spirituals in her life and how she was first exposed to them, and how the spiritual He's got the whole world in His hands was introduced to her by John Charles Thomas, Madame Cahier and Marian Kirby.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 tracks ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, NAB standard ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape.1 sound cassette : analog, Dolby B processed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228814254 View

American-Scandinavian Foundation collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1948-1958

Title: American-Scandinavian Foundation collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording] 1948-1958

These noncommercial spoken word and music recordings concerning Scandinavia were collected under the auspices of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Most of the spoken word recordings consist of panel discussions in English hosted by William Kennedy and Vernon Brooks. Topics of these programs include Swedish film, Danish ballet, and a discussion of the music of Harald Sæverud. Additional spoken word recordings include an interview with Anaïs Nin.

ArchivalResource: 175 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20474 View

American-Scandinavian Foundation. American -Scandivaian Foundation collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1948-1958.

Title: American -Scandivaian Foundation collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1948-1958.

These noncommercial spoken word and music recordings concerning Scandinavia were collected under the auspices of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

ArchivalResource: 175 sound recordings : analog.97 sound tape reels : analog.78 sound discs : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122606916 View