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Popular Music Archives, ca. 1890-ca. 1970

Title: Popular Music Archives, ca. 1890-ca. 1970

Photographs, manuscripts and memorabilia, as well as 78 rpm and LP recordings, cassette tapes, player piano rolls, music books, and histories, and a cast collection of original sheet music of popular music composers and performers from the turn of the century through the 1960s. Artists represented include Harry Von Tilzer, Gus Edwards, Jay Gorney, Eva Tanguay, Nora Bayes, Bert Williams, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Fats Waller, Jerome Kern, Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Otis Black well, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elton John and Billy Joel.

ArchivalResource: ca. 80,000 items.

https://nyst.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=e5fpyYi8RN/NYSL/X/9 View

Feist, Leonard. Leonard Feist papers, 1901-1991.

Title: Leonard Feist papers, 1901-1991.

The majority of the collection consists of Leonard Feist's professional papers relating to he work in copyright law.

ArchivalResource: 3.51 linear feet (12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122454790 View

United States. Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation. Sub-Committee on Music. Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music papers, 1941-1946.

Title: Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music papers, 1941-1946.

The collection represents the working papers of the sub-committee: correspondence from members to, among others, Aaron Copland, Leonard Feist, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Erich Leinsdorf, Alan Lomax, and Walter Toscanini; song book pamphlets ("Army hit kits"), sheet music; non-music publications; and administrative papers.

ArchivalResource: around 10,000 items (45 boxes, 18 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71055981 View

Bolster, Caitriona. Paul Hindemith oral history, 1951-1976 (inclusive).

Title: Paul Hindemith oral history, 1951-1976 (inclusive).

The Paul Hindemith Oral History consists of seventy-five interviews with students, performers, colleagues, and friends of the celebrated German composer. The Hindemith oral history complements and gives added dimension to the Paul Hindemith Collection of personal papers and manuscripts in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165297 View

Society for the Publication of American Music. Papers of the Society for the Publication of American Music, 1924-1974 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of the Society for the Publication of American Music, 1924-1974 (inclusive).

This collection documents the activities of the Society for the Publication of American Music from its inception in 1919 to its dissolution in May, 1969. The bulk of materials dates from the last 10 years of the Society's existence and consists of: correspondence; subscription records; royalty, bank, and other financial records; officers' notes; and a small number of programs and reviews.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702121403 View

Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

Title: The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

The Paul Hindemith Collection brings together primary and secondary source materials which document the life and career of Paul Hindemith, particularly his years in the United States (1940-1953). The Collection holds holographs of 14 compositions by Hindemith, including the Lilacs Requiem and the concertos for clarinet, horn, and trumpet and bassoon. The Collection also holds secondary materials (programs, notes, and reviews) for nearly all of Hindemith's compositions, as well as extensive material relating to Hindemith's classroom teaching and the Yale Collegium Musicum. Additional materials include correspondence between Paul and Gertrud Hindemith and colleagues, friends, and music publishers; photographs and drawings; articles about Hindemith; and miscellaneous materials.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft. (43 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122386247 View

Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

Title: The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

The Paul Hindemith Collection brings together primary and secondary source materials which document the life and career of Paul Hindemith, particularly his years in the United States (1940-1953). The Collection holds holographs of 14 compositions by Hindemith, including the Lilacs Requiem and the concertos for clarinet, horn, and trumpet and bassoon. The Collection also holds secondary materials (programs, notes, and reviews) for nearly all of Hindemith's compositions, as well as extensive material relating to Hindemith's classroom teaching and the Yale Collegium Musicum. Additional materials include correspondence between Paul and Gertrud Hindemith and colleagues, friends, and music publishers; photographs and drawings; articles about Hindemith; and miscellaneous materials.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft. (43 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702122560 View

Mercury Music Corporation. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1942.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1942.

Comprises 2 items, 2 letters from Leonard Feist.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63559940 View

Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers, 1941-1946

Title: Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers 1941-1946

The collection represents the working papers of the sub-committee: correspondence from members to, among others, Aaron Copland, Leonard Feist, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Erich Leinsdorf, Alan Lomax, and Walter Toscanini; song book pamphlets ("Army Hit Kits"), sheet music; non-music publications; and administrative papers.

ArchivalResource: circa 10,000 items; 45 boxes; 18 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu005002 View

Society for the Publication of American Music. Papers of the Society for the Publication of American Music, 1924-1974 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of the Society for the Publication of American Music, 1924-1974 (inclusive).

This collection documents the activities of the Society for the Publication of American Music from its inception in 1919 to its dissolution in May, 1969. The bulk of materials dates from the last 10 years of the Society's existance and consists of: correspondence; subscription records; royalty, bank, and other financial records; officers' notes; and a small number of programs and reviews.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86131613 View

Harold R. Atteridge papers, 1909-1939

Title: Harold R. Atteridge papers 1909-1939

Harold Richard Atteridge (1886-1938) was a playwright who wrote musical shows for the theatre in New York City. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and other papers, 1909-1939, relating to Atteridge's career and business dealings. Subjects include royalties, copyright, and requests for Atteridge to write lyrics and scenes for new plays.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/148 View

Associated Music Publishers. Correspondence with Eugene Ormandy, 1963-1976.

Title: Correspondence with Eugene Ormandy, 1963-1976.

ArchivalResource: 22 items (34 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63645121 View