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The Virgil Thomson Papers

Title: The Virgil Thomson Papers

The Virgil Thomson Papers contain the manuscript scores and sketches of Thomson's musical compositions, including music for 3 operas, 7 films, and other major compositions and smaller pieces. The Papers also hold printed copies of books and music by Thomson. The correspondence is voluminous and contains letters to and from many important American and French cultural figures since 1920: composers, musicians, artists, authors, and theatrical personalities. Thomson's life and work are further documented by: writings by and about Thomson; photographs; family and personal documents; financial records; private recordings; and other materials.

ArchivalResource: 183 Linear Feet (394 boxes)

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0029 View

Mordecai Bauman papers, 1930-1952

Title: Mordecai Bauman papers 1930-1952

The papers of the American baritone singer Mordecai Bauman consist primarily of scores; they also include one concert lecture.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet; 2 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20323 View

American Music Edition records, 1920-1997, 1951-1991

Title: American Music Edition records 1920-1997 1951-1991

ArchivalResource: 24.00

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-mus-archon-184 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. Four minutes for four players : for flute, oboe, clarinet in B♭ and bassoon / Elie Siegmeister.

Title: Four minutes for four players : for flute, oboe, clarinet in B♭ and bassoon / Elie Siegmeister. [198-?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([3] leaves) ; 44 x 39 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18469096 View

The Leonard Burkat Papers, 1943-1981 (inclusive)

Title: The Leonard Burkat Papers 1943-1981 (inclusive)

Correspondence, music, and photographs by and about the American music librarian, critic, music administrator, recording executive, and program annotator Leonard Burkat (1919-1992)

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (3 linear feet)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0025 View

Aaron Copland Collection, 1841-1991, (bulk 1911-1990)

Title: Aaron Copland Collection 1841-1991 (bulk 1911-1990)

The Aaron Copland Collection consists of published and unpublished music by Copland and other composers, correspondence, writings, biographical material, datebooks, journals, professional papers including legal and financial material, photographs, awards, art work, and books. Of particular interest is the correspondence with Nadia Boulanger, which extent over 50 years, and with his long-time friend, Harold Clurman. Other significant correspondents are Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, Carlos Chávez, David Diamond, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, Claire Reis, Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions, and Virgil Thomsom. The photographic collection of Copland's friend and confidant Victor Kraft, a professional photographer, forms part of the collection.

ArchivalResource: around 400,000 items; 564 boxes; 306 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002006 View

The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and other material, 1873-2001.

Title: The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and other material, 1873-2001.

This collection is a portion of the Archives relating to 20th-century music, collected by the German-American musicologist, Hans Moldenhauer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes, 9 cartons (not end-processed) (50 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01954/catalog View

Randolph S. Rothschild Collection, 1942-1992, (bulk 1973-1985)

Title: Randolph S. Rothschild Collection 1942-1992 (bulk 1973-1985)

The collection consists primarily of music (ms., facsimile, and printed) and accompanying correspondence, programs, and reviews. The majority of the music in the collection comprises facsimile scores of compositions commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from prominent American composers, such as Dominick Argento, Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Jacob Druckman, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Leon Kirchner, Ernst Krenek, Robert Hall Lewis, Lawrence Moss, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Rouse, Gunther Schuller, Ralph Shapey, Hugo Weisgall, and Charles Wuorinen. Many of these scores are inscribed to Mr. Rothschild and signed by their composers. The collection also includes holograph ms. scores by Henry Cowell, Hugo Weisgall, and Brown Benson. Correspondence accompanies the scores by David Epstein, John Huggler, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Leo Kraft, Lawrence Moss, Roger Reynolds, Ralph Shapey, and Hugo Weisgall. Besides the correspondence, a few scores include programs and reviews of the concerts at which they were performed.

ArchivalResource: circa 225 items; 11 boxes; 6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003013 View

Neilson, Kenneth P.,. Hughes-Neilson music collection, 1934-1980.

Title: Hughes-Neilson music collection, 1934-1980.

The Hughes-Neilson Music Collection consists of musical settings of the poetry and lyrics of Langston Hughes.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164237 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. Symphony no. 1 / Elie Siegmeister.

Title: Symphony no. 1 / Elie Siegmeister. [1947?]

ArchivalResource: 1 score (236 p.) ; 46 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52391974 View

Bauman, Mordecai. Mordecai Bauman papers, 1930-1952.

Title: Mordecai Bauman papers, 1930-1952.

The Mordecai Bauman papers consist primarily of scores; they also include one concert lecture.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79468159 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. Ballad of Adam and Eve / music by Elie Siegmeister ; poem by Langston Hughes.

Title: Ballad of Adam and Eve / music by Elie Siegmeister ; poem by Langston Hughes. [1978?]

ArchivalResource: 1 score (4 p.) ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49614889 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. Ways of love : for voice and chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet in B♭, violin, cello, percussion, piano) / Elie Siegmeister ; poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti ... [et al.].

Title: Ways of love : for voice and chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet in B♭, violin, cello, percussion, piano) / Elie Siegmeister ; poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti ... [et al.]. 1983 Nov. 6.

ArchivalResource: 1 score ([2], 38 leaves) ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18259712 View

Delafield, Eugene. Eugene Delafield collection on American poetry, 1904-1968.

Title: Eugene Delafield collection on American poetry, 1904-1968.

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, and other material by or relating to the writers Laura Benét, William Rose Benét, Alfred Kreymborg, and Leonora Speyer. Most correspondence in the collection concerns literary matters. The Laura Benét material consists of outgoing letters, writings, and printed ephemera. There are letters from Benét to Eugene Delafield, Alfred Kreymborg, Henry Goddard Leach, and Marianne Moore. The writings include drafts, some heavily corrected, and printed versions for approximately thirty-five poems; poems include presentation and publication dates, possibly in the hand of Eugene Delafield. The William Rose Benét material consists of correspondence and drafts of three poems. There are outgoing letters from Benét to Eugene Delafield, Alfred Kreymborg, family members, and others, and one third party letter from Norman Corwin to Eugene Delafield. The Alfred Kreymborg material consists of correspondence and printed ephemera. There are single letters and small groups of letters with the following individuals: Conrad Aiken, Katharine Lee Bates, Maxwell Bodenheim, David Diamond, Archibald MacLeish, Martha Millet, Erwin Piscator, Paul Rosenfeld, Lew Sarett, Elie Siegmeister, Genevieve Taggard, and Ridgely Torrence, among others. The Leonora Speyer material includes correspondence, copies and printed versions of nine poems, and other papers. The Speyer material also includes outgoing letters to Eugene Delafield, Alfred Kreymborg, and Henry Goddard Leach.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702183758 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. String quartet no. 3 : (on Hebrew themes) / Elie Siegmeister.

Title: String quartet no. 3 : (on Hebrew themes) / Elie Siegmeister. [1973?]

ArchivalResource: 1 score (50 p.) ; 37 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49360843 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. On this ground : five pieces for piano / by Elie Siegmeister.

Title: On this ground : five pieces for piano / by Elie Siegmeister. 1971.

ArchivalResource: 33 p. of ms. music, bound ; 37 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25457923 View

Harold Spivacke Collection, 1923-1984, (bulk 1930-1978)

Title: Harold Spivacke Collection 1923-1984 (bulk 1930-1978)

Harold Spivacke was a music librarian, administrator, musicologist, and musician. He was chief of the Library of Congress Music Division for thirty-five years, from 1937 until 1972. The collection contains materials relating to his life and career, including correspondence, student notebooks, speeches, his dissertation, photographs, clippings, programs, manuscript and printed music, artwork, awards and honorary degrees, and business papers.

ArchivalResource: around 3,900 items; 33 containers; 13 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu011011 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. The cows kin have the cowboys : musical score, New York, 1944.

Title: The cows kin have the cowboys : musical score, New York, 1944.

ArchivalResource: 12 p. ; 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492987 View

Atkins, Irene Kahn, 1922-. Major figures in American music [S-Z] : [oral history].

Title: Major figures in American music [S-Z] : [oral history].

Major Figures in American Music is the core unit of Oral History, American Music. The unit consists of interviews with approximately 320 composers, performers, and other significant musicians. Each interview covers a wide range of the subject's work and life experiences, and many subjects have been interviewed on more than one occasion, often over a number of years. In addition to interviews with the primary subjects, Major Figures in American Music also includes testimonies from secondary sources about Harry Lawrence Freeman, George Gershwin, Percy Grainger, Quincy Porter, and Arnold Schoenberg.

ArchivalResource: 51 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165427 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

Leonard Bernstein Collection, circa 1900-1994, (bulk 1933-1990)

Title: Leonard Bernstein Collection circa 1900-1994 (bulk 1933-1990)

Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, writer, lecturer, and pianist. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, personal business papers, the archives from his corporate identity, Amberson Inc., scrapbooks, clippings and press materials, programs, datebooks and schedules, iconography, address books, and fan mail. In addition, it contains music manuscripts for many of his compositions, including ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and . The Age of Anxiety (Symphony no. 2) Candide Chichester Psalms Fancy Free Jeremiah (Symphony no. 1) On the Waterfront Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" Trouble in Tahiti West Side Story Wonderful Town

ArchivalResource: around 400,000 items; 1227 boxes; 508 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1937-1938.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1937-1938.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63561918 View

Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991. Reminiscences of Elie Siegmeister and Mrs. Elie Siegmeister : oral history, 1975.

Title: Reminiscences of Elie Siegmeister and Mrs. Elie Siegmeister : oral history, 1975.

Family background, New York, N.Y., education; study with Nadia Boulanger, 1927-1931; American Ballad Singers, 1939-1946; jazz, folk, classical influences; symphonic and theater productions; Rally of Hope, 1943; organization of Soviet-American Music Society; elitist, nationalist and populist influences in American music; composition orchestration; American Composers' Alliance; effects of McCarthyism on United States artists and art; writing opera, film scores, since 1950's; elements of musical style; conducting, teaching; Composers and Lyricists Guild of America; 1968 Composers for Peace Concert; importance of fashion, planned obsolescence in modern culture; Council of Creative Artists, Libraries and Museums; development of Second American School of Music.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 459 leaves.Tape: 2 reels; 8 cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309725333 View