Helen Hewitt Music Research Collection, 1925-1978

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Helen Hewitt Music Research Collection, 1925-1978

1925-1978

https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=202

The collection consists of eleven boxes of materials from Dr. Hewitt's research and teaching, and primarily professional correspondence. Those materials include manuscript transcriptions from centuries-old music manuscripts scattered in libraries across Europe, research for articles and conference papers, teaching materials and student projects, speeches, and unpublished writings, along with a box of concordance cards from the preparation of her edition of Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonices musices odhecaton A.

11 boxes

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University of North Texas. Music Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11637537

University of North Texas. Music Library

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Hewitt, Helen, 1900-1977

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Born in Granville, New York, Helen Margaret Hewitt was a pioneering music historian who is best known for her editions of Ottaviano Petrucci's chanson compendia Harmonices musices odhecaton A, and Canti B. Hewitt earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in 1921, and a Bachelor of Music from Eastman School of Music in 1925. In the summer of 1926, she traveled to France, studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor and harmony with Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire américain de Fontaineb...