H. Wiley Hitchcock papers 1949-2007 1971-2007

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H. Wiley Hitchcock papers 1949-2007 1971-2007

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H. Wiley Hitchcock, an American musicologist, was influential in advancing the study of American music in the United States. He was a noted scholar of Charles Ives and Henry Cowell, and the founder and longtime director of the Institute for the Studies of American Music (ISAM) at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. His papers document his research, writings and other scholarly activity, and the work done by ISAM during his tenure as director (1971-1993).

29 linear feet; 71 boxes

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Hitchcock, H. Wiley

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H. Wiley Hitchcock was an American musicologist who did much to advance the study of American music in the United States. Born in Detroit in 1923, he received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1944 and his MM from the University of Michigan in 1948, after which he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He returned to Michigan, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954 and began his teaching career. In the early 1960s he moved to New York, where he was professor of music at Hunter College,...