Records, 1934-1992.

Benton, Rita.

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Rita Beatrice (Rosenfeld) Benton was born in New York City on June 28, 1918. In 1937 she studied piano at the Julliard School of Music in New York City. She received her B.A. degree from Hunter College in 1939. She took her M.A. and Ph. D. in musicology at the State University of Iowa in 1951 and 1961. She met Arthur L. Benton in Paris and they married soon after. Arthur L. Benton (1909-2006) was professor of psychology and neurology at the University of Iowa from 1948 until his retirement in 19...

Johnson, Alvin H.

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Palisca, Claude V

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Claude V. Palisca (1921-2001) was one of the leading musicologists of the 20th century. Born in what is now Rijeka, Croatia, he settled in the United States, and was educated at Queens College (CUNY) and Harvard University. He spent most of his career on the faculty of the Department of Music of Yale University. He is best known for his research on the history of music theory and aesthetics, especially in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and for his widely-used textbooks Baroque Music and A ...

LaRue, Jan

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Einstein, Alfred, 1880-1952

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Prominent musicologist and critic, intending to be Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, Alfred Einstein suffered a heart attack in St. Louis while crossing the country. After arrival in California he was too weak to take up teaching, and eventually died in El Cerrito....

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

Sachs, Curt, 1881-1959

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Bukofzer, Manfred F., 1910-1955

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Manfred F. Bukofzer was a noted musicologist, scholar, and long-time University of California, Berkeley Music Dept. faculty member. The collection represents his deep interest in English polyphony of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. From the description of Manfred F. Bukofzer collection of medieval manuscript sources [ca. 1200-ca. 1500]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 38295432 ...

Reese, Gustave, 1899-1977

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An American musicologist, teacher, and editor, Gustave Reese is best known as the author of Music in the Middle Ages (1940) and Music in the Renaissance (1954; rev 1959). Reese divided his time between publishing and academia. He was director of publications for both G. Schirmer (1940-45) and Carl Fischer (1944-55). His teaching at New York University and other institutions helped to shape the direction of American musicology. Reese was one of the founding members of the American Musicological S...

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,...

Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979

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Musicologist. From the description of Ballad of Hattonchatel : manuscript and typescript poem, 1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981474 Seeger was born on Dec. 14, 1886 to American parents in Mexico City; graduated from Harvard University, 1908; taught music at UC Berkeley (1912-19), the Institute of Musical Arts, N.Y. (1921-33), and the New School for Social Research, N.Y. (1931-35); served as asst. director, Pan American Union (1941-53); visiting prof., Yale Univ. (19...

Pirrotta, Nino

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American musicological society

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AMS was founded in 1934 as a forum for scholars sharing musicological interests. Its recent membership of approximately 3,000 draws from across the United States and Canada. The Society has been a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies since 1951. From the description of Records, 1934-1992. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905449 From the description of Supplementary records, 1950-2003 (bulk 1980-2003). (University of Penn...

Bent, Margaret

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Albrecht, Otto.

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Mendel, Arthur, 1905-1979

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After graduation from Harvard University (B.A. 1925), Mendel went to Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger (1925-1927). He was music critic of THE NATION (1930-1933), literary editor for G. Schirmer (1930-1938), editor of the American Musicological Society's journal (1940-1943), and editor for Associated Music Publishers (1941-1947). He was also an active translator. From 1936 to 1953 he conducted the Cantata Singers, one of the first groups in the USA to give authentic performances of Ba...

Billings, William, 1746-1800

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William Billings was a ship captain. From the guide to the Journals of the Ship Apollo, 1789-1791, 1789-1791, (American Philosophical Society) Originally composed for chorus. "I am the rose of Sharon" and "Lamentation over Boston" are from Billings' "The Singing-Master's Assistant," published by Edes & Gill, Boston, 1778. "The Lord is risen" is from Billings' "The Suffolk Harmony," published Boston, 1786. Arranged 1976. First performance Free Library of Philadelphia, 17 ...

Mitchell, William J.

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Ockeghem, Johannes, approximately 1410-1497

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Lockwood, Lewis

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Newman, William S.

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Láng, Paul Henry, 1901-1991

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Musicologist, Avalon Professor of Humanities, Columbia University, 1933-1970. From the description of Paul Henry Lang papers, 1947-1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 626908658 Musicologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Henry Lang : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736579 American musicologist of Hungarian birth. From the description...

Haar, James

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Grout, Donald Jay

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Professor of Musicology, Cornell University, 1945-1970. From the description of Donald Jay Grout papers, 1929-1989. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072986 From the description of Donald Jay Grout papers, 1929-1989. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 165393011 ...

Lowinsky, Edward E. (Edward Elias), 1908-1985

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Born January 12, 1908 in Stuttgart. Studied music performance, composition and conducting at Stuttgart's Hochschule für Musik from 1923-1928. Studied under Heinrich Besseler at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. Lowinsky completed a dissertation on the Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso. Ph.D. in musicology in 1933. Died October 11, 1985. From the description of Edward E. Lowinsky papers, 1920-1986 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 606929513 ...

Knapp, Janet

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Tischler, Hans, 1915-2010

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Hans Tischler, musicologist, was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 18, 1915 to Joachim and Grete Spitz. He married musicologist Louise Hochdorf in 1938 and later married Alice Bock, pianist, in 1958. In 1933, he earned a Piano Pedagogy Diploma at the Vienna Conservatory under Paul Wittigstein, Eduard Steurmann and Bertha Jahn-Beer. Tischler earned two master's degrees from the Vienna State Academy and two Ph.D's in Musicology, the first from Vienna University in 1937 and the second from Yale U...

Josquin, des Prez, -1521

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Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver), 1901-1980

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W. Oliver Strunk was a musicologist and served as a professor of music at Princeton University from 1937-1966. During his tenure he was enormously influential for both his students at the university and for American musicology at large. From the description of William Oliver Strunk collection, 1937-1979. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 66529641 ...