Marie and Winston Wilkinson collection [manuscript], 1934-

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Marie and Winston Wilkinson collection [manuscript], 1934-

The collection contains music for folksongs "William Taylor" and "The silk merchant's daughter"; correspondence with Ernest Meade and of Mead with others interested in the Wilkinsons and folk music; miscellaneous notes, chiefly addresses and phone numbers; Meade's drafts and obituary for Marie Wilkinson; assorted clippings; bills for Winston Wilkinson's English book purchases; and description of the Wilkinson's manuscript collection of traditional melodies. Correspondents include Bertrand H. Bronson, Norman Cazden, and Maud Karpeles.

circa100 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6916234

University of Virginia. Library

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Bronson, Bertrand Harris, 1902-1986

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Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Bertrand H. Bronson collection, ca. 1700-ca. 1987. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214992393 From the description of Bertrand H. Bronson broadside ballads collection, ca. 1720-ca. 1820. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214962038 Bertrand Bronson taught in the English Department for 43 years. He was a Rhodes Scholar, Guggenheim fe...

Meade, Ernest C., Jr.,

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Karpeles, Maud

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Wilkinson, Winston

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Winston Wilkinson is a black Mormon attorney who works for the U.S. Department of Education. From the description of Oral history, 1986-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122486644 Winston Wilkinson was hired in 1934, along with John Stone, by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., of the University of Virginia, to transcribe music. (Stone was hired to collect folk songs.) Funding for this activity came from the Civil Works Administration, a New Deal program. Along with his wife, Marie, ...

Cazden, Norman, 1914-1980

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American composer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1923-1980]. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 26710813 Norman Cazden, composer, performer, teacher, theorist, folklorist, and prolific writer, was born in 1914 and died in 1980. Raised in New York City he studied at several colleges, Julliard School of Music, New York City College, and Harvard University. He taught at several universities namely Julliard School of Music, Vassar College, Peabody Cons...

Wilkinson, Marie

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