Donald Jay Grout papers, 1929-1989.

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Donald Jay Grout papers, 1929-1989.

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Includes professional correspondence with William W. Austin, Andrea della Corte, Archibald Davison, D. Keith Falkner, Scott Goldthwaite, Otto Kinkeldey, Rey Longyear, Arthur Mendel, A. Tillman Merritt, Robert U. Nelson, Nino Pirrotta, Eduard Reeser, Walter Rubsamen, Leo Schrade, Denis Stevens, Oliver Strunk, Peter Gram Swing, Robert Tangeman, Frederic Tillotson, Henry Woodward, G. Wallace Woodworth, and Columbia University Press; and applications and recommendations for grants and university positions. Also, personal correspondence with his parents while studying in Europe and teaching at Mills College (1933-1936) and with a friend and former student, Jonathan Schiller (1943-1963); worksheets, photographs and galley proofs for History of Western Music and both editions of A Short History of the Opera; notes and notebooks on "Early Opèra Comique" (ca.1936-1941), "Molière's Comʹedie-Ballets" (ca.1937-1942), "Gherardi's Music" (1939), and "Parodies in Opèra Comique" (1939); his dissertation manuscript (1939); a manuscript on West Indian Music (1942); lecture notes; musical tapes; annotated programs; and a typescript of an article "How to Tell Good Music from Bad" (1955) with comment by William W. Austin; alphabetical correspondence file, correspondence with W. W. Norton; and correspondence relating to A Short History of the Opera and to The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti.

27.4 cubic ft.

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Austin, William W., 1790?-1852

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Professor of Music. William Weaver Austin (1920- ) has been professor of music history and appreciation at Cornell since 1947. He was chairman of the Music Department from 1958 to 1963 and also served as University organist. From the description of William W. Austin papers, 1947-1991. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63938925 ...

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 ...

Kinkeldey, Otto

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Otto Kinkeldey was an American musicologist. From the description of Papers, 1908-1962. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652126 From the guide to the Otto Kinkeldey papers, 1908-1962, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Professor of Music (1923-1927) and University Librarian (1930-1946), Cornell University. From the description of Otto Kinkeldey papers, 1902-1966. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63534706 ...

Davison, Archibald T. (Archibald Thompson), 1883-1961

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Epithet: alias Bodkin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0002d1 Davison graduated from Harvard (A.B., 1906) and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Archibald Thompson Davison, 1887-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973043 Musicologist Epithet: Professor of Music, Harvard University British Library ...

Longyear, Rey M. (Rey Morgan), 1930-1995

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Woodward, Henry L. (Henry Lynde), 1908-1998

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Henry Lynde Woodward (b. 1908; d. Chapel Hill NC June 23, 1998). American music professor, composer, and organist. He attended Cornell University and the College of Music of Cincinnati. He studied organ and composition with Sidney Durst while at Cincinnati; he later studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He received his Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University in 1952. He taught at the College of Music of Cincinnati, Western College, Vassar College, Harvard, and Cornell, before go...

Cornell University

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Swing, Peter Gram

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Merritt, A. Tillman (Arthur Tillman)

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Rubsamen, Walter H. (Walter Howard), 1911-1973

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Rubsamen was born on July 21, 1911 in New York City; A.B., Columbia Univ., 1933; Ph. D., Univ. of Munich, 1937; joined the UCLA music faculty in 1938, becoming professor of music (1955-73) and chairman of the music dept. (1965-73); served as president, Dante Alighieri Society of Southern California (1969-70); published Literary sources of secular music in Italy (1943), Music research in Italian libraries (1951), and Chanson and madrigal, 1480-1530 (with others, 1964); he died in June 1973. ...

Tillotson, Frederic Erle Thornlay

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Tangeman, Roberts.

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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 ...

Falkner, Keith, 1900-1994

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Epithet: Knight; singer, Director Royal College of Music British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0001b7 ...

Della Corte, Andrea, 1883-1968

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Goldthwaite, Scott, 1901-1981

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Professor of music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (earlier name: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)). From the description of Papers, 1942-1956. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28411073 Wilburn Scott Goldthwaite, b. Melrose, Mass. June 18, 1901; d. December 29, 1981, Urbana, Illinois. Son of James Wilburn and Emma (Chandler) Goldthwaite, studied at Yale under David Stanley Smith, Bruce Simonds, and oth...

Woodworth, G. Wallace

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Woodworth graduated from Harvard in 1924 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Wallace Woodworth, 193?-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973226 ...

Schrade, Leo, 1903-1964

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Nelson, Robert U. (Robert Uriel), 1902-1995

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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...

Schiller, Jonathan

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Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725

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Ms. of the original toccata for harpsichord is in the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Milan. This transcription for full orchestra, 1945; first performance Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 11 September 1945, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defaw conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Tocatta nona / Alessandro Scarlatti ; orch. by Leon Stein. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54030281 Italian composer. From th...

Reeser, Eduard, 1908-2002

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Stevens, Denis, 1922-2004

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Cornell University. Dept. of Music.

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Pirrotta, Nino

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