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Cornell University. Department of Music

 Organization

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Cornell University Department of Music records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-20-513
Abstract

Correspondence and financial records; programs for University Orchestra concerts, recitals, and music festivals; scores of student productions; drawings for a proposed Department of Music building; historical sketches of the University Orchestra and photographs.

Dates: 1884-2000.

Cornell University music scrapbooks

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 14-20-2750
Scope and content

A continuous run of thirty-four scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and programs of concerts produced at Cornell University. The scrapbooks document musical life at the University, and show how music in America was created, disseminated, and received.

Dates: 1901-1990.

Donald Jay Grout papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-20-998
Abstract Includes professional correspondence and applications and recommendations for grants and university positions. Also, personal correspondence with his parents while studying in Europe and teaching at Mills College and with a friend, Jonathan Schiller; worksheets, photographs and galley proofs for A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC and both editions of A SHORT HISTORY OF OPERA; notes and notebooks on "Early Opèra Comique" and others, his dissertation manuscript; a manuscript on West Indian Music;...
Dates: 1929-2002.

Elsie Murray papers

 Collection — Box 31: [Barcode: 31924079282905]
Identifier: 14-23-881
Scope and content Correspondence, test forms and materials, research and testing notes, drafts of scientific writings, and printed and mimeographed matter pertaining to the studies and publications of Dr. Murray and fellow psychologists on color blindness and various aspects of color vision. Dr. Murray's color studies for the Office of Naval Research, color perception tests and apparatus, the aesthetics of color, intelligence and other mental tests, and the activities of the Inter-Society Color Council, the...
Dates: [ca. 1896]-1965.

Hollis Dann papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113441129]
Identifier: 14-20-4067
Scope and content

Programs from Cornell University Music Festivals, 1905, 1909, and 1920; program of Glee Club "Cornell Finale" for Dann, 1921; photographs of him, his wife, and his children; and copies of letters, 1936-1936;

Dates: 1905-1937.

John Hsu papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-20-3695
Scope and content Files relating to various groups with which Hsu performed including the Cornell University Trio, the Amadé Trio, the Haydn Baryton Trio, Aston Magna, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Apollo Ensemble, the Cornell Chamber Ensemble, the Cornell Orchestra, and the Sage Choir, as well as viola da gamba and cello concerts. Also files relating to musical instruments and to "Variants, Book III, Marais edition. Also a copy of his memor, It's All About Music, compiled by Martha Hsu, cataloged...
Dates: 1946-2018.

Karel Husa papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-20-3800
Scope and content

Programs and review of concerts in which Husa participated at Cornell and in the community; Cornell Composer directories, 1988; Music Department pamphlets and correspondence as department chair; and concert posters.

Dates: 1955-2002.

Mary Thorn Cullen papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065187126]
Identifier: 14-20-2081
Scope and content

Correspondence and memoranda between Donald Jay Grout, a musicologist and professor of music at Cornell University, and his secretary Mary Cullen.

Dates: 1962-1969.

Otto Kinkeldey papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-20-1000
Abstract

Professional papers include correspondence pertaining to his professorship and librarianship at Cornell and as a visiting professor elsewhere. Personal papers include correspondence with friends and family in Germany.

Dates: 1902-1966.

Paul Weaver correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065233441]
Identifier: 14-20-840
Scope and content Professional correspondence, covering topics such as faculty appointments, employment possibilities for students, concerts, purchase of an organ, invitations to Professor Weaver to judge music competitions or to evaluate musical radio programs, compilation of a college songbook, outreach to the public schools, and other activities. Includes a lengthy report on the Department of Music and its needs (1938), one letter concerning Carl Wiegand, and one folder of more recent correspondence by...
Dates: 1929-1946, 1970.

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Subject
Music -- Instruction and study 7
Photographs 5
College teachers -- United States. 2
Composers -- 20th century. 2
Diaries 2