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Music.

 Subject
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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Ithaca Concert Band miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3884
Scope and content

Includes broadsides promoting concerts; tape recordings of concert music and an interview about the band with Clayton E. Weber (interview by Arthur Kulp); membership lists; and publicity material for the Ithaca Concert Band.

Dates: 1978-1980.

John Kirkpatrick papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065183331]
Identifier: 14-20-1146
Scope and content

Personal and professional correspondence of Kirkpatrick concerning concerts and recitals and individual musical works; concert programs; Cornell Friends of Music correspondence and other material, including much on music students receiving financial awards; correspondence of Donald J. Grout, a Cornell music professor and department chairman; and a photograph of Kirkpatrick.

Dates: 1951-1965.

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.

Radical and Labor Songbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8611
Abstract This collection is comprised of radical song books, music sheets, periodical issues and broadsides spanning the period ca. 1850 to 1990, with primary emphasis on the period 1900-1940. It includes rare pieces (such as numerous early editions of the I.W.W. "Little Red Songbook") as well as ephemeral song-sheets and song-books. Periodicals represented in the collection include "Sing Out!", "Broadside: the Topical Song Magazine", and "Promenade," an influential leftist folk-dance mimeo. The...
Dates: circa 1850s-1980s.

S. Marian Pratt letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065201265]
Identifier: 3707
Scope and content Includes letters (1929-1936) in English, French, and Italian from Perry Cornell Dechert (later known as Pierre François Cornell-Dechert) to Selma Marian Urband (later Mrs. Willis W. Pratt), mainly dating before 1933 and concerning Dechert's friends and travels in France while he was studying at the Université de Delaware (Section d'Etudes a l'Etranger) and the Sorbonne and later teaching at the Collège de Normandie; two letters (1929) from Perry Cornell Dechert to Edith Cornell Dechert,...
Dates: 1929-1957.