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Music -- Instruction and study

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Alice Edwards Emerson papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065174157]
Identifier: 2293
Scope and content

Unpublished manuscript by Alice Edwards Emerson entitled "A Mythology for Musicians: Ancient Greece and Modern Music," concerning the influence of Greek mythology in music (389 pages). Also, a letter from Emerson's daughter, Edith, describing Emerson's career and activities of family members.

Dates: 1933, 1963.

Associated Music Libraries Group retrospective conversion project records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065461927]
Identifier: 4915
Scope and content

Correspondence, working files, reports, financial records, computer diskettes, and other papers of a music retrospective conversion project.

Dates: 1985-1994.

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.

Estella M. Barnhart papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065349197]
Identifier: 37-5-3154
Scope and content

Theater programs; Chinese Students' Club dinner program; photograph of class banquet in Risley Hall; copy of English Metres by William Strunk, Jr.; lecture notes from Music 24, The Opera, taught by Otto Kinkeldey; and typescript lecture notes from Music 18, summer session, also taught by Professor Kinkeldey.

Dates: 1925-1927.

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.

Laura Bryant papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2112
Abstract

Papers include professional correspondence with colleagues, publishers, and others concerning textbooks; also, her teaching career in general.

Dates: [ca. 1891]-1961.

Lionel Wolberger papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4990
Abstract

Correspondence, creative and academic writings, and musical work, including scores, sheet music, and programs and broadsides for musical performances; also, audiocassettes, phonodiscs,videotapes, and CDs and DVDs of digitized material.

Dates: 1965-1993.

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.