Contents
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
GENERAL
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
ADDITIONS TO COLLECTION
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
BOOKS and CDs ON SHELF
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Music Collection, 1848-2003 (bulk 1930s-1980)
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by mnsss.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2003
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Title:
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Music Collection |
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Dates:
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1848-2003 |
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Dates:
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1930s-1980 |
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Abstract:
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Documents a wide variety of women's participation in the broad field of music. Material consists of books, catalogs, concert programs, interviews (both written and recorded), musical scores, printed material, photographs, publicity, recordings and songbooks. Contains biographical material on well-known women singers and composers (both classical and popular). Includes the women's liberation rock bands and folk music of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as feminist recording companies, Redwood Records and Olivia Records.
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Extent:
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9 boxes, 2 volumes, 1 phonograph record(3.5 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
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Identification:
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MS 409 |
This collection contains material that documents a wide variety of women's participation in the broad field of music. The material consists of articles, books, brochures, catalogs, concert programs, interviews (both written and recorded), leaflets, musical scores, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, publicity, recordings and songbooks. There are a few items in the collection that date from the nineteenth century including some rather unique items such as a "juvenile singing book" dating from 1853. More typically the nineteenth century material includes biographical articles and newspaper clippings about well-known women singers of the period such as Lillie Greenough and Henriette Sontag, and women composers such as Amy Beach. The most significant of this material relates to internationally known singer Jenny Lind, and especially to the years she spent in Northampton during the 1840s. Included in the Lind material are articles, copies of correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, concert programs and photographs.
Most of the material in this collection documents the contributions of women musicians to the field after 1930. There is a significant amount of biographical material related to classical musicians such as Nadia Boulanger, Sarah Caldwell, Emmy Destinn, Frederique Petrides, Olga Samaroff Stowkowski, Beverly Sills, Geraldine Farrar, and Kirsten Flagstad. There is also a large amount of material in the collection that documents the achievements and influence of more recent women musicians including folk musicians Malvina Reynolds and Mary Travers; the women's liberation rock bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the early pioneers of feminist "women's music" such as Holly Near, Meg Christian, Alix Dobkin and Margie Adam; as well as feminist recording companies, Redwood Records and Olivia Records.
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GENERAL
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Folder
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Women in music, general,
1853-1981, n.d.
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Clippings,
1894-1980, n.d.
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Pamphlets,
1902-82, n.d.
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Transcripts of interviews with Holly Near, Meg Christian, Margie Adam, Susan Freundlich, and Rosemary Schonfeld: interviews and transcripts by Laura Koplewitz,
1976-80
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Tapes of interviews,
1975-79, n.d.
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4b |
"Radical Harmonies": DVD,
2002
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Women's rock bands,
1969-80, n.d.
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Women's songbooks,
1971-79
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BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
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Amara, Lucine,
1979
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Beach, Amy, and Mercy Cheney,
1913-74
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Belmont, Eleanor Robson,
1960-69
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Bergen, Charlotte,
1978
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Boulanger, Nadia,
1958-62, n.d.
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Brico, Antonia,
1935-77
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Caldwell, Sarah,
1971-78
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Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague,
n.d.
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Coolidge, Margaret,
1981
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de los Angeles, Victoria,
1978
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Dessoff, Margarete,
1906
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Dobbs, Mattiwilda,
1956, n.d.
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Dwyer, Doriot Anthony,
1952-79
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Fischer, Annie, circa,
1982
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Garrison, Lucy McKim,
1963
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Gipps, Ruth (conductor/composer),
1962-67, n.d.
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Gomme, Florence C. ("Let Me Rock Your Cradle, Mary"),
n.d.
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Homer, Louise,
1903-40, n.d.
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Horne, Marilyn,
1971-79
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A Study of New England Women Composers in the 1880s and 1890s, by Victoria J. O'Reilly
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Jessye, Eva,
1976
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Lang, Margaret Ruthven (composer): obituary,
1972, n.d.
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Clippings,
1850-1978, n.d.
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Pamphlets,
1848-1923, n.d.
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Letters,
1851-98, n.d.
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Pictures,
1852-55, n.d.
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Melba, Dame Nellie (Helen Porter Mitchell),
1924
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Mendelssohn, Fanny,
n.d.
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Moulton, Mrs. Charles (Lillie Greenough),
1871
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Petrides, Frederique,
1935-40, n.d.
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Piazza, Marguerite,
1971
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Reynolds, Malvina,
1974-75
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Samaroff, Olga (Stokowski),
1939
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Sills, Beverly,
1969-79
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Sontag, Henriette,
1852, n.d.
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Thursby, Emma,
1927-79, n.d.
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Verrett, Shirley,
1970-76
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Photographs,
1882-1967, n.d.
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Clippings,
1956-67, n.d.
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Such Sweet Compulsion
(1938)
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Brochure: pictures
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Biographical information and published photographs,
1936-47, n.d.
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Clippings,
1937-50, n.d.
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Programs and concert schedule,
1937-49, n.d.
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Repertoire of operas,
1940-41
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Carnegie Hall,
1936-47, n.d.
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Metropolitan Opera,
1935-40
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Articles (originals and photocopies)
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8-15 |
1934-37
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16-24 |
1938-40
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25-30 |
1941-53, n.d.
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Articles by Oscar Thompson,
1932-45, n.d.
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Photographs,
1935-47, n.d.
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Newsletters,
1974-2000
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Concert programs,
1993-2003
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Articles and clippings,
1984-2002, n.d.
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Catalogs and pamphlets,
1988-97
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Public relations materials re: various artists, and internet printouts,
n.d.
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"Song of Ruth," Mary Howe,
n.d.
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"...And Ain't I a Woman?" New Harmony Sisterhood Band,
1977
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"Ballad of the ERA," Kristan Leurs,
1977
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Women's music albums (Chris Williamson and others),
circa 1975-89
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Bitch (5 issues)
1986
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Gay Community News (1 issue)
1981
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Jazz Times (1 issue)
1990
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Kinesis (4 issues)
1984-87
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Memorabilia: tshirt,
n.d.
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Beach, Mrs. H.H.A.: sheet music,
1900-30s, n.d.
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Bond, Carrie Jacobs, "A Perfect Day" and Isabel Underhill, "The Little Brown Nest,"
n.d.
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Flagstad, Kirsten: photographs, publicity, schedules, newspaper clippings,
1934-53
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Edell, Therese: "Peace Piece for Toni Sr"; mounted,
n.d.
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Pablo Casals, by Lillian Littlehales,
1929
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Women Composers: A Handbook, by Susan Stern,
1978
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Patience and Sarah: A Pioneering Love Story, Libretto by Wende Persons, Piano/Vocal Score by Paula M. Kimper,
1998
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Audio CDHerstory: Turning the World Right-Side Up!,
2012
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