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Sidney Robertson Cowell collection, 1901-1992

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BOX 22-23 Teaching Materials, 1948-1959
Notes, outlines, song sheets, reports and narratives relating to courses Cowell taught.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX-FOLDER 22/12-14 Teaching materials for Hamilton School, 1948
Notes, outlines, song sheets, curriculum information for teaching children music and an outline for a play.
BOX-FOLDER 22/15-23 Music for Young Children, 1951, undated
Training materials, including notes, reports, narratives.
BOX-FOLDER 23/1-13 Teaching materials for course on rhythm at the New School, 1953-1959
BOX 24-25 Songs and Song Books
Some songs set to music, others include lyrics only. Includes single song sheets, sheets with multiple songs, and the following groupings: songs with piano settings by Henry Cowell, protest and propaganda songs of the 1930s-1940s, and songs collected from Cinderella Kinnaird.
Single song sheets are arranged alphabetically by song title. Protest and propaganda songs and Kinnaird’s songs are arranged alphabetically by song title within those groupings.
BOX-FOLDER 24/1-21 Folk songs, some with piano settings by Henry Cowell
BOX-FOLDER 25/1 Miscellaneous songs, A-B
BOX-FOLDER 25/2 Miscellaneous songs, C-D
BOX-FOLDER 25/3 Miscellaneous songs, E-G
BOX-FOLDER 25/4 Miscellaneous songs, H-I
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Miscellaneous songs, J-K
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Miscellaneous songs, L-M
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 Miscellaneous songs, N-O
BOX-FOLDER 25/8 Miscellaneous songs, P-R
BOX-FOLDER 25/9 Miscellaneous songs, S
BOX-FOLDER 25/10 Miscellaneous songs, T-U
BOX-FOLDER 25/11 Miscellaneous songs, V-W
BOX-FOLDER 25/12 Miscellaneous songs, X-Z
BOX-FOLDER 25/13 Miscellaneous songs, multiple songs per sheet
BOX-FOLDER 25/14 Unidentified songs
BOX-FOLDER 25/15 Miscellaneous song material
BOX-FOLDER 25/16 Mrs. Kinnaird’s songs, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 25/17 Protest /Propaganda songs of the 1930s-1940s
BOX-FOLDER 25/18 Potamkin, Harry Alan. Pioneer Song Book: Songs for Workers’ and Farmers’ Children. New York: New Pioneer, 1933
BOX-FOLDER 25/19 “Song Book: New York City School for Workers,” 1934
BOX-FOLDER 25/20 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union song sheets, undated

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