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Writings, 1934-1994 (continued)
Writings by Roy Harris, 1934-1975
BOX-FOLDER 18/1 20th century era for common man. Nashville Tennessean (July 1950)
BOX-FOLDER 18/2 "Adagio peneroso" in This I believe, vol 2. Edited by Raymond Swing. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954: 70-71
BOX-FOLDER 18/3 And this is good, America-- Educational Music Magazine (November-December 1941)
BOX-FOLDER 18/4 Bands of the armed forces. NBC broadcast. Denver. July 15, 1944
BOX-FOLDER 18/5 "The basis of artistic creation in music" in The bases of artistic creation. New York: Octagon Books, 1969: 19-29
BOX-FOLDER 18/6 The composer's dilemma, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/7 Composing: an art and a living. Music Journal (January 1953): 31, 78
BOX-FOLDER 18/8 The creative artist and the war. Music News (December 1942): 6-7
BOX-FOLDER 18/9 The creative musician and the new era, 1944
Later published in Studies in Musical Education, History, and Aesthetics. Pittsburgh: Music Teachers National Association, 1944: 38-44
BOX-FOLDER 18/10 The creative process in music, circa 1959
BOX-FOLDER 47/1 The cultural climate of the U.S.A, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/11 Culture called need of our era. Peabody Reflector, 22, no. 10 (October 1949): 315
BOX-FOLDER 18/12 Discussion of the Pittsburgh Symphony situation to date, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/13 Down to earth, 1955
Laid in: letter from Harris to editor of the New Yorker
BOX-FOLDER 18/14 Education and the American composer, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/15 Expediency and our national culture, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/16 Folk material in art music. New York Times, December 1942
BOX-FOLDER 18/17 Folk songs. House and Garden, 106, no. 6 (December 1954): 112, 165, 170
BOX-FOLDER 18/18 Folk songs and ways, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/19 Folksong: American big business. Modern Music, 43 (1940): 8-11
BOX-FOLDER 18/20 For stadium concerts review, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/21 For young composers only. Music Journal, 14, no. 1 (January 1956): 13, 42
BOX-FOLDER 18/22 Friendly competition. National Music Council Bulletin, 6, no. 2 (January 1946)
BOX-FOLDER 18/23 The growth of a composer. Musical Quarterly, 22, no. 2 (April 1934): 188-191
BOX-FOLDER 18/24 Humanism in the great society, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/25 The institution of education. The Peabody Reflector (June 1950): 163
BOX-FOLDER 18/26 International Musician articles, 1958-1959
6 articles and related draft materials about musical life and education in the U.S.S.R.
BOX-FOLDER 18/27 Interview transcripts, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/28 Lecture at the Desert Sun School, 1973
BOX-FOLDER 18/29, 47/2 Lyric sketches, undated
Chiefly unidentified sketches for dramatic works
BOX-FOLDER 18/30-31 Miscellany, 1938, 1966, undated
Includes outlines for possible autobiography
BOX-FOLDER 18/32 Modern melody: its resources, 1937
Later published in Studies in Musical Education, History, and Aesthetics. Oberlin: Music Teachers National Association, 32 (1938): 41-47
BOX-FOLDER 18/33 Music: mirror of man, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/34 Music of today in America, undated
BOX-FOLDER 18/35 Nashville Tennessean articles, 1949-1950
BOX-FOLDER 18/36 Of proving grounds, cynics, and a road to musical wisdom. San Francisco Chronicle, December 1943
BOX-FOLDER 18/37 Oral testimony by Roy Harris, composer and director of the International Institute of Music before the Select Sub-committee on Education, House of Representatives (February 1962)
BOX-FOLDER 18/38 "Our musical scene in two tones" in Twice a year: a book of literature, the arts, and civil liberties, 5-6 (1940-1941): 327-339
BOX-FOLDER 18/39 Outlook on music in America at mid-20th century, undated
BOX-FOLDER 19/1-2 Patten lectures. The audience, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 19/3 Patten lectures. The composer, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 19/4 Patten lectures. The music critic, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 19/5 Patten lectures. The nature of music, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 19/6 Patten lectures. The performer, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 19/7 Patten lectures. Society and music, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 19/8 Paul Rosenfeld, the believer, undated
BOX-FOLDER 47/3 The people's choice: the influences of audiences on music, undated
BOX-FOLDER 19/9 Perspective at forty. Magazine of Art, 32, no. 11 (November 1939): 638-639, 667-671
BOX-FOLDER 19/10 Pittsburgh! Why? Carnegie Magazine (November 1952): 294, 297
BOX-FOLDER 19/11 Plight of composers in plenty, undated
BOX-FOLDER 19/12 The pollution of music, undated
BOX-FOLDER 19/13 A practical musical dream for a frustrated humanity. San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 19/14 "Problems of American composers" in American composers on American music. Edited by Henry Cowell. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1962: 149-166
BOX-FOLDER 19/15 Problems of composing music for school groups, 1949
BOX-FOLDER 19/16 Program notes, 1962-1963, undated
BOX-FOLDER 19/17 Prospectus for an international fellowship to develop and promote talented, disciplined, young string players, circa 1966
BOX-FOLDER 19/18 Prospectus on Inter-Collegiate Music Center, 1958
BOX-FOLDER 19/19 Report on the International String Congress. International Musician, 58, no. 3 (September 1959): 10, 38
BOX-FOLDER 19/20 Sources of musical culture. New York Times, January 1, 1939
BOX-FOLDER 19/21 South must succor its ailing culture. Peabody Reflector, 24, no. 4 (April 1951): 107
BOX-FOLDER 19/22 Speech in Pittsburgh, undated
BOX-FOLDER 19/23-25 Statement for meeting of the Advanced Center for Great Education Issues, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 20/1 Taxation without representation. Music Journal, 4, no. 5 (1946): 8-9, 46-48
BOX-FOLDER 20/2 Thinkpiece no. 1, undated
BOX-FOLDER 20/3 Thinkpiece no. 2, undated
BOX-FOLDER 20/4 Time is running out. Texas String News (Summer 1950): 6-7
BOX-FOLDER 20/5 Totalitarian man, undated
BOX-FOLDER 20/6-8 Untitled writings and lectures, 1950, 1967, undated
BOX-FOLDER 20/9 U.S.S.R. musical travels articles, 1958-1959
Draft materials for unpublished articles
BOX-FOLDER 47/4 We Americans, undated
BOX-FOLDER 20/10-12, 21/1-3 We wonder as we wander, circa 1972
Drafts and notebooks
On title page: a multi-media production of cinematic drama and ballet, supported by vocal and instrumental music
BOX-FOLDER 21/4 What are your intentions, sir?, undated
BOX-FOLDER 21/5 What should the Academy accord the accordion? Musical Newsletter, 41, no. 10 (October 1949): 10
BOX-FOLDER 21/6 What's American about American music?, undated
BOX-FOLDER 21/7 You belong to us: a cinematic dance-drama in three parts, undated
Typescript scenario
Commissioned by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
BOX-FOLDER 21/8-10, 22/1-9, 47/5-8 Unidentified writings and lectures, undated
Chiefly sections and fragments of draft materials
see also Patten lectures
Writings about Roy Harris by others, 1930-1994
BOX-FOLDER 23/1 Anderson, Paul R. Statement on Roy Harris, 1953
Defends Harris' patriotism against charges of Russian sympathies
BOX-FOLDER 23/2 Ashley, Patricia. Roy Harris. Stereo Review, 21, no. 6 (1968): 63-73
BOX-FOLDER 23/3 Bargmann, Theodore John. The third symphony of Roy Harris, 1979
Paper for doctoral seminar at the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago
BOX-FOLDER 23/4 Bialosky, Marshall. Roy Harris: in memoriam (but keep your hats on). College Music Symposium, 22, no. 2 (February 1982): 7-19
BOX-FOLDER 23/5-7 Bibliographies, discographies, and work lists, 1960-1961, 1973, 1982, undated
BOX-FOLDER 23/8 Copland, Aaron. "Roy Harris" in The new music. Revised edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1968: 118-126
BOX-FOLDER 23/9 Cowell, Henry. "Roy Harris" in American composers on American music: a symposium. Edited by H. Cowell. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1962: 64-69
BOX-FOLDER 23/10 Evett, Robert. The harmonic idiom of Roy Harris. Modern Music, 22, no. 2 (Spring 1946): 100-107
BOX-FOLDER 23/11 Farwell, Arthur. Roy Harris. Musical Quarterly, 18, no. 1 (January 1932): 18-32
BOX-FOLDER 23/12 Goss, Madeleine. "Roy Harris" in Modern music-makers: contemporary American composers. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952: 283-301
BOX-FOLDER 23/13 Harris, Johana. How a contemporary symphony becomes a classic. International Musician, 54, no. 9 (March 1961): 30, 33
BOX-FOLDER 23/14 Interview transcripts, undated
BOX-FOLDER 23/15-17 Miscellaneous articles, 1930-1986, 1994, undated
BOX-FOLDER 23/18 O'Connell, Charles. "Roy Harris" in The Victor book of symphonies. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948: 230-241
BOX-FOLDER 23/19 Piston, Walter. Roy Harris. Modern Music, 11, no. 2 (January-February 1934): 73-83
BOX-FOLDER 23/20 Poetry written for Roy Harris, 1975-1978
BOX-FOLDER 23/21 Program notes, 1947, 1962, undated
BOX-FOLDER 24/1 Reviews, 1933-1950, 1977-1980
BOX-FOLDER 24/2 Roy Harris: the early years (1926-1935) and the emergence of American music, undated
BOX-FOLDER 24/3 Salazar, Adolfo. Music in our time, undated
BOX-FOLDER 24/4 Slonimsky, Nicolas. Roy Harris. Musical Quarterly, 33, no. 1 (January 1947): 17-37
BOX-FOLDER 24/5-7 Slonimsky, Nicolas. Roy Harris: a biography, circa 1948?
Unpublished draft
BOX-FOLDER 24/8 Slonimsky, Nicolas. The story of Roy Harris--American composer. Etude (1956-1957)
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 Stehman, Dan. Prologue to an investigation of style: Roy Harris, 1964
BOX-FOLDER 24/10 Stehman, Dan. Roy Harris and Los Angeles, undated
BOX-FOLDER 24/11 Roy Harris at seventy-five: stylistic development during the past three decades, 1973
BOX-FOLDER 24/12 Stehman, Dan and Chesley Gibbs. Roy Harris. Ovation, 5, no. 6 (July 1984): 14-19
BOX-FOLDER 24/13 Strimple, Nick. An introduction to the choral music of Roy Harris. The Choral Journal (May 1982): 16-19
BOX 25-26, 48, 50 Correspondence, 1926-1997
BOX-FOLDER 25/1-9 1926-1969
BOX-FOLDER 26/1-2 1970-1986
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