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George L. Tracy collection of music manuscripts, 1877-1920
approximately 250 items. 9 containers. 3 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
George Lowell Tracy was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and instructor. The collection documents his professional career as composer and arranger and is comprised entirely of music.
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Claudio Spies papers, 1923-2012
approximately 750 items. 22 containers. 9 linear feet. 18 digital files (3.37 MB) . -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Claudio Spies (1925-2020) was an American composer, conductor and educator of Chilean birth. He was known for his close, multi-decade affiliation with Igor Stravinsky. The collection, which documents his professional career, is divided into two series: manuscript and printed music, by Spies and Stravinsky; and subject files, which include correspondence, interview notes, clippings, publicity materials, financial and legal documents, and writings.
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Ruth Page correspondence on Billy Sunday, 1944-1960
148 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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This collection consists primarily of the correspondence between American dancer-choreographer and company director Ruth Page or her first husband attorney Thomas Hart Fisher and composer Remi Gassmann, who was contracted to create the music score for Page’s ballet Billy Sunday (1948). Other letters to Gassmann from this period and a small number of programs and press clippings related to Page's or Gassmann's careers round out the collection.
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Oliver Daniel papers, 1759-1997
21,600 items. 80 containers. 52 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Oliver Daniel was an American arts administrator, musicologist, radio director and producer, and composer. The collection includes correspondence, manuscript and printed scores, photographs, programs, clippings, scrapbooks and periodicals.
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Max Roach papers, 1880-2012
approximately 99,000 items. 199 containers. 23 mapcase folders. 124.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Max Roach was an American jazz drummer, composer, educator, and activist. The collection includes music manuscripts, writings, correspondence, business papers, photographs, programs, sound recordings, and other materials related to his career. It also contains a variety of materials pertaining to vocalist Abbey Lincoln and countless other jazz artists, including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, and Charlie Parker.
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Sallie R. Wagner collection, 1949-1992
39 items. 1 container. 0.25 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Sallie R. Wagner was a photographer, author, weaver, and a benefactor and patron of the dancer Erick Hawkins and his dance company. The collection is composed chiefly of correspondence to Sallie R. Wagner (and some addressed to William J. Lippincott, her then-husband) from Erick Hawkins, Martha Graham, and Lucia Dlugoszewski. It also includes several essays written by Hawkins, Dlugoszewski, and Robert Motherwell, and two undated color snapshots of Hawkins.
Billy Strayhorn music manuscripts and estate papers, 1918-2015
approximately 17,700 items. 86 containers. 39 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and lyricist. He is prominently known as the leading arranger for the Duke Ellington Orchestra, a position that he held for nearly three decades. The collection chiefly contains scores, sketches, lead sheets, and parts for original compositions and arrangements by Strayhorn and Ellington, as well as business papers, photographs, scripts, and other materials pertaining to Strayhorn's life and the posthumous activities of his estate, Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc.
David Diamond papers, 1915-2003
approximately 48,450 items. 279 containers. 125 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
David Diamond was an award-winning American-Jewish composer and prominent symphonist of the mid-twentieth century. A former student of Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger, Diamond ultimately composed eleven symphonies and countless other chamber and vocal works, such as his influential Symphony no. 4 (1945), Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel (1938), and Rounds (1944). His social circle of musical personalities included Leonard Bernstein, Serge Koussevitzky, Lukas Foss, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and other prominent composers, many of whom are represented in the collection. As a longtime faculty member of The Juilliard School, Diamond also shaped and inspired subsequent generations of American composers. The collection includes music manuscripts, correspondence, writings, photographs, financial and legal documents, and other materials that document his private and professional life.
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Samuel Barber collection, 1852-2000
approximately 600 items. 8 containers. 4 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Samuel Barber remains one of America’s most eminent composers, best known for his chamber work, Adagio for Strings. He composed large and small-scale works for piano, voice and piano, chorus, and orchestra, as well as three operas. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Barber's compositional style remained decidedly tonal. The collection is comprised of correspondence, music from Barber's personal library, printed music, writings, photographs, awards, programs, and items that belonged to Valentin Herranz, his companion from 1970 until Barber's death in 1981.
John Herbert McDowell papers, 1908-1983
7,000 items. 56 containers. 30 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
John Herbert McDowell was an avant-garde dance, theater, film, and concert music composer. The collection contains his holograph scores and sketches, as well as programs, scripts, correspondence, photographs, and an Ampex 620 suitcase amp and speaker.