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Project Files, circa 1950-1999 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 7/42 Teheran congress 1961
BOX-FOLDER 7/43 Thai mouth organs, correspondence with Peter Bee papers
BOX-FOLDER 7/44 Thai music "The making of a Rhāen" correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 7/45 Tōdai-ji Yōroku Kaigen-e
BOX-FOLDER 7/46 Tōgaku pieces transcribed
BOX-FOLDER 7/47 Toyonaga Satomi papers
BOX-FOLDER 8/1-3 Transcriptions from Festival of GI
BOX-FOLDER 8/4 "Tunes of T'ang date for the 'get trasure song'?" (Jones/Picken)
BOX-FOLDER 8/5 Tunings and pitch measurements (Ruttner)
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 Turkey
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Turkish reviews and letters
BOX-FOLDER 8/8 Tweleve ritual melodies of the T'ang Dynasty
BOX-FOLDER 8/9 'Ulili
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 Utsucho - Monogatari; also copy of Noguchi's paper on Utsucho-Monogatari
BOX-FOLDER 8/11 "Water birds on river islands"
BOX-FOLDER 8/12 Wang Zhaojun
BOX-FOLDER 8/13 Wamyō ruijūshō
BOX-FOLDER 8/14 "The war of the musicians or lives of canonised spirits of the Taoist Heaven" (Zhu Chanyu)
BOX-FOLDER 8/15 Wei-shi Yuepu
BOX-FOLDER 8/16 Xeroxes of small books
BOX-FOLDER 8/17 Yuefu
BOX-FOLDER 8/18 Yuefu shiqi - song structure, length and rhymes
BOX-FOLDER 8/19 Yuefu zalu
BOX-FOLDER 8/20-22 YFST
BOX-FOLDER 8/23 Zhong Yang, Yin Yue, Xue Yuan, Xue Bao
BOX-FOLDER 8/24 Zhu Xi
BOX-FOLDER 8/25 Zoku-Kyōkunshō
BOX-FOLDER 8/26 Zokukoto: Rokudan no shirabe nofu
BOX 19-52 Correspondence, 1900-2001
Chiefly letters concerning scholarly projects, family matters, and travel.
Arranged in four subseries: letters to Picken; letters from Picken; family correspondence; and related correspondence. Each subseries arranged chronologically.
Letters to Picken
BOX-FOLDER 19/1-7 1935-1971
BOX-FOLDER 20/1-8 1972-1975
BOX-FOLDER 21/1-12 1976-1981
BOX-FOLDER 22/1-9 1982-1987
BOX-FOLDER 23/1-8 1992
BOX-FOLDER 24/1-6 1993-1994
BOX-FOLDER 25/1-7 1995-1996
BOX-FOLDER 26/1-4 1997
BOX-FOLDER 27/1-7 1998
BOX-FOLDER 28/1-9 1999-2001
BOX-FOLDER 29/1 Foreign language letters, 1968-1998
BOX-FOLDER 29/2, 30/1-2 Undated
Letters from Picken
BOX-FOLDER 31/1-7 1936-1972
BOX-FOLDER 32/1-6 1973-1975
BOX-FOLDER 33/1-6 1975-1976
BOX-FOLDER 34/1-5 1977
BOX-FOLDER 35/1-7 1978-1979
BOX-FOLDER 36/1-6 1979-1980
BOX-FOLDER 37/1-6 1981-1982
BOX-FOLDER 38/1-6 1982-1983
BOX-FOLDER 39/1-6 1984
BOX-FOLDER 40/1-6 1985
BOX-FOLDER 41/1-4 1986
BOX-FOLDER 42/1-4 1987
BOX-FOLDER 43/1-8 1988-1989
BOX-FOLDER 44/1-9 1990-1991
BOX-FOLDER 45/1-4 1992
BOX-FOLDER 46/1-5 1993
BOX-FOLDER 47/1-8 1994-1995
BOX-FOLDER 47/9-10 1996
BOX-FOLDER 48/1-7 1997-1998
BOX-FOLDER 49/1-9 1999-2001 and undated
Family Correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 50/1-2 Family to Picken, 1939-1945
BOX-FOLDER 51/1-11 Picken to family, 1950-1990s
Related Correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 52/1-8 1900-2001 and undated
BOX 53-57, 67-70 Writings, circa 1930-2000
Articles, essays, lectures, and notebooks. Most materials have accompanying correspondence and notes. Includes offprints of works by various authors (including Picken) used in the course of research.
Arranged in five subseries: lectures; notebooks; papers edited by Picken; offprints about Chinese music; and books written for Picken. Each subseries is arranged alphabetically by title, author, or subject.
Lectures
BOX-FOLDER 53/1-2 Chinese music
BOX-FOLDER 53/3 "Chinese music of a thousand years ago"
BOX-FOLDER 53/4 "A comparative journey of the musics of the world"
BOX-FOLDER 53/5 "The documentary history of the Tōgaku repertory"
BOX-FOLDER 53/6 "Micro-ornament"
BOX-FOLDER 53/7 Miscellaneous lectures
BOX-FOLDER 53/11 "Music aspects of transcription and analysis of the Tōgaku repertory"
BOX-FOLDER 53/8 "Music at the Tang Court" (Hume)
BOX-FOLDER 53/9 "Music for a Tang Dynasty ballet of the 7th century"
BOX-FOLDER 53/10 "Music from the Tang Court" (Saibara)
BOX-FOLDER 53/12 "A musical background to treasures of Ancient China"
BOX-FOLDER 53/13 "Musical instruments in Turkey"
BOX-FOLDER 53/14 "Musical survivals of the Tang and Sung Dynasties"
BOX-FOLDER 53/15 Seoul, South Korea
BOX-FOLDER 53/16 "Tang music of the Sung Dynasty"
BOX-FOLDER 53/17 "Towards the archaic music of pre-Nora Japan"
BOX-FOLDER 53/18 "Turkish folk music and musical instruments"
BOX-FOLDER 53/19 "Turkish music"
BOX-FOLDER 53/20 "Turkish poetry"
BOX-FOLDER 53/21-23 University of Washington, Seattle
BOX-FOLDER 53/14 Unidentified
Notebooks
BOX-FOLDER 53/25 Asian Music Club
BOX-FOLDER 54/1, 67/1-3 Asian notebooks, 1972-1974, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 67/4 Biographical notebook
Chiefly business cards, pamphlets, and photographs
BOX-FOLDER 67/5 Buddhist music
BOX-FOLDER 67/6 Ch'au-chou requiem service
BOX-FOLDER 53/26 Chinese and Sino-Japanese notebooks
BOX-FOLDER 53/27-28, 68/1 Miscellaneous notebooks
BOX-FOLDER 68/2 Taoist music
BOX-FOLDER 53/29-30 Tōgaku notebooks: draft catalogue of pieces, movements, and occurrence in manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 68/3-5, 69/1-5 Turkish notebooks
Papers Edited by Picken
BOX-FOLDER 54/2 Blench, Roger. "The morphology and distribution of Sub-Saharan musical instruments of North African, Middle Eastern, and Asian origin"
BOX-FOLDER 54/3-4 Craig, Dale A. "Ancient legacy of music: a Min Dynasty collection of Chin songs"
BOX-FOLDER 54/5 Fletcher, Peter. World musics in context
BOX-FOLDER 54/6 Fukushima, Kazuo. "Descriptive catalogue of the Rakusaidō-Gagaku manuscripts in the Research Archives for Japanese Music of Ueno Gakuen College"
BOX-FOLDER 54/7-9 Marett, Allan J.
Miscellaneous essays and draft of dissertation
BOX-FOLDER 54/10 Miyoko, Kôkawa. "A method of improvising music at school"
BOX-FOLDER 54/11-12 Wei, Deng. "Historical and stylistic development in the Chinese four-stringed lute Pipa and in Pipa music"
BOX-FOLDER 54/13 Widdess, Richard. "The reconstruction of early Indian music from notation"
BOX-FOLDER 54/14 Williamson, Muriel C. "The correlation between speech-tones of text-syllables and their musical settings in a Burmese classical song"
Offprints about Chinese Music
BOX 70 1936-1975
Four bound volumes of Picken's articles
Includes several earlier articles on cellular biology
BOX-FOLDER 54/15-19 "A" - "C"
BOX-FOLDER 55/1-19 "D" - "Picard"
BOX-FOLDER 56/1-16 "Picken" - "Z"
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