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Charles Louis Seeger, 1900-1983 (bulk 1925-1979) (continued)
Writings, 1913-1983 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 63/14 "Continuity, variations, and selection in traditional music," undated
see also "Primitivism in musical composition in the new world"
Drafts
BOX-FOLDER 63/15 "Contrapuntal style in the three-voice shape-note hymn," American Choral Review, vol. 18, #4, 1976 October
BOX-FOLDER 250/5 "Critical method" - Schema of illustration, 1953
Black and white glass negative
BOX-FOLDER 63/16 "Cultivation of various European traditions in the Americas," I. M. S. Congress Report, vol. 1, 1961
BOX-FOLDER 250/7 "Descriptive Sound-writing in Ethnomusicology," delivered at the Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 1956
Black and white glass slides
BOX-FOLDER 63/17 "Dissonance and the devil: an interesting passage in a Bach cantata," The Baton, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/18 "Ethnomusicological materials in American schools," Music Education Journal, 1972 October
Black and white glass slides
BOX-FOLDER 63/19 "Factorial analysis of the song as an approach to the formulation of a unitary field theory," Journal of the International Folk Music Council, vol. 20, 1968
BOX-FOLDER 63/20 "Federal arts projects: the lesson of June 1939," undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 63/21 "Folk music," [1968]
Note: Includes typescript
BOX-FOLDER 63/22 "Folk music as a form of social history," 1939
Typescript
Note: Published in Ware, Carolyn. The Cultural Approach to History
BOX-FOLDER 63/23 "Folk music in the schools of highly industrialized society," Journal of the International Folk Music Council, vol. 5, 1953
BOX-FOLDER 63/24 "The folkness of the non-folk vs. the non-folkness of the folk," undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/25 "Grass roots for American composers," Modern Music, vol. 16, no. 3, undated
BOX-FOLDER 64/1 Harmonic Sstructure and Elementary Composition, 1916
Note: Written with Edward Griffith Stricklen
BOX-FOLDER 64/2 "Henry Cowell," Magazine of Art, 1940 May
BOX-FOLDER 64/3 "Idiom and repertoire," 1940
Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 64/4 "The importance of cultural understanding of folk and popular music," American Anthropologist, vol. 38, no. 1, 1936 January-March
BOX-FOLDER 64/5 "In memoriam: Carl Ruggles," Perspectives of New Music, vol. 10, no. 2, 1972
BOX-FOLDER 64/6 "An instantaneous music notator," Journal of the International Folk Council, vol. 3, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 64/7 "Inter-American relations in the field of music," Proceedings of the Music Teachers National Association, 1941
Note: Also includes reprint of the article as published in Music Educators Journal
BOX-FOLDER 64/8 "Lines on the grace note," The Baton, undated
Note: Includes typescript
BOX-FOLDER 64/9 Mid-century White House conference on children and youth, 1950
BOX-FOLDER 64/10 "Motifs as moods of a music-logic," Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 13, nos. 1-3, 1960
see also "On the moods of a music-logic"
BOX-FOLDER 19/5 "Music," section in Handbook of Latin American Studies, 1943
Page proof
BOX-FOLDER 64/11 "Music and class structure in the United States,"American Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, 1957
Note: Includes typescript and Ewan MacColl's copy
BOX-FOLDER 64/12 "Music and culture," Proceedings of the Music Teachers National Association, 1940
BOX-FOLDER 64/13 "Music and feeling," undated
Manuscript and note cards
BOX-FOLDER 64/14 "Music and government-field for an applied musicology," International Congress on Musicology, 1939
Note: Includes typescript
BOX-FOLDER 64/15 "Music and musicology in the new world," Proceedings of the Music Teachers National Association, 1946
BOX-FOLDER 64/16 "Music and society: some new world evidence of their relationship," 1952
Lecture
BOX-FOLDER 64/17 "Music as a tradition of communication discipline and play," Ethnomusicology, vol. 6, no. 3, 1962 September
BOX-FOLDER 64/18 "Music education and musicology," Music Educators Journal, vol. 31, no. 6, 1945
Note: Includes typescript and photocopy
BOX-FOLDER 19/5 "Music education in war and peace," 1942
Page proof
Note: Paper read at Sixth general session of the National Institute on Music Education in Wartime
BOX-FOLDER 64/19 "Music education in the Americas," Music Educators Journal, vol. 31, 1945
BOX-FOLDER 64/20 "Music in America," Magazine of Art, 1938 July
BOX-FOLDER 64/21 "Music in inter-American relations," Music Publishers Journal, 1943 January
BOX-FOLDER 64/22 "Music in the American university," Educational Review, vol. 66, no. 2, 1923 September
BOX-FOLDER 64/23 "Music in Mexico," undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 64/24 "The music process as a function in a context of functions," undated
BOX-FOLDER 64/25 "The musician: man serves art, the educator: art serves man," UNESCO Courier, 1953 February
BOX-FOLDER 64/26 "Musicology," The World of the Mind, 1958
BOX-FOLDER 64/27 "Musicology and the music industry," National Music Council Bulletin, 1945 May
“Musicos y educadores”
see Santa Cruz, Domingo. "Musicos de America, Charles Seeger y su obra Americanista," Revista musical chilena
BOX-FOLDER 64/28 "New works at the Coolidge Festival," Modern Music, 17, 4, 1940 May-June
BOX-FOLDER 64/29 "Notes on music in the Americas," 1944
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 64/30 "Notes on music in the Americas," Bulletin of the Pan American Union, 1945 May-June
BOX-FOLDER 64/31 "On dissonant counterpoint," Modern Music, 1930 June
BOX-FOLDER 64/32 "On the formation apparatus of the musical composition process," Ethnomusicology, vol. 13, no. 2, 1969 May
BOX-FOLDER 64/33 "On the moods of a music-logic," Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 13, nos. 1-3, 1960
see also "Motifs as moods of a music-logic"
BOX-FOLDER 64/34 "On the principle of musicology," Musical Quarterly, 1954 April
BOX-FOLDER 64/35 "On style and manner in modern composition," Musical Quarterly, 1925 October
BOX-FOLDER 64/36 "Opportunities in the field of music," undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 64/37 "The oral tradition as the basis of group-work in music in rural America," undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 64/38 "Oral tradition in music," Standard Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Legend, 1950
Note: Includes typescript
BOX-FOLDER 64/39 "Otto Kinkeldey," Acta Musicologica, undated
BOX-FOLDER 65/1 Outline of a Course in Harmonic Structure and Simple Music Invention, 1913
Note: Written with Edward Griffith Stricklen
BOX-FOLDER 65/2 "Popular music," undated
Typescript
Note: Written for Colliers Encyclopedia
BOX-FOLDER 65/3 "Preface to all linguistic treatment of music," Music Vanguard, vol. 1, no. 1, 1935 March-April
BOX-FOLDER 65/4 "Preface to a critique of music," Inter-American Music Bulletin, no. 49, 1965 September
Note: Includes mimeograph copy and proof copy with edits and paste-overs
BOX-FOLDER 65/5 "Preface to the description of a music," report of the Fifth International Society for Musical Research, 1952
2 copies; one with Seeger holograph correction sheet
BOX-FOLDER 65/6 "Prescriptive and descriptive music writing," Musical Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, 1958 April
BOX-FOLDER 65/7 "Primitivism in musical composition in the new world, 1965
see also "Continuity, variations, and selection in traditional music," drafts
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 65/8-15 "Principia," undated
Edited typescripts and photocopies
Note: Incomplete manuscript; lacks chapters 3, 5, and 7
Note: Published posthumously as Studies in musicology II
BOX-FOLDER 22/3 "Principia," bibliography, undated
Note cards
BOX-FOLDER 65/16 "Principles of group guidance of music activities," undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 65/17 "Professionalism and amateurism in the study of folk music," Journal of American Folklore, 1949 April-June
BOX-FOLDER 65/18 "Prolegomena to musicology," 1925
BOX-FOLDER 65/19 "A proposal to found an international society for music education," UNESCO, 1953 June 26
BOX-FOLDER 65/20 "La realidad sobre la educacion musical y el professorado de la musica culta,” undated
BOX-FOLDER 65/21 "Reflections upon a given topic: music in a universal perspective," Ethnomusicology, vol. 15, no. 3, 1971 September
BOX-FOLDER 65/22 "Review of inter-American relations in the field of music, 1940-1943," undated
BOX-FOLDER 65/23 "Review of a review," in "The revolt of the angels," Eolian Review, undated
Note: Seeger's response to Dane Rudhyar's "Carl Ruggles and the future of dissonant counterpoint" in the same issue (included)
BOX-FOLDER 248/3 Review of Nettl, Bruno. Music in Primitive Culture, Journal of American Folklore, vol. 71, no. 279, 1958 January-March
BOX-FOLDER 65/24 "Semantic, logical, and political considerations bearing upon research in ethnomusicology," Ethnomusicology, vol. 5, no. 2, 1961 May
BOX-FOLDER 65/25 "Seminar for a movie," undated
Manuscript and typescript
BOX-FOLDER 65/26 "Singing style," Western Folklore, vol. 17, no. 1, 1958 January
BOX-FOLDER 65/27 "Smithsonian paper, January 1979," undated
Edited typescript and holograph notes
BOX-FOLDER 4/5 "Song as a compositional process of auditory communications," 1979 January
Manuscript music
BOX-FOLDER 65/28 "Song and the compositional process, 1977-1983," 1983
Holograph and typescript drafts
Studies in Musicology, 1935-1975
BOX-FOLDER 66/1 Proof, undated
Photocopy
Note: Annotated
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