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Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1887-2005 (bulk 1912-1954) (continued)
Writings About Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1948-2005 (continued)
Nicholls, David. "The music of Ruth Crawford Seeger: a study in advanced compositional techniques," 1983 (continued)
Note: Inscribed by Nicholls to Peggy Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 92/14 Pool, Jeannie G. "Ruth Crawford Seeger: an introductionto her life and compositions," Paid My Dues, vol. III, no. 1, undated
BOX-FOLDER 92/15 Rosen, Judith / Grace Ruben-Rabson. "Why haven't women become great composers?", High Fidelity Magazine, 1973 February
Note: Includes transmittal note from Pete Seeger to Charles Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 92/16 "Ruth Crawford Seeger," Composers of the Americas, 1956
Note: Includes biographical data and catalog of works
Note: Dual Spanish (Compositores de América) and English publication
BOX-FOLDER 92/17 Seltzer, Cheryl and Joel Sacks. "Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)," undated
BOX-FOLDER 92/18 Schlam, Julia. "Ruth Crawford Seeger: a composer with a bifurcate influence on music in America," 1975 May
Note: Inscribed by Schlam to Charles Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 92/19 Starr, Larry. "Review of Tick's Ruth Crawford Seeger: a composer's search for American music," Journal of the American Musicological Society, undated
BOX-FOLDER 92/20 Straus, Joseph N. "Ruth Crawford's precompositional strategies," 2001 October 26
BOX-FOLDER 92/21 Sutherland, Karen. "Ruth Crawford Seeger's accompaniments of folk songs for children," 1995 September 14
BOX-FOLDER 92/22 Tegtmeyer, Martha J. "Variations on a theme: the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeger," 1980 May
Tick, Judith
BOX-FOLDER 92/23 "Radical and remarkable," Piano & Keyboard, 1998 July/August
BOX-FOLDER 92/24 "Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and 'the music of American folk songs'," 1999
BOX-FOLDER 92/25 "Ruth Crawford Seeger," undated
Note: Includes transcription of "Sweet Betsy from Pike"
BOX-FOLDER 92/26 "Ruth Crawford's 'spiritual concept': the sound ideals of an early American modernist, 1924-1930," Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 44, no. 2, 1991
Note: Inscribed by Tick to Peggy Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 92/27 "Writing female composers into mainstream music history: Ruth Crawford Seeger as a case study," Festschrift Eva Rieger, 2000
BOX-FOLDER 92/28 "Writing the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger into mainstream music history," undated
BOX-FOLDER 92/29 Tircuit, Heuwell. "The strange lack of women composers," The San Francicisco Chronicle, 1969 July 1
Book Reviews
BOX-FOLDER 91/1 American Folk Songs for Children, 1948-1956
BOX-FOLDER 91/2 American Folk Songs for Children - Clipping book, 1948-1953
Note: Includes obituaries, correspondence, and material about Animal Folk Songs performance reviews
BOX-FOLDER 91/3, 16/3 American Folk Songs for Christmas, 1953-1954
BOX-FOLDER 91/4 Animal Folk Songs for Children, 1950-1951
BOX-FOLDER 91/5 Lomax/Seeger, Folksongs USA, 1950-1951
BOX-FOLDER 91/6 Let's Build a Railroad, 1954
BOX 93, 17 Music - Programs/Reviews, 1930-1992
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 17/8 Concerts, 1931, 1934, 1949
Clippings
BOX-FOLDER 93/2-4 Performance programs, [1930]-1992 and undated
Note: Folder 2 includes Composers' Forum - Lab questions and Ruth Crawford Seeger's response
BOX-FOLDER 93/5 Performance reviews, 1930-1972
BOX-FOLDER 93/6 Recording reviews, 1934, 1954-1973, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 93/7 Score reviews, 1933, 1970
BOX 17, 94, 230 Biographical Materials, 1887-1954
Clippings, genealogy, obituaries, pencil drawings, photographs, programs, and scrapbooks (with inserted clippings, dried flowers, ephemera, photographs, and programs).
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 94/1 American Conservatory of Music, 1922-1923
BOX-FOLDER 94/2 Autobiographies, undated
BOX-FOLDER 94/3 Autograph book, 1887-1890, 1909-1917
BOX-FOLDER 94/4 Biographical data, undated
BOX-FOLDER 94/5 Calling cards, undated
BOX-FOLDER 94/6, 17/7 Clippings, 1930-1933, 1952, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 94/7 Composition lists, undated
BOX-FOLDER 94/8 Drawings, 1915
BOX-FOLDER 230/13 Iconography - Ruth Crawford, 1926
Black and white print and negative of a pen sketch
BOX-FOLDER 16/4 Iconography - Ruth Crawford, undated
Photocopy
BOX-FOLDER 94/9 Miscellaneous material, 1928-1930, 1951, and undated
Note: Includes promotional material about Imre Weisshaus, 1926-1930
BOX-FOLDER 94/10 Nursery schools, 1942, 1951
Note: Bradley School, Silver Spring Nursery School, and Takoma Park-Silver Spring Cooperative Nursery School
BOX-FOLDER 94/11 Obituaries, 1953-1954
BOX-FOLDER 94/12 Performances of Dio's works, undated
Photographs
see also Family photographs
BOX-FOLDER 230/1 Ruth Crawford with parents, circa 1907
BOX-FOLDER 230/2 Ruth Crawford childhood, circa 1910 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 230/3 Ruth Crawford with friends, 1913
BOX-FOLDER 230/4 Ruth Crawford portrait, circa 1920
BOX-FOLDER 230/5 Ruth Crawford with friends, 1923 April
BOX-FOLDER 230/6 Ruth Crawford portrait, 1926
BOX-FOLDER 230/7 Ruth Crawford - Patterson, New York, 1929
BOX-FOLDER 230/8 Ruth Crawford portrait, undated
BOX-FOLDER 230/9 Ruth Crawford and Carl Crawford, 1902 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 230/10 Ruth Crawford and Clark Crawford, undated
BOX-FOLDER 230/11 Ruth Crawford and Aunt Cora?, undated
BOX-FOLDER 230/12 Seeger family, undated
Note: Includes individual childhood photographs of Michael Seeger, Peggy Seeger, and Barbara Seeger and a running letter from Ruth Seeger to Carl Crawford on the back of seveal images
BOX-FOLDER 94/13 Programs - performances attended, 1919-1923, 1932, 1942
Note: 1932 Yaddo program annoted with notes "for Charlie"
Scrapbooks
BOX-FOLDER 94/15 Memory book - junior year, 1916-1917
Note: Includes 8th grade essays
BOX-FOLDER 95/1 Camp Junaluska, 1917 Summer
BOX-FOLDER 95/2 The girl graduate, [1918]
BOX-FOLDER 93/1 Teaching materials, 1952-1953
BOX-FOLDER 94/14 WPA job application, 1938 June 24
BOX 16-17, 20-21, 96-132 MAPCASE FOLDER 20, 22 Seeger, Peggy, 1960-2010 (bulk 1989-2010)
Correspondence; articles, reviews, and essays; radio program transcripts; scripts; obituaries; research material; contracts and financial records; music, lyric sheets, and song transcriptions; set lists, tour itineraries, discographies, liner notes, album layouts, and page proofs; posters, brochures, flyers, programs, and schedules; awards and certificates; clippings and address and telephone books; photographic material and photograph album; and drawings and artwork, buttons, lanyards, and badges, and a quilt and t-shirt.
Arranged in eight subseries: Correspondence, Creative Activity, Business Papers, Biographical Materials, Subject Files, Photographs, Writings by Others, and Iconography and Realia.
BOX 17, 96-103 Correspondence, 1954-2010
Arranged in two file units: Family and Alphabetical.
BOX 17; 96 Family, 1988-2009
MacColl Family
BOX-FOLDER 96/1 Alice, 2001-2002 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/2 MacColl Family, 1994 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/3 MacColl, Calum and Kerry Harvey-Piper, 1994-1998, 2003, and undated
Note: Includes Peggy Seeger reports on grandchildren visits
BOX-FOLDER 96/4, 17/9 MacColl/Mead Children, 1994 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/5 MacColl, Hamish, 1994
BOX-FOLDER 96/6 MacColl, Kirsty, 1994, 2000
BOX-FOLDER 96/7 MacColl, Kitty, 1988-2007 and undated
Note: Includes 1989 letter from Ewan MacColl
BOX-FOLDER 96/8 MacColl, Neill and Justine Picardie, 1993-1997, 2000, 2005, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/9 Newlove, Jean, 1999
Seeger Family, 1993-2010
BOX-FOLDER 96/10 Bossom, Mika Seeger, 1998 and undated
Note: Includes photographs of Penny and Isabelle Bossom
BOX-FOLDER 96/11 Cohen, Rufus, undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/12 Cramer, Sonya Cohen, 1994, 2000, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/13 Decker, Martha (Maxi), 2003 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/14 Dickinson, Rufus, 2004 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 96/15 Miserantino, Barbara Seeger Perfect, 1997, 2005, and undated
Note: Includes photographs of Peggy Seeger and Barbara Seeger Perfect Miserantino
BOX-FOLDER 96/16 Seeger Family circular letters, 1997-2006 and undated
Note: Includes photographs of gravestones of Charles L. and Ruth Crawford Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 96/17 Seeger, Charles III and Naomi, 1998-2010 and undated
Note: Includes photographs of Charles Seeger, III, Naomi Seeger, and Barbara Seeger Perfect Misrantino
BOX-FOLDER 97/1 Seeger, Charles III, Children, 2001-2004 and undated
Includes: Naomi Seeger Hvolbek; Jeremy, Ellen, and Anna Seeger; Nicholas Seeger; and Cassandra Seeger Underwood
Note: Includes photographs
BOX-FOLDER 97/2 Seeger, John and Ellen, 1998-2007
Includes: Anthony Seeger and Kate Seeger
Note: Includes photographs
BOX-FOLDER 97/3 Seeger, Kim Shaknis, 1998-2002 and undated
Note: Includes photographs
BOX-FOLDER 97/4 Seeger, Mike and Alexia, 1993-2009
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