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Charles Louis Seeger, 1900-1983 (bulk 1925-1979) (continued)
Correspondence, 1922-1979 (continued)
Ruggles, Carl, 1938, 1958 (continued)
Note: Includes Ruggles' discussion of and holograph revisions to his composition "Angels"
BOX-FOLDER 55/1 "S" miscellaneous, 1940-1960, 1970-1979
Includes: Joachim Schumacher, Charles P. Shackford, Luis Sandi, John Saltonstall
BOX-FOLDER 55/2 Salas Viu, Vicente, 1950-1953
BOX-FOLDER 55/3-6 Santa Cruz, Domingo, 1941-1955, 1959-1978
Note: Includes materials in Spanish
Includes:
  • Box 55, Folder 2: Letter from Santa Cruz to Nelson Rockefeller
  • Box 55, Folder 4: Correspondence with Vanett Lawler
BOX-FOLDER 55/7 Scott Brown, Denise, 1965-1978
BOX-FOLDER 55/8 Seeger, Alan, 1953-1979 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 56/1 Seeger, Elizabeth, 1974-1978, 1984, and undated
Note: Includes Seeger's "An open letter to Anne Morrow Lindburgh"
BOX-FOLDER 56/2 Selective Service Administration, 1951-1953
Note: Re: Mike Seeger's conscientious objector status
BOX-FOLDER 56/3 Sibley, Elizabeth, 1961-1978
BOX-FOLDER 56/4 Siegmeister, Elie, 1935, 1977-1978, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 56/5 Smithsonian Institution Popular Culture Seminar, 1969-1970
Includes:
  • Pleasants, Henry. "Who's afraid of Pierre Boulez?"
  • Salzman, Eric. "The revolution in music"
BOX-FOLDER 56/6 Societé internationale d'ethnologe et de folklore, 1970-1971
Society for Ethnomusicology
BOX-FOLDER 56/7 1973-1977
BOX-FOLDER 56/8 New directions fracas, 1970-1971
BOX-FOLDER 56/9 New England Chapter, 1972, 1975, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 56/10 Philadelphia Conference, 1976
BOX-FOLDER 56/11 Sonneck Society, 1975-1976
Note: Includes several Sonneck Society Newsletters
BOX-FOLDER 56/12 Sonneck, Oscar, 1922-1923
Note: Includes proof of Seeger's "The principles of musicology"
BOX-FOLDER 56/13 Sound equipment, 1968-1971 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 56/14 Stalder, Sara, 1964-1975 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 56/15 Stevenson, Robert, 1953-1979
BOX-FOLDER 56/16 Stout, Alan, 1970-1974
Note: Includes Seeger's discussion of Ruth Crawford Seeger's compositions and his own 1919 music for masques
BOX-FOLDER 56/17 "T" miscellaneous, 1939-1972 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 56/18 Talma, Louise, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 56/19 Thomson, Virgil, 1944
BOX-FOLDER 56/20 "U" miscellaneous, 1954, 1966, 1968
BOX-FOLDER 56/21 UNESCO, 1975-1976
BOX-FOLDER 57/1 University of California Los Angeles, 1971-1975 and undated
Note: Includes Moore, Mike. "[Melograph model C]" draft
BOX-FOLDER 57/2 University of California Los Angeles - Proposal to start a department of ethnomusicology, 1970
BOX-FOLDER 57/3 University of California Press, 1966-1978
BOX-FOLDER 57/4 University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1968-1977
BOX-FOLDER 57/5 "V" miscellaneous, 1948-1976
BOX-FOLDER 57/6 Valiant, Margaret, 1973-1977
BOX-FOLDER 57/7 "W" miscellaneous, 1954-1977 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/8-9 Wachsmann, Klaus and Eve, 1968-1979 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/10 to 58/3 Wade, Bonnie and Ann Pescatello, 1969-1979
BOX-FOLDER 58/4 Wenner-Gren Conference, 1965
BOX-FOLDER 58/5 Werner, Eric, 1951-1978
BOX-FOLDER 58/6 Wesleyan University, 1972-1978
BOX-FOLDER 58/7 Whittier, Marks, 1935 November 18
Note: Written to Carl Sands
BOX-FOLDER 58/8 Wheelock, John Hall, 1953-1970
BOX-FOLDER 58/9 Wolcott, Ronald, 1971-1972
BOX-FOLDER 58/10 Works Progress Administration - Joint Committee on Folk Arts, 1938-1939
BOX-FOLDER 58/11-12 Works Progress Administration - Southern recording expedition, 1939
BOX-FOLDER 58/13 "Y-Z" miscellaneous, 1967-1975
Note: Correspondents include Izaly Zemtsovsky
BOX-FOLDER 58/14 Yale University, 1973-1977
BOX-FOLDER 58/15 Yates, Peter, 1967
BOX-FOLDER 58/16 Yung, Bell, 1972-1979
BOX-FOLDER 58/17 Ziffrin, Marilyn, 1974-1975
Includes: Ruggles, Carl. "Exaltation/Hymn for Charlotte/March 1958" manuscript copied by Marilyn Ziffrin
BOX 59-60 Teaching, 1916-1971
Class assignments, notes, and syllabi.
Arranged alphabetically by course title.
BOX-FOLDER 59/1 Engineering 96A #6, undated
BOX-FOLDER 59/2 English 528 - The ballad, undated
BOX-FOLDER 59/3-4 General musicianship, 1923-1930 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 59/5 History of music, 53A University of California, syllabus, undated
BOX-FOLDER 59/6-7 Mythology, epic, and Romantic poetry, Institute of Musical Arts, 1920s
BOX-FOLDER 59/8 The organization of musical knowledge, Harvard, 1916
BOX-FOLDER 59/9-12 to 60/1-3 Seminar in Ethnomusicology, UCLA, 280 B, 1963-1971 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 60/4 Seminar outline, undated
BOX 4, 19, 22, 61-77, 250 Writings, 1913-1983
Reprints, drafts (typescript and holograph), and working files
Arranged into three sub-subseries: Writings by Charles L. Seeger, Writings about Charles L. Seeger, and Writings by Others
BOX 4, 19, 22, 61-70, 250 Writings by Charles L. Seeger, 1913, 1923-1925, 1930-1983
Reprints, drafts (typescript and holograph), and working files.
Arranged into two file units: Works (arranged alphabetically by title) and Working Papers and Notes (arranged alphabetically by folder title). Seeger's reviews penned under his pseudonym, Carl Sands, are located here.
Works
BOX-FOLDER 61/1 "14 Traditional Spanish songs from Texas," 1942
Note: Introduction by Seeger, transcribed by Gustavo Duran
BOX-FOLDER 61/2 "American music for American children," Music Education Journal, 1942 November-December
BOX-FOLDER 61/3 "American songs for American children," MENC program, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 61/4 "Annex to proposal for the utilization during a national emergency of materials relating to nationality groups in the United States," undated
Note: Written with Benjamin A. Botkin
BOX-FOLDER 61/5 "The Appalachian dulcimer," Journal of American Folklore, undated
BOX-FOLDER 250/4 Appalachian dulcimer study binder - Reading for dulcimer paper, 1953
BOX-FOLDER 266/1 Appalachian dulcimer study binder - Hartwell dulcimer frets, undated
Note: To promote preservation of the fragile newsprint original researchers are required to consult the preservation photocopy
BOX-FOLDER 250/5 Appalachian dulcimer study images - undated
Black and white negatives and glass lantern slides
BOX-FOLDER 61/6 Art legislation in a democracy, 1938
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 61/7 "Arts in international relations," Journal of the American Musicological Society, 1949
BOX-FOLDER 61/8 Barbara Allen: "Versions and variants of 'Barbara Allen'," Archive of Folk Song AAFS L54, undated
BOX-FOLDER 61/9 Barbara Allen: Preface draft, 1962
"Barbara Allen" working papers
BOX-FOLDER 61/10 Accruing notes, 1964 September
BOX-FOLDER 22/1 Bibliography/Commercial recordings, undated
Note cards
BOX-FOLDER 61/11 Correspondence with Ed Cray and Wayland Hand, 1957-1964
BOX-FOLDER 61/12 Correspondence with the Library of Congress, 1949-1966 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 61/13 Illustrations, undated
Includes: slides
BOX-FOLDER 61/14-15, 4/6 Leftovers from Barbara Allen study, 1944-1962 and undated
Note: Box 4 folder 6: Peggy Seeger holograph notes and music comparing Chambers and Johnson versions
BOX-FOLDER 61/16-17 Melographs, 1961-1963 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 61/18 Permission to reprint, 1961
BOX-FOLDER 62/1 Transcription cards, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/1 Transcription notebooks, 1-6, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/2 Transcriptions, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/3 Transcriptions - 16 inch discs, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/4 Transcriptions of words, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/5 Words on record strips, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/6 Bibliography of works, 1913-1960, undated
BOX-FOLDER 63/7-8 Book reviews A-S, 1941-1960
BOX-FOLDER 63/9 Brief statement on music education in the United States, undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 63/10 The bullfrog song, undated
Manuscript and typescript
BOX-FOLDER 63/11 "Carl Ruggles," Musical Quarterly, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 63/12 "Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles," Magazine of Art, 1939 July
BOX-FOLDER 63/13 "Confidential report on folk music festivals," 1936 August 1
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