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American Song Sheet collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS240
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The American Song Sheet Collection comprises a relatively cohesive group of 234 song sheets published in the United States (and principally in New York, by de Marsan) in the 1850's and during the early years of the Civil War. There are songs of African American interest, a few relating to events in the Civil War, and at least one exploiting a German accented singer. But of principal note are the fairly large number of songs dealing with the immigrant Irish or their native land, from "The...
Dates: 1850-1865; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Patrick T. Bakman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS182
Scope and Contents The collection documents the career of theater director Patrick Bakman. It contains notes on a myriad aspects of production, including cast and technical staff contact lists, rehearsal schedules, costume and prop lists, script revisions and cuts, scene summaries or breakdowns, as well as printed reviews and programs relating to the performance. In addition, there are resource files regarding opera histories, period costumes, furniture and culture, which Bakman used to research and...
Dates: 1891 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1990
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Martin Berkofsky papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS445
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Berkofsky Papers are composed of correspondence and legal documents from Twining Vs. Berkofsky, a legal case spanning from 1975 to 1977 over the copyright of Max Bruch's Duo Piano Concerto in G minor with Orchestra Opus 88a.

Dates: 1971-1978
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Margaret Bonds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130530
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of hundreds of pages of Margaret Bond's music manuscripts and manuscript fragments, letters and cards from Langston Hughes and others, photographs, programs, and ephemera.

See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.

Dates: 1917 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1930s-1970
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

John L. Brown papers 3

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS253
Scope and Contents The John L. Brown papers 3, consists of correspondence with 20th century artists, scholars, and writers. Notables include artists Huseyin Halit, Loren McIver and her husband, poet Lloyd Frankenberg, Lilian Mckendrick, Irene Rice Pereira and Antoinette Schulte; art critic and historian Roger Avermaete; historian Henry Steele Commager; and writers Jacqueline Bernard, Faith Berry, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Lewis Galantiere, Elsa Gress, poet James Laughlin, Boris Schreiber, Pierre Seghers,...
Dates: 1946-1995; Majority of material found within 1966-1986
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

William B. Cooper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230202
Scope and Contents The collection primarily consists of music manuscripts created by William B. Cooper, dating from around 1945 to 1987. In addition to the music manuscripts, it also includes lyrics, a list of composition by Cooper, abstracts of compositions, a manuscript on modern church music, programs, clippings, and other related documents. The collection includes one phonograph (LP) recording titled "We Praise Thee O Lord." It features music played by Cooper, William Farley Smith (conductor),...
Dates: 1945 - 1993
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Noel Da Costa Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-181130
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection consists of the papers of Noel Da Costa, a musical composer and college professor who taught at Rutgers University for over 30 years. It primarily consists of music manuscripts by Da Costa, audio recordings (by Da Costa,...
Dates: 1950-2002
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Eugen d'Albert letters

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-140722.3
Scope and Contents Note The Eugen d'Albert letters consist of 87 letters, almost all of which were written from German composer and pianist Eugen d'Albert to Austrian composer and pianist Pauline Erdmannsdorfer. The letters date from 1892-1894, 1896-1897, 1899-1903, 1905-1906, and 1908-1913. In the letters, d'Albert discusses his musical creations with Pauline. He asks her to promote his compositions. The letters document d'Albert's musical evolution. D'Albert writes about rehearsals, critics, theater...
Dates: 1892-1919
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Mark Fax Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20170822
Content Description Music manuscripts of the composer Mark Fax, including choral arrangements and vocal solos, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, operas, orchestral works, studies and sketches. Fax composed music in many genres, classical, popular, and sacred; all are represented in the collection. Of note are Fax's regular collaborations with poet Owen Dodson and composer Hall Johnson. A small file containing miscellaneous papers related to his music (copyright filings and posthumous notes by his wife,...
Dates: 1932 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1972
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Future of Music Coalition Records

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-180630
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection contains the records of two formers directors of the Future of Music Coalition.Records of Jean Cook, Future of Music Coalition (FMC) director and researcher, related to the Future of Music Coalition's Artists...
Dates: 2000 - 2015
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Gozos Devotional Broadsides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-140708
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection. The collection consists of gozos (also known as gosos or goigs) and other religious devotional printed pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, dating from 1776 to 1982. Many of the gozos relate to Mary, mother of Jesus.It...
Dates: 1776 - 1982
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Eugene W. Hancock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230803
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of music manuscripts of compositions by Eugene W. Hancock. It also includes biographies of Hancock and other Black composers, a letter from Robert J. Batastini (G.I.A. Publications), "Spiritual Lullaby" by William B. Cooper, "Funf Stucke fur Orchester" by Anton Webern, and the 1990-1991 choral music schedule for West End Presbyterian Church.

Dates: 1970 - 1994
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

W.C. Handy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-110629
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection contains material related to W.C. Handy, including music manuscripts, printed music, correspondence, photographs, typescripts for radio plays that feature Handy's music, and other ephemera.For more information,...
Dates: circa1937-1981
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Paul Hume Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS228
Scope and Contents The personal papers of music critic Paul Hume comprise this collection. Highlights include correspondence from luminaries of the music world such as Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Leonard Bernstein, Rudolph Bing, Nadia Boulanger, Antal Dorati, Alberto Ginastera, Serge Koussevitsky, John La Montaine, Lotte Lehmann, John Mauceri, Gian Carlo Menotti, Eugene Ormandy, Rosa Ponselle, Ned Rorem, Mstislav Rostropovich, Bidu Sayao, Beverly Sills, Gerard Souzay, George Szell, Virgil Thomson, Alan...
Dates: 1871 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1990
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Ruth Norman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-180524
Scope and Contents The collection consists musical compositions authored by pianist and composer Ruth Norman, including music manuscripts and printed scores. Norman produced a variety of works, including piano solo compositions, organ solo compositions, choral compositions, solo vocal compositions, and orchestral compositions. The collection also includes a small amount of related documents, such as concert programs, correspondence, promotional flyers, and composition lists. Finally, the collection also...
Dates: 1969 - 2007
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

George H. O'Connor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-850501
Scope and Contents note The George H. O'Connor Papers contain correspondence, photographs, programs, songs, music and cartoons, accumulated by O'Connor throughout his life. The correspondence includes letters from William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, and Edward Stettinius. The most interesting letters are two written by O'Connor himself to his wife Blanche, while O'Connor was staying at Warm Springs with President Roosevelt.Perhaps the most...
Dates: 1890 - 1979
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

George H. O'Connor Recordings Collection

 Collection — oversize: LP boxes
Identifier: GTM-851014
Scope and Contents The George H. O'Connor Recordings Collection consists of 74 phonograph records, each of which has at least one recording by George H. O'Connor (1874 - 1946). The reverse side of many of the records have recordings by such artists as Al Jolson, Morton Harvey, Arthur Fields, Marguerite Farrell and Irving Kaufman. Most of the records are copies of those made available to the public (probably made between 1916 and 1917), but there are several special recordings of broadcasts in memory of...
Dates: 1916 - 1917
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Old North Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-820331
Scope and Contents Contains material found in a wall on the fourth floor of Old North during renovations in 1982. Includes student papers (some in Greek and Latin, some damaged) from 1893-1894 by Francis Joseph Leonard, Mateo Guillen, Charles Bernard Burke, James Christopher O'Connor, James Raymond Stafford, James Coale Sappington, William James Lant, Michael Francis O'Connor, Charles Woodbury Gorman, John Andrew Fogarty, Eugene Ryan, Joseph Harris Lindsley, William Joseph O'Leary, Salvador Guillen, Nuva...
Dates: 1887-1918
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

The Pirate Playscript

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 16, Folder: 3
Identifier: GTM-20180414
Scope and Contents

One playscript copy of Cole Porter's "The Pirate," produced posthumously by the Cole Porter Trusts around 1968. The script includes songs that were omitted from the 1948 film.

Dates: circa 1968
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Raposo, Joe, Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-141028
Content Description

Autograph music manuscripts for songs. Music by Raposo, lyrics by Eric Bentley. Titles include: Song of Scum; Little Bill; Galy Gay’s Song; The Song of God; Song of the Ganges; Widow Begbick’s Man’s Man; The Recruiting Song; Barrel Song.

Dates: 1964
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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