Series 1: Administrative, 1932-2001
The Administrative series contains records which relate to the Department of Music's activities outside of the classroom environment. The records document curriculum decisions, fundraising activities, purchases of equipment and materials, concerts, and other related topics.
The Administrative series is arranged into two types of files, correspondence and general administrative files. Within these groupings, correspondence is divided into three chronological runs, and is arranged alphabetically by correspondent name thereunder. The general administrative files are arranged topically.
A - General, 1956-1969
Admissions, 1962-1969
Amherst, 1961
Art Museum, 1961
Atom Bomb Shelter, 1961-1962
B - General, 1956-1969
Band, 1956-1964
Bedford, Paul, 1956-1964
Bell Laboratories, 1965-1967
Blair, David, 1960-1970
Broder, Nathan, 1956-1967
Brooklyn College, 1962
Bryan, K. M, 1956-1962
Building Dedication, 1963-1964
C - General, 1956-1969
Cantata Singers, 1957-1961
Catalogue Revisions, 1956-1964
College Music Society, 1956-1964
Cini Foundation, 1960-1962
Commencement, 1966-1968
Committee of Three, 1965
Computer Project, 1962-1969
Concerts Committee, 1963-1965
Concert Manager, 1963-1964
Conference Committee, 1961-1963
Conkey, Albert B, 1958
Creative Arts, 1965-1968
Current Musicology, 1965-1968
Curriculum, 1956-1959
D - General, 1956-1969
Daily Princetonian, 1962-1969
Concerts Committee, 1967-1968
Dean of the Faculty, 1954-1961
E - General, 1955-1969
F - General, 1956-1968
Ford Foundation, 1962
Frenkel, Stefan, 1964-1966
Fromm Foundation, 1955-1963
Funds - Endowment, 1955-1962
G - General, 1956-1969
Gale, William, 1964-1965
Glee Club, 1957-1964
1961-1964, 1961-1964
Graduate School, 1962
Grolier Society, 1961-1962
Gunzelmann, Paul, 1963-1966
H - General, 1956-1969
Harpsichord, 1956-1964
Harsanyi, Nicholas, 1954-1967
Humanities Council, 1957-1969
I - General, 1956-1968
Insurance - University, 1964
Institute of European Studies, 1961
J - General, 1956-1968
Juillard School of Music, 1961
K - General, 1956-1969
Kahn, Eric Itor, 1960-1966
L - General, 1956-1968
Lang, Paul H, 1957-1961
Lectures, 1956-1969
Leist, Robert, 1956-1971
Library, 1958
Library of Congress, 1966
Luckey, Ann, 1954-1966
M - General, 1956-1964
McAlpin, William, 1956-1964
McCann, Frasier, 1962
McCook Faculty Fellowship, 1962
Metropolitan Opera, 1956-1964
Milbank Memorial, 1956-1964
Music Librarian, 1956-1964
Music Publishing, 1959-1962
N - General, 1956-1969
National Music League, 1950-1953
Naumburg Fund - General, 1956-1964
O - General, 1956-1964
Orchestra, 1957-1966
Organ, 1961-1964
P - General, 1956-1969
Perspectives, 1963
Pianos - Information, 1954-1964
Piano - Teacher, 1952-1967
Piano - Tuning, 1961-1967
Porter, Harry F, 1956-1964
President and Dean Brown, 1965
Presser Foundation, 1957-1964
Princeton Today - Talks, 1964
Programs and Clippings, 1953-1954
Q - General, 1952-1962
R - General, 1956-1967
Record Librarian, 1961-1969
Reader, Deborah, 1964
Recording Equipment, 1960
Resident Quartet, 1962-1963
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1964-1966
Rockefeller Foundation, 1964
Martha Baird Rockefeller, 1964
S - General, 1956-1969
Sayre, Mrs, 1956-1957
Scholarships, 1964-1965
Scholarships, 1963-1964
Scholarships, 1962-1963
Scholarships, 1961-1962
Stanley Seeger, 1964
Steinway and Sons, 1960-1965
Stetson, N, 1961-1963
Stravinsky, 1966-1967
Summer Chamber Concerto, 1968 July
Swartz, Anne, 1966-1969
T- General, 1957-1969
Tams Witmark, 1962-1964
Tercentenary, 1964
U - General, 1961-1968
Unfinished Business, 1956
University Production Board, 1961
University Store, 1963
V- General, 1956-1966
W- General, 1955-1969
WBAI, 1961
Woodrow Wilson School, 1961
X-Y-Z - General, 1956-1968
Welch, R. D. (Roy Dickinson), 1939
Strunk, Oliver, 1937-1943
McAlpin, David H, 1939-1941
McAlpin, William R, 1938-1943
A - General, 1948-1955
Addresses, 1947
Academic, 1951-1952
Brakely, George, 1952-1953
Brakely, George, 1945-1948
Financial, 1951-1952
Advisors, Board of, 1947-1949
Alexander Hall Organ, 1948
B - General, 1948-1955
Baird, 1945-1955
Beck, Mrs. Louise, 1951-1952
Bradford, Paul, 1941-1955
Berkshire Music Center, 1948-1953
Bibliography, 1936-1939
Bonsall Memorial Fund, 1945-1953
Bonsall Fund - Publicity, 1946-1950
Broder, Nathan, 1952-1954
Bryan, Kit, 1952-1955
Burn, B. F, 1949-1950
C - General, 1947-1955
Cantanta Singers, 1952-1955
Carter, Ernest, 1951-1953
Catalogue Revision, 1953-1955
Chapel Choir, 1947-1951
Chapel Reservations, 1949
Choral Music Activities, 1937-1940
Coe College, 1947-1949
Committee on Placement, 1951
Counseling Service, 1950
Curriculum, 1953-1955
D - General, 1947-1955
Daily Princetonian, 1952-1953
Davis, Vernon, 1949-1954
Denny, William, 1945-1952
Diehelm, John, 1949-1951
Drager, Doctor Hans, 1952
Drinker Library, 1952-1955
E - General, 1948-1954
Electronics, 1950-1952
Endowments, 1952-1954
Equipment, 1947-1950
M.F.A. Qualifying Exam, 1952
M.F.A. Qualifying Exam, 1951
M.F.A. Qualifying Exam, 1949-1950
Senior Comprehensive Exams, 1950
Senior Comprehensive Exams, 1949 May
Junior Generals, 1949 May
F - General, 1949-1955
Faculty Meetings, 1948-1954
Faculty Publications, 1949-1950
Friedberg, Miss Annie, 1947-1950
Friends of Music - Financial, 1955
Friends of Music - General, 1955
G - General, 1947-1955
Garret Fund, 1940-1946
Garside, Charles, 1949-1954
Gift Horses, 1948
Glee Club, 1951-1953
Graduate Council, 1947-1954
Griffith Music Foundation, 1948-1951
H - General, 1945-1955
Haynes, H. C., 1945-1946
I - General, 1950-1954
Imbrie, Andrew, 1944-1946
Independent Music Publishers, 1946
Inventory, 1942-1946
J - General, 1946-1955
Kendall, Doctor Raymond, 1947-1949
K - General, 1946-1955
L - General, 1947-1955
Lectures, 1952-1955
Lecture Committee, 1950-1951
Library - Julian P. Boyd, 1945-1953
M - General, 1951-1955
McAlpin, William, 1943-1954
M - General, 1947-1955
Memorial, Class of 1934, 1948-1949
Metropolitan Opera, 1946-1955
Milbank Memorial, 1949-1955
Morgan Henry Green, 1947-1949
Moser, Karlos, 1946-1948
Music at Princeton, 1951-1954
Music - Class of, 1877, 1949-1952
Music Courses, 1953-1954
Music Library Association, 1937-1947
N - General, 1948-1955
Naumberg, Walter, 1944-1955
O - General, 1944-1955
Orchestra, 1953-1955
P - General, 1950-1955
Pamphlets - Miscellaneous, 1950
Photoduplication Service, 1950-1952
Porter, Harry F, 1952-1955
Princeton Public Library, 1947-1950
Prospective Concerts, 1946-1952
R - General, 1946-1955
Recommendations, 1947-1951
Rentschler, Gordon S, 1943
S - General, 1944-1955
Sayre, Mrs. Daniel, 1952-1954
Schedules, 1953-1956
Schuman, William, 1954
Seeger, Doctor Charles, 1952
Senior Comprehensive, 1947 August 29
Spivacke, Doctor Harold, 1946-1948
Steinway and Sons, 1951-1955
Sutherland (Article), undated
T - General, 1946-1954
Tape Recording, 1952
Third Century Fund, 1947-1948
U - General, 1947-1952
Unfinished Business, 1953-1955
University Store, 1948-1949
V - General, 1946-1955
Van Hoboken, Anthony, 1951-1954
W - General, 1946-1955
WPRU, 1945
Wellesz, Professor Egon, 1948
Westminster College Choir, 1945-1949
Westrup, Professor J. A, 1951
X-Y-Z - General, 1946-1955
B, 1940-1943
D, 1943
E, 1942
F, 1943
G, 1943-1944
H, 1942-1943
K, 1942-1943
L, 1942-1945
M, 1943
R, 1942-1943
S, 1942-1943
S, 1945-1946
T, 1943-1945
U-V, 1943
W, 1941-1943
W, 1943-1946
Correspondence, 1942-1947
General, 1935-1947
Agenda, 1942
Meetings and Minutes, 1942-1947
1947-1948, 1947-1948
Associated Music Publishers, 1946
1971-1972, 1971-1972
1970-1971, 1970-1971
1969-1970, 1969-1970
1968-1969, 1968-1969
1967-1968, 1967-1968
1966-1967, 1966-1967
1965-1966, 1965-1966
1964-1965, 1964-1965
1959-1962, 1959-1962
Current Prospects, 1957-1967
Teaching vs. Research, 1960-1961
Fund for Instrumentalists, 1971
Fund Raising, 1957-1972
Faculty Meetings, 1957-1970
Dean of the Faculty, 1966-1974
Graduate School, 1949-1974
Vauclain, Andre Constant, 1945-1948
Morgan, Henry, 1946-1947
Carter, Ernest T, 1936-1947
Cheney, Timothy, 1939-1946
General Correspondence, 1947
Beaumont, G. Alfred, 1947
General Correspondence, 1945-1946
Mendel, Arthur, 1951
Roger Sessions, 1951-1952
Princeton Weekly Bulletin, 1948-1949
Bach Choir, 1950
Princeton Alumni Weekly, 1946
Agnes Scott College, 1950
Apollo Club, 1946
Fort Dix, 1945-1947
Music Press, 1943-1944
The Daily Princetonian, 1946-1947
Schedule Book Material, 1948-1959
Departmental Memo Replies, 1974-1975
1973 March 3, 1973 March 3
1972 March 4, 1972 March 4
1971 March 4, 1971 March 4
1970-1974, 1970-1974
IBM Fellowship, 1966-1967
Princetonian Course Evaluation, 1952
Departmental, 1947-1959
Early Concentration, 1959-1960
Dissertations, 1953
President of the United States, 1966
Clio, 1967
Personnel, 1952-1971
Registrar, 1948-1968
Dean of College, 1969-1971
Dean of College, 1948-1968
President Robert Goheen, 1957-1971
Meredith Wilson, 1966
Music Historians Congress, 1961
Gifts, 1959-1968
Invoices, 1947-1948
Purchase Orders, 1947-1948
Invoices, 1947
Programs and Events, 1932-2002
Schoenberg Lectures, 1946 September
Music at Princeton, 1935-1942
Secondary Education Board, 1942
Medieval Academy, 1941-1943
WPAT, 1945
Rachmaninoff Fund, 1945-1947
League of Composers, 1941-1942
Invoices, 1946-1947
Requisitions, 1947
Symposium Lists, 1946
Symposium, 1941
Symposium, 1942
Symposium, 1943
Symposium, 1946
Symposium, 1947
Symposium, 1948 November
Symposium, 1937-1939
General Correspondence, 1942-1946
Reports, 1944-1946
Soliciting Letters, undated
Council Scholarship Fund, 1944
Finances, 1944-1945
Membership, 1944-1945
New Members, undated
Membership, 1943-1944
Budget, 1944
Deposits, 1932-1943
Publicity, 1944
Report, 1948 June
Mid-Season Report, 1948 May 10
Requisitions and Invoices, 1949-1950
Report, 1947 October 15
Correspondence, 1947-1948
Account Ledgers, 1946-1947
Invoices, 1947
Purchase Orders Complete, 1947
Masselos - Pianist, 1948 October 17
General Correspondence, 1948-1949
Martinu Program, 1948 November 21
Charles Rosen, 1949 April-May
Zuckerman, 1949 May 22
1949 January 9, 1949 January 9
Alfonso Montecino, 1948 March 14
Virginia Davis, 1948 April 18
Sandor Salgo, 1948 May 12
Charles Rosen, undated
Alexander Hall, 1949 May 15
1949 March 20, 1949 March 20
1948 May 16, 1948 May 16
Russell Cook, 1948
1948 December 5, 1948 December 5
1941-1942, 1941-1942
1942-1943, 1942-1943
1943-1944, 1943-1944
1944-1945, 1944-1945
1945-1946, 1945-1946
Mindlin Memorial Concerts, 2002
Programs, 1939-1990
1990, 1990
1989, 1989
1968-1979, 1968-1979
Harasanyi, 1954-1966
Russell Cook, 1945-1954
Moritz Von Bomhard, 1939-1942
1948-1968, 1948-1968
The Courses and Students series contains records which document the Department's classroom interaction with students at the graduate and undergraduate level. Included are files on prospective graduate students, examination papers, course syllabi, and records relating to the annually awarded Naumburg fellowship, which is awarded annually to a graduate student in the Department of Music.
Arranged by topic.
1938-1939, 1938-1939
1939-1940, 1939-1940
1940-1941, 1940-1941
1941-1942, 1941-1942
1942-1943, 1942-1943
1947-1948, 1947-1948
1946-1947, 1946-1947
1944-1945, 1944-1945
1945-1946, 1945-1946
Davis, William R, 1946-1948
Gladstone, H, 1943-1947
Kraft, Leo, 1945-1948
Seder, T. A, 1945-1948
Music Courses, 1941-1951
Marks - Second Term, 1948
Class Lists, 1947-1948
Marks - First Term, 1947
Grades, 1946-1947
Creative Arts Program, 1941-1948
Grades, 1945-1946
Music 204, Winter, 1945-1946
Departmental Elections, Summer, 1946
Music 401 - Strunk, Fall, 1946-1947
Music 513 - Strunk, Fall, 1946-1947
Music 303 - Strunk, Fall, 1946-1947
Music 301 - Welch, Fall, 1946-1947
Music 201 - Cone, Fall, 1946-1947
Music II, Morgan, 1947
Music II - Grades, Summer, 1947-1948
Music I - Grades, Summer, 1947-1948
Music 301 - Assignments, 1946-1947
Music II - Assignments, Summer, 1947
Departmental Elections, 1947-1949
Class Lists, Spring, 1951
Ph. D. Data, 1946-1977
1970, 1970
1969, 1969
1968, 1968
Summer Support, 1967
1967 March, 1967 March
1966 May, 1966 May
1965 May, 1965 May
1964-1965, 1964-1965
1963-1964, 1963-1964
Application to Study with Teachers Other than those Recommended by the Department, 1975-1976
Naumburg Funds, 1975-1976
Naumburg, 1965-1975
1974-1975, 1974-1975
1973-1974, 1973-1974
1972-1973, 1972-1973
1971-1972, 1971-1972
1970-1971, 1970-1971
Spring, 1970
Fall, 1969
1968-1969, 1968-1969
1967-1968, 1967-1968
1966-1967, 1966-1967
1965-1966, 1965-1966
Examinations, 1940-1970 October
Composition and Theory, 1965 May
History - Nugent, 1965 September
History, 1965 May
Theory, 1964 May
History, 1964 May
Composition, 1964 May
Composition - Analysis, 1964 May
History, 1963
1963 October, 1963 October
Theory, 1962
Composition, Fall, 1962
Composition, 1962
History, 1962
1961 May, 1961 May
Henry Weinberg, 1961 May 15
1959 May, 1959 May
1958 June, 1958 June
1957 May, 1957 May
1956, 1956
1955, 1955
1954, 1954
(Pre-1952), circa 1940s
1951, 1951
1970 October, 1970 October
History, 1970 May
Composition and Theory, 1968 October
Composition and Theory, 1968 May
History, 1968 May
1967 May, 1967 May
1966 October, 1966 October
Composition and Theory, 1966 May
1970 October, 1970 October
1970 February, 1970 February
1969 October, 1969 October
Fall, 1968
1968 February, 1968 February
Fall, 1967
Spring, 1967
Fall, 1966
1966 January, 1966 January
Fall, 1965
1965, 1965
Fall, 1964
Spring, 1964
Fall, 1963
1956-1967, 1956-1967
1966, 1966
1967, 1967
Fall, 1965
Fall, 1964
Fall, 1963
Fall, 1962
Analysis, 1961
1961, 1961
Re-Examinations, 1961 January 24
History, Fall, 1961
Theory and Ear Training, 1961
Fall, 1960
Fall, 1959
Third Day, 1958
Second Day, 1958
First Day, 1958
Fall, 1957-1958
Fall, 1956
Fall, 1955
Series 3: Public Website, 2015
The website for the Princeton University Department of Music contains information for the general public about the Department's undergraduate and graduate programs, certificate programs, and course requirements. Also on the site are event listings, course listings, multimedia displays of original work, and a departmental directory of faculty, staff, and graduate students.
No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.
- Scope and Contents
The Department of Music records document the department's wide range of activities including undergraduate and graduate education, music research, and music-related programming on campus. The records contain correspondence, examinations, course materials, and several posters advertising department-sponsored concerts and lectures.
Please see series descriptions in contents list for additional information about individual series.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Princeton University. Dept. of Music.
Since 1935 Princeton University's Department of Music has offered courses in composition, music history, and related areas to students at the graduate and undergraduate level. Though the music curriculum has traditionally centered upon music history and composition, developments in the 1990s resulted in the addition of a certificate program in musical performance to complement these areas.
The origins of music education at Princeton can be traced to the early 20th century, when chapel music, the University Orchestra, and other student musical groups provided students with an informal introduction to performance and composition. All of these activities were overseen by different individuals and classes and lectures on music were offered only sporadically. It was not until 1934 that a strong push was made by faculty for the formal organization of a Department of Music. The oft-cited rationale for such an initiative was the maintenance of a well-rounded liberal arts curriculum (Yale in comparison had established its own School of Music in 1894); however limited funding for new departments forestalled the immediate realization of the idea.
In the spring of 1935 Roy Dickinson Welch, chair of the Department of Music at Smith College, came to Princeton as a visiting professor to teach two elective courses and to investigate the potential for a full program in music. The student response to Welch's courses was overwhelming and the next year he was appointed the first director of the Program in Music, a special section established under the Department of Art and Archaeology. By 1940, undergraduate elections in the program had leapt from 35 to 380 students.
The progress made by the Program in Music during its first five years of existence was impressive enough to warrant a special issue of the Bulletin of the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University in June of 1940 entitled "The Crisis in Music." The titular article was a plea by Welch for increased funding, improved facilities, and the upgrade of the music section to departmental status. He fervently argued that the program was so dire for resources that it would be better for it to be scaled back dramatically than to carry on indeterminately in such a constrained manner. A request for gifts in support of the Music section by President Harold Dodds soon followed.
Welch's petitions were finally answered in 1945, when he was made the inaugural chair of the Department of Music by action of the Board of Trustees. This new status was accompanied by the addition of several faculty, most notably Oliver Strunk and Arthur Mendel, the latter of whom took over as chairman following Welch's death in 1951. Ph.D. programs in music history and composition were instituted in 1950 and 1961, respectively, and the department moved from its crowded makeshift quarters in Clio Hall to the newly built Woolworth Center for Musical Studies in 1963.
Arthur Mendel served as chairman until 1967, bringing recognition to the department through his studies of the work of Bach. He was succeeded by a string scholars and composers, including Kenneth Levy, Peter Westergaard and Scott Burnham. The Department of Music's curriculum, though consistently maintaining its dual emphasis upon history and composition, began to experiment with music technology and performance classes in the late 1960s.
Throughout the department's history and particularly during its infancy, it was bolstered by the support of the Friends of Music at Princeton, a group founded by Roy Dickinson Welch in 1950 to raise funds for the Department of Music's wide swath of activities outside of classroom teaching. At various times gifts made by the Friends of Music have underwritten to some degree the University Orchestra, the Glee Club, the University Band, concerts, guest lectures by music scholars, and a record library. In 1997 a gift from William H. Scheide '36, an original Friends member, enabled the construction of the Arthur Mendel Music Library. The addition to the Woolworth Center placed most of the University Library's music collections under one roof and at arm's length from the department for the first time.
- Acquisition:
The records of the Department of Music were transferred to the University Archives in several accessions between 1961 and 2006. The largest single accession, accounting for nearly half of the records, took place in March, 1978 .
- Accruals
Additional transfers of records are expected from the Department of Music indefinitely.
- Appraisal
Appraisal has been conducted in accordance with Mudd Library guidelines. Nothing was separated from the records during 2007 processing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Daniel Brennan with assistance from Joshua Muketha '10 in July 2007. Finding aid written by Daniel Brennan in August 2007.
- Conditions Governing Access
Materials older than 30 years that do not pertain to student academic performance or faculty personnel matters are open. Restrictions beyond thirty years are noted in the relevant series and folder descriptions.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. For instances beyond Fair Use, if copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers do not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with use of materials from the Princeton University Archives.
For instances beyond Fair Use where the copyright is not held by the University, while permission from the Library is not required, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Department of Music Records; Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jh343s29q
- Location:
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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-21
- Other Finding Aids
Full text searching of the Department of Music archived website is available through the Archive-It interface.
- Bibliography
Alexander Leitch's A Princeton Companion, the January 30, 1948 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and the June 1940 issue of the Bulletin of the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University were consulted in preparation of the historical note.
- Subject Terms:
- Music -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
Music -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
Musical Analysis -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
Musicology -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
Universities and colleges -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- Departments. - Genre Terms:
- Web sites.
- Names:
- Princeton University. Dept. of Music.
Mendel, Arthur, 1905-1979
Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver), 1901-1980
Welch, Roy Dickinson, 1885-1951
Westergaard, Peter