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General Correspondence, 1943-1955

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A - General1948-1955Box 6, Folder 6
Addresses1947Box 6, Folder 7
Administration1942-1953
Advisors, Board of1947-1949Box 6, Folder 21
Advisory Council1943-1955
Alexander Hall Organ1948Box 6, Folder 29
American Musicological Society1946-1955Box 6, Folder 30
Association of American Colleges1945-1947Box 6, Folder 31
B - General1948-1955Box 6, Folder 32
Baird1945-1955Box 6, Folder 33
Beck, Mrs. Louise1951-1952Box 6, Folder 34
Bradford, Paul1941-1955Box 6, Folder 35
Berkshire Music Center1948-1953Box 6, Folder 36
Bibliography1936-1939Box 6, Folder 37
Bonsall Memorial Fund1945-1953Box 6, Folder 38
Bonsall Fund - Publicity1946-1950Box 6, Folder 39
Broder, Nathan1952-1954Box 6, Folder 40
Bryan, Kit1952-1955Box 6, Folder 41
Building - Needs of Department1936-1945Box 6, Folder 42
Burn, B. F1949-1950Box 6, Folder 43
C - General1947-1955Box 6, Folder 44
Cantanta Singers1952-1955Box 6, Folder 45
Carter, Ernest1951-1953Box 6, Folder 46
Catalogue Revision1953-1955Box 6, Folder 47
Chapel Choir1947-1951Box 6, Folder 48
Chapel Reservations1949Box 6, Folder 49
Choral Music Activities1937-1940Box 6, Folder 50
Coe College1947-1949Box 6, Folder 51
Committee on Placement1951Box 6, Folder 52
Counseling Service1950Box 6, Folder 53
Course Enrollments - Graduates1948-1950Box 6, Folder 54
Curriculum1953-1955Box 6, Folder 56
Duplicate General Notices and Announcements1953-1955Box 6, Folder 57
D - General1947-1955Box 6, Folder 58
Daily Princetonian1952-1953Box 6, Folder 59
Davis, Vernon1949-1954Box 6, Folder 60
Denny, William1945-1952Box 6, Folder 61
Diehelm, John1949-1951Box 6, Folder 62
Drager, Doctor Hans1952Box 6, Folder 63
Drinker Library1952-1955Box 6, Folder 64
E - General1948-1954Box 7, Folder 1
Electronics1950-1952Box 7, Folder 2
Endowments1952-1954Box 7, Folder 3
Equipment1947-1950Box 7, Folder 4
Music Department - Historical1934-1955Box 7, Folder 5
Examinations1947 August 30-1952
F - General1949-1955Box 7, Folder 15
Faculty Meetings1948-1954Box 7, Folder 16
Faculty Publications1949-1950Box 7, Folder 17
Friedberg, Miss Annie1947-1950Box 7, Folder 18
Friends of Music - Financial1955Box 7, Folder 19
Friends of Music - General1953-1954Box 7, Folder 20
Friends of Music - General1955Box 7, Folder 21
G - General1947-1955Box 7, Folder 22
Garret Fund1940-1946Box 7, Folder 23
Garside, Charles1949-1954Box 7, Folder 24
Gift Horses1948Box 7, Folder 25
Glee Club1951-1953Box 7, Folder 26
Glyndebourne Opera Company of England (John Christie)1948-1949Box 7, Folder 27
Graduate Council1947-1954Box 7, Folder 28
Griffith Music Foundation1948-1951Box 7, Folder 29
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation1949-1955Box 7, Folder 30
H - General1945-1955Box 7, Folder 31
Haynes, H. C.1945-1946Box 7, Folder 32
I - General1950-1954Box 7, Folder 33
Imbrie, Andrew1944-1946Box 7, Folder 34
Independent Music Publishers1946Box 7, Folder 35
International Society for Contemporary Music1946-1948Box 7, Folder 36
Inventory1942-1946Box 7, Folder 37
J - General1946-1955Box 7, Folder 38
Kendall, Doctor Raymond1947-1949Box 7, Folder 39
K - General1946-1955Box 7, Folder 40
L - General1947-1955Box 7, Folder 41
Lectures1952-1955Box 7, Folder 42
Lecture Committee1950-1951Box 7, Folder 43
Library - Julian P. Boyd1945-1953Box 7, Folder 44
M - General1951-1955Box 7, Folder 45
McAlpin, William1943-1954Box 7, Folder 46
M - General1947-1955Box 7, Folder 47
Memorial, Class of 19341948-1949Box 7, Folder 48
Metropolitan Opera1946-1955Box 7, Folder 49
Milbank Memorial1949-1955Box 7, Folder 50
Morgan Henry Green1947-1949Box 7, Folder 51
Moser, Karlos1946-1948Box 7, Folder 52
Music at Princeton1951-1954Box 7, Folder 53
Music - Class of1877, 1949-1952Box 7, Folder 54
Music Courses1953-1954Box 7, Folder 56
Music Courses - Enrollment Figures1952Box 7, Folder 57
Music Courses - Failure Reports1946Box 7, Folder 58
Music Library Association1937-1947Box 7, Folder 59
N - General1948-1955Box 8, Folder 1
National Association of Schools of Music1949Box 8, Folder 2
National Orchestral Association1942Box 8, Folder 3
Naumberg, Walter1944-1955Box 8, Folder 4
O - General1944-1955Box 8, Folder 5
Organs, University Chapel, Procter Hall1940Box 8, Folder 6
Oates, Professor Whitney J1945-1946Box 8, Folder 7
Orchestra1953-1955Box 8, Folder 8
P - General1950-1955Box 8, Folder 9
Pamphlets - Miscellaneous1950Box 8, Folder 10
Photoduplication Service1950-1952Box 8, Folder 11
Piano Repair - Mr. Louis Greenwald1950-1951Box 8, Folder 12
Porter, Harry F1952-1955Box 8, Folder 13
Prentice, Mrs. William Kelly1945-1951Box 8, Folder 14
Princeton Prize in Composition1947-1952Box 8, Folder 15
Princeton Public Library1947-1950Box 8, Folder 16
Princeton Songs - Copyright Information1947Box 8, Folder 17
Prospective Concerts1946-1952Box 8, Folder 18
Publishers - Princeton University Press1941-1950Box 8, Folder 19
Publishers - Harper Brothers1948-1951Box 8, Folder 20
R - General1946-1955Box 8, Folder 21
Recommendations1947-1951Box 8, Folder 22
Record Library - The 'Nation' Affair1946Box 8, Folder 23
Rentschler, Gordon S1943Box 8, Folder 24
S - General1944-1955Box 8, Folder 25
Sayre, Mrs. Daniel1952-1954Box 8, Folder 26
Schedules1953-1956Box 8, Folder 27
Schuman, William1954Box 8, Folder 28
Seeger, Doctor Charles1952Box 8, Folder 29
Senior Comprehensive1947 August 29Box 8, Folder 30
Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College1948-1951Box 8, Folder 31
Special Gifts, Projects Committee1954Box 8, Folder 32
Spivacke, Doctor Harold1946-1948Box 8, Folder 33
Steinway and Sons1951-1955Box 8, Folder 34
Sutherland (Article)undatedBox 8, Folder 35
Sutherland, Dean Gordon - Miami University1948-1950Box 8, Folder 36
T - General1946-1954Box 8, Folder 37
Tape Recording1952Box 8, Folder 38
Third Century Fund1947-1948Box 8, Folder 39
Travel Allowance Fund for Attendance at Learned Societies1948Box 8, Folder 40
U - General1947-1952Box 8, Folder 41
Undergraduate Music Council1947-1954Box 8, Folder 42
Unfinished Business1953-1955Box 8, Folder 43
University Store1948-1949Box 8, Folder 44
V - General1946-1955Box 8, Folder 45
Van Hoboken, Anthony1951-1954Box 8, Folder 46
W - General1946-1955Box 8, Folder 47
WPRU1945Box 8, Folder 48
Welch, Roy Dickinson - Navy Correspondence1949Box 8, Folder 49
Welch, Roy Dickinson - Memorial1951-1960Box 8, Folder 50
Wellesz, Professor Egon1948Box 8, Folder 51
Westminster College Choir1945-1949Box 8, Folder 52
Westrup, Professor J. A1951Box 8, Folder 53
Winternitz, Doctor Emanuel1952-1955Box 8, Folder 54
X-Y-Z - General1946-1955Box 8, Folder 56

Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Arrangement

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.

Collection History

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.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Folders 7-14 in Box 7 which pertain to examinations contain student grades and therefore are closed for 75 years from the most recent date marked on the folder.

Conditions Governing Use

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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Credit this material:

General Correspondence; Department of Music Records, AC151, Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
65 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(609) 258-6345
Storage Note:
  • Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 6-8

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Related Materials

The Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections holds the William Oliver Strunk Collection, containing his personal correspondence (C1081). Additional archival materials documenting the history of the Department of Music can be found in the Historical Subject Files Collection (AC109), held at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Yearly editions of the University's General Catalogue also contain listings of the courses offered by the department each year. The library also holds a small collection of University Concerts Records (AC205), which document some of the programming done by the Friends of Music at Princeton.

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.

Names:
Princeton University. Dept. of Music.
Mendel, Arthur (1905-1979)
Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver) (1901-1980)
Welch, Roy Dickinson (1885-1951)
Westergaard, Peter