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06. Music Library

 Collecting Area
Identifier: 06

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

Silvio and Isabel Scionti Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-044
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one box of scores and manuscripts, both published and unpublished, programs, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the careers of Silvio and Isabel Scionti.

Dates: 1926-1943
Found in: Music Library

Jazz Studies Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-045
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of materials generated by or related to the Jazz Studies program at the University of North Texas College of Music.

Dates: 1947-2008; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Acquisition: Date acquired: 02/19/2013
Found in: Music Library

Leon Breeden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-003
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Leon Breeden's extensive, and often self-selected archival materials from his entire career, during which time the One O'Clock Lab Band and the UNT Jazz Studies program rose to international prominence. Also present are personal recordings and writing, compositions, memorabilia, photos, and materials from his time at Texas Christian University, in New York City, and at Grand Prairie High School.

Dates: 1919-2010; Majority of material found in 1950-1982; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Acquisition: Date acquired: 00/00/2002
Found in: Music Library

Dr. William McMurtry Microfilms

 Collection
Identifier: 06-046
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 45 microfilms of significant early European music manuscripts housed primarily overseas.

Dates: Date unknown
Found in: Music Library

Helen Hewitt Microfilms

 Collection
Identifier: 06-047
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 145 microfilms of early European music manuscripts, as well as books and related documents. Please see also: The Helen Hewitt Research Collection The Helen Hewitt papers in the UNT Archives

Dates: Date unknown
Found in: Music Library

WFAA, WBAP, Popular Song, and Octavo Collections

 Collection
Identifier: 06-065
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of thousands of published ensemble arrangements and sheet music for popular songs from roughly 1890 through the 1950s. Many items are also stamped for WBAP sister station KGKO.

Dates: 1890-1960; Majority of material found in 1910-1945
Found in: Music Library

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Music Scores

 Collection
Identifier: 06-049
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 16 boxes of mostly oversized scores of compositions by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.

Dates: 1915-1994
Found in: Music Library

Martin Mailman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-050
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of ten boxes, three of which contain reel-to-reel tape recordings of Mailman's work, along with a fourth box which includes works by other composers and concerts and recitals featuring his wife, Mary Nan Mailman. Boxes 5 through 10 were received in November of 2016, and are awaiting processing.

Dates: 1956-1986
Found in: Music Library

Source: Music of the Avant-Garde

 Collection
Identifier: 06-051
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 47 boxes related to the publication of Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, including a complete run of issues as well as unpublished materials and sound recordings.

Dates: 1967-1973
Found in: Music Library

Jon and Sondra Steele Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-052
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of eleven boxes, primarily containing ensemble arrangements of popular songs and original compositions (including materials for a soundtrack to The Tony Fontane Story), as well as sheet music, correspondence, song lyrics, study materials for music composition, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1945-1976
Found in: Music Library

Richard Dufallo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-054
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 21 boxes of scores, correspondence, audio and video recordings, photographs, and materials for his book, Trackings.

Dates: 1919-2000
Found in: Music Library

Michael Collins Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-055
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 23 boxes containing papers and materials related to research for Collins’ many publications.

Dates: 1977-2008
Found in: Music Library

Greg Waters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-057
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of twelve boxes of audio and videocassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, scores, jazz arrangements, concert programs, clippings, photos, and miscellaneous correspondence.

Dates: 1960-1998
Found in: Music Library

Nancy Bogen and Arnold Greissle-Schönberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-019
Scope and Contents The collection includes a broad array of documents related to the Schönberg, Greissle, and Bogen families, including scores, photographs, letters, and passports among other items. The collection also holds documents pertaining to Nancy Bogen's cultural organization The Lark Ascending, with audio and video recordings, receipts, contracts with composers and performers, and grant applications. Also contained in the collection are...
Dates: 1916-2012; Majority of material found in 1935-2012; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Acquisition: Date acquired: 00/00/2011
Found in: Music Library

David M. Schimmel

 Collection
Identifier: 06-058
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the papers of David M. Schimmel, including compositions and teaching materials.

Dates: Date unknown
Found in: Music Library

Charles Paul Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-059
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of four boxes of audio materials, and five boxes of papers, including compositions.

Dates: Date unknown
Found in: Music Library

Alfred Wallenstein / WOR Radio Library Music Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: 06-060
Scope and Contents The collection consists of approximately 100 boxes of music manuscripts out of a larger collection of over 700 boxes of sheet music used by the orchestra at radio station WOR. The manuscripts contain the work of numerous arrangers, including Sy Oliver, Joe Glover, Charles Maehl, Bill Challis, Ralph Barnhart, Agustin Borguno, and Lew Davies, along with the work of numerous copyists identifiable by their union stamps. The union stamps also correlate to approximate dates. Specific dates are...
Dates: 1936-1953; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Acquisition: Date acquired: 00/00/2012
Found in: Music Library

Singing Eagles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-061
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of recordings from UNT alumnae and past UNT students who went on to have prominent careers in popular music, including Roy Orbison, Pat Boone, Meatloaf, and Don Henley. The collection is by no means a comprehensive record of commercially-successful North Texas musicians, but rather a growing document of some of the more prolific artists who have studied at North Texas. This collection occasionally accrues new items.

Dates: Date unknown
Found in: Music Library

George Bragg Boy Choir Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-062
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Bragg's personal papers and those related to the operation of the Texas Boys Choir, photographs and slides, sheet music, books, scrapbooks, and ephemera, as well as sound recordings, costumes, and display items from the Texas Boys Choir. Also present is a small, but growing collection of materials from other boys' choirs in the United States.

Dates: circa 1945 - circa 2007
Found in: Music Library

Manuel Morris Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-063
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of over one hundred and thirty LP records, twenty-one 78 rpm records and four compact discs constituting the collected recordings of Gerard Souzay, as compiled by Manuel Morris, along with Morris' discography of Souzay's work, and manuscripts and research materials related to the discography.

Dates: 1944-1991
Found in: Music Library

University of North Texas Music Clippings and Press Releases

 Collection
Identifier: 06-064
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 29 boxes of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about the music program and UNT musicians from campus and local papers over several decades.

Dates: 1944-1980
Found in: Music Library

Arnold Schoenberg - Hans Nachod Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-020
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two boxes of correspondence and papers that once belonged to Arnold Schoenberg's cousin Hans Nachod. It includes many letters from Schoenberg to Nachod, and a few from Nachod to Schoenberg, as well as a number of music manuscripts in Schoenberg's hand, among which are early songs and arrangements.

Dates: 1909-1949; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Acquisition: Date acquired: 12/00/1966
Found in: Music Library

Willis Conover Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 06-004
Scope and Contents

This extensive collection includes documents from Willis Conover's career at the Voice of America, as well as personal papers, non-VOA projects, sound recordings, video recordings, and realia.

Dates: 1930-1996; translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Acquisition: Date acquired: 00/00/1997
Found in: Music Library