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16. Music collections

 Record Group
Identifier: 16
Archival collections of music and musicians, including scores, correspondence, recordings, and more.

Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph R. Farrell collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0447
Abstract

This collection mainly contains audio files of the works of Joseph R. Farrell.

Dates: 1977

Houston Boychoir collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1070

Pierre Jalbert Academic and Professional papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0092
Abstract

This collection contains copies of autograph scores, lecture notes, articles, and programs from composer Pierre Jalbert's academic and professional files. The materials in the collection date from 2001 through 2014.

Dates: 2001 - 2014

Carlos Salzedo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0679
Abstract

This collection includes autograph music manuscripts, annotated and signed published scores, articles, photos, and notebooks of harpist, composer, and teacher Carlos Salzedo. There are also materials about Alice Chalifoux, Salzedo's student and an influential harpist and teacher in her own right.

Dates: 1930 - 2002

Igor Stravinsky Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0753
Abstract The Igor Stravinsky Archive contains annotated proofs, autograph and copyist manuscripts, and associated material of the works of the revolutionary Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky. The majority of the proofs contain significant corrections, alterations, and annotations in Stravinsky’s hand, some of which include quite extensive autograph musical manuscript additions in the hand of the composer in addition to autograph textual notes. A number of the proofs are present in successive...
Dates: 1908 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1938

Brogniez and Cardone sheet music collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0608
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of musical scores composed by two twentieth-century residents of Houston, Texas, Frantz H. Brogniez and John R. Cardone. There are eleven short pieces by Brogniez and eight by Cardone, five of them written to accompany the seventeenth-century masque Comus by John Milton.

Dates: 1899-1976

Karim Al-Zand papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0632
Abstract

This collection contains various concert programs, posters, and cards from composer Karim Al-Zand's professional files.

Dates: 2001 - 2015

Carter Crawford music and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1002
Abstract

Carter Crawford was a Rice University graduate, who worked in oil and gas, and was also deeply interested in music, particularly for viola. These materials include performance scores and notes, family photos and genealogical materials, travel photos, and musicology books / scores. Carter Crawford's Rice diploma is stored with the Rice diplomas collection.

Dates: 1870 - 2020

Arthur Gottschalk Academic and Professional Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0091
Abstract

This collection contains copies of autograph scores, lecture notes, articles, and programs from composer Arthur Gottschalk's academic and professional files. The materials in the collection date from 1964 through 2019.

Dates: 1964 - 2019

Isabelle Ganz collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0894
Content Description

175 wav files, 175 mp3 files, 20 tifs, 20 jpgs - digitization occurred at the Woodson, originals given back to Ganz, oral history

Dates: 1960s-2018