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Register to the Robert Shaw PapersMSS 86
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Robert Shaw PapersMSS 86
Table of Contents
Collection Overview
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11Requesting Instructions
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11Administrative Information
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
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11Conditions Governing Access
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11Conditions Governing Use
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12Preferred Citation
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Biographical / Historical
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12Scope and Contents
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13Arrangement
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13Collection Contents
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14
Series I. Music, 1879-1998
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14Adam, Adolphe
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17Adams, John
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18Adams, Stephan
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18Aleksandrov, A.V.
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18Alexander, Josef
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18Amram, David
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18Anderson, T.J.
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19Andrade, Mário de
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19Antes, John
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19Arensky, Anton
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20Argento, Dominick
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20Arma, Paul
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20Avshalomov, Jacob
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20Bach, Johann Sebastian
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20Bacon, Ernst
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45Badings, Henk
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46Bamert, Matthias
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47Barbe, John
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47Barber, Samuel
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47Bartlett, Clifford
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50Bartók, Béla
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50Beethoven, Ludwig van
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52Bennett, Robert Russell
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63Berg, Alban
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86Bergsma, William
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86Berlin, Irving
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86Berlioz, Hector
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86Bernstein, Leonard
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90Beveridge, Thomas
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92Biebl, Franz
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92Billings, William
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92Bizet, Georges
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93Black, Frank
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94Bloch, Ernest
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94Blumenfeld, Harold
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95Bock, Jerry
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95Boito, Arrigo
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95Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich
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96Brahms, Johannes
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96
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Brant, Henry
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107Britten, Benjamin
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109Brubeck, Howard
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112Bruch, Max
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113Bruckner, Anton
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113Buffington, Jim
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114Byrd, William
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114Carey, Henry
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114Carissimi, Giacomo
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114Chagy, John
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115Casals, Pablo
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115Chajes, Julius
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115Chausson, Ernest
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115Cherubini, Luigi
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115Chopin, Frédéric
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116Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
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116Copland, Aaron
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116Corelli, Arcangelo
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118Costeley, Guillaume
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119Cowell, Henry
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119Crawford, Robert
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119Creston, Paul
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119Crumb, George
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119Davison, Archibald T.
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120Dawson, William Levi
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120Dearmer, Percy
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120Debussy, Claude
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120Delius, Frederick
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123Dello Joio, Norman
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123Dohnányi, Ernő
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123Donatoni, Franco
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123Donizetti, Gaetano
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123Dukas, Paul
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123Duruflé, Maurice
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124Dutilleux, Henri
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124Dvořák, Antonín
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124Effinger, Cecil
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126Elgar, Edward
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126Emmett, Daniel Decatur
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127Enesco, Georges
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127Erb, Donald
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127Falla, Manuel de
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127Fauré, Gabriel
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127Floyd, Carlisle
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129Foison, Tristan
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129Foss, Lukas
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129Frampton, Mac
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130Franck, César
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130Friml, Rudolf
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131Gabrieli, Giovanni
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131Geminiani, Francesco
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131Gershwin, George
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132Gibbons, Orlando
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133Ginastera, Alberto
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134Glass, Philip
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134Glick, Srul Irving
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134
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Glière, Reinhold Morit͡sevich
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135Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
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135Glover, Joe
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135Gluck, Christoph Willibald
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136Gordy, Emory
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136Gore, Richard T.
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136Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj
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136Gould, Morton
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136Gounod, Charles
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137Grieg, Edvard
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138Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
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138Gruber, Edmund L.
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138Guevara, Gerardo
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138Grumpeltzhaimer, Adam
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138Hailstork, Adolphus C.
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138Handel, George Frideric
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139Harbison, John
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144Harris, Roy
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144Harrison, Anne Fortescue
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144Haydn, Joseph
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144Head, John H.
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153Heath, Fenno
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154Helfman, Max
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154Herbert, Victor
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155Herman, Jerry
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156Hindemith, Paul
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156Hoffmann, Melchoir
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160Holst, Gustav
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160Honegger, Arthur
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160Hooper, Ralph
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161Hovhaness, Alan
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162Howells, Herbert
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162Husa, Karel
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162Ives, Charles
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162Janácek, Leos
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165Joplin, Scott
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166Jüngst, Hugo
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166Kay, Hershy
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166Kay, Ulysses
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167Kelley, Anthony M.
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167Kern, Jerome
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167Keyte, Hugh
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168Klein, Lothar
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168Kodály, Zoltán
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168Kohs, Ellis B.
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168Kolb, Barbara
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168Kopylov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
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169Kubik, Gail
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169Kurek, Michael
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169Kurka, Robert
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169Lalo, Edouard
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170La Montaine, John
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170Lasso, Orlando di
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170Lauridsen, Morten
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171Lehár, Franz
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172Le Jeune, Claude
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172
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Leontovych, Mykola Dmytrovych
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172Lewis, John
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172Liszt, Franz
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172Lockshin, Florence Levin
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172Loesser, Frank
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172Loewe, Frederick
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173Loigu, Valdeko
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173Luther, Martin
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173Lutoslawski, Witold
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173Macarthy, Harry
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173MacDowell, Edward
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173MacInnis, Donald
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174Mahler, Gustav
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174Malotte, Albert Hay
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176Mann, Robert G.
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176Martin, Frank
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177Martin, Hugh
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177Mascagni, Pietro
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177Mason, Lowell
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177Mayo, Margot
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178McIntosh, William A.
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178Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
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178Mennin, Peter
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182Menotti, Gian Carlo
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182Messiaen, Olivier
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183Meyerowitz, Jan
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183Milhaud, Darius
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183Monteverdi, Claudio
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184Morris, Christopher
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184Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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184Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
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201Nevin, Ethelbert
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202Novikov, Anatolii Girgo'evich
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202Norman, Fred
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202Offenbach, Jacques
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202Orff, Carl
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203Ott, David
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203Palmgren, Selim
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203Pappas, Demetrios
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203Parker, Alice
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203Shaw, Robert
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225Parrott, Andrew
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245Pärt, Arvo
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245Paulus, Stephen
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245Penderecki, Krzysztof
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246Persichetti, Vincent
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246Phillips, Burrill
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247Piston, Walter
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247Porter, Cole
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247Poulenc, Francis
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247Praetorus, Michael
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250Prokofiev, Sergey
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250Purcell, Henry
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250Rachmaninoff, Sergei
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251Rameau, Jean Philippe
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253Raminsh, Imant
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253
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Ravel, Maurice
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253Read, Daniel
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254Read, Gardner
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254Reed, William L.
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255Respighi, Ottorino
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255Revueltas, Silvestre
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255Rhodes, Phillip
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255Riegger, Wallingford
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256Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
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256Rodgers, Richard
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256Rodrigo, Joaquín
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257Rogers, Bernard
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257Romberg, Sigmund
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257Root, George F.
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258Rorem, Ned
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258Rossini, Gioacchino
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259Roy, Klaus George
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259Saint-Saëns, Camille
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260Salta, Menotti
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260Schering, Arnold
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261Schmitt, Florent
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261Schoenberg, Arnold
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261Schubert, Franz
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263Schuller, Gunther
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268Schuman, William
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269Schumann, Robert
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270Schütz, Heinrich
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271Schwartz, Arthur
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272Scott, Kevin
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272Scott, Tom
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273Seward, Theodore F.
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273Shaw, David T.
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273Shaw, Martin
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273Sherwin, William F.
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273Shevtsov, Mikh
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273Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich
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274Sibelius, Jean
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274Singleton, Alvin
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275Slim, H. Colin
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275Smetana, Bedřich
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275Smith, John Stafford
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275Smith, Russell
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275Sowerby, Leo
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275Springfield, Tom
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276Stainer, John
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276Steffe, William
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276Still, William Grant
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276Strauss, Johann
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276Strauss, Richard
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276Stravinsky, Igor
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277Sullivan, Arthur
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280Swan, Marcus Lafayette
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280Szymanowski, Karol
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281Tallis, Thomas
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281Talma, Louise
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282Tamás, Aloysius Gregorius
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282
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Taneev, Sergei Ivanovich
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282Taylor, Billy
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283Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
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283Terry, Richard Runciman
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285Thompson, Randall
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285Thomson, Virgil
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286Thorne, Francis
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286Tillis, Frederick
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286Tippett, Michael
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286Tozer, A. Edmonds
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286Ussachevsky, Vladimir
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286Vasconcellos, Carmen Sylvia Vieira de
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287Vaughan Williams, Ralph
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287Verdi, Giuseppe
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288Victoria, Tomás Luis de
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292Vinaver, Chemjo
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293Vivaldi, Antonio
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293Wagner, Richard
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296Walton, William
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298Ward, Samuel A.
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300Ward-Steinman, David
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300Warlock, Peter
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300Weber, Ben
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300Weber, Carl Maria von
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300Webster, Joseph Philbrick
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301Weill, Kurt
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301White, Tyler Goodrich
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302Wier, Albert E.
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302Willson, Meredith
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302Wilson, Olly
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302Youmans, Vincent
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302Young, Gordon
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302Zimmerman, Charles A.
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303
Series II. Books
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304Abraham, Gerald
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305Alexander, Hartley Burr
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305Bacon, Ernst
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305Badura-Skoda, Eva
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305Bartholomew, Wilmer Tillett
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305Bartlett, John
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305Berg, Alban
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306Berlioz, Hector
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306Blaukopf, Kurt
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306Bridges, Robert
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306Buber, Martin
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306Bullard, Roger Aubrey
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306Chasins, Abram
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307Coffin, William Sloane
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307Daniel, Oliver
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307Davidson, Karen Lynn
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307Davison, Archibald T.
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307De Angelis, Michael
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307Dean, Winton
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307Dox, Thurston J.
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308Edwards, F.G.
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308Einstein, Alfred
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308
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308Ferguson, Donald Nivison
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308Geiringer, Karl
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309Gerle, Robert
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309Goetschius, Percy
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309Gray, Cecil
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309Haggin, B.H.
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309Hall, William Dawson
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309Hammarskjöld, Dag
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309Harrison, Conrad B.
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309Hayden, Robert Earl
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310Herz, Gerhard
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310Hindemith, Paul
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310Housewright, Wiley L.
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310Hupka, Robert
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310Jeffers, Ron
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311Jezic, Diane
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311Kaufman, Philip S.
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311Kean, Ronald M.
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311Keller, Hermann
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311King, Martin Luther
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311King, Coretta Scott
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312Landon, H.C. Robbins
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312Mann, Alfred
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312Marek, George Richard
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312Marty, Jean-Pierre
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312Maunder, C. R. F.
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312May, Rollo
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313McCabe, Joseph E.
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313McElheran, Brock
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313McKinney, James C.
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313Meyer, Leonard B.
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313Milch, Robert
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313Minear, Paul Sevier
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313Newman, Ernest
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314Noss, Luther
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314Pelikan, Jaroslav
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314Porter, Eliot
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314Poulenc, Francis
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314Quantz, Johann Joachim
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314Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor
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315Rogers, Bernard
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315Rorem, Ned
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315Roy, Klaus George
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315Rumberger, Marian S.
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315Sandburg, Carl
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315Schweitzer, Albert
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316Shaw, Bernard
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316Smithers, Don L.
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316Solomon, Maynard
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316Spitta, Philipp
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316Stravinsky, Igor
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316Stravinsky, Vera
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316Sullivan, J.W.N.
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317Swan, Howard
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317Szyk, Arthur
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317
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317Tovey, Donald Francis
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317Trotter, William R.
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317Upton, George P.
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318Van Doren, Mark
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318Whalum, Wendell
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318Waring, Virginia
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318Weingartner, Felix
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318Wolff, Christoph
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318Zinsser, Hans
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318
Series III. General Files
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320Subseries A. 1940s-1958
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320Subseries B. 1958-1962
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322Subseries C. 1963-1967
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325Subseries D. 1967-1972
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329Subseries E. 1972-1973
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333Subseries F. 1973-1977
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334Subseries G. 1977-1982
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337Subseries H. 1983-1988
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339Subseries I. 1988-1992
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342Subseries J. 1992-1994
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344Subseries K. 1994-1996
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346Subseries L. 1997-1999
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348Subseries M. 1999-2002
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350
Series IV. Files on Musical Topics
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352Series V. Correspondence
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363Series VI. Writings
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425
Subseries A. Speeches
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425Subseries B. Chorus letters
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439Subseries C. Children's Concert Talks
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440Subseries D. Radio broadcast scripts
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441Subseries E. Interviews and Writings about Shaw
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442Subseries F. Other Writings by Shaw
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442Subseries G. Writings by Others
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443
Series VII. Documents
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444Subseries A. Legal and educational documents
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444Subseries A.1. Wills
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444Subseries B. Contracts, Taxes, and Royalties
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444Subseries C. Funeral
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444Subseries D. Properties, Georgia
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445Subseries E. House (France)
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445Subseries F. Appointment Books and Calendars
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445Subseries G: Documents relating to Caroline Shaw
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446Subseries H. Documents relating to Alex Hitz
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446
Series VIII. Photographs and Drawings
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447Subseries A. Shaw Alone
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447Subseries B. Shaw with One Other Person
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456Subseries C. Shaw with Two Other Persons
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458Subseries D. Shaw with More than Two Other Persons
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459Subseries E. Without Shaw
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466Subseries F. Boston University Commencement, 1994
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469Subseries G. Indiana University Commencement, 1993
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469Subseries H. Shaw with Presidents of the United States
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470Subseries I. Negatives
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470Subseries J. Advertisements
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470Subseries K. Emory University Chorus
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471
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Series IX. Clippings
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472Series X. Scrapbooks, 1938-2000
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473Series XI. Programs
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478
Subseries A. Collegiate Chorale
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478Subseries B. Robert Shaw Chorale (RSC)
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478Subseries C. Cleveland Orchestra
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478Subseries D. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO)
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479Subseries E. Other concerts conducted by Shaw
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481Subseries F. Robert Shaw tribute programs listed by ensemble
name, 1988-2000 .............................................
481Subseries G. Concerts, Plays, and Church Services not involving
Robert Shaw ...................................................
482
Series XII. Repertoire Indices
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483Subseries A. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Repertoire Index,
1945-1988
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483Subseries B. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Complete Repertoire
Lists
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483Subseries C. Shaw's Conducting Performances, 1953-1998
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483Subseries D. Repertoire Research by Nola Frink
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483
Series XIII. Sound Recordings
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486Subseries A. Casette tapes, 1952-2000
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486Subseries B. Reel-to-reel tapes, 1961–1982
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512Subseries C. Test pressings, 1938–1953
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521
Series XIV. Audiovisual Material, 1985-2000
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549Series XV. Awards and Miscellaneous Objects, 1934-1992
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550
Subseries A. Awards
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550Subseries B. Miscellaneous Objects
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Robert Shaw PapersMSS 86
Collection Overview
REPOSITORY: Yale University Music Library120 High StreetPO Box
208240New Haven, CT
[email protected]://guides.library.yale.edu/MusicSpecialCollections
CALL NUMBER: MSS 86
CREATOR: Shaw, Robert, 1916-1999
TITLE: Robert Shaw Papers
DATES: 1916-2002
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 219 linear feet (438 boxes)
LANGUAGE: In English.
SUMMARY: The Robert Shaw Papers contain annotated musical
scores, correspondence,oce files pertaining to a variety of topics,
photographs, sound recordings,and other materials, by and about the
American conductor Robert Shaw(1916-1999).
ONLINE FINDING AID: To cite or bookmark this finding aid, please
use the following link:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0086
Requesting InstructionsTo request items from this collection for
use on site, please use the request links in the HTML version
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http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0086.
Key to the container abbreviations used in the PDF finding
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Administrative Information
Immediate Source of AcquisitionThe Robert Shaw Papers were
established in the Gilmore Music Library in 2002 by Thomas Shaw
andAlex Hitz.
Conditions Governing AccessThis collection is open for research.
Streaming access to sound recordings in this collection is
availablewhen connected to the Yale network, or otherwise by
request.
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Robert Shaw PapersMSS 86
Conditions Governing UseThe Robert Shaw Papers are the physical
property of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of YaleUniversity.
Copyrights belong to the composers and authors, or their legal
heirs and assigns.
Preferred CitationMSS 86, The Robert Shaw Papers in the Irving
S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University.
Biographical / HistoricalRobert Shaw was born on April 30, 1916
in Red Blu, California. His father was a clergyman, and he was
atfirst expected to pursue a career in religion rather than music.
In his youth he had considerable experiencein singing, but he
received little formal musical training. At Pomona College, he sang
in the Glee Club, andwhen the conductor had to go on a medical
leave of absence, Shaw took over. Fred Waring, a popularband
leader, happened to hear the substitute's surprisingly proficient
conducting, and he oered Shawa job. After graduating, Shaw accepted
the oer and in 1938 established the Fred Waring Glee Club inNew
York. Waring's group focused on light music; wanting to take on
weightier repertoire, Shaw beganconducting the Collegiate Chorale
in 1941. He was so successful that within a few years he was
teachingchoral conducting at Juilliard and at Tanglewood, and
preparing choruses for Arturo Toscanini, who calledhim "The maestro
I have been waiting for."
In 1948 Shaw founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, a smaller and more
selective group than the CollegiateChorale. Its many concert tours
and best-selling recordings over the next nineteen years made Shaw
ahousehold name, and established his reputation around the world as
the leading choral conductor of hisgeneration. Meanwhile, despite
his rapid success, Shaw was self-conscious about his shortcomings:
alimited formal education in music, and a lack of experience as an
orchestral conductor. He worked tirelesslyto overcome these
limitations. In the mid 1940s and early '50s, he took lessons from
Julius Herford, PierreMonteux, and Artur Rodzinski. From 1953 to
1958 he conducted the San Diego Symphony, and from 1956to 1967, he
was the associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, a major job
that was also a longapprenticeship under the brilliant but
imperious George Szell. Needless to say, Shaw also directed
theCleveland Symphony Chorus.
In 1967, Shaw disbanded the Robert Shaw Chorale and resigned
from the Cleveland Orchestra to becomethe music director of the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Atlanta's leaders were determined to
show theworld that their fast-growing city was no sleepy backwater,
and hiring a famous conductor was part oftheir plan to put Atlanta
on the map. (The city acquired its first major league sports teams
at about thesame time.) The ASO had been a semiprofessional
orchestra little known outside the South, but Shawturned it into a
first-rate professional ensemble with a global reputation. The
transition was not alwayssmooth, however; Shaw dismissed several
veteran musicians, and he nearly resigned in a dispute with
theboard of directors, some of whom felt that he was performing too
much modern music. As one wouldexpect, Shaw also made the ASO
Chorus a world leader in its category.
Shaw stepped down from the ASO in 1988, but in retirement he
continued to maintain a punishing scheduleas a guest conductor, as
music director emeritus in Atlanta, and as the leader of several
institutes fortraining choral conductors. He died in New Haven on
January 25, 1999; he was in town to see a play directedby his son,
Thomas Shaw (Yale Class of 1999).
Shaw married twice. He and his first wife, Maxine Farley, had
three children: Johanna, Peter, and Thad. Shawand his second wife,
Caroline Sauls Hitz, had one son, Thomas; Shaw legally adopted
Caroline's son by aprevious marriage, Alex Hitz.
Shaw released countless recordings, many of which are still
available. He received numerous GrammyAwards, honorary degrees, and
other distinctions. His life and career are described in Keith
Burris'sbiography, Deep River: The Life and Music of Robert Shaw
(Chicago: GIA Publications, 2013), as well as
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Robert Shaw PapersMSS 86
Joseph Musselman's Dear People … Robert Shaw (Bloomington,
Indiana University Press, 1979; 2nd edition,Chapel Hill: Hinshaw
Music, 1996).
Scope and ContentsThe largest part of the Robert Shaw Papers
consists of Shaw's collection of annotated musical scores.Most
works in the standard repertoire are represented by multiple
copies, marked up by Shaw at dierentpoints in his career. The
Papers contain Shaw's extensive oce files, which include files on
musical topics(including specific composers and compositions);
general files (which deal with Shaw's performingcareer as well as a
wide variety of other topics); and general correspondence,
including letters from manyprominent musicians and other persons of
note. The Papers also contain writings (including speeches
andShaw's famous letters to his choruses), photographs, programs,
audio and video recordings, and variousother materials.
ArrangementOrganized into 15 series: I. Music II. Books III.
General Files IV. Files on Musical Topics V. CorrespondenceVI.
Writings VII. Documents VIII. Photographs and Drawings IX.
Clippings X. Scrapbooks XI. Programs XII.Repertoire Indices XIII.
Sound Recordings XIV. Audiovisual Material XV. Awards and
Miscellaneous Objects
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Series I. Music Robert Shaw PapersMSS 86
Collection ContentsSeries I. Music, 1879-1998More than half of
the Robert Shaw Papers consists of annotated musical scores. Most
major works appearin multiple versions. When Shaw returned to a
piece he had performed earlier in his career, instead of usinghis
old score, he usually obtained a clean score and marked it up from
scratch. Shaw annotated his scoresin exhaustive detail, using
pencils in several colors, and sometimes Post-It notes as well.
These scores area unique window into Shaw's musical thinking, and
they also tell us about more practical aspects of hisconducting,
such as his instrumental cues, and his instructions to the chorus
to stand or sit. Certain scoresinclude information about specific
performances, such as dates, performers, places, and sometimes
eventimings.
Shaw usually worked from published editions, but a few
manuscripts or manuscript copies also appear.Although this series
consists chiefly of scores, it also includes parts for certain
works.
Many works for chorus and orchestra are represented by both a
full score and a piano-vocal score. WhenShaw guest-conducted such
works, his assistant often planned for the event by lending an
annotatedpiano-vocal score to the chorus be would be conducting,
with the instructions that Shaw's markingsshould be copied into the
singers' own scores.
Shaw was not solely a conductor. He was a prolific choral
arranger (usually in collaboration with AliceParker), and these
works also appear in this series, as do the arrangements that
Robert Russell Bennettcreated for the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Container Description Date
b. 19, f. 148-149 [Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248]
Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248 / JohannSebastian Bach ;
herausgegeben von Walter Blankenburg und Alfred Dürr. –Kassel :
Bärenreiter, 1960.Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.1 score (312
p.) ; 33 cm.2 copies(Johann Sebastian Bach : Neue Ausgabe sämtliche
Werke. Serie II: Messen,Passionen und Oratorische Werke. Band
6)
Annotations in pencil, colored pencil, and pasted in.
1960
b. 159, f. 1841 Hymns of the Church of Latter-day Saints. – Salt
Lake City : The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints, c1985.1
score (434 p.) ; 24 cm.Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
SaintsAnnotations in colored pencil.
1985
b. 159, f. 1842 [Ïkhav kozak za dunaia]Ïkhav kozak za dunaia
(ukraïns'ka narodna pisnia) / obr.Davidove'kogo.1 ms. score (8 p.)
; 31 cm.Ms. in ink.
b. 159, f. 1844 [Hymnal (1940)] The hymnal of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the UnitedStates of America. – New York : The
Church Pension Fund, c1940.1 score (828 p.) ; 22 cm.Episcopal
ChurchAnnotations in pencil and pasted in.
1940
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Series I. Music Robert Shaw PapersMSS 86
Container Description Date
b. 74, f. 763 [Messiah. And the glory of the Lord. Vocal score]
And the glory of the Lord :chorus / Handel's Messiah ; edited by H.
Watkins Shaw. – [London] : Novello, nodateHandel, George Frideric,
1685-1759.1 vocal score (8 p.) ; 25 cm.Annotations in pencil and
colored pencil.
[Kol nidre; arr.]SeeBennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981,
arranger.
[Songs of faith and inspiration. Kol nidre; arr.]
[Marines' hymn; arr.]See Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981,
arranger.
[This is my country. Service songs; arr.]
b. 98, f. 1020 [Exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum] Et exspector
resurrectionem mortuorum :pour orchestre de bois, cuivres, et
percussions métalliques / Olivier Messiaen. –Paris : Alphonse
Leduc, c1966.Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1982.1 min. score (91 p.) ; 27
cm.2 copies.Annotations in pencil, colored pencil, and pasted
in.
1966
b. 160, f. 1845 [Hymnal (1964)] The Methodist hymnal : ocial
hymnal of the Methodist Church.– Nashville : The Methodist
Publishing House, c1964.1 score (circa 851 p.) ; 22 cm.Methodist
Church (U.S.)Annotations in pencil.
1964
b. 144, f. 1748 [New Oxford Book of Carols] The new Oxford book
of carols / edited by HugheKeyte ; and Andrew Parrott ; associate
editor Cliord Bartlett. – Oxford : MusicDepartment, Oxford
University Press, c1992.1 score (702 p.) ; 26 cm.Incribed to RS by
Nola Frink.
1992
b. 111, f. 1135 [O little town of Bethlehem; arr.] O little town
of Bethlehem.2 ms. chorus scores (4 p. total) + 6 ms. parts.Ms. in
ink.
Arr. for TTBB with and without soprano solo.
b. 112, f. 1139 [Oxford Book of Carols] The Oxford book of
carols / by Percy Dearmer ; R.Vaughan Williams ; Martin Shaw. –
London : Oxford University Press, 1942.1 score (491 p.) ; 19
cm.Annotations in pencil and colored pencil.
1942
b. 112, f. 1140 [Oxford book of Tudor anthems] The Oxford book
of Tudor anthems : 34 anthemsfor mixed voices / compiled by
Christopher Morris. – Oxford : Oxford UniversityPress, c1976.1
score (351 p.) ; 23 cm.Inscribed to RS by Pegram Harrison.
1976