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American Music Center collection of score manuscripts

Title
American Music Center collection of score manuscripts, 1935-1996.
Author
American Music Center.

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box 1Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 1Offsite
box 2Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 2Offsite
box 3Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 3Offsite
box 4Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 4Offsite
box 5Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 5Offsite
box 6Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 6Offsite
box 7Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 7Offsite
box 8Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 8Offsite
box 9Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 9Offsite
box 10Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 10Offsite
box 11Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 11Offsite
box 12Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 12Offsite
box 13Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 13Offsite
box 14Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 14Offsite
box 15Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 15Offsite
box 16Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 16Offsite
box 17Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 17Offsite
box 18Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 18Offsite
box 19Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 19Offsite
box 20Mixed materialSupervised use JPB 13-39 box 20Offsite

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Description
7.51 linear feet (28 boxes)
Summary
The American Music Center was a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the creation, performance, and appreciation of new American music. For much of its history, one of its principal activities was the creation of a research and circulating library of scores and recordings submitted by its members. The American Music Center collection of score manuscripts, dating from 1935 to 1996, holds music by ten composers: Gerald Busby, Ron Carter, Wendy Mae Chambers, Arthur Cohn, Judith Dvorkin (also known as Judy Spencer), Virginia Samuel, Les Thimmig, William Turner, Grace A. Yeager, and an unidentified composer who wrote incidental music for plays by Laurence Klavan.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Commercial correspondence.
  • Personal correspondence.
  • Programs (documents)
  • Scores.
  • Scripts (documents)
Access (note)
  • Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying and photography will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Terms of Use (note)
  • For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
  • Music Division, The New York Public Library.
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library.
Provenance (note)
  • From 1982 to 2001, the American Music Center regularly donated scores of composers who had been deceased for 25 years or longer to the Music Division. In 2001, the AMC donated its entire collection of scores and recordings to the Music Division. This collection consists of the manuscript component of the AMC library.
Call Number
JPB 13-39
OCLC
868029326
Author
American Music Center.
Title
American Music Center collection of score manuscripts, 1935-1996.
Restricted Access
Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying and photography will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Terms Of Use
For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Location of Other Archival Materials
American Music Center collection of published scores; Music Division, The New York Public Library.
American Music Center collection of sound recordings; Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library.
Provenance
From 1982 to 2001, the American Music Center regularly donated scores of composers who had been deceased for 25 years or longer to the Music Division. In 2001, the AMC donated its entire collection of scores and recordings to the Music Division. This collection consists of the manuscript component of the AMC library.
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Occupation
Composers.
Lyricists.
Research Call Number
JPB 13-39
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