Oliver Strunk Collection [collection]:Bibliographic Record Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress

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Oliver Strunk Collection [collection]

Title: Oliver Strunk Collection [collection]
Dates Created: Span: 1966-1979; Bulk: 1977-1979
Language: English
Form: collection
Physical Description: 5 ft.; 8 boxes
Abstract: Oliver Strunk was a distinguished American musicologist, whose career began with eight years on the staff at the Library of Congress Music Division, serving as Division Chief from 1934-1937. Over the course of his thirty-year tenure on the faculty at Princeton University, he was instrumental in the founding of the American Musicological Society, and played a leading role in welcoming eminent refugee music scholars immediately before WWII and assisted them in securing employment in the United States. He authored innumerable scholarly papers and articles, served on the editorial board of Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae and is best known for his reference work, Source Readings in Music History. His own preferred area of study was the liturgical chant of the Eastern and Western churches, with specific focus on establishing a theoretical basis for the transcription of the Byzantine round notation of the 12th and 13th centuries, and developing methods for transcribing paleo-Byzantine and paleo-Slavonic notations.
Contents Note: Correspondence (480), photographs (90), misc. papers, clippings and printed matter (130), books (2), sound recordings (1), personal papers (40).
Preferred Citation: Oliver Strunk Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
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Copyright: Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Subjects: Musicologists and Theorists; Sacred Music; Grout, Donald; Cone, Edward; Hanson, Howard; Lewin, David; Lockwood, Lewis; Mendel, Arthur; Strunk, Allen; Strunk, Oliver; Dumbarton Oaks; International Musicological Society; Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; Norton (W.W.) & Co.; Royal Musical Association
Repository: Music Division, Library of Congress

Last Updated: 08-21-2012

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