DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Donald Jay Grout papers,
1929-1989.
Collection Number:
14-20-998
Creator:
Donald Jay. Grout
Quantity:
27.4 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Photographs, Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes professional correspondence and applications and recommendations for grants and university positions. Also, personal
correspondence with his parents while studying in Europe and teaching at Mills College and with a friend, Jonathan Schiller;
worksheets, photographs and galley proofs for HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC and both editions of A SHORT HISTORY OF THE OPERA;
notes and notebooks on "Early Opèra Comique" and others, his dissertation manuscript; a manuscript on West Indian Music; lecture
notes; musical tapes; annotated programs; and a typescript of an article "How to Tell Good Music from Bad;" alphbetical correspondence
file, correspondence with W. W. Norton.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes professional correspondence with William W. Austin, Andrea della Corte, Archibald Davison, D. Keith Falkner, Scott
Goldthwaite, Otto Kinkeldey, Rey Longyear, Arthur Mendel, A. Tillman Merritt, Robert U. Nelson, Nino Pirrotta, Eduard Reeser,
Walter Rubsamen, Leo Schrade, Denis Stevens, Oliver Strunk, Peter Gram Swing, Robert Tangeman, Frederic Tillotson, Henry Woodward,
G. Wallace Woodworth, and Columbia University Press; and applications and recommendations for grants and university positions.
Also, personal correspondence with his parents while studying in Europe and teaching at Mills College (1933-1936) and with
a friend and former student, Jonathan Schiller (1943-1963); worksheets, photographs and galley proofs for History of Western
Music and both editions of A Short History of the Opera; notes and notebooks on "Early Opèra Comique" (ca.1936-1941), "Molière's
Comèdie-Ballets" (ca.1937-1942), "Gherardi's Music" (1939), and "Parodies in Opèra Comique"
(1939); his dissertation manuscript (1939); a manuscript on West Indian Music (1942); lecture notes; musical tapes; annotated
programs; and a typescript of an article "How to Tell Good Music from Bad" (1955) with comment by William W. Austin; alphabetical
correspondence file, correspondence with W. W. Norton; and correspondence relating to A Short History of the Opera and to
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Grout, Donald Jay.
Austin, William W.
Davison, Archibald T.(Archibald Thompson), 1883-1961.
Della Corte, Andrea, 1883-1968.
Falkner, Keith, 1900-
Goldthwaite, Scott, 1901-
Grout, Donald Jay.
Grout, Donald Jay.
Kinkeldey, Otto, 1878-1966.
Longyear, Rey M.(Rey Morgan), 1930-
McGuinness, Rosamund.
Mendel, Arthur, 1905-1979.
Merritt, A. Tillman(Arthur Tillman).
Nelson, Robert U.(Robert Uriel), 1902-
Pirrotta, Nino.
Reeser, Eduard, 1908-
Rubsamen, Walter H.(Walter Howard), 1911-1973.
Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725.
Schiller, Jonathan.
Schrade, Leo, 1903-1964.
Stevens, Denis, 1922-2004.
Strunk, W. Oliver(William Oliver), 1901-1980.
Swing, Peter Gram.
Tangeman, Roberts.
Tillotson, Frederic Erle Thornlay.
Woodward, Henry L.(Henry Lynde), 1908-
Woodworth, G. Wallace.
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University.Dept. of Music.
Subjects:
Music--Instruction and study.
Opera.
Operas.
Musicians--United States.
Authors, American.
College teachers--United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.