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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Biography
UCLA Catalog Record ID
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Scope and Content
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Radie Britain musical compositions
Creator:
Britain, Radie
Identifier/Call Number: PASC-M.0089
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
(1 flat box )
Date (inclusive): 1936-1948
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Radie Britain, 1948.
Biography
Composer Radie Britain was born March 17, 1899 in Silverton, Texas. She studied piano at the American Conservatory, Chicago,
graduating in 1921. She then traveled to Europe, studying composition, theory, and organ in France and Germany, and returned
to the United States in 1926. Britain taught at the Girvin Institute of Music and the Chicago Conservatory in the 1920s and
1930s. She moved to California in 1939, eventually settling in Los Angeles, where she continued to compose and also taught
composition.
A number of Britain's compositions received awards and her Heroic Poem won the Julliard National Publication Prize in 1945.
She died May 23, 1994 in Riverside, California.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Radie Britain Musical Compositions (Collection PASC-M 89). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Scope and Content
This collection consists of published editions and reproductions of musical works for harp, piano, violin and piano, voice
and piano, and for chorus.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Choral music -- Scores.
Violin and piano music -- Scores.
Songs with piano -- Scores.
Piano music -- Scores.
Women composers -- United States -- Archives.
Britain, Radie, 1903-1994--Archives.