Finding Aid for the Henry F. Gilbert Collection
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Henry F. Gilbert Collection
Collection number: 115-M
Creator: Gilbert, Henry
F.
Extent:
1 box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Sheet music and orchestral scores by Henry F.
Gilbert.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Music Library.
Literary 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 if the Music Library does not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Henry F. Gilbert Collection, 115-M, Performing Arts
Special Collections , University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
The composer Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert was born in Somerville,
Massachusetts on September 26, 1868. The product of a musical family, Gilbert
studied violin, piano, composition, and theory at the New England Conservatory
under Edward MacDowell, a leading composer at the turn of the twentieth century.
Gilbert's travels within and outside the United States exposed him to the music
of non-European cultures, which inspired him to compose from some of those
sources. He wrote works influenced by African-American spiritual or gospel
music, as well as the music of Native Americans. His compositions are noted for
their American themes and inspiration. Gilbert wrote songs, choral works, and
works for band and opera, with his most successful works being orchestral. Works
given major performances during his lifetime include "Dance in Place Congo," a
one-act opera performed in 1918 by the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Orchestra.
Other prominent works include "Negro Rhapsody" and "Comedy Overture on Negro
Themes," the latter conducted by Gliere in Russia in 1914. Henry Gilbert's
"Symphonic Piece" was performed by the Bostom Symphony Orchestra under
Koussevitsky in 1926, and "Nocturne" was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra
shortly before his death on May 19, 1928, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Scope and Content
Sheet music and orchestral scores by Henry F. Gilbert.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Sheet Music, c.1897-1930. 1 box
- Series 2. Orchestral Scores, c.1897-1930. 1 box
Series 1.
Sheet Music
c.1897-1930
Physical Description: 1 box
Box 1
Celtic Studies: four songs by Henry F. Gilbert
1905
Composer: Gilbert, Henry
Publisher: Wa-Wan Press
Scope and Content Note
I. Poem by John Todhunter.
Box 1
Celtic Studies: four songs by Henry F. Gilbert
1905
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: Wa-Wan Press
Scope and Content Note
IV. Poem by a Viking Skald.
Box 1
Fish Wharf Rhapsody
1909
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: Wa-Wan Press
Box 1
Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun
1914
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. W. Gray Co.
Box 1
O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
1897
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. F. Gilbert
Note
Also includes "professional copy" of song.
Box 1
Perdita
1897
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. F. Gilbert
Note
"Professional copy."
Box 1
Perdita
1897
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. W. Gray Co.
Box 1
Rocking Chair Songs -- "A Funny Fact"
1915
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: Rocking Chair Syndicate
Box 1
The Curl
1897
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. W. Gray Co.
Box 1
The Curl
1897
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. F. Gilbert
Box 1
The Lament Of Deirdre
1903
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. W. Gray Co.
Box 1
The Owl
1910
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: Wa-Wan Press
Box 1
The Pirate Song
1930
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. W. Gray Co.
Box 1
Two South American Gypsy Songs
1906
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. W. Gray Co.
Scope and Content Note
No. 2: "La Zambulidora."
Series 2.
Orchestral Scores
c.1897-1930
Physical Description: 1 box
Box 1
The Dance In Place Congo, "Symphonic Poem (after George W. Cable)";
op. 15
1922
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: H. W. Gray Co.
Box 1
Two Episodes For Orchestra
1897
Composer: Gilbert, Henry F.
Publisher: Henry F. Gilbert
Scope and Content Note
Legend -- Negro Episode.
