Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Minnie Elmer Collection,
Date (inclusive): [ca. 1950]-1963
Collection number: ARCHIVES ELMER 1
Creator:
Elmer, Minnie Agnes
Extent: Number of containers: 2 boxes
Repository: The
Music Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in
writing to the Head of the Music Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Minnie Elmer collection, ARCHIVES ELMER 1, The Music Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Content
Research notes and final proofs for Thematic catalog of a manuscript collection of
eighteenth-century Italian instrumental music in the University of California Music
Library (Berkeley, 1963). Minnie Elmer was joint author with Vincent Duckles of the
catalog. The collection is frequently referred to as the Tartini collection, representing
as it does the new school of violin performance begun under the influence of Giuseppe
Tartini (1692-1770), composer and musical director at the Basilica of St. Anthony, Padua,
Italy.