Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- The Walter Martin Collection at Armacost Library contains the sheet music collection of baritone and University of Redlands faculty member Walter Martin (1930-1987).
- Extent:
- 6.5 Linear Feet (16 containers)
- Language:
- English , Italian , German , Spanish; Castilian , French , German , Russian , Czech , Norwegian , Swedish , Hebrew .
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains nineteenth- and twentieth-century American vocal sheet music. Composers such as Ernst Bacon, Samuel Barber, George Gershwin, Roger Quilter and Ralph Vaughan Williams are represented, along with many composers lesser known today.
- Biographical / historical:
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Walter Martin was born in 1930 in Artesia, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1952 with a Bachelor's degree in music. He served with the US Army and was stationed in Germany, where he sung with the Seventh Army Symphony. Following the end of his service, he began his professional career singing with the Stuttgart State Opera in 1954. Over the next ten years, he performed with several German opera houses, studied at the State School of Music in Stuttgart, and gave concert and radio performances. His professional repertoire eventually amassed over 1,500 art songs, 50 operatic roles and numerous oratorios and cantatas.
Returning to the United States in 1963, Martin taught voice lessons and completed a Master's in Music degree at the University of Oregon. He joined the University of Redlands as a voice teacher in 1965. Active as a researcher, Martin compiled a bibliography of voice repertoire suitable for undergraduate singers, studied French, Slavic and Polish art song repertoire, and received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in 1976 at the University of Southern California.
Martin twice served as associate editor of musical reviews for the Bulletin of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in the 1970s and 1980s, and served as Province Governor of the Southern California chapter of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia men's music fraternity.
Martin and his wife, Caterina W. Martin, lived in Redlands for 22 years. Walter Martin died on March 29, 1987, leaving a School of Music scholarship for gifted voice students.
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research use.
- Terms of access:
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Some items in this collection remain under copyright to their respective owners. For uses beyond academic fair use, it is the researcher's responsiblity to seek out the relevant permissions from the copyright holders.
Additional items in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use. To determine if an item is in the public domain, use slider here: https://www.librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/index.html
- Location of this collection:
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1249 E Colton Ave.Redlands, CA 92374, US
- Contact:
- (909) 748-8022