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Title: John Vincent Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1940-1976
Collection number: 31
Creator:
Vincent, John
Extent:
122 boxes (61 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: This collection consists of sketches, holographs and transparencies of musical works
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF.
Advance notice is required for access to the collection.
Please contact the UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections for paging information.
Language:
English.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Performing Arts Special Collections. All requests
for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in
writing to the Librarian for Performing Arts Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the Performing Arts Special Collections as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the
copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
[Identification of item],
John Vincent Collection, 31, Performing Arts Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
Vincent was born on May 17, 1902 in Birmingham,
AL; diploma from New England Conservatory of
Music; BS and MA from George Peabody College;
studied with Walter Piston at Harvard Univ.,
1933-35, where he received the John Knowles Paine
Travelling Fellowship for two years' study with
Nadia Boulanger; Ph.D, Cornell Univ., 1942; head
of music dept. at Western Kentucky State Univ.,
1937-45, then succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as
professor of composition at UCLA, 1946-69;
conducted orchestras throughout the US and South
America; director, Huntington Hartford Foundation,
1952-65; wrote The diatonic modes in modern music
(1951); composed many works, including: Three
jacks ballet (1941), Primeval void (opera buffa,
1969-71), Symphony in D (1954), Stabat mater
(1970), Three Grecian songs, and two string
quartets; he died on Jan. 21, 1977 in Santa
Monica, CA.
Collection consists of sketches, holographs and
transparencies of musical works by John Nathaniel
Vincent. Also includes correspondence, class
lecture notes, research materials and notes,
programs, UCLA Music Dept. documents, financial
and personal records, photographs, commercial and
non-commercial disc recordings of music by
Vincent, and miscellaneous memorabilia.
Arranged in the following series:
- Biographical materials (boxes 1-3)
- Documents relating to musical works (boxes 4,8-10)
- Programs, reviews, notes (boxes 5-7)
- Articles, speeches, papers (boxes 11-13)
- International travels (boxes 14-16)
- Correspondence (boxes 17-31,44-47)
- Music festivals and performing organizations (boxes 32-43)
- UCLA and other academic institutions (boxes 48-56)
- Radio broadcast records (boxes 57-59)
- Libretti and musical notes (boxes 60-61)
- Musical sketches and holographs (boxes 62-72)
- Transparent masters of musical works (boxes 73-77)
- Notes for the counterpoint and harmony books (boxes 78-80)
- The diatonic modes (boxes 81-86)
- Financial and personal records (boxes 90-92)
- Program books, scrapbooks (boxes 93-95)
- Tape recordings of Vincent's music performances, interviews (boxes 96-97)
- Memorabilia (boxes 98,101,105)
- Miscellaneous (boxes 99-100)
- Disc recordings of Vincent's works (boxes 102,104)
- Vincent's lectures (box 103)
- Music manuscripts (boxes 106-122)
- Posters (packages 1-5)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Vincent, John Nathaniel, 1902- --Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles--Dept. of Music--Faculty--Archival resources.
Composers--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Flautist, composer, teacher [oral
history transcript] / John Vincent, interviewee.
UCLA Oral History Department interview, c1985.
Available at Dept. of Special Collections, UCLA.