Mary Carr Moore collection of musical compositions, biographical material, and documents
(Collection PASC.38-M)
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Title: Mary Carr Moore collection of musical compositions, biographical material, and documents
Collection number: PASC.38-M
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
22.5 linear ft.
(45 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1893-1957
Abstract: This collection consists of music manuscripts and printed scores of operas and orchestral, piano, chamber, vocal and choral
music.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Moore, Mary Carr
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. 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 where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mary Carr Moore collection of musical compositions, biographical material, and documents (Collection
PASC 38-M). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Biography/History
Mary Louise Carr was born on Aug. 6, 1873, in Memphis, TN; she received music training principally in San Francisco, CA; studied
voice with H.B. Pasmore in preparation for a career as an opera singer; studied composition with John Haraden Pratt; married
Dr. John Claude Moore in 1898; founded Mary Carr Moore Manuscript Club in 1928; taught theory and composition at Olga Steeb
Piano School (1926-42) and Chapman College (1928-47); received honorary Doctor of Music degree from Chapman College, 1936;
composed operettas, operas, orchestral and chamber music, songs, and piano pieces; she also composed a grand opera
Narcissa (1925), for which she received the David Bispham Memorial Medal in 1930; died on Jan. 11, 1957, in Ingleside, CA.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of Moore's music manuscripts and printed scores of operas and orchestral, piano, chamber, vocal and choral
music. Also parts, libretti, working notes for operas, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, printed catalogs, photographs,
and ephemera.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Opera scores and parts (boxes 1-9)
- Instrumental chamber music (box 10)
- Biographical material (boxes 11, 19)
- Documents, music, librettos, photos, work lists (box 12)
- David Rizzio (boxes 13-16)
- Scrapbooks (boxes 17-18)
- Piano concerto (box 20)
- Piano music (box 21)
- Songs (boxes 22-24)
- Choral music (boxes 24-27)
- Orchestral music (boxes 28-29)
- Printed materials (box 30)
- Concert recording, 1984 (box 31)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Moore, Mary Carr, 1873-1957--Archives.
Women composers--United States--Archival resources.
Music--Manuscripts.
scores.
Box 1
Legende Provencale.
Scope and Content
Includes: unbound piano-vocal score, bound piano-vocal score, revisions, orchestral parts, arias, libretto, and working notes.
Box 1
Harmony.
Scope and Content
Includes: libretto, piano-vocal score, orchestral parts, select arias, working notes and a program.
Box 2
Leaper, The.
Scope and Content
Includes: full score, piano-vocal score, orchestral parts.
Box 2
Memories.
Scope and Content
Includes: full score, orchestral parts, select arias, and working notes.
Box 2
Oracle, The.
Scope and Content
Includes: piano-vocal score, musical selections, libretto and working notes.
Box 3
Flutes of Jade Happiness.
Scope and Content
Includes: orchestral parts, chorus parts, select arias and libretto.
Box 4
Flaming Arrow, The.
Scope and Content
Includes: piano-vocal score, orchstral parts, chorus parts, select arias, librettos and programs.
Box 5, Box 7, Box 6, Box 9A, Box 8
Narcissa.
Scope and Content
Includes: (Box 5) full manuscript score in 4 volumes; piano-vocal score, and solo vocal parts; (Box 6) piano-vocal score,
select arias, choral parts, souvenir album of noted Indian photographs by Major Lee Moorehouse; photograph of Frederick Levin
("Reverend Hull"); (Box 7) orchestral parts; (Box 8) chorus parts; (Box 9A) solo vocal parts from the piano-vocal score, printed
librettos, typescript librettos, working notes.
Box 9B
Los Rubios.
Scope and Content
Includes: miscellaneous music and Intermezzo from David Rizzio.
Box 16, Box 13, Box 15, Box 14
David Rizzio.
Scope and Content
Includes: (Box 13) reduced orchestra parts, orchestral manuscript parts, piano-vocal score, full score, miscellaneous music;
(Box 14) performing set of orchestral parts; (Box 15) program, typescript description of characters, playbill (1932), piano-vocal
score copies; (Box 16) libretto source document, full manuscript score, published piano-vocal score, libretto typescript,
miscellaneous documents.
Box 24
Song Collections and Choral Music.
Box 25
My Country, op. 96, no. 11.
Box 25
O Wind From the Golden Gate.
Box 28, Box 29
Brief Furlough.
Scope and Content
Includes: (Box 28) scores, transparency masters for parts; (Box 29) multiple copies of parts
Box 10
Fairy Tale.
Instrumentation: violin and viola
Box 10
Improvisation.
Instrumentation: Clarinet and piano.
Box 10
Nostalgia.
Instrumentation: Clarinet and piano.
Box 10
Miniature Quartet in f minor.
Instrumentation: string quartet
Box 10
Quartet in f minor.
Instrumentation: string quartet
Box 10
Quartette in g minor.
Instrumentation: string quartet
Box 10
Mountain Call.
Instrumentation: trumpet and piano
Box 10
Chante d'Amoure/Nocturne.
Instrumentation: flute and piano
Box 10
Suite for String Ensemble, op. 98, no. 3.
Box 10
Poeme.
Instrumentation: violin, cello, piano
Box 10
Longing (Romanza).
Instrumentation: cello, piano
Box 10
Love Song.
Instrumentation: cello, piano
Box 10
Reverie.
Instrumentation: violin and piano or cello and piano
Box 10
Magyar Song.
Instrumentation: violin and piano
Box 10
Message to One Absent.
Instrumentation: violin and piano
Box 10
Romanza.
Instrumentation: violin and piano
Box 10
Early Song (Rhapsodie).
Instrumentation: violin and piano
Box 10
Sonata for Violin and Piano, c minor.
Box 20
Piano Concerto.
Scope and Content
Includes: full manuscript score, sketches, orchestral parts, 2 piano score (Ozalid and photocopy), manuscript piano score.
Box 21
Forest Sketches.
Scope and Content
Orchestration
Box 19
Cadman Letter to Moore.
1943.
Box 11
Publisher's Correspondence and Contracts.
Box 11
Poems and Jingles.
Scope and Content
Poems and jingles by Moore and others.
Box 19
Autobiography and related papers.
Box 11
Manuscript Club and Society of National American Composer's Documents.
Box 12
Where Rolls the Organ.
Scope and Content
Film script by Sarah Pratt Carr.
Box 17
No. 4 Narcissa.
1911-1914.
Box 17
No. 9 Los Rubios & Flutes of Jade Happiness.
1931-1934.
Box 18
Press Materials.
1932-1944.
Box 18
Odds and Ends.
1920-1950.
Box 31
Concert.
1984 January 25.
Scope and Content
Concert performed at the University of Nevada, Reno. Also includes program.
