Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Seeger, Charles
- Abstract:
- The Charles Seeger papers consist primarily of publications about music theory, history, and research (not by Seeger); programs for various concerts and performances; and some correspondence and manuscripts sent to Seeger.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Charles Seeger Papers (Collection PASC-M 96). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Charles Seeger papers consist primarily of publications about music theory, history, and research (not by Seeger); programs for various concerts and performances; some correspondence and manuscripts sent to Seeger; ephemera; and clippings.
- Biographical / historical:
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Composer, musicologist and critic Charles Seeger was born December 14, 1886, in Mexico City. He graduated from Harvard University in 1908 and taught at University of California, Berkeley from 1912 to 1919. Seeger then moved to New York, teaching at the Institute of Musical Arts (now Julliard) and the New School for Social Research in the 1920s and 1930s. While in New York, he developed an interest in American folk music and was a member of the Composers' Collective, which published The New Workers' Song Book in 1934. Seeger held a series of government jobs during the Depression, including work collecting folk music for the Federal Music Project of the WPA. Seeger was a founder and president of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology. He was a professor, researcher, and musicologist at University of California, Los Angeles from 1958 to 1971. In addition, Seeger wrote numerous articles, papers, and books, and also developed the melograph, an electronic device for transcribing music. He died February 7, 1979 in Bridgewater, Connecticut.
- Processing information:
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- Arrangement:
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Copies of original item-level inventories are located in each box.
This collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1. Programs
- Series 2. Publications
- Series 3. Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera.
- Physical location:
- Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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:
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[Identification of item], Charles Seeger Papers (Collection PASC-M 96). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988