Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Babitz, Sol
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of research notes, musical sketches, manuscripts, published scores, books, pamphlets, periodical issues, offprints, typed drafts of articles, photocopies of articles, scores, miscellaneous printed music pages, and correspondence.
- Extent:
- 35.5 Linear Feet (71 boxes) and 7 Audiovisual Carriers (7 records)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sol Babitz Papers (Collection PASC-M 52). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Research notes, manuscript and typed; musical sketches and manuscripts; published scores, books, pamphlets, periodical issues and offprints, with and without annotations; typed drafts of articles; photocopies of articles, scores, and miscellaneous printed music pages; and correspondence - all mostly related to baroque performance practice research done through the Early Music Laboratory (EML). Includes a set of EML Bulletins, other EML publications, and disc recordings of EML sponsored performances.
- Biographical / historical:
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Babitz was born on Oct. 11, 1911, in Brooklyn, NY; he was largely a self-taught violinist since leaving high school; his violin teachers included Carl Flesch in Berlin and Marcel Chailley in Paris; his interest in performance practice was aroused by the writing of Arnold Dolmetsch and encouraged by Igor Stravinsky, whose string parts Babitz edited for many years; he was a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1933-37, and then played with Hollywood studio orchestras until 1952; editor, International musician (1941-62); co-founded the Early Music Laboratory (EML) in 1948; he devoted much of his research to the problems of performance practices in baroque and classical music through studying and interpreting 17th and 18th century treatises, and he incorporated his findings in recordings, articles, and bulletins; died in 1982.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Library Special Collections staff, 2002.
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- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material 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], Sol Babitz Papers (Collection PASC-M 52). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988