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Babitz (Sol) papers
PASC-M.0052  
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Sol Babitz papers
    Creator: Babitz, Sol
    Identifier/Call Number: PASC-M.0052
    Physical Description: 35.5 Linear Feet (71 boxes)
    Physical Description: 7 Audiovisual Carriers (7 records)
    Date (inclusive): 1948-1982
    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.
    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.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

    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

    [Identification of item], Sol Babitz Papers (Collection PASC-M 52). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

    Processing Information

    Processed by Library Special Collections staff, 2002.
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    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942303443606533 

    Administrative/Biographical History

    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.

    Scope and Content

    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.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Musicologists -- United States -- Archives.
    Performance practice (Music) -- Research.
    Babitz, Sol -- Archives
    Early Music Laboratory