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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.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Sol Babitz Papers (Collection PASC-M 52). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
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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.
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