Oliver Strunk Collection
Span: 1966-1979
Bulk: 1977-1979
English
collection
5 ft.
8 boxes
Oliver Strunk was a distinguished American musicologist, whose career began with eight years on the staff at the Library of Congress Music Division, serving as Division Chief from 1934-1937. Over the course of his thirty-year tenure on the faculty at Princeton University, he was instrumental in the founding of the American Musicological Society, and played a leading role in welcoming eminent refugee music scholars immediately before WWII and assisted them in securing employment in the United States. He authored innumerable scholarly papers and articles, served on the editorial board of Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae and is best known for his reference work, Source Readings in Music History. His own preferred area of study was the liturgical chant of the Eastern and Western churches, with specific focus on establishing a theoretical basis for the transcription of the Byzantine round notation of the 12th and 13th centuries, and developing methods for transcribing paleo-Byzantine and paleo-Slavonic notations.
Correspondence (480), photographs (90), misc. papers, clippings and printed matter (130), books (2), sound recordings (1), personal papers (40).
Oliver Strunk Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Strunk, Oliver
Correspondence, photographs, published books and pamphlets, and personal papers belonging to the musicologist and former Library of Congress Music Division Chief.
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Musicologists and Theorists
Sacred Music
Grout, Donald
Cone, Edward
Hanson, Howard
Lewin, David
Lockwood, Lewis
Mendel, Arthur
Strunk, Allen
Strunk, Oliver
Dumbarton Oaks
International Musicological Society
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
Norton (W.W.) & Co.
Royal Musical Association
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
IHAS
120821
loc.natlib.scdb.200033774