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Gustave Reese papers

Title: Gustave Reese papers, 1855-1978 (bulk 1930-1977).
Author: Reese, Gustave, 1899-1977
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 66, Series 4 Folder 76 - 80	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 7, Series 1 Folder 453-522	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 18, Series 1 Folder 1274-1355	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 62, Series 4 Folder 30-41	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 14, Series 1 Folder 951-1023	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 59, Series 4 Folder 1-12b	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 33, Series 3 Folder 62-68	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 71, Series 5 Folder 1 - 52	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 81, Series 5 Folder 297-321	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 97, Series 7 Folder 1 - 11	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 93, Series 6 Folder 27 - 33	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 91, Series 6 Folder 18 - 21	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 88, Series 6 Folder 5 -8	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 86, Series 5 Folder 440-446	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 75, Series 5 Folder 201 - 218	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 68, Series 4 Folder 92 - 99	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 67, Series 4 Folder 81 - 91	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 65, Series 4 Folder 62 - 75	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 63, Series 4 Folder 42 - 52	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 61, Series 4 Folder 24 - 29	Archival Mix	Supervised use	JPB 92-71	Offsite

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Description

42 linear ft. (102 boxes)

Summary

The Gustave Reese papers documents the career of Gustave Reese. The collection was assembled by Reese himself, and includes correspondence, research materials, book drafts, student assignments, organizational papers, offprints of articles, travel information, and a few personal documents. Series 2 includes facsimiles of the music examples that appear in Willi Apel's The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600. Two reels of audio tape originally with the collection are now housed in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Articles.
Correspondence.
Drafts (Documents).

Biography (note)

An American musicologist, teacher, and editor, Gustave Reese is best known as the author of Music in the Middle Ages (1940) and Music in the Renaissance (1954; rev 1959). Reese divided his time between publishing and academia. He was director of publications for both G. Schirmer (1940-45) and Carl Fischer (1944-55). His teaching at New York University and other institutions helped to shape the direction of American musicology. Reese was one of the founding members of the American Musicological Society, and he subsequently served as its secretary (1934-46), vice-president (1946-50) and president (1950-1952). He was also vice-president of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (1958) and president of the Renaissance Society of America (1971-73).

Language (note)

Chiefly in English; also contains materials in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Swedish.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available in the repository.

Processing Action (note)

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Call Number

JPB 92-71

OCLC

NYPW99-A154

Author

Reese, Gustave, 1899-1977.

Title

Gustave Reese papers, 1855-1978 (bulk 1930-1977).

Biography

An American musicologist, teacher, and editor, Gustave Reese is best known as the author of Music in the Middle Ages (1940) and Music in the Renaissance (1954; rev 1959). Reese divided his time between publishing and academia. He was director of publications for both G. Schirmer (1940-45) and Carl Fischer (1944-55). His teaching at New York University and other institutions helped to shape the direction of American musicology. Reese was one of the founding members of the American Musicological Society, and he subsequently served as its secretary (1934-46), vice-president (1946-50) and president (1950-1952). He was also vice-president of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (1958) and president of the Renaissance Society of America (1971-73).

Language

Chiefly in English; also contains materials in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Swedish.

Indexes

Finding aid available in the repository.

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Occupation

Musicologists.

Added Author

Albrecht, Otto Edwin, 1899-

Apel, Willi, 1893-

Alderman, Pauline, 1893-1983.

Atlas, Allan W.

Brown, Charles, 1898-1988.

Bukofzer, Manfred F., 1910-1955.

Carapetyan, Armen.

Clarke, Henry Leland.

Coopersmith, J. M. (Jacob Maurice), 1903-1968.

Cuyler, Louise Elvira, 1908-

Edmunds, John, 1913-1986.

Engel, Carl, 1883-1944.

Evans, Roger.

Godt, Irving.

Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961.

Hamm, Charles.

Hannas, Ruth, 1893-1976.

Hill, Richard S. (Richard Synyer), 1901-1961.

Holland, Jeanette B., 1901-

Jacobs, Charles, 1934-

Karp, Theodore.

Kinkeldey, Otto, 1878-1966.

Kohn, Karl, 1926-2024.

Lang, Paul Henry, 1901-

Lowinsky, Edward E. (Edward Elias), 1908-1985.

Mendel, Arthur, 1905-

Mennin, Peter.

Meyer, Ernst Hermann, 1905-1988.

Ness, Arthur J.

Plamenac, Dragan, 1895-

Rokseth, Yvonne, 1890-1948.

Rubsamen, Walter H. (Walter Howard), 1911-1973.

Seay, Albert.

Sonneck, O. G. (Oscar George), 1873-1928.

Sternfeld, Frederick William, 1914-

Stevens, Denis, 1922-2004.

Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver), 1901-

Tischler, Hans, 1915-

Truax, Carol.

Tureck, Rosalyn.

Van Tassel, Eric.

Waters, Edward N. (Edward Neighbor), 1906-

Wellesz, Egon, 1885-1974.

Werner, Eric, 1901-

Apel, Willi, 1893- Notation of polyphonic music, 900-1600.

Reese, Gustave, 1899-1977. Music in the Middle Ages.

Reese, Gustave, 1899-1977. Music in the Renaissance.

Research Call Number

JPB 92-71

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