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Arnold Arnstein collection of musical scores
- Title
- Arnold Arnstein collection of musical scores, ca. 1950-1989.
- Author
- Arnstein, Arnold.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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| Vol/Date | Format | Access | Status | Call Number | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box 1 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 2 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 3 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 4 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 4 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 5 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 5 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 6 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 6 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 7 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 7 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 8 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 8 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 9 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 9 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 10 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 10 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 11 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 11 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 12 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 12 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 13 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 13 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 14 | Notated music | Supervised use | In transit | JPB 91-60 Box 14 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 15 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 15 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 16 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 16 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 17 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 17 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 18 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 18 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 19 | Notated music | Supervised use | Available | JPB 91-60 Box 19 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Box 20 | Notated music | Supervised use | In transit | JPB 91-60 Box 20 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Strouse, Charles.
- Description
- 10 linear feet (40 boxes)
- Subjects
- Note
- Consists of copyists' manuscripts in ink.
- Biography (note)
- Arnold Arnstein was a leading music copyist based in New York City.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in reposity and on the Internet.
- Call Number
- JPB 91-60
- Author
- Arnstein, Arnold.
- Title
- Arnold Arnstein collection of musical scores, ca. 1950-1989.
- Summary
- The Arnold Arnstein Collection contains music that was found in Arnold Arnstein's office when he died in 1989. Virtually all of it is undated. The composers represented in the collection are a cross section of contemporary composers of the 1950s through the 1980s as well as several pre-twentieth century composers. There are a number of composers associated with film or television (Alfredo Antonini, Sol Kaplan, Samuel Matlovsky, and Marc Wilkinson), and also several associated with the Broadway stage musical and popular song (Don Pippin, Charles Strouse, Alec Wilder, and Meredith Willson). Among the material devoted to Charles Strouse are many lead sheets for his songs to unproduced or little-known musicals, including several for Let's Go Steady, the earlier version of Bye Bye Birdie. There are also more unusual and obscure works of Strouse, including his piano concerto as well as Voices, a musical setting of two case studies by Sigmund Freud. There are less well-known or obscure composers as well, such as René Guirma, a diplomat who, in 1971, composed an extensive service in African ritual style for St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. In summary, the Arnold Arnstein Collection represents a sample of the music that passed through the offices of one of the leading music copyists in New York City.
- Biography
- Arnold Arnstein was a leading music copyist based in New York City. In 1925 he began to work for Paramount Publix Corporation as a music copyist. By 1932 he was able to set up his own office on west 72nd Street in New York City which he used until his death. Over the course of fifty-seven years, he was the copyist for Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Charles Strouse, and many other leading as well as less well-known composers. From the mid-1960s until his death, Arnstein taught classes in the preparation and copying of music manuscript at The Juilliard School of Music. Arnstein died on December 2, 1989.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in reposity and on the Internet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Strouse, Charles.
- Research Call Number
- JPB 91-60