Research Catalog

Title

Henry Leland Clarke papers, 1929-1987.

Author

Clarke, Henry Leland.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Clarke, Henry Leland.
• Composers' Collective (New York, N.Y.)
• Unitarian Universalist Association. Hymnbook Commission.

Description

10 linear feet (24 boxes )

Summary

The Henry Leland Clarke papers primarily contain compositions by the American composer and professor of music.

Subjects

• Musicologists
• Music teachers
• Composers
• Programs
• Musicologists > United States > 20th century
• Clarke, Henry Leland
• Clippings
• Music teachers > United States > 20th century
• Scores
• Correspondence
• Composers > United States > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Clippings.
• Correspondence.
• Programs.
• Scores.

Biography (note)

• American composer and professor of music, Henry Leland Clarke, (1907-1992), experimented with the treatment of scales in his compositions, and taught at number of institutions over the course of a long academic career.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

JPB 06-28

OCLC

132692469

Author

Clarke, Henry Leland.

Title

Henry Leland Clarke papers, 1929-1987.

Biography

American composer and professor of music, Henry Leland Clarke, (1907-1992), experimented with the treatment of scales in his compositions, and taught at number of institutions over the course of a long academic career. Born in Dover, New Hampshire, Clarke grew up in Saco, Maine, where he began his musical training. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, and later completed two graduate degrees at the same school. Clarke also furthered his musical education in Paris, with Nadia Boulanger, in New York, with Hans Weisse, and in Bennington, Vermont, with Otto Luening. Clarke held several academic positions, including stints at Bennington College, Westminster Choir College, Vassar College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Washington. He retired from the latter as professor emeritus in 1977. As a composer, Clarke developed the concept of "word tones," in which a specific pitch is assigned to each word of the text and that particular pitch is used for each occurrence of the same word. This technique perhaps is utilized most fully in Lysistrata (1972), the second of Clarke's two full-length operas. Writing under the pseudonym J. Fairbanks, Clarke also was a participant in the Composers' Collective of New York. Following his retirement, he moved to Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he lived until the time of his death.

Location of Other Archival Materials

See also Henry Leland Clarke letters (19.15.5124) in Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries.

Indexes

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Finding Aid

Occupation

Composers.

Musicologists.

Music teachers.

Added Author

Clarke, Henry Leland. Loafer and the loaf.

Clarke, Henry Leland. Lysistrata.

Composers' Collective (New York, N.Y.)

Unitarian Universalist Association. Hymnbook Commission.

Research Call Number

JPB 06-28