Hubert Kessler Collection, 1920-2005
By Maristella Feustle
Collection Overview
| Title: |
Hubert Kessler Collection, 1920-2005 |
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| Predominant Dates: | 1920-1981 |
| ID: | 06/ 082 |
| Primary Creator: | Kessler, Hubert (1898-1985) |
| Extent: | 8.0 Boxes |
| Date Acquired: | 00/00/2004 |
| Subjects: | |
| Languages: |
English German Greek,Ancient(to1453) |
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The collection consists of eight boxes of personal papers, manuscripts, sketches, and published sheet music related to Kessler's work in philosophy, music composition, and music theory.Subject/Index Terms
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Box and Folder Listing
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Box 1
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Folder 1: Chapter I: G.H. Mead's Theory of Rise of Self-Consciousness, Mind, and Self
Typed manuscript. Includes cover page in red pencil reading "II. Plato's theory of cognition." -
Folder 2: Footnotes to Chapter I
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Folder 3: Introduction: G.H.Mead's Theory
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Folder 4: Footnotes to Introduction (Mead)
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Folder 5: Entire manuscript: G.H. Mead's Theory of Rise of Self-Consciousness, Mind, and Self
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Item 6: Transcribed chorales, No. 1-14
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Folder 7: Multiple copies of errata sheet for music book
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Folder 8: Handwritten notes and bibliography on back of typescript pages: "Basic Factors in the Growth of Mind and Self: Analysis and Reconstruction of G.H. Mead's Theory"
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Folder 9: Letter from Grace Chin Lee, 1941 March 13
Regarding Kessler's writings on Mead. -
Folder 10: Spiral-bound notebook: Selections from early Greek philosophy
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Folder 11: Cover page: Plato's Parmenides and the Problem of Metalogic; page with biblical passages Matt. 21:22, and 26:39 written in pencil; page labeled "inserts" with footnote text
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Folder 12: Empty envelope addressed to Prof. G.A. Tawney, Urbana, IL
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Folder 13: Notes on Plato and Parmenides; additional cover page for "Plato's Parmenides and the Problem of Metalogic"
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Folder 14: Paper: Welches sind die Grenzen des Wirkungsbereiches der Autosuggestion?
13" paper found folded around standard-length paper which begins "Es gibt einen Zustand jenseits der Gnade..." -
Folder 15: Brittle page of notes on Parmenides, with Greek characters
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Folder 16: Twelve Dates of History
"Greatest dates of [Western] history, which show the development of that fundamental attitude and hence the inner consistency of historical development." -
Folder 17: Three memo pad sheets: sources on Parmenides, Plato
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Folder 18: Chapter III, A Reconstruction of the Theory of the Rise of Self-Consciousness
Text and notes. -
Folder 19: Bibliography
Pages "A" through "W." -
Folder 20: Ableitung der Moral auf Grundlage des fruher Gesagten
Pages 15-25. -
Folder 21: Cover page to Kessler's dissertation: Basic Factors in the Growth of Mind and Self: Analysis and Reconstruction of G.H. Mead's Theory, 1940
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. -
Folder 22: Part III (Mead)
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Folder 23: Handwritten notes in pencil, corrections to work on Mead
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Folder 24: Typed text, pages 55-87: "The foregoing analysis..."
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Folder 25: Abstract to Kessler's dissertation
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Folder 26: Handwritten notes, numbered 4 through 6
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Folder 27: Chapter II: Critical Examination of Mead's Theory
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Folder 28: Last page of a bibliography
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Folder 29: Typed text, pages 1-25; 26-42: "Als ich an diesem Buch zu schreiben anfing..."
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Folder 30: "Meinen liebsten Tanjalein..." [sp?], 1935 January 12
Single sheet, written in ink, with tryped page and a page written in pencil (having to do with Chapter III of the dissertation), which were found adjacent. -
Folder 31: Paper: "In search of an alternative interpretation of the proof of the immortality of the soul in Plato's Phaedo"
"Original." -
Folder 32: Letter to Kessler from "Max", 1967 February 12
Discusses Plato's Phaedo. -
Folder 33: Writings on Plato, manuscript in pencil
Apparent draft of "In search of an alternative interpretation..." -
Folder 34: Various sets of pages separated by staples or paperclips
In pencil. -
Folder 35: Handwritten pages numbered 0-36
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Folder 36: More writings on Plato, manuscript in pencil
Related to, but not a direct continuation of Folder 33. -
Folder 37: Notes on onion-skin paper
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Folder 38: Part II: Socrates' Deutros...
Partially typed; includes typed versions of some manuscript material in preceding folders ("Point ii" - Point i mentioned in Folder 33). -
Folder 39: Brittle pages: "Before proceeding..."
Pages labeled "A.H." -
Folder 40: Page of notes, partly in blue ink, 1957 November 21
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Folder 41: Section-by-section outline of Plato's Phaedo
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Folder 42: Handwritten list of citations
With author and work of Plato to which the citation refers. -
Folder 43: "Books returned", 1966 June
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Folder 44: "The key concepts"
Brittle paper. -
Folder 45: Page with two sources listed
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Folder 46: Outline, notes, text in small, stapled groups
Brittle paper. -
Folder 47: Notes on lined paper
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Folder 48: "The reference to three..."
Brittle paper. -
Folder 49: Plato / Lexicon Platonicum
Brittle paper. -
Folder 50: Small pages of notes
Brittle. -
Folder 51: Friedlander, Vol. 2, p. 614 - notes
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Folder 52: Assorted pages of notes
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Folder 53: "Critical assessment of the final section of the proof", 1974 June
Note "Discarded version?" marked June, 1974. -
Folder 54: "Discard: Immortality proof"
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Folder 55: Pages marked 287a through 287m
Begins "From a certain point of view..." -
Folder 56: Notes stapled to a concert program; "definitions"; additional page of notes, circa 1967
Program from "Festival of Contemporary Arts," University of Illinois at Urbana, March 11, 1967. -
Folder 57: Deuteros Plous
Includes typed pages with annotations in red, page of apparently related notes. Ends in section VII. -
Folder 58: Deuteros Plous
Sections VII (resumed) through end. Largely brittle paper. -
Folder 60: Black folder and contents
Deuterous Plous; original draft and first revision of Phaedo. -
Folder 61: Notes and citations
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Folder 62: Phaedo: Translation and comments (proof, and Deuteros Plous)
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Folder 63: "In search of..." - partial copy, missing pages 19-20
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Folder 64: Revision of beginning of study of proof of immortality, 1968
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Box 2
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Folder 1: Goodrich - draft
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Folder 2: Deuteros Plous - Hackforth
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Folder 3: Deuteros Plous - Burnet's position
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Folder 4: Assorted sources and notes
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Folder 5: Invitation and program for symposium "University in Motion: Matrix for the Arts," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1967 October 30
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Folder 6: Appendix, pages 288-296
Begins "That the teleological orientation of Plato's philosophy..." -
Folder 7: Materials related to Appendix
Sources, notes, handwritten text. -
Folder 8: Certificate from the University of Illinois Board of Trustees on the occasion of Kessler's retirement
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Folder 9: Theory of cognition
Notes and typed manuscript. -
Folder 10: Parmenides' "horizontal" levels, circa 1963
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Folder 11: Ad (12) - (13)
Refers to work by "A.H." Begins "In addition to considering the figure of the sun in general..." -
Folder 12: "In Search of an Alternative Interpretation of the Proof of Immortality in Phaedo - extended version; notes (Goodrich), 1974
Some notes on Burnet interspersed. -
Folder 13: Examination of arguments in logical notation
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Folder 14: Parmenides' "vertical" columns
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Folder 15: Notes and text in pencil
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Folder 16: In Search of an Alternative Interpretation of the Proof of Immortality in Phaedo - manuscript
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Folder 17: Letter from Max H. Fisch, 1966 November 30
Regards Kessler's book "In Search Of..." -
Folder 18: Assorted pages, some blank
Includes draft introduction, likely to "In Search Of..." -
Folder 19: Phaedo - proof
1 of 2. Through section II. -
Folder 20: Phaedo - proof
2 of 2. III-C to end. -
Folder 21: "First draft of paper on Parmenides", 1963 September
"On the whole all superseded by later work." -
Folder 22: Deuteros Plous, 1967
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Folder 23: "EXT" - text in pencil on very brittle paper
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Folder 24: Notes on Socrates
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Folder 25: Notes and drafts of texts
1 of 2.
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Box 3
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Folder 1: Plato's Parmenides - contents
Typed. Single sheet, numerous copies. -
Folder 2: Stenzel, Studien zur Entwicklung der Platonischen Dialektik, pages 12-13
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Folder 3: Plotinus
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Folder 4: Notes, organized by page number
In German. -
Folder 5: Notes - "reality"
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Folder 6: Notes and arguments in logical notation
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Folder 7: Parmenides - third deduction, 1963 September
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Folder 8: A Discussion: [Beethoven's] Trios Op. 70 Nos. 1 and 2 for violin, violoncello, and piano
By Dr. Hubert Kessler and Ron Kingsley.
File includes page of notation on staff paper found adjacent.
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Folder 9: Notes on Plato's Parmenides, Kratylus, Euthyphro
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Folder 10: Phaedo - draft, 1966
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Folder 11: Plato's Method of Division
A. First paper
B. New treatment (including analysis of all 7 definitions of Sophist)
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Folder 12: A. Politicus (first paper); B. "rev. Pol."; C. Amplified translation; D. "Pol. discussion"; E. Addendum, circa 1975
Section D dated August 1975; Section E dated 1975. -
Folder 13: Plotinus - Structure of Sensible World: VI / I, II, III.
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Folder 14: Letter to Dr. Marcovich; notes, 1979 January 16
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Folder 15: Statesman, circa 1975
A. First paper; B. Revision; C. Amplified translation; D. Discussions of "corrections" of first deninition; E. Addenda, 1975. -
Folder 16: Typed version of letter to Dr. Marcovich; notes, 1979 January 16
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Folder 17: Die Grundlage der Methode Leschetizky, 1924
B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz. 80 + xxiv pages.
Autographed by Malwine Bree at Vienna, April 1925
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Folder 18: Fundamentals of Music Theory by Kessler and Stiven
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Folder 19: "Notes 8" - on Parmenides
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Folder 20: Sketches; Variationonen über "Happy Birthday" - Rudolf Haken, 1980 October 14; circa 1981
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Folder 21: Spiral music manuscript notebook with "G. Busey" on front
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Folder 22: Two Sherwood's Harmony Tablets
One slightly used, one blank, with used pages removed. -
Folder 23: "Tumbler" notebook with University of Illinois seal - music theory
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Folder 24: Chapter II: Sentence by sentence discussion of the Deuteros Plous passage
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Folder 25: Deuteros Plous, Chapter I (Phaedo, second part)
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Folder 26: Plotinus
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Folder 27: Notes; letter from "Max", undated; 1971 October 6
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Folder 28: Notes in red folder, with first page in Greek
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Box 4
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Folder 1: Miscellaneous notes (Parmenides' background)
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Folder 2: Errata sheet from music book
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Folder 3: Plotinus - Eternity and Time, III / VI
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Folder 4: Plotinus - Miscellaneous comments and notes on current reading
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Folder 5: Happy birthday to Hubert Kessler, with love from the McColleys, 1981
Homemade card with poems about music. -
Folder 6: In Search of an Alternative Interpretation... - "draft of extended version"
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Folder 7: Music manuscript paper pad; top sheet with writing in pencil
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Folder 8: Handwritten pages, labeled "d" through "j/19"
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Folder 9: Blue binder
Handwritten notes and text. -
Folder 10: Parmenides' epistomology
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Folder 11: Loose pages; "Selected fragments of the pre-Socratics"
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Folder 12: Thinking = Being: Sketches I-XIII
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Folder 13: Deuteros Plous: "sketches for sent. 2, 3"
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Folder 14: Phaedo - Second part (Deuteros Plous) - Chapter II, Sentences 1-5
"Drafts A, B, C of Revision of Chapter I; integral translation of Plato's text." -
Folder 15: Deuteros Plous C, circa 1975
"Main emphasis on positive support of 'direct vision' interpretation." Outline, some text. -
Folder 16: Deuteros Plous B, circa 1975
Outline, some text. -
Folder 17: Deuteros Plous, Chapter II, Sentence 3
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Folder 18: Notebook, 1961 September 20
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Folder 19: "Miscellaneous"
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Folder 20: Disposition - Evolution of Parmenides' postulates - The conception of truth, circa 1976
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Folder 21: Parmenides - notes, Fig. 1 / 31-32
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Folder 22: Parmenides to Plato
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Folder 23: Sophists
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Folder 24: Deuteros Plous Append. (Theaetetus) and Sentence 3, circa 1978
Appendix "needs complete revision" - dated October 8, 1978 -
Folder 25: Deuteros Plous - various pages
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Folder 26: Phaedo - foreword, first part, Chapter I-A
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Folder 27: Draft: In Search of an Alternative Interpretation of Proof of Immortality in Phaedo - second (short) version, 1975
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Folder 28: Deuteros Plous Sentence 4
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Folder 29: Deuteros Plous, Chapter II, Sentence 5 and Conclusion
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Folder 30: Deuteros Plous II, Sentence 1
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Folder 31: Deuteros Plous II, Sentence 1, Sketches
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Folder 32: Deuteros Plous Sentence 2, Sketches
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Folder 33: Deuteros Plous, Introduction
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Folder 34: Deuteros Plous, pages 1-5d
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Folder 35: Miscellaneous notes (Parmenides' background)
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Box 5
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Folder 1: Op. 1: Sonata in A for violin and piano, 1920
"Full-size copy made by Haken, May 1985." -
Folder 2: Op. 1: Sonata in A for violin and piano
Photocopy. -
Folder 3: Op. 1: Sonata in A for violin and piano
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Folder 4: Op. 2
No title found; possibly for string quartet. -
Folder 5: Op. 3: Sextet for clarinet, string quartet, and piano
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Folder 6: Op. 3: Sextet for clarinet, string quartet, and piano
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Folder 7: Op. 4: Phantasie für Orchester
Reduction for 2 pianos, 4 hands. -
Folder 8: Op. 4: Phantasie für Orchester
Reduction for 2 pianos, 4 hands. -
Folder 9: Op. 4: Phantasie für Orchester
Partial bass part only.
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Box 6
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Folder 1: Op. 5
For piano. Illegible name on front cover. -
Folder 2: Op. 5
For piano. Illegible name on front cover. -
Folder 3: Op. 7: 3 Lieder nach Texten von R. Dehmel.
I. Am Scheideweg; II. Gesang vor Nacht; III. "Und du kamest in mein Haus..."
For voice and piano. Text by Richard Dehmel. Two manuscript copies, "copied by Haken in 1985."
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Folder 4: Op. 8: Gedicht von Christian Morgenstern, 1932 August
For voice and piano. "Tanja - in Freundschaft gewidmet." -
Folder 5: Op. 9: 7 Lieder nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern, 1932 August
Tanja in Freundschaft gewidmet.
Three present (incipit titles): 1. Wände Wände Wände; 2. Glück ist wie Blütenduft; 3. Und werden wir uns nie besitzen.
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Folder 6: Op. 9; Op. 8: Six Songs (Poems by Christian Morgenstern)
"Copy made by Haken, May, 1985."
1. Wände, Wände, Wände. 2. Glück ist wie Blütenduft; 3. Und werden wir uns nie besitzen 4. Eines gibts 5. O wundersame Stille; Du fühlst den dunklen Samstagabendwinkel (Op. 8); Gewaltiger, der Du aus Geisteshöhn Auf Deinen armen Sohn der Erde schaust.
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Folder 7: Four Short Pieces for Piano
Copy made in May 1985 by Haken. Labeled H-838. -
Folder 8: 6 Piano Pieces
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Folder 9: 6 Klavierstücke, circa 1950
Mostly ozalid copies. -
Folder 10: 6 Klavierstücke, circa 1950
Additional set, ozalid copies. -
Folder 11: 7 Fugen
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Folder 12: 7 Fugen
Ozalid copy. -
Folder 13: Seven Fugues for Piano
Pencil and ink, not a copy. -
Folder 14: 7 kleine Klavierstücke
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Folder 15: XX Variationen über einen Choral - orgel solo, 1920
Incipit: "Nun sich der Tag..." -
Folder 16: 26 short piano pieces, 19?? November 20 - December 9
Supplied title. Ozalid copy. -
Folder 17: Day by Day, circa 1950
Copy made in May, 1985. -
Folder 18: Intermezzo
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Folder 19: I Shot an Arrow - song setting, 1936 May 18
For voice and piano. Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Tanja" in right margin of last page. -
Folder 20: Klavierstücke; Violin Stücke
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Folder 21: Phantasie für Orgel
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Folder 22: Phantasie in C für Klavier 2 holg., 1933
Composed at Urbana. -
Folder 23: Sonata in D for violin and piano
Includes photostat copies.
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Box 7
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Folder 1: Sonata in D for violin and piano
Copied by Haken, May 1985. Labeled C-314. -
Folder 2: Thema und Variationen für Violine und Klavier
Score only. -
Folder 3: Theme and Variations for violin and piano
Copy by Haken, May, 1985 (score). Violin part labeled C-316. -
Folder 4: Thema mit Variationen für Violine, Cello, und Klavier; Mata Smith Lieder; other fragments
Fragments include string quartet, piano works. Some dated May or March, 1921. -
Folder 5: Thema mit Variationen - cover page only
Dedicated to Tanja. -
Folder 6: Tranquillo
Photocopy, first movement for solo instrument and piano. -
Folder 7: Wandrer. Denn - was etwas weiter wacht
Segment of Christian Morgenstern poem, "Eines gibts, darauf ich mich..." -
Folder 8: Untitled score - marked "Wed. at 9"
For flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns. -
Folder 9: Untitled fugue
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Folder 10: Untitled, for piano, 1920
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Folder 11: Untitled piano piece
21 pages. -
Folder 12: Untitled, for solo instrument and piano
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Folder 13: Multiple copies of four short piano compositions
#4 labeled "op. 40, 1943, piano concerto." -
Folder 14: Untitled - possible string quartet
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Folder 15: Formal schematic for Schoenberg's Intermezzo, Op. 25
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Folder 16: Short piano sketch with row transformations marked
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Folder 17: Sketch with voice leading, "non-harmonic" tones noted
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Folder 18: Skizzen
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Folder 19: Skizzen (alt)
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Folder 20: "Symbols for various forms of tetrachord"
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Folder 21: Table regarding chord progressions, soprano, and bass
Two copies. -
Folder 22: Tone row with transformations
[9 2 4 7 6 3 0 5 E T 8 1]. -
Folder 23: V[illegible] XV
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Folder 24: Sketch for piano
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Folder 25: Sketch for piano, in faint pencil
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Folder 26: Sketch: "Study possibility of stepwise counterpoints"
File includes student paper from 1941. -
Folder 27: Various sketches
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Box 8
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Folder 1: Pitch sets
Row in upper right corner: [T 3 7 4 1 8 2 9 5 E 6 0]. "0" rendered as "12" to specify upper pitch. -
Folder 2: Row with transformations
[2 0 3 9 8 1 7 T 5 E 4 6]. -
Folder 3: Sketch with row.
[3 0 T 6 4 5 8 E 1 7 2 9]. -
Folder 4: Sketches of piano piece, tone row with transformations
[7 9 3 1 2 4 8 T 0 5 6 E]. -
Folder 5: Sketches of piano piece, tone row with transformations
[4 9 T 2 0 1 3 8 5 7 E 6]. -
Folder 6: "K-Lith" music manuscript notebook - rows, sketches
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Folder 7: Music manuscript tablet, fully used
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Folder 8: Music manuscript tablet, used
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Folder 9: Schirmer music sketchpad
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Folder 10: Music notebook with plain cover, red metal comb binding
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Folder 11: F.J. Kent: Sonata in D, 1951 December 14
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Folder 12: Ockegehem: Alma Redemptoris Mater (photocopy)
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Folder 13: Tansman: Pour les Enfants
New York: Associated Music Publishers. Plate number M.E. 3994. Originally a Max Eschig edition. -
Folder 14: Hazel Cobb: Sonatina Album, 1959
Rockville Center, NY: Belwin Mills. -
Folder 15: Phi Beta Kappa membership certificate, 1939
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Folder 16: Flyer for The American Scholar, published by Phi Beta Kappa
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Folder 17: Shorthand for German phrases
On heavy paper, faintly embossed with seal. -
Folder 18: Chart of types of musical works
Brittle paper. -
Folder 19: Class rosters, grades, undated
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Folder 20: Letter from Jacob Schüm[illegible]
Heavy paper. "Sam. Bol." in large script on reverse. -
Folder 21: Program from Kessler concert at UNT, 2005 April 2
3 copies. The program may be viewed in the UNT Digital Library.
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