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Brownson
COLLECTION: Marcella Brownson estate: music materials
LOCATION AS OF 2001: Largely in Library's University Press storage area.
PROVENANCE: Personal collection of M. Brownson.
WHEN ACQUIRED: March 1985
DESCRIPTION: Emphasis upon Protestant church music. Total of over 2,800 items,
including 1,650 choral octavo editions, 23 books, 156 hymnbooks published in the
U.S. and Great Britain during the period 1880-1940, a considerable quantity of
organ and piano music, over 500 community and school song books, 45 78-rpm
discs, five LP discs, three journal titles (285 separate issues), about 100
publishers' catalogs, programs, and miscellaneous materials.
ARRANGEMENT: None; materials remain largely unprocessed. Some choral octavo
editions may be incorporated in Music Library's Choral Reference File; sound
recordings were probably incorporated into 78-rpm and LP holdings at the Oak St.
storage facility.
ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: No lists exist of individual titles.
Collections File folder ("Brownson, Marcella") includes brief description of
donation by genre, as well as correspondence relating to donation and relevant
passages from M. Brownson's last will and testament. Brownson's collection was
listed briefly in Hymnbook Collections of North America (Hymn Society of
America, undated), a copy of which is included in the Collections File folder.
INDEX TERMS: Brownson, Marcella; Hymnody; Organ music
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