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Coldwell

COLLECTION: Philip and Norma Coldwell donation

LOCATION AS OF December, 2001: Special Collections sheet music holdings and Special Collections cataloging backlog cabinets

PROVENANCE: Personal collection of donors

WHEN ACQUIRED: 8 August 1996

DESCRIPTION: Total of 145 items, including two binder's collections of late 19th- and early 20th-century piano works (mainly German editions, as well as a few works in manuscript with the signature "Armin Eichler"); a tutor for reed organ; eight anthologies and folios, mainly for solo piano; 123 items of vocal sheet music, with US imprint; one British imprint of vocal sheet music; and seven items of piano sheet music, with US imprint.

ARRANGEMENT: US sheet music editions are largely incorporated into US sheet music holdings in the Music Library's Special Collections area. Binder's collections and other uncataloged items remain in Special Collections cataloging backlog cabinets, arranged according to category of material.

ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: Complete list of donated items is in Collections File folder ("Coldwell, Philip & Norma"), along with letter of acknowledgement from Music Librarian William McClellan to donors. Sheet music may be accessed by composer, title, or date in online sheet music catalog.

INDEX TERMS: Binder's collections; Coldwell, Philip & Anna; Eichler, Armin; Music manuscripts; Sheet music--United States

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