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Helm
COLLECTION: Everett Helm collection of Latin American sheet music
LOCATION AS OF 2001: Brazilian music in Special Collections office, against
inside wall (4 shelf boxes)
PROVENANCE: Originally deposited by Helm at Tulane University; purchased for the
University
of Illinois at suggestion of Prof. Gerald Behague when he was a School of Music
faculty member.
WHEN ACQUIRED: April 1974
DESCRIPTION: Over 500 items of Brazilian sheet music of the period ca.
1915-1945, many pieces
bearing the stamp "Almirante" (probably Henrique F. D. Almirante [b. 1908],
Brazilian singer, composer, and scholar active professionally 1930s-1950s..
Publications of Casa Napoleao predominate. The collection consists largely of
popular piano music or voice and piano editions, but also includes several works
for violin as well as a few manuscript items. Includes dance music of the 1920s
and 1930s, as well as works connected with Carneval festivities.
According to information from the Collections File, the Helm collection purchase
also included approximately 85 works by "recognized Brazilian composers" of the
same era, as well as about 50-75
Spanish-American editions (largely Argentinian). Since the number of items in
the four shelf boxes is somewhat less than what is described in the Collections
File folder, it is possible that the Spanish-American editions have been
separated and are stored elsewhere, and/or that works by recognized
Brazilian composers have been cataloged as individual items for the circulating
stacks or Special Collections
ARRANGEMENT: Some items within the four shelf boxes have been placed in folders
according to initial
letters of last names of composers.
ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: Preliminary list of songs, drawn up by a
Spanish-speaking practicum student, is laid in one box. The Collections File
folder ("Helm, Everett") includes a brief description of materials as well as
copies of correspondence.
INDEX TERMS: Almirante, Henrique; Brazilian music; Casa Napoleao; Sheet music:
Latin America
SEE ALSO: "Almirante, Henrique" in Enciclopedia da Musica Brasileira...
[ML106.B7 E52 - ref.]
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