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Irland
COLLECTION: Marion Corell Irland collection
LOCATION AS OF January, 2002: largely in University of Illinois Press Library
storage area, dispersed by type of material; manuscripts, some vocal
collections, and other individual items in Special Collections cataloging
backlog cabinets, upper level, Music Library.
PROVENANCE: Donation by Roger Irland, son of Chicago area musician and
University of Illinois alumna Marion Corell Irland.
WHEN ACQUIRED: November 9, 1990
DESCRIPTION: The donation included a total of 629 items, including books on
music; choral scores; community song books; hymnals; piano and organ music; and
300 items of vocal music, including sheet music, anthologies, and methods. Also
included were 22 manuscripts of vocal works, mainly in Marion
Corell's hand. Heavily emphasized are Scandinavian songs, including sheet music
of the pre-World War II era (mainly published in Copenhagen and Stockholm), as
well as Scandinavian vocal anthologies and Swedish-American folksong
collections. Twenty issues of The Choir Herald (Dayton, Ohio: .1915-1917) were
donated, as well as the following early piano edition:
Turk, Daniel Gottlob
Sechzig Handstücke für angehende Klavierspieler. Zweyter Theil
(Leipzig-Halle: 1795) RISM T1362 [MT243T871.262]
ARRANGEMENT: Largely dispersed among unprocessed materials.
ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: No list exists of individual titles of books
or music editions. The Collections File ("Irland") contains a detailed summary
list by type of material. As of January, 2002, much of the Scandinavian sheet
music is filed in a shelf box of miscellaneous foreign vocal music
imprints located on the vocal music range in the University Press Building
storage area.
INDEX TERMS: Irland, Marion Corell
Scandinavian vocal music
Sheet music: Scandinavian
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