Powell, Morgan

COLLECTION: Morgan Powell donations of music materials

LOCATION AS OF 2001: Special Collections office (corner, behind door, three packing boxes)

PROVENANCE: Gifts from Prof. Morgan Powell, faculty member of composition division, School of Music.

WHEN ACQUIRED: Mainly August -December 1994; individual items also donated in 1986 and 1988.

DESCRIPTION: In all, 55 scores of compositions by Morgan Powell (many including sketches, drafts, transparencies, pasted versions and/or proof copies as well as published editions); 27 published and unpublished scores by other twentieth century composers; 67 books; 66 charts for jazz ensembles; and other miscellaneous materials including sound recordings, serials, methods, publishers' catalogs, and dissertations.

ARRANGEMENT: Unprocessed except for specific items which may have been individually cataloged.

ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: Collections File folder ("Powell. Morgan") includes three lists of 1994 donations (one presumably drawn up by Powell, two by Music Librarian William McClellan), as well as correspondence referring to earlier donations.

INDEX TERMS: Powell. Morgan; University of Illinois composers

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