Julius Gold Collection
Guides to Special Collections in the Music Division
Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1992
Contents
Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Container List
Writings
Writings of Julius Gold
Writings of others
Correspondence
General
Correspondence with students
Correspondence with family
Correspondence with institutions regarding jobs, grants,
fellowships
Correspondence regarding acquiring and selling books and
journals
Promotion
Programs
Clippings
Photographs
Financial / Legal Papers
Catalogs
Printed music
Introduction
The Julius Gold Collection consists of the writings,
correspondence, and other papers of teacher and musicologist Julius
Gold (1884-1969). The collection was given to the Library in 1981
by Jacob Zeitlin of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers in Los
Angeles, California, who acquired the materials as part of Julius
Gold's estate.
Certain restrictions to the use or copying of the materials in
this collection may apply.
Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 9
Approximate number of items: 8,000
Number of Containers: 22
Biographical Sketch
1884 February 18
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, of Russian-Polish parentage
1891
Family moves to San Francisco
1897
Studies violin with Sir Henry Heyman and Henry Holmes
1900-1905
Studies violin with Bernhard Listemann and Emile Sauret at the
Chicago Musical College
1905-1910
Studies history and theory of music with Bernhard Ziehn
1910-1914
Professor of music at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa
1914
Returns to San Francisco; plays violin with the San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra until his resignation in 1937
1922
Plays violin with the San Francisco Opera Association until
his resignation in 1937
1931 Summer
Holds a lectureship at Stanford University: The Foundations of
Music Art
1931-35
Professor of counterpoint and composition at Dominican College
in San Rafael, California
1937-
Private teaching and research
1969 January 29
Dies in California
Scope and Content Note
Julius Gold was a musicologist and teacher of both violin and
music theory who was active in California in the first half of the
20th century. Having studied with the German theorist Bernhard
Ziehn in Chicago from 1905-1910, Gold became an interpreter of
Ziehn and one of his most avid apologists. Although his writings
on Ziehn were never published, numerous typescripts of Gold's
translations of and commentaries on Ziehn's writings are included
in this collection. Gold also wrote extensively on the
ecclesiastical modes, and the collection includes an abundance of
writings and score examples both on modal doctrines and a wide
variety of other subjects of music theory.
The papers of Julius Gold span the period from 1858 to 1964,
with the bulk of the material covering the years 1920-1955. In
addition to the writings described above there is extensive
correspondence, both with notable colleagues such as Hans Joachim
Moser, Lloyd Hibberd, and John Alden Carpenter, and with a great
many of Gold's students, including Winthrop Sargeant, Frank
Fragale, Meredith Willson, and Isaac Stern. Gold collected music
books, amassing a 10,000 volume research library, and included here
is a body of correspondence addressing the acquisition and sale of
books and music, both by Julius Gold himself and by his daughter's
firm, Glen Gold Books and Music. A large selection of publishers'
catalogs is also pertinent to Gold's book collecting activities.
The remaining papers in the collection consist of promotion
materials of Julius Gold and others, financial and legal papers,
photographs, programs, and an assortment of printed music for the
piano -- much of which may have belonged to Gold's wife, Janet Hale
Gold, herself a pianist and a teacher of piano.
Claudia Widgery, Music Specialist
September 1992
Container List
WRITINGS
Box Contents
Writings of Julius Gold
1 General
Contrapuntal inventions: Tonal studies in a variety
of moods and motives
The elements of musical composition
The Musico-Lexicographic Collections of Julius Gold
(from brown 3-ring notebook)
Open sesame to musical knowledge
Proposals for a new dictionary of music
The tradition of patronage
Biographical and personal
Ecclesiastical modes
The beginnings of medieval modal theory
A brief bibliography of the history of modal
doctrines
Modal bibliography (from blue 3-ring notebook)
Modal doctrines: A new perspective
The newer knowledge of the modes
Miscellaneous (typed and handwritten)
OV 1 Score examples
2 Bernard Ziehn
Prospectus for editing "The ecclesiastical modes"
by Bernard Ziehn
Ziehn's "Harmonie und Modulationslehre": A
commentary
Translation from Ziehn's "Harmonie- und
Modulationslehre"
Translation of Ziehn's "Uber die Kirchent"ne"
Notes on Ziehn
OV 1 Score examples
2 Music theory (typewritten; for handwritten and score
examples of writings on these subjects, see
oversize boxes OV 1 and OV 2)
Canon
Chords and Triads
Enharmonics
Harmony
Instruments
Intervals
Modulation
Musical compositions by others
Polyphony
Scales
Symmetry
3 Miscellaneous (typewritten, handwritten, and 3x5
cards)
4 Miscellaneous (score examples; also 2 composition
books containing handwritten notes on music
theory and theoretical writings)
OV 2 Score analysis (Chopin, Trois nocturnes, op. 9)
4 Proposals for teaching and study
Comments on writings by others
"Essays in musical analysis" by Donald Francis
Tovey
"Das Lebenswerk Bernhard Ziehn" by Hugo
Leichentritt
Review of unidentified work by Ziehn by [Edward]
Mitchell
Letters to the editor ("Life Magazine", "Musical
Courier", "New York Times", "Saturday Review
of Literature")
Writings of others
5 Grant, John [Fionn]. "The Celtic lyre." [Preface and
list of examples only]
Hibberd, Lloyd, translator. "The church modes" by
Bernhard Ziehn [excerpts only]
Isaacson, Charles D. " Face to face with great
musicians". New York, London: D. Appleton & Co.,
1929.
Leichentritt, Hugo. "Das Lebenswerk Bernhard Ziehns."
Mitchell, Edward R. "Julius Gold and the teaching of
music theory."
"""""". "Julius Gold: Master-musicologist."
Moser, Hans Joachim. "Bernhard Ziehn". [Chapters 1-3]
"""""". "Epochs of musical history." [Excerpt from
Introduction]
"""""". Introduction to "sber die Kirchent"ne" by
Bernhard Ziehn.
"""""". Untitled article(s) for "Musik in Geschichte und
Gegenwart".
Offner, Herbert. "The modal aspects of Bach's chorale
harmonization" (Master's thesis, University of
California/Los Angeles, n.d.)
Otterstrom, Thorwald. "The fugue," excerpt from "Manual
of harmony (advanced)".
"""""". "Personal recollections of Bernhard Ziehn."
Miscellaneous printed excerpts
CORRESPONDENCE
Box Contents
6 General
Adler, Clarence
Allen, James Turney
Allen, Warren
American Musicological Society
Apel, Willi
Bacon, Ernst
Barker, Orville W.
Barrymore, Lionel
Bates, A. Cyril
Berger, Isador
Blake, J. P. (Art Publication Society)
Blom, Eric
Blume, Friedrich
Boguslawski, Moissaye
Borowski, Felix
Bowhay, Arnold (Beverly Hills Unified School District)
Breeze, Louisa
Brother Leo
Brune, Adolf
Bukofzer, Manfred
Calvocoressi, M. D.
Cantor, Eddie
Carpenter, John Alden
Cesana, Otto
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Tribune
Clark, William Andrews, Jr. (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Colles, H. C. (Grove's Dictionary)
Cowper, Holmes [see University of California, Berkeley]
Craft, Robert
Deutsch, Monroe [see Drake University]
Downes, Olin
Drake University
Einstein, Alfred
Elko (Nevada) Independent
Elson, Louis C.
Engel, Carl
Engel, Gabriel
7 Foster Hall Collection
Freer, Eleanor Everest
Fulton, Muriel (Mrs. Mario Palmieri)
Ganz, Rudolph
Gehrkens, Karl W.
Goldberg, Albert (Los Angeles Times music critic)
Goldberg, Maurice
Godowsky, Leopold
Groshong, James W.
Guggenheim Foundation
Gunn, Glenn Dillard
Hartford, Huntington
Haydon, Glen
Heller, Helen R.
Hersholt, Jean
Hertz, Alfred
Heyman, Henry
Hibberd, Lloyd
Hill, William G.
Hinrichsen, Max
Hirsch, Paul
Hofmann, Josef
Holmes, Henry
Hughes, Dom Anselm
Irvine, Demar B.
Jeppesen, Knud
Jon s, Alberto
Journal of Music Theory
Kelley, Mrs. Edgar Stillman
Kleffman, Ervin H.
Krohn, Ernst C.
Kurth, Ernst
8 Lait, Jack
Lang, Paul Henry
Leach, Rowland
Leichentritt, Hugo
Liebling, Leonard
Lilienthal, T. and Jesse
Lowinsky, Edward E.
Luening, E. G.
Macmillan Company
Mason, Daniel Gregory
Mason, Redfern
Mathesius, Ebba
McEwen, John B.
Mendel, Arthur
Merton, Felice (Mrs. Richard G.)
Moore, Douglas
Monteux, Pierre
Morosco, Anthan
Moser, Hans Joachim
Music Library Association
Nettl, Paul
Olesen, Edith
Olson, Claire C.
Orriss, Herbert F.
Otterstr"m, Thorwald
Parlow, Kathleen
Parsons, Louella O.
Paterson, John A.
Patterson, Frank
Persinger, Louis
Piston, Walter
Pratt, Waldo Selden
Purves-Smith, Claude
9 Reese, Gustav
Regnery, Henry
Remy, Alfred
Rowher, Jens
Rozsa, Miklos
Rubsamen, Walter
Russell, Rita and John
Sachs, Curt
Sarton, George
Saunders, Richard
Scanlon, John Thomas
Schaeffer, Myron
Schmulian, S. E.
Scholes, Percy
Shaw, George Bernard (transcripts)
(also: correspondence regarding sale of Shaw
letters)
Silverman, Sol
Slonimsky, Nicolas
Sonneck, Oscar G.
Sorabji, Kaikhosru S.
Stock, Frederick A.
Swain, Arthur B.
Szigeti, Wanda
Teschan, Elsa H. (Mrs. R. F.)
Tobin, Richard M.
Torossian, Berdsch
University of California, Berkeley
Upton, George P.
Vincent, John
Wagner, Peter
Walter, Bruno
Weber, Julius Rehn
Werner, Eric
Who's Who in Music
Work Projects Administration
Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield
Ziehn, Bernhard
Ziehn, Emma
Ziehn, Robert
Zubryn, Emil
Miscellaneous
10 Correspondence with students
Barthelson, Joyce
Campbell, Henry
Cesana, Bruno
Christensen, Dan
Coleman, Corinne
Copley, Frank
Edmunds, John
Ferguson, Allyn
Firestone, Nathan
Fragale, Frank
Frost, Robert
Garrett, Jack
Gillingham, Harry
Granat, Frank
Hayes, Jack
Herst, Jerome P.
Hurbert, Stanley
11 Kimbell, Ray
Kohanovich, Lydia
Larew, Walter
Mitchell, Edward R.
Ocnoff, Edward
12 St. Edmunds, John
Sargeant, Winthrop
Sharp, Florence
Sister Edmund
Sister M. Dominic
Stern, Isaac
West, James
Willson, Meredith
Miscellaneous (A-L, M-Z, Unidentified)
13 Correspondence with family
Gold, Glen (daughter)
Gold, Leon (cousin)
Gold, Jacob (uncle)
Gold, Janet Hale (wife)
Gold, Nathan (cousin)
Ross, Anabel (Mrs. William D.) (sister-in-law)
Weil, Jennifer (Mrs. Paul) (cousin)
Unidentified
Correspondence with institutions regarding jobs, grants,
fellowships
American Operatic Laboratory, Inc.
Beverly Hills Unified School District
California Council for Adult Education
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Cecil B. DeMille Productions Inc.
Drake University
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Federal Music Project
Fisk Teachers Agency
Ford Foundation
Guggenheim Foundation
Immaculate Heart College
Juilliard School of Music
Kansas City Conservatory of Music
Sol Lesser Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts
Loyola University
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
Mount Saint Mary's College
Musical Courier
Musical News
National Institute of Music and Arts
Paramount Pictures Corporation
George Pepperdine College
City of Philadelphia
St. John's College
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco State Teachers College
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
San Jose State College
Stanford University
Universal-International Pictures
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University of San Francisco
University of Saskatchewan
University of Southern California
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
Miscellaneous
14 Correspondence regarding acquiring and selling books and
journals (arranged alphabetically by correspondent):
Julius Gold (4 folders)
Glen Gold, Books & Music (3 folders)
"Tradition" subscription requests
PROMOTION
Box Contents
14 Julius Gold (including printed fliers, brochures, placards,
testimonials, etc.) [see also oversize box OV 4]
Plan of a representative school for music study and
research
T'jan, Bookseller and Importer
"Tradition": A magazine of musical inquiry
Glen Gold, Books and Music
Miscellaneous others
PROGRAMS
Box Contents
14 Programs of musical performance (1900-1964, undated)
Programs of instruction (arranged alphabetically by
institution)
CLIPPINGS
Box Contents
15 German periodicals
Allgemeine Deutsche Musik-Zeitung (Allgemeine Musik
Zeitung), 1878-1914 [see also oversize box OV 3 for
1860 issue]
Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, 1820, 1868, 1871-73,
1877-78, 1880-81
Deutsche Tonk�nstler Zeitung (1910)
Monatschrift f�r Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst,
1897-1898
Die Musik, 1915
OV 4 Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 1896
Musik Welt, 1881, undated
15 Neue Zeitschrift f�r Musik, 1887-1905
Unidentified [see also oversize box OV 3]
Scrapbook (clippings and promotional material about Julius
Gold and various students)
OV 4-5
American periodicals
PHOTOGRAPHS
Box Contents
16 Julius Gold, alone and with others (See also oversize box
OV 3)
Glen Gold (daughter) and her house
Others
FINANCIAL / LEGAL PAPERS
Box Contents
Bills and receipts
Glen Gold Books
Residences
Storage
Miscellaneous
Certificates, licenses, contracts
Insurance
Medical (correspondence, receipts)
Musician's Union (membership cards, pamphlets, correspondence)
Papers regarding sale of Gold's music library
Tax Forms
Federal (1934-1943, 1944-1953)
City, County, State (1937-1943)
CATALOGS
Box Contents
17 Publishers
American Institute of Musicology
D. Appleton-Century Company
Athenaeum Cremonense
B"renreiter-Verlag
C. H. Beck'sche Berlagsbuchhandlung
The Bookfellows
Books & Music
Breitkopf & H"rtel
Bureau of Musical Research
Cambridge University Press
El Colegio de Mexico
Concordia Publishing House
J. G. Cotta-Verlag
Deutscher Musikliteratur Verlag
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
Oliver Ditson Company
Ernst Eulenburg
J. Fischer & Bro.
Helen Gentry
Gesellschaft f�r Musikforschung
Ginn and Company
Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Wilhelm Hansen
G. Henle Verlag
Max Hesses Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Company
Insel Verlag
Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Institute of Renaissance and Baroque Music
Wm. A. Kaun Music Company
Ernst Klett Verlag
Leo Liepmannssohn
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
G. and C. Merriam Co.
Edition Merseburger
Munksgaard
Albert Nauck & Co.
Martinus Nijhoff
Henning Oppermann
Oxford University Press
Edition Peters
Random House
Reclam
C. G. R"der
William Edwin Rudge
St. Martin's Press, Inc.
B. Schott's S"hne
Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft
Smith College
Steeger Verlag
Edition Steingr"ber
Universal Edition
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
Arno Volk Verlag
Joseph Williams Ltd.
Yale University Press
Exhibitors
Goodspeeds (Early English Engraved Portraits)
Libraries
Foster Hall
Library of Congress
PRINTED MUSIC
Box Contents
OV 3 Everest, C. The Sabbath, a work containing the most popular
psalm and hymn tunes in general use. Philadelphia
: Lee & Walker, 1873.
Signed: Eleanor Warner Everest, 1887
Noted in pencil: Bernhard Ziehn notations, see pages 299,
317, 327. [Pages 223-384 have been cut out]
Fragale, Frank. Sprightly flight. Set of parts. New York :
Edition Musicus, 1943.
Godowsky, Leopold, ed. Progressive series of music lessons
for the use of conservatories, teachers and students.
St. Louis, Missouri : Art Publication Society, 1913.
Middelschulte, Wilhelm. Passacaglia (D moll) f�r die orgel.
Leipzig : C. F. W. Siegel, 1901. Dedicated to Bernhard
Ziehn.
Piano scores by A. Arensky, C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach
(2 piano), L. van Beethoven, Franz Bendel, Mathilde
Bilbro (2 piano), Fr. von Esterhazy, Leopold Godowsky,
Halfdan Kjerulf, Aug. Labitzky, Heinrich Lichner,
Immanuel Liebich, Dorothy McGrath, Moritz Moszkowski,
Ottorino Respighi (2 piano), Joachim Raff, Erno Rap,e,
James H. Rogers, Robert Schumann, Trygve Torjussen, and
Mortimer Wilson [alphabetically by composer; 3 folders]
Piano/vocal scores by Buenta Carter, Palmer John Clark, Franco
Leoni, Arthur Lee Mancebo, James H. Rogers, Meredith
Willson, and Lawrence Zenda
Fragments
Miscellaneous
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