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Music Division

INTRODUCTION

USING THE COLLECTIONS

MUSIC SCORES

RESEARCHING WOMEN AND MUSIC

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

CONCLUSION

VISIT/CONTACT

NOTES

1. Fred Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (New York: Billboard Publications, 1988; ML156.4.P6 B76 1988).[back]

2. For an in-depth study of the history of music at the Library of Congress, see Gillian B. Anderson, “Putting the Experience of the World at the Nation's Command: Music at the Library of Congress, 1800-1917,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 42, no. 1 (1989): 108-49.[back]

3. A useful case study highlighting the problems of locating scores at the Library of Congress may be found in Irving Lowens, “The Library of Congress and Gustave Satter: A Cautionary Tale,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 18, no. 1 (1965): 73-77.[back]

4. Carl E. Seashore, “Why No Great Women Composers?” Music Educators Journal, March 1940: 21, 88; and George P. Upton, Woman in Music (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1880).[back]

5. Amy Fay, “Women and Music,” Music [Chicago] 18 (October 1900): 506; and Ethel Smyth, Female Pipings in Eden (London: Peter Davies, 1934), 12.[back]

6. Further information on this periodical index may be found in Gillian B. Anderson, “Unpublished Periodical Indexes at the Library of Congress and Elsewhere in the United States of America,” Fontes Artis Musicae 31, no. 1 (January-March 1984): 54-60.[back]

7. For a thorough discussion of women's contributions as patrons of music in America, see Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr, eds., Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).[back]

8. For further information on Mrs. Coolidge, see Cyrilla Barr, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1998). Barr is also the author of The Coolidge Legacy (Washington: Library of Congress, 1997), available from the Music Division upon request.[back]

9. Robert Frost, letter to Mrs. Whittall, April 12, 1961. This letter is from a specially bound volume of letters of tribute to Mrs. Whittall presented to her on May 3, 1961, by Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Library of Congress Archives, Manuscript Division.[back]

10. For a history of the Arsis Press by its founder, see Clara Lyle Boone, “Women Composers' Upbeat: Arsis Press,” in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, vol. 1, 1983, ed. Judith Lang Zaimont, Catherine Overhauser, and Jane Gottlieb (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 98-104.[back]

11. Adrienne Fried Block discusses Arthur P. Schmidt's support of women composers in “Arthur P. Schmidt, Music Publisher and Champion of American Women Composers,” in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, vol. 2, 1984-1985, ed. Judith Lang Zaimont, Catherine Overhauser, and Jane Gottlieb (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987), 145-76.[back]

12. Thomas A. Faulkner, Lure of the Dance (Los Angeles: T.A. Faulkner, 1916), 10.[back]

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