American Music Edition records
Collection
Identifier: AME
Scope and Contents
Manuscript scores, business records, and correspondence that reflects AME’s repertoire of new American music by Green, Carl Ruggles, Halsey Stevens, and others, as well as the interactions Green had with many key figures in twentieth-century music, including John Cage, Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, Gunther Schuller, William Grant Still, Virgil Thomson, and many others.
Dates
- 1920 - 1997
- Other: Majority of material found within 1951 - 1991
- Other: Acquired November 30, 2005
Creator
- Adams, Leslie, 1932- (Person)
- Alexander, Leni, 1924-2005 (Person)
- Allanbrook, Douglas (Person)
- Anderson, Garland (Person)
- Anson, George (Person)
- Avshalomov, Aaron, 1894-1965 (Person)
- Bachmann, Barton, 1893-1967 (Person)
- Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990 (Person)
- Baptista, Raphael, 1909-1984 (Person)
- Barlow, Wayne, 1912-1996 (Person)
- Bauer, Marion, 1882-1955 (Person)
- Becker, John J. (Person)
- Beglarian, Grant (Person)
- Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981 (Person)
- Berezowsky, Nicolai, 1900-1953 (Person)
- Berry, Wallace (Person)
- Bichel, Marguerite B. (Person)
- Birdt, Bob (Person)
- Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959 (Person)
- Bloom, Robert, 1908-1994 (Person)
- Boda, John, 1922-2002 (Person)
- Bogas, Roy (Person)
- Booe, Agnes (Person)
- Bostelmann, Otto (Person)
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 (Person)
- Bradley, Ruth O. (Ruth Olive), 1901-1989 (Person)
- Brant, Ada (Person)
- Britain, Radie, 1899-1994 (Person)
- Broekman, David, 1899-1958 (Person)
- Brush, Ruth Jackson (Person)
- Burton, Eldin (Person)
- Cage, John (Person)
- Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012 (Person)
- Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario, 1895-1968 (Person)
- Cazden, Norman, 1914-1980 (Person)
- Cole, Linton (Person)
- Converse, F. S. (Frederick Shepherd), 1871-1940 (Person)
- Cooper, John C. (Person)
- Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965 (Person)
- Cushing, Charles, 1905-1982 (Person)
- Dahl, Ingolf, 1912-1970 (Person)
- Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1899-1990 (Person)
- Debusman, Emil, 1921-1975 (Person)
- Denecke, Henry, 1911-2000 (Person)
- Mainville, Denise (Person)
- Dick, Stuart (Person)
- Dickson, Harry Ellis (Person)
- Donovan, Richard, 1891-1970 (Person)
- Downes, Olin, 1886-1955 (Person)
- Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969 (Person)
- Elkus, Jonathan (Person)
- Elwell, Herbert, 1898-1974 (Person)
- Emerich, Paul, 1895-1977 (Person)
- Ewen, David, 1907-1985 (Person)
- Fetler, Paul (Person)
- Fine, Irving, 1914-1962 (Person)
- Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997 (Person)
- Fizdale, Robert (Person)
- Fletcher, Grant, 1913-2002 (Person)
- Fox, Frederick, 1931-2011 (Person)
- Franco, Johan, 1908-1988 (Person)
- Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981 (Person)
- Freehoff, Ruth Williams, 1893-1971 (Person)
- Friml, Rudolf, 1879-1972 (Person)
- Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972 (Person)
- Gaul, Harvey B. (Harvey Bartlett), 1881-1945 (Person)
- Giannini, Walter, 1917-2001 (Person)
- Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (Person)
- Goebels, Franzpeter (Person)
- Goldman, Richard Franko, 1910-1980 (Person)
- Goodman, Alfred, 1919-1999 (Person)
- Grant, Parks (Person)
- Green, Harold Bellman, 1921-2007 (Person)
- Griffis, Elliot (Person)
- Griggs, Betty Lew (Person)
- Gruenberg, Louis, 1884-1964 (Person)
- Gusikoff, Michel (Person)
- Hadley, Henry, 1871-1937 (Person)
- Haines, Edmund (Person)
- Hanson, Howard, 1896-1981 (Person)
- Harmati, Sandor, 1892-1936 (Person)
- Harrison, Guy Fraser, 1894-1986 (Person)
- Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003 (Person)
- Haubiel, Charles, 1892-1978 (Person)
- Hedge, Grace (Person)
- Hemmer, Eugene, 1929-1977 (Person)
- Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975 (Person)
- Hill, Edward Burlingame, 1872-1960 (Person)
- Hiller, Lejaren, 1924-1994 (Person)
- Hinson, Maurice (Person)
- Holloway, Jack, 1923-1984 (Person)
- Horsky, Edward L. (Person)
- Howard, John Tasker, 1890-1964 (Person)
- Huerter, Charles, 1885-1974 (Person)
- Hunsley, Robert E. (Person)
- Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 (Person)
- Ivey, Jean Eichelberger (Person)
- Jackson, George Pullen, 1874-1953 (Person)
- Jacobi, Frederick, 1891-1952 (Person)
- Jolas, Jacques, 1895-1957 (Person)
- Kelly, Robert, 1916-2007 (Person)
- King-Smith, Grace (Person)
- Klauss, Kenneth (Person)
- Korn, Peter Jona (Person)
- Korn, Richard, 1908-1981 (Person)
- Kouguell, Arkadie, 1898-1985 (Person)
- Koutzen, Boris, 1901-1966 (Person)
- Kraft, William (Person)
- La Montaine, John (Person)
- Lee, Dai-Keong, 1915-2005 (Person)
- Lieberson, Samuel A. (Person)
- Limón, José (Person)
- Lipscomb, Edna (Person)
- Lipscomb, Helen, 1921-1974 (Person)
- Lockwood, Normand, 1906-2002 (Person)
- Loeffler, Charles Martin, 1861-1935 (Person)
- Lopatnikoff, Nikolai, 1903-1976 (Person)
- Lora, Antonio, 1899-1965 (Person)
- Lubin, Ernest (Person)
- Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 (Person)
- MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 (Person)
- Mainville, Denise (Person)
- Malipiero, Gian Francesco, 1882-1973 (Person)
- Mason, Daniel Gregory, 1873-1953 (Person)
- Mennin, Peter (Person)
- Nee, Thomas (Person)
- Nelhybel, Vaclav (Person)
- Nordoff, Paul, 1909-1977 (Person)
- Norton, Spencer, 1909-1978 (Person)
- Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985 (Person)
- Parris, Robert, 1924-1999 (Person)
- Penna, Joseph (Person)
- Peterson, Wayne, 1927-2021 (Person)
- Pisk, Paul Amadeus, 1893-1990 (Person)
- Podolsky, Leo, 1891-1987 (Person)
- Porter, Quincy, 1897-1966 (Person)
- Powell, Laurence, 1899-1990 (Person)
- Pozdro, John, 1923-2009 (Person)
- Preobrajenska, Vera N., 1926-2011 (Person)
- Pyle, Francis Johnson, 1901-1983 (Person)
- Raymond, Joseph G. (Person)
- Read, Gardner, 1913-2005 (Person)
- Riegger, Wallingford, 1885-1961 (Person)
- Rohe, Robert, 1916-2013 (Person)
- Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022 (Person)
- Ruggles, Carl, 1876-1971 (Person)
- Russo, Joseph (Composer) (Person)
- Salinger, Pierre (Person)
- Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 (Person)
- Schramm, Harold, 1935-1971 (Person)
- Schubart, Mark (Person)
- Schuller, Gunther (Person)
- Shanet, Harold (Person)
- Shaw, Clifford, 1911-1976 (Person)
- Shepherd, Arthur, 1880-1958 (Person)
- Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991 (Person)
- Slates, Philip M., 1924-1966 (Person)
- Spinner, Leopold (Person)
- Stevens, Halsey, 1908-1989 (Person)
- Still, William Grant, 1895-1978 (Person)
- Stoessel, Albert, 1894-1943 (Person)
- Taylor, Clifford (Person)
- Tcherepnin, Alexander, 1899-1977 (Person)
- Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989 (Person)
- Thorne, Francis (Person)
- Trythall, Gilbert, 1930- (Person)
- Tuthill, Burnet, 1888-1982 (Person)
- Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 1911-1990 (Person)
- Nagel, Robert (Person)
- Van Vactor, David, 1906-1994 (Person)
- Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965 (Person)
- Sebastiá, Rafael Vázquez, 1917- (Person)
- Verrall, John, 1908-2001 (Person)
- Vito, Edward (Person)
- Vogel, Norman (Person)
- Vovk, Ivan, 1921- (Person)
- Vrionides, Christos, 1894-1961 (Person)
- Wagner, Joseph, 1900-1974 (Person)
- Watson, Scott, 1962- (Person)
- Weiss, Abraham, 1949- (Person)
- Wendelburg, Norma (Person)
- Whitcomb, Robert, 1921-2018 (Person)
- Whithorne, Emerson, 1884-1958 (Person)
- Whitmer, T. Carl (Thomas Carl), 1873-1959 (Person)
- Wiggins, Mary S. (Person)
- Wiser, John D. (Person)
- Wuorinen, Charles (Person)
- Yessin, Gerson (Person)
- Josten, Werner, 1885-1963 (Person)
- Barlow, Evelyn (Person)
- Bolton, Jacklin T., 1926- (Person)
- Ballantine, Edward, 1886-1971 (Person)
- Dalvit, Lewis D. (Person)
- Huffman, Walter Spencer, 1921-2005 (Person)
- Lambert, Cecily (Person)
- Michalsky, Donal R. (Person)
- Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 (Person)
- Moore, Douglas, 1893-1969 (Person)
- Moran, Robert, 1937- (Person)
- Mueller, Robert Earl, 1920-2005 (Person)
- Spencer, Williametta (Person)
- Shadinger, Richard C. (Richard Cole) (Person)
- Schiek, Florence (Person)
- Schoemer, William H. (Person)
- Schneider, William L., 1925-2009 (Person)
- Sanner, Kathryn Thomas (Person)
- Schlosser, Minka (Person)
- Salembeni, Alberto (Person)
- Adler, Samuel, 1928- (Person)
- Sanjuán, Pedro, 1886-1976 (Person)
- Dupriez, Christian, 1922-2012 (Person)
- D'Angelo, Nicholas V. (Person)
- Jones, Homer (Composer) (Person)
- Leet, Lucie (Person)
- McPhee, Colin, 1900-1964 (Person)
- Antheil, George, 1900-1959 (Person)
- Ardévol, José, 1911-1981 (Person)
- García Caturla, Alejandro, 1906-1940 (Person)
- Strang, Gerald, 1908-1983 (Person)
- Beyer, Johanna Magdalena, 1888-1944 (Person)
- Davidson, Harold G. (Harold Gibson), 1893-1959 (Person)
- Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 (Person)
- Russell, Bill, 1905-1992 (Person)
- Chanler, Theodore, 1902-1961 (Person)
- Chávez, Carlos, 1899-1978 (Person)
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 (Person)
- Blitzstein, Marc (Person)
- Citkowitz, Israel, 1909-1974 (Person)
- Heilner, Irwin, 1908-1991 (Person)
- Lipsky, Alexander, 1900-1985 (Person)
- Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985 (Person)
- Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953 (Person)
- Engel, Lehman, 1910-1982 (Person)
- Creston, Paul, 1906-1985 (Person)
- Diamond, David, 1915-2005 (Person)
- Galindo, Blas, 1910-1993 (Person)
- Grofé, Ferde, 1892-1972 (Person)
- Harris, Roy, 1898-1979 (Person)
- Jones, Charles, 1910-1997 (Person)
- Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich, 1904-1987 (Person)
- Kerr, Harrison (Person)
- Moross, Jerome, 1913-1983 (Person)
- Osborne, Willson, 1906-1979 (Person)
- Piston, Walter, 1894-1976 (Person)
- Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985 (Person)
- Turner, Godfrey, 1913-1948 (Person)
- Wagenaar, Bernard, 1894-1971 (Person)
- Webern, Anton, 1883-1945 (Person)
- Weigl, Karl, 1881-1949 (Person)
- Kirkpatrick, John, 1905-1991 (Person)
- Stout, Alan (Person)
- Parchman, Gen (Person)
- Bard, Martin, 1934-2014 (Person)
- Hamlet, Alice (Person)
- Brugmann, Aline Grossart, 1900-1996 (Person)
- Elkus, Albert I. (Albert Israel), 1884-1962 (Person)
- Freed, Isadore, 1900-1960 (Person)
- Barzin, Leon (Person)
- El-Dabh, Halim, 1921-2017 (Person)
- Etler, Alvin, 1913-1973 (Person)
- Hughes, Edwin, 1884-1965 (Person)
- Kushner, David Z., 1935- (Person)
- Price, Mary Juanita (Person)
- Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker, 1909-1992 (Person)
- Rothenberg, Esther (Person)
- Schoberlechner, Annie, 1888-1961 (Person)
- Snitman, Alice Rose (Person)
- Stein, Alvin (Person)
- Stoddard, Hope, 1900-1987 (Person)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Organization)
- Chappell and Co. (Organization)
- Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers (Organization)
- American Music Center (Organization)
- Composers Recordings, Inc. (Organization)
- Carl Fischer Music (Organization)
- Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection (Organization)
- Theodore Presser Company (Organization)
- G. Schirmer, Inc. (Organization)
- American Music Edition (Organization)
- Green, Ray, 1908-1997 (Person)
- Knowlton, Dorothy G. (Dorothy Gillespie), 1903-1981 (Person)
- Lombardo, Robert, 1932- (Person)
- Hodghead, Lillian, 1886-1972 (Person)
- Gyring, Elizabeth, 1909-1970 (Person)
- Shoemaker, John R. (John Rogers), 1934-2007 (Person)
- Newman, William S. (Person)
- Mumma, Gordon, 1935- (Person)
Extent
24.00 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
The collection was organized by the dealer J. & J. Lubrano into four "sections": 1. Correspondence Between American Composers and Ray Green at American Music Edition; 2. Manuscripts of Printed Music of Various Composers; 3. Business Papers Relating to American Music Edition; and 4. Materials Relating to Ray Green. It was reorganized into five series: 1. Personal Correspondence; 2. Business Records; 3. Ray Green Papers; 4. Manuscript Scores; and 5. Published Scores. Series 1 consists primarily of materials from the dealer's Section 1; however, correspondence originally in this section that relates to the performance of a composer's compositions was moved to Series 2 and manuscript scores and proofs found in Section 1 were moved to Series 4.
Method of Acquisition
Purchased by the Music Library in 2006.
Accruals and Additions
An additional file of Hemmer letters was given to the Music Library by J. & J. Lubrano on Nov. 26, 2007.
Separated Materials
Duplicates of printed scores were added to the collection or discarded as appropriate.
- Title
- Guide to the American Music Edition records
- Author
- Morris S. Levy
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Repository Details
Part of the Music Library Repository
Contact:
Deering Library, Level 3
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208-2300 US
847-491-3635
specialcollections@northwestern.edu
Deering Library, Level 3
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208-2300 US
847-491-3635
specialcollections@northwestern.edu