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Music theorists

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Those who write, invent, promote, investigate or propound a theory or theories about music, which is the art concerned with the combining of vocal or instrumental sounds in measured time to communicate emotions, ideas, or states of mind.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Waldeck papers related to Heinrich Schenker

 Collection
Identifier: MP-0008-01
Summary

Arthur Waldeck (1899-1965) was a New York-based voice teacher. The collection consists of Waldeck's letters to and from renowned music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935), as well as Waldeck's translations into English and heavily annotated copies of Schenker's works, written and published in German.

Dates: 1906-circa 1965

Felix Salzer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MP-0007-01
Abstract

Austrian-born American music theorist Felix Salzer (1901-1986) furthered the system of musical analysis developed by Heinrich Schenker and was a faculty member and executive director of the Mannes College of Music. The collection contains biographical information, Salzer's honorary doctorate from Mannes and materials and photographs relating to the degree conferral ceremony, as well as vacation photographs of Salzer and his wife, Hedwig Lindtberg.

Dates: 1940-1986