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Performing Arts Collection: Music Collections
- Adams (Carlisle) Collection (PA Mss 23)
- Approximately 5,000 vocal 78rpm sound recordings.
- Arabic wax cylinders, ca. 1900 (PA Mss 42)
- Twenty-one commercial brown wax cylinder recordings, made in Damascus, Syria.
- Archive of Recorded Vocal Music (PA Mss 19)
- Approximately 18,000 vocal recordings from the first half of the 20th century.
- Baker (Darrell) Harry Lauder Collection (PA Mss 63)
- Collection of recordings, books, photographs and emphemera related to Scottish performer Sir Harry Lauder.
- Boucher (Anthony) Golden Voices (Radio program) (PA Mss 29)
- Master tapes of Boucher’s Pacifica radio program on opera.
- Clovis (Hall) Papers. (PA Mss 30)
- Archives of singer Hall Clovis, including manuscripts of commissioned works by Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and others.
- Couper (Mildred) Papers (PA Mss 45)
- Papers and musical manuscripts of composer Mildred Couper including her quarter tone piano compositions.
- Diemer (Emma Lou) Papers (PA Mss 41)
- Papers of composer and UCSB faculty member Emma Lou Diemer. The collection includes her manuscript scores, business correspondence and royalty statements, programs, review and clippings.
- Eichheim (Henry) Papers (PA Mss 52)
- Papers of composer and organologist.
- Faulkner (Maurice) Papers (Fac Pap 35)
- Papers of professor of trumpet at UCSB.
- Freeman (Robert) Papers. (Fac Pap 36)
- Papers of UCSB Musicology faculty member.
- Fricker (Peter Racine) Papers, 1940s-1990 (PA Mss 17)
- Manuscripts and personal papers of British born composer and UCSB faculty member.
- Garcia (Adelina) Collection (CEMA Mss 23)
- Collection of Mexican-American romantic bolero singer.
- Geiringer (Bernice) Papers. (PA Mss 40)
- Personal papers of pianist and philanthropist Bernice Geiringer, second wife of musicologist Karl Geiringer.
- Geiringer (Karl) Oral History. (PA Mss 18)
- Oral history interview with the renowned musicologist.
- Geiringer (Karl) Papers (Fac Pap 46)
- Papers of Austrian musicologist and UCSB faculty member Karl Geiringer.
- Gillespie (John and Anna) research files for Notable twentieth-century pianists, 1900-1995 (PA Mss 68)
- Authors’ research files for biographical sourcebook on pianists.
- Goldshlak (Leon A.) Gilbert & Sullivan Collection (PA Mss 51)
- Extensive collection of books, recordings and memorabilia related to Gilbert & Sullivan.
- Guerrero (Lalo) Papers (CEMA 24)
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- Papers of Mexican-American songwriter and performer.
- Headley (Hubert Klyne) Papers (PA Mss 76)
- Papers of composer Headly, including scores to Argentango and California Suite.
- Herrmann (Bernard) Papers, 1927-1977. (PA Mss 3)
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- Manuscripts and personal papers of film composer noted for his scores to Hitchcock and Orson Welles films.
- James (Harry and Grace) Collection (PA Mss 5)
- Donated by Harry and Grace James to UC-Riverside and subsequently transferred to UCSB, the James collection contains approximately 15,000 recordings, including long runs of Victor and Columbia 78 rpm album sets.
- Kingsbaker (David L.) correspondence (PA Mss 73)
- Correspondence with musicians and bandleaders about the personnel of various 1920s and 1930s dance and jazz ensembles.
- Lehmann (Lotte) biography, typescript (PA Mss 48)
- Lehmann (Lotte) Collection. (PA Mss 2)
- Personal papers of Austrian born soprano noted for her interpretations of German Lieder and her roles in Strauss’ operas.
- Lehmann (Lotte) Photo Collection (PA Mss 34)
- Copies of photographs of soprano Lotte Lehmann during her performances at the Salzburg Festivals from 1926-1937, during her return to Austria in the 1960s, and other photos from the Bildarchiv und Portr�tsammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien and the Max Reinhardt-Forschsungs und Gedenkstätte, Salzburg.
- Lucas (Johnny) Sound Recording Collection (PA 2001-007)
- Collection of jazz 78s of dixieland trumpeter Johnny Lucas (Firehouse Five), including unreleased acetate recordings.
- Menk (Anthony) Papers (PA Mss 77)
- Moran (William R.) Collection (PA Mss 57)
- Papers and collection of author and discographer William R. Moran.
- Music Academy of the West Recordings (PA Mss 65)
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- Recordings of Music Academy of the West concerts, 1960-2001.
- Pedroza (Alma and Alfonse) Recordings (PA Mss 50)
- Acetate recordings of opera singers Alma and Alfonse Pedroza.
- Playman (Gordon) Papers (PA Mss 59)
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- Papers of composer Gordon Playman, including manuscript scores and recordings.
- Rich (Blanche Browning) Collection (PA 2002-005, PA 2002-006)
- 1,400 Edison Blue Amberol cylinder recordings and 6,400 Edison Diamond Discs, all unplayed dealer stock.
- Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera Records (PA Mss 56)
- Records of Santa Barbara musical theater company.
- Santa Barbara Jazz Society records (PA Mss 71)
- Records of Santa Barbara organization dedicated to the appreciation of jazz music.
Singher (Martial) Recordings, 1943-1980 (PA Mss 25)
- Recordings made by French baritone Singher who was on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West.
- Sober (Kurt) Papers, 1913-1920 (PA Mss 21)
- Papers of German-American conductor, pianist, accompanist and voice coach.
- Sound Recording Catalog Collection (PA Mss 26)
- Extensive collection of manufacturers’ catalogs, primarily from the 78 rpm era.
- Specht (Margaret) Correspondence (PA Mss 44)
- Stokowski (Leopold) Recordings, 1934-1940. (PA Mss 27)
- Stokowski’s personal collection of test pressings.
- Todd (Verne) Collection (PA Mss 1)
- Extensive collection of popular, classical, jazz and other sound recordings and related ephemera.
- Van der Voort (Antoni) Papers, 1930s-1952 (PA Mss 22)
- Manuscripts and personal papers of Santa Barbara composer and educator.
- Warren (Leonard) Collection (PA Mss 64)
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- Papers and recordings of noted operatic baritone Leonard Warren.
- Williams (Frederick P.) Papers and Collection (PA Mss 72)
- Papers and collection of band historian and record collector Frederick P. Williams.
