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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
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New York, NY 10027, USA
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center records, 1958-2014

312 linear feet

Working files and tapes.

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Alice M. Ditson Fund Records, 1940-2009

42.2 linear feet

The Alice M. Ditson Fund was established at Columbia University in 1940 and is still active in its primary function of providing financial support to composers, performances, and recordings of contemporary American music. The fund also gives out the annual Ditson Conductor's Award, established in 1945, which honors conductors who have a distinguished record of championing American music. The collection includes files regarding the selection of this prize across several decades, as well as financial records, meeting minutes, applicant files, and subject files for the general Fund since its creation.

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Vladimir Ussachevsky papers, 1932-1969

8.25 linear feet
The Vladimir Ussachevsky Papers document the academic and professional career of pioneering electronic-music composer Vladimir Ussachevsky. This collection contains teaching and administrative materials, correspondence with other composers, writings and compositions by Ussachevsky and others, and programs, publicity materials, and personal documents.
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İlhan Mimaroğlu Papers, 1926-2012

40 linear feet

The collection documents the career and personal life of Turkish-American electronic music composer, record producer, journalist and cultural critic, photographer, and filmmaker İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926-2012). It includes materials from each of Mimaroğlu's professional interests and activities, the bulk of which date from the early 1950s until his death in 2012.

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The Offering, 1979 February 1 open reel audiotapes Box 21, Item 209

Text by J.S. Bach, in a French translation. Jean Dupuy, speaker. Columbia-Princeton Electronic
Music Center, New York City. Master replaced by copy; Master on LP master reel.

Text by J.S. Bach, in a French translation. Jean Dupuy, speaker. Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City. Master replaced by copy; Master on LP master reel.

  1. Series IV: Music composition and performance, circa 1950-2012
  2. Subseries IV.1: Compositions by İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1963-1996

Series III: Music education and teaching, 1955-1966, undated

circa 1966. While access to the facilities of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (CPEMC

Series III contains material from Mimaroğlu's education in musicology, composition, and music education at Columbia University and Teachers College. The majority of these materials date from 1955 until circa 1966. While access to the facilities of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (CPEMC) was crucial to Mimaroğlu's early compositions, these materials are located in Series IV.