Scope and Content The James Murray Barbour collection contains correspondence with numerous individuals, most notably with Gladys Watson Tipple, whose enthusiasm for dividing the musical scale into 53 intervals led to a year-long correspondence and the creation of a template slide rule. The collection also contains Barbour’s article for MGG (Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) and the preparatory work for that article, as well as numerous reviews and articles in the original journal issues. Other material...

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The collection was transferred from the Capital Area District Library. It consists of manuscript materials that were written by Mary K. Sarlow along with correspondence, articles, personal materials, sheet music, demo records, poetry, lyrics, and photographs.

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Scope and Content The Reidar Haugan collection contains orginal compostions by Haugan as well as arrangements. Unless otherwise noted, music is in Haugan’s hand, in black ink. Most words with the letter “u” follow the Germanic custom of a curved or straight line above the letter. The pieces have a penciled “G number”, which indicates they were given to the MSU Library as gifts. Each gift had a unique number. Slips with the G number and author/title information were filed in the public author-title catalog...