NATIONAL MUSIC NEWSLETTER Volume 37, Number 2 www.nmmusd.org August 2010

The NMM’s Crown Jewels Violoncello by Andrea , Cremona, after 1538. Made for King Charles IX of France.

Viola by , Cremona, ca. 1560. Made for either Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême or King Phillip II of Spain.

Violin by Antonio and Girolamo Amati, Cremona, ca. 1595. Made for King Henry IV of France.

Violin bow attributed to Stradivari workshop, Cremona, ca. 1700. Made for King Charles IV of Spain.

Photo by Bill Willroth Sr. Long drum, Britain, 1714- 1727. Made for the military King Henry IV’s Amati Violin Joins band of King George 1st.

State trumpet by John NMM’s Crown Jewels Nichols, London, 1846- 1847. Made for Queen A violin by Antonio and Girolamo Amati (Cremona, ca. 1595), bearing the Victoria’s First Life armorials of King Henry IV of Navarre and France (1553-1610), was present- Guards. ed by Kevin Schieffer, Sioux Falls (right), a member of the NMM Board of Trustees, to NMM Director, André P. Larson (left), on May 14, 2010. The National Music Museum presentation ceremony, attended by the NMM Board of Trustees and Staff, 414 East Clark Street coincided with the 400th anniversary of the assassination of the popular Vermillion SD 57069 French monarch. 605-677-5306 phone The royal violin, along with its 18th-century case made during the reign of 605-677-6995 fax Louis XVI, will be placed on permanent display in the Rawlins Gallery and [email protected] unveiled on September 24. A detailed technical drawing of The King Henry www.nmmusd.org IV violin is being prepared by Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet, Conservation The Newsletter is published by the Research Assistant, and will be available for purchase later this year. NMM and is available in both printed Visit the NMM website for additional information about the presentation and electronic formats. ©National and images of The King Henry IV violin. Music Museum, 2010. Trustees Visit Utley Collection Medical Imaging Enables Sally Fantle Archival in South Carolina Staff to See “Whole” Picture Research Center Twelve mem- Several priceless, 16th–19th-century Guestbook bers of the NMM instruments from the NMM’s collections, Board of Trus- J . M a r k tees set out on T h o m p s o n June 23 for a (Northwestern visit to the State University, NMM’s Southern Natchitoches, satellite—The Louisiana) holds Joe R. and Jo- the NMM’s Ital- ella F. Utley ian cimbasso by Collection of Bottali. He and Brass Instru- Photo by Margaret Banks his Des Moines ments and Insti- Metro Opera colleagues, Timothy Photo by John Koster Photo by Craig Kridel tute for Brass Howe (Arkansas Technical Uni- S t u d i e s — i n including The King Henry IV Amati vio- versity, Russellville) and Thomas Joella Utley’s home near Spartanburg, South lin, a Neapolitan , and an Hundemer (Centenary College, Carolina. They enjoyed traditional Southern English have recently undergone Shreveport, Louisiana), exam- hospitality and were awestruck by the riches CT scans and endoscopic examinations at ined brass instruments called for of the collection that was donated to the Sanford Hospitals in both Sioux Falls by 19th-20th-century operatic NMM in 1999. and Vermillion. [Read more on NMM website!] composers. Sabine Klaus, the Joe R. Gil Cline, Professor of Music at and Joella F. Utley Curator Seattle Opera Features NMM’s Humboldt State University, Ar- of Brass Instruments, pre- cata, California, examined and sented the group with a Tristan Trumpet (Holztrompete) measured posthorns and bugles tour of the collection’s high- Mike Cwach, Yankton, a doctoral lights. Aided by videos Justin Emerich, Principal Trumpet student at the University of Can- filmed in the Utley home in Seattle Opera’s terbury in Christchurch, New within the last three years, August 2010 pro- Zealand, conducted research the trustees were able to Photo by Mark Olencki duction of Wagner’s about Niobrara, Nebraska, admire not only the visual Tristan und Isolde, bandsman, John Lenger. beauty of the instruments at hand, but also demonstrates how Martha Giles, Virginia Beach, their sounds as they were expertly played by the NMM’s copy of Virginia, investigated the NMM’s a Holztrompete is world-renowned musicians. hammered dulcimer collection. played. Commis- Among the treasures viewed by the Trus- Dorothea Nelson, a graduate stu- tees was a silver State Trumpet made for the sioned by Joe Utley, the copy was made dent in history at the University First Life Guards of Queen Victoria (pictured by Andreas Schoni of North Dakota utilized the re- above), one of a set of three trumpets, the Photo by Rozarii Lynch & Rainer Egger, sources of the Canning Banjo other two of which are still owned by Queen Bern/Basel, Switzer- Collection and Archive in support Elizabeth II and kept at the Tower of Lon- land, in 2001. [Read more on NMM website!] of her thesis concerning 19th- don with the crown jewels. century blackface minstrelsy. The tour culminated in a presentation of BROWN BAG LUNCH PROGRAMS Melanie Piddocke, University of Klaus’ forthcoming book, Trumpets and Other Edinburgh (Scotland), examined High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. September 10. Duos for Harpsichord and the NMM’s basset horn by and Joella F. Utley Collection of Brass Instru- , Asako Hirabayashi (Falcon, Doleisch in support of her PhD ments. [Read more on NMM website!] Heights, MN) and Gail Olszewski dissertation research. Above: Celeste Holler Seraphinoff demonstrates the (Minneapolis). 12:05 p.m. The Violin Making School of sound of a miniature natural horn by Johann Wilhelm September 17. Front Porch Stories & America, Salt Lake City, Utah, Haas, Imperial City of Nürnberg, 1681 (NMM 7213). Blues, Alvin ―Little Pink‖ Anderson sent 24 students and faculty to (Vermillion). 12:05 p.m. the NMM to examine instru- As you do your estate planning, please September 24. The Tudors: Music for ments in the Witten-Rawlins don’t forget to include the National Voice & Lute from the Tudor Courts, Mi- Collection. Music Museum. The care and preser- gnarda Lute Song Duo (Spencer, NY). Kay Widdows, John H. Schroeder vation of the NMM’s great collections 12:05 p.m. Interdisciplinary Chair in Eco- is an awesome responsibility. Your October 1. Muzio Clementi, Father of the nomics at Wabash College, Craw- Pianoforte, Erin Helyard (Montreal). help is needed, if we are to meet the fordsville, Indiana, conducted 12:05 p.m. research about the history of the challenges of the future. Become a October 15. The Euclid Quartet (Indiana commercial violin industry. member of The Amati Society! University South Bend), 12:05 p.m. BEHIND THE SCENES Dizi, Xiao, Shinobue, or Shakuhachi? Curatorial

Visit the NMM Website for additional details. By Kendra Van Nyhuis, U.Discover Summer Scholar Commentary

Click on Links Below to Read Congratulations to The 2010 award of a U.Discover Sum- Articles Posted on the Sarah Deters Rich- mer Scholar grant for undergraduate NMM Website ardson, Curator of research at USD provided me with the Musical Instruments, opportunity to undertake the project “Instrument Identification: who successfully de- ―Dizi, Xiao, Shinobue, or Shakuhachi? Research Tools at the fended her thesis, A Study Focusing on the Collections of NMM” By Arian Sheets ―Instruments of Bamboo Flutes at the National Music War: The Impact of Museum.‖ My faculty sponsor was “Dynamic Research: Earle World War II on the Deborah Check Reeves, Curator of Kent and Conn’s Research American Musical Woodwind Instruments and Associate Department” Instrument Indus- Professor of Music. The goal of my pro- By Margaret Downie Banks Photo by Aaron Packard try,‖ on July 9. The ject was to create a quick and efficient submission of her thesis satisfied USD’s re- method to identify bamboo flutes from “Stop the Music! Band quirements for a Master of Music degree with Eastern Asia. Instrument Manufacturing a concentration in the history of musical in- Based on an ex- During WWII” struments. amination of in- By Sarah Deters Richardson struments at the Margaret Downie Banks, Senior Curator of NMM, I discov- “Mario Maccaferri’s Styron Musical Instruments and Professor of Music, ered that at least attended the grand opening of the Musical Revolution: Alternative Mate- thirteen different rials for Stringed Instruments” Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, April types of tradition- 21-24. [Read more on website!] By Arian Sheets al bamboo flutes, along with tourist NMM staff members Jonathan Bouquet, “Remedies for the ’s or toy flutes, can Sabine Klaus, John Koster, Deborah Check Sore Throat” be found in the Reeves, and Sarah Deters Richardson attend- By Deborah Check Reeves geopolitical region ed the annual meeting of the American Musi- known as Eastern cal Instrument Society at the Library of Con- Asia—Japan, Chi- gress, Washington, DC, May 26-29. Papers na, and Korea. In André P. Larson and the NMM are were presented by Bouquet (―A Closer Look order to help oth- featured in ―Making Music: The Art at The Rawlins by Antonio Stradiva- ers correctly iden- and Craft of David Rivinus,‖ to be ri‖) and Koster (―What Did Photo by Bill Willroth Sr. tify these types, I aired on South Dakota Public Televi- and Sound Like in 1910?‖). created an identification guide sion, September 8 at 8:00 CDT. Reeves was re-elected to another term as Sec- (flowchart) and informational packet Sioux Falls sculptor, Darwin Wolf, retary of the AMIS. did harpsichords that focused on physical characteristics recently replaced the violinist’s miss- that can be observed and used to differ- ing bow and showed NMM staff John Koster, Conser- entiate between the various types. members how to properly clean the vator and Professor of Although I read many published Townsley Courtyard’s bronze statues Music, is participating sources in the course of my research, I that were sculpted by the prominent in several projects found that being able to physically ex- Black Hills sculptor, Michael R. marking the 500th amine the more than eighty bamboo Tuma, in celebration of the South anniversary of the flutes from this region, preserved at the Dakota Centennial in 1989. [Read more birth of the great NMM, was the most helpful aspect of my on website!] Spanish Renaissance ten-week study. I created my own cata- Photo by Margaret Banks organist and composer log sheets for each of these instruments Antonio de Cabezón in order to gather all the relevant infor- (1510-1566). For the mation and measurements in one place. C@BEZON500 project Using the instruments available to me, I organized by the Festi- Photo by Aaron Packard was then able to test my identification val Internacional de Música de Tecla Espa- guide for accuracy. ñola (FIMTE) to make recordings of Cabe- The results of my research were pre- zón’s complete oeuvre available online, sented at one of the weekly U.Discover Koster recorded two works on the NMM’s group meetings and culminated in a harpsichord by Giacomo Ridolfi. Koster, who poster session held in late July. A more is co-chair of FIMTE’s 10th International formal presentation of my research will Symposium to be held in October in Mojácar be made at USD’s IdeaFest (for both (Almería, Spain), will also present a paper at undergraduate and graduate research) in this international event. [Read more on website!] the spring of 2011. NMM BY THE NUMBERS What Makes the NMM Unique?

801 Zithers Collected from Around the Globe

1 Rare, 17th-century Kettle Have you seen the NMM’s new billboards along Interstates 29 & 90 and SD Hwy 50? Gong from Siam or Burma The NMM in Print & On-the-Air NMM Participates in Blue Star Gary Ellenbolt, ―A King’s Violin: from 43 195 Partnership Italy to South Dakota,‖ All Things Con- Instruments Instruments The NMM participated in the Blue Star sidered, National Public Radio, July 7, from Tibet from India Museums initiative during the summer of 2010. About acquisition of The Henry IV and Nepal 2010, in partnership with the National Amati violin. Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Fam- Bruce Gleason, ―The Mounted Band and 265 Field Musicians of the U.S. 7th Cavalry ilies, and more than 600 museums across Instruments from During the Time of the Plains Indian America, to offer free admission to all Southeast Asia active duty military personnel and their War,‖ Historic Brass Society Journal 21 families from Memorial Day through (2009): 69-91. Discusses NMM’s Vinatieri 89 Labor Day. Music Archive. Instruments from Oceania Steven Mazey, ―New Fiddle, 300-year-old Sound: Exact Copy of a 1693 Stradivari Tom Brokaw Narrates New NMM Violin Made in Ottawa Debuts Tonight,‖ 336 260 Promotional Video The Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 2010. Copy Instruments Instruments of The Harrison Stradivari violin by Cana- A grant received from the SD Commu- from China, from Africa dian Guy Harrison. nity Foundation’s nonprofit award fund Japan, and enabled the production of a new promo- Paul Niemisto, ―The Recent Rebirth of Korea tional video produced by the Blue Fire the Russian Horn Capella,‖ Alta Musica Design Group of Sioux Falls. Narrated 28 (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2010): 303- 1 Rare, 17th-century 304. Two Utley Collection horns featured. by former NBC News Anchor and noted Pamir Robab (Long-necked USD Alumni, Tom Brokaw, the video Albert R. Rice, ―Making and Improving the Nineteenth-Century ,‖ Lute) from Pamir Region of will be used in conjunction with group Central Asia presentations and as a free-standing Journal of the American Musical Instru- presentation during the NMM’s upcom- ment Society 35 (2009): 81-122. Includes ing capital campaign, according to Ted from the NMM’s collections. 96 Muenster, NMM’s Development Officer. Erin Shrader, ―The French Connection— Instruments from Central and National Music Museum Receives the Rar- The video can also be viewed on South America YouTube. est of Gifts,‖ Strings 184 (August 2010): 68. About The Henry IV Amati violin.

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