Visiting Research Fellowships Available

Fellowships are open to qualified scholars engaged in pre/post doctoral or independent research directly related to AMRC collections or projects. A stipend of $800 is offered to help defray travel and lodging costs. Please contact Susan Thomas, AMRC Director, for additional information. 303-492-7540 or Susan.Thomas-1@colorado. edu

The American Music Research Center (AMRC) is a rare music repository dedicated to exploring the rich traditions of American music. We share our resources with students, faculty, scholars, and the public through concerts, symposia, lectures, publications, and other scholarly activities. We also serve as a research archive for those wishing to preserve American music and enhance its cultural and transformational potential for future generations.

For additional information about the AMRC and collection details: www.colorado.edu/amrc Examples of Collections at the AMRC

Sheet Music: Over 200,000 pieces Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946), Karl Kroeger, Professor and Austin Lovelace: Original of sheet music dating from the mid- Parlor Songwriter: Clippings, Librarian: Original musical compositions, manuscripts, business eighteenth century to the present, photos and scrapbooks of the first compositions, publications, records, and personal papers of one with particular strength in the Tin Pan woman to sell a million copies of her programs, writings and Colonial-era of America’s greatest modern hymn Alley era. The collection includes song “I Love You Truly” (1901). tune books. writers. songs which describe every aspect of American life and history. Jean Berger: Manuscripts and Perry Como: TV program scripts, Walter Collins’s College published music, photographs, musical scores and arrangements, Songbooks: More than 200 19th- Early American Sacred Music: Over journals, correspondence and awards, recordings, music books, and 20th-century college songbooks 1,500 tune books and hymnals from writings of this nationally prominent pamphlets, sheet music, photographs that contain fight songs, alma maters, the earliest days of music printing in American composer. and similar materials from his long original tunes and arrangements of America. Includes first and early time director Nick Perito. folk songs and popular music for editions of important musical Cecil Effinger: Manuscripts and local use. publications of the era, works by early printings of many works, Glenn Miller: Manuscripts, William Billings, Lowell Mason and photographs, personal papers and recordings, personal papers, class College of Music: Manuscripts, John Wesley. three Effinger Musicwriters. notes, business records, artifact, and personal papers and Recorded Oral other materials relating to the Swing Histories for several notable former Susan Porter: Paper records and Silent Film Music: Organ and era’s most successful and beloved faculty members and prominent sound recordings of the Great Black orchestral music used to provide live band leader. Boulder musicians including George Swamp Dulcimer Festival that Porter musical accompaniment during the Crumb, Effinger and Berger directed for fifteen years. silent film era. Includes cue sheets Colorado Folk Music: More than (mentioned separately), Storm Bull, from specific films, incidental mood 500 tapes collected by late CU Berton Coffin, Charles Eakin, Howard George Lynn: An extensive and atmosphere music and full English professor, Ben Gray Lumpkin Waltz and Warner Imig. collection of the published original scores. The Alvin G. Layton and others, fully digitized and compositions of this prominent choral collection contains about 2,400 available on line. Helen Walker-Hill, Pianist, conductor and educator. arrangements for small orchestra. Educator: Photocopies of Normand Lockwood: Lockwood’s compositions for piano, chamber Dave Grusin, CU Alum and Film Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), manuscripts and early publications ensemble, vocal, choral and Composer: Original scores, parts, Composer, Critic: Photocopies of for his original (in some cases, orchestral works by black women and sketches for compositions for correspondence and personal files. unpublished) compositions, composers of the U.S. Most originals films, TV shows, concerts and Originals held by Yale University. correspondence, teaching materials, are at Columbia College, Chicago, commercials. family mementos and recordings. Center for Black Music Research.