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The Walter Harding Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections

A Guide to the Collection

Box [x]: Music

Abrahamsen, Hans. Miscellaneous. Box
Brown, Norman O. "John Cage: A Lecture at Wesleyan University, February 22-7, 1988" Box  

Briccetti, Thomas. "From Thoreau"

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Buckley, R. Bishop, and George P. Knauff. "Wait for the Wagon" Box
Burk, James M. "About Thoreau's Flute" includes photographs Box

Bustin, Dillon. "The Direction of His Dreams"

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Cage, John

By John Cage:

  • Correspondence with Walter Harding
  • Etchings, 1978-1982
  • "The Future of Music"
  • Interview, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1984
  • Note re Recent Texts
  • "Renga 1974-75"
  • Thoreau drawings

About John Cage:

  • Bell, Jane. "John Cage: 'You can have art...'" (ARTnews March 1979)
  • Miscellaneous clippings, etc.
  • Richards, M.C. "John Cage and the Way of the Ear" (TriQuarterly #54)
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Choset, Charles
  • Correspondence with Walter Harding
  • Miscellaneous
  • Walden, a New Oratorio
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Correspondence with Walter Harding (with related clippings) re: Music including:
  • Corner, Philip
  • Fennelly, Brian
  • Foss, Lucas
  • Goossen, Frederic
  • Heim, Norman
  • Hovhaness, Alan
  • LaMontaine, John
  • Lundberg, Harriet A.
  • Mclean, Priscilla
  • Scibilia, Ed
  • Winter, Paul
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Lamin, Marian. "Discovery of Thoreau books thrills educator" (New Jersey Suburbanite 25 September 1985) Box  
Hannay, Roger
  • Correspondence with Walter Harding
  • Songs from Walden, for lyric tenor voice with piano accompaniment
  • New Songs from Walden, for soprano with piano accompaniment
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Hatch, Francis. "Henry Thoreau" Box
Healey, Derek. "The Brown Season" Box
Husa, Karel
  • Correspondence with Walter Harding
  • "Every Day" a capella
  • "There Are From Time to Time Mornings" from An American Te Deum, fro baritone solo and piano
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Ives, Charles

By Charles Ives

 

About Charles Ives

  • Chmaj, Betty E. "Sonata for American Studies: Perspectives on Charles Ives" [Prospects 1979]
  • DiYanni, Robert. "In the American Grain: Charles Ives and the Transcendentalists" [Journal of American Culture 1981]
  • Feder, Stuart. "Charles Ives and the Unanswered Question" [The Psychoanalytic Study of Society 10]
  • Feder, Stuart. "The Ponds of Thoreau and Charles Ives" [typescript of paper read at The Thoreau Society Jubilee, 12 July 1991]
  • Goudie, Andrea.  "Exploring the Broad Margins: Charles Ives's Interpretation of Thoreau" [The Midwest Quarterly 1972]
  • Miscellaneous clippings
  • Rosa, Alfred F. "Charles Ives: Music, Transcendentalism and Politics" [The New England Quarterly 44]
  • Ward, Charles W. "Charles Ives's Concept of Music" [Concert Musicology 1974]
  • Winter, Paul. "Consorting with Ives" program
Kelley, Abner W. "Literary Theories about program Music" (PMLA June 1937) Box
Lowens, Irving. "Writings about Music in the Periodicals of American Transcendentalism (1835-50)" (Journal of the American Musicological Society Summer 1957) Box 
McKay, George Frederick. "Summer" for women's voices Box

Miscellaneous clippings

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Morgan, Henry. "More Day to Dawn" Box
Moseley, Caroline
  • "Henry D. Thoreau and His Favorite Popular Song" (Journal of Popular Culture Spring 1979)
  • "Precisely the Most Tender and Popular Songs: Henry D. Thoreau's Musical Taste" (typescript)
  • "Some Observations on the Thoreau Family's Sheet Music" (typescript)
  • "Thoreau, Emerson and the Rainers" (typescript)
  • "The Thoreau Family's Sheet Music" (Sonneck Society Newsletter Fall 1978)
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Programs

  • "American Music in the Twentieth Century" / Nassau Community College, May 9-11, 1967
  • Arts Club of Washington, 19 January 1967 
  • "A Thoreau Music Sampler" / Thoreau Society Annual Meeting, 14 July 1991
  • Jubilee Festival Concert / Clark University, 12 July 1991
  • Principia Orchestra Concert / Principia College, 19 May 1972
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Rhoads, Kenneth W. "Thoreau: The Ear and the Music" (American Literature (November 1974) Box
Russell, Stephen. "The Oyster Song" Box
Scores
  • Bacon, Ernst. "Cabin in the Rain, Katahdin Cabin, Maine" from Spirits & Places
  • Cone, Edwin. Excursions: Suite for Six-Part Chorus of Mixed Voices
  • Crocket, Donald. The Pensive Traveller: Six Songs on Poems by Henry David Thoreau for High Voice and Piano
  • Dibdin, Charles. Tom Bowling
  • Forman, Joanne. Walden Songs, for soprano (or tenor) and English horn
  • Glickman, Eugene. Credos
  • Hartway, James. Impressions of Walden
  • Heald, Albert. A New England Pilgrimage
  • Hockett, Charles F. Three Songs on Poems of Henry David Thoreau, for bass voice
  • Huston, Scott. "I Walked by Night Last Moon" for voices, harp and Orff instruments
  • Johnson, Helen Kendrick. Our Familiar Songs and Those Who Made Them (photocopied excerpts)
  • Johnston, Ben. Five Fragments from Thoreau's Walden
  • Kelley, Robert. Walden Pond: A Cantata for mixed choir and percussion ensemble, flute, piano, soprano, narrator 
  • Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. "Smoke" for four-part chorus of mixed voices
  • Kotzwara, Franz. The Battle of Prague, A Favorite Sonata for the Piano Forte or Harpsichord
  • Kovar, Anton. Concord Suite: Thoreau
  • Kovar, Anton. A Melodic Method for Violin
  • Kowalsky, Steve. Voluntary Night (1991) 
  • Lee, Thomas Oboe. That Mountain (1991)
  • Liberty and Anti-Slavery Song Book (1842) (photocopy, from ESQ 36)
  • Mason, Daniel Gregory. Chanticleer, Festival Overture, for orchestra
  • Mason, Daniel Gregory. Music in My Time (photocopied excerpts) 
  • Oliver, Harold. Walden: A Cantata, for women's chorus, piano & percussion
  • Penn, Marilyn. "Four Songs on Poems by Thoreau"
  • Penn, Marilyn. "To Live Deliberately"
  • Wetzler, Robert "The Wilderness: Vocal solo for high voice"
 
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Smithers, Chris. "Henry David Thoreau"  Box
Stokes, Eric. Miscellaneous Box
Suber, Stephen. "Upon the Bank at early Dawn" Box
Taylor, James. "Walking Man" [lyrics only] Box
Thoreau, Henry D. "Thoreau on Music: Passages from Thoreau's Notebooks" / culled by Harold Goddard (typescript) Box
Wolnski, Joseph E. "American Twentieth-Century Music Compositions (and some songs) Based on Thoreau" (typescript) Box

 


 


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