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  • James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Nature's Table Collection, 1979-1999
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Peter Michalove Music and Papers, 1772-1894 and 1924-2014
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Consists of news clippings, photographs, music programs, correspondence, and original music compositions documenting his educational experiences growing up in Greensboro, North Carolina as well as his tenure as a composition student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois between 1963 and 1976.
  • Sousa Archives Music Instrument Digital Image and 3D Model Collection
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music (SACAM) acquires and preserves significant archival records and historical artifacts in multiple formats that document America's diverse music heritage. The Center’s collection of historical music instruments, dating between 1810-1972, include rare cornets and trumpets, early boxwood clarinets and flutes, unique double-reed sarrusophones, bassoons and Heckelphone, unusual harps and zithers, prototype electronic Hawaiian guitars and Sal Mar Construction, and Civil War era military horns. The Center’s music instruments complement its significant archival collections that document the lives and careers of such musicians and band leaders as John Philip Sousa, Herbert L. Clarke, Claude Gordon, as well as University of Illinois Band Directors A. Austin Harding, and Mark Hindsley. The instruments also document early technological developments associated with both European and American music instrument manufacturing by such important manufacturers as Frank Holton, F. Besson, C.G. Conn, Isaac Fiske, John F. Stratton, Graves & Co., A. G. Wright, and Christian R. Stark. The provenance of each instrument is identified in each set of images. Each instrument from the archive’s collections is being photographed from multiple viewpoints. In addition to high resolution still images of the fronts, backs, sides, tops, and bottoms of each instrument, fully accessible 3-dimensional digital models are being created for each of the instruments. These 3D images are highly interactive, allowing online users to move, rotate, turn, pan across, and zoom in and out of each model to more fully examine the intricate details of instrument. The Center’s ultimate long-term goal is to create digital sound files for each playable instrument and incorporate them into its music instrument digital library which will provide users with broadest multi-media educational experience using today’s online technologies.
  • Thomas Paynter Music and Papers
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Physical collection consists of original music scores and parts, photographs, programs, posters, correspondence, scrapbooks, audiovisual recordings, a Korg Model X5D Electronic Synthesizer Keyboard, and memorabilia documenting Tom Paynter's career as a composer, band leader for his music ensemble, Ear Doctor, and music student at the University of Illinois between 1982 and 2019. Of particular note are Paynter's dissertation on Eric Dolphy and his original music compositions written for his band, Ear Doctor.
  • World War I Sheet Music from the James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music
    Sousa Archives and Center for American Music  ·   Digital Special Collections