Overview
Contains musical scores by the Boston-based composer Edward Burlingame Hill.
Dates
- Creation: 1892-1953
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
14.5 linear feet (22 boxes)Contains many musical compositions written by Hill throughout his career, including those for his four symphonies, panotmimes, several concertinos and concertos, sonatinas and sonatas, jazz studies, quartets, and many other orchestral and vocal pieces. Hill often wrote music to accompany poetry, and the collection includes compositions written for poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Symons, Rudyard Kipley, Henry Copley Greene, Christina Rossetti, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, among others.
Biographical / Historical
Edward Burlingame Hill was born September 9, 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1894, and studies music in Boston with John Knowles Paine, Frederick Field Bullard, Margaret Ruthven Lang, and others. As a Harvard faculty member, Hill taught students like Leonard Bernstein, Roger sessions, and Elliott Carter, among others. In his work as a composer, Hill wrote a wide variety of music: four symphonies, four symphonic poems, two orchestral pantomimes, two orchestral suites, two piano concertos, one violin concerto, one cor anglaise concerto, chamber music, jazz studies, a single choral ode, and a single cantata.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by title.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Unknown source and dates.
Processing Information
Arranged by Barbara Wolffs; description by Betts Coup, 2019.
- Title
- Hill, Edward Burlingame, 1872-1960. Edward Burlingame Hill scores, 1892-1953 (MS Mus 282): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2019 April 26
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou03162
Repository Details
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