- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3.5 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"JPB 06-13", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20343", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1921-1993", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1921/1993"}
{"value"=>"1941-1988", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1941/1988"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1921
- date_inclusive_end
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1993
- keydate
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1921
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Harold Newman papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Music Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Harold Newman Papers document the business of a premier recorder music publisher, and demonstrate his efforts to increase the instrument's popularity."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Harold Newman Papers, JPB 06-13. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Newman, Harold, 1903-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Harold Newman was born in the Lower East Side of New York City, circa 1903. His first definitive experience with music occurred in 1908 during kindergarten class, when his teacher played the piano and he asked her after class to play more for him. Newman's family directed his education towards business, resulting in his first career as an accountant. However, he continued to study music privately, as well as English literature. It was the latter pursuit that changed his life; while reading Shakespeare's <span class=\"title\">Hamlet</span>, he encountered a line about a \"recorder,\" an instrument he'd never heard of before. He learned to play one, and quickly became so enthusiastic about the instrument that he became the first president of the American Recorder Society, a post he held from 1939-1951.</p> <p>In 1940 Newman befriended the American composer Gail Kubik, and commissioned the first American composition for recorder - <span class=\"title\">Suite for Three Recorders</span>. In order to make this piece available, Newman formed a publishing firm named after himself and Kubik - Hargail Recorder Music Publishers. He also established a record label called Hargail Records to distribute recordings of the recorder, as well as other contemporary American music. During the 1950s his interests expanded to include folk music, as he saw the opportunity to publish music for recorder and guitar, and to help make the recorder part of the American cultural pattern. He also promoted the recorder in elementary schools, as a simple and inexpensive way to teach children about music.</p> <p>The 1950s and 1960s were a boom time for recorder sales worldwide, and Hargail played a role as an American distributor for two foreign companies, Küng (Switzerland) and Toyama (Japan). Hargail's relationship with Toyama began with exclusive distribution rights for the Northeastern states, and in the mid-1960s, the two companies developed the plastic Aulos recorder line. Hargail also manufactured its own plastic recorder, named Harvard, and distributed it internationally.</p> <p>In addition to commissioning works for the recorder, Newman contributed to more than 25 publications, either as the author, arranger, or editor of collected works. In 1975 he began work on a memoir and history of the recorder. Titled <span class=\"title\">The House that Hamlet Built</span>, it was not published. Newman continued to compose music for the recorder through the 1980s, and he remained president of Hargail until his death. He died on August 6, 1989, and left a bequest to the City University of New York, where a music library is named after him.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Harold Newman Papers contain a sample of his work as a publisher of recorder music. While the collection does not cover everything he published, a significant number of the composers and authors he worked with are documented. The majority of music published by Hargail is organized under the arranger's name, rather than the original composer. The oldest item in the collection is the program from Newman's high school commencement; there is very little other personal material that does not relate to the recorder, and no evidence of his career prior to 1941.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Harold Newman papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20343#c591752'>Series I: Music Publishing Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1941-1992, undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.25 linear feet (2.5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of the files Newman kept concerning composers or music that he published. Most of the composer files contain correspondence, if not with the composer, then with an agent, and detail some of the negotiations involved with publishing. The organization of these files follows Newman's original order, except for the two general alphabetical folders, which contain the less detailed files. Other files contain specific works of music or collections, either the published copy or a printer's proof; any extra material is noted.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20343#c591815'>Series II: Professional Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1921-1993, undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>.75 linear feet (1.5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Newman's professional papers are primarily related to the recorder, but were not found organized as the files in series I. The significant materials in this series are compositions, drafts of Newman's unpublished memoir - \"The House that Hamlet Built,\" and photographs.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20343#c591849'>Oversized Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1944-1981, undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.5 linear feet (2 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>All of the folders in this series are oversized music publishing files, except for one folder with a photograph and drawing (Box 6, folder 11). Most of the material is scores in various states of completion - sketches, proofs, or the published version.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is organized into three series. They are:</p> <p> <ul> <li>Series I: Music Publishing Files, 1941-1992, undated</li> <li>Series II: Professional Papers, 1921-1993, undated</li> <li>Series III: Oversized Materials, 1944-1981, undated</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Esther Tow Newman donated the Harold Newman Papers to the Music Division in 1993.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Sound recordings <ul> <li>LPs <ul> <li>Pat Boone, Twixt Twelve and Twenty/ Rock Boll Weevil, undated - 45 rpm</li> <li>Two \"pocket\" records - Japanese, JASRAC 1441 and 1857</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Anastasia Karel; Machine-readable finding aid created by Anastasia Karel.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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3.5 linear feet (6 boxes)
- date_start
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1921
- date_end
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1993
- date_bulk_start
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1941
- date_bulk_end
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1988