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{"value"=>"JPB 06-28", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20400", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1929-1987", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1929/1987"}
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1929
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1987
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1929
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Henry Leland Clarke 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 majority of the collection consists of Henry Leland Clarke’s scores from 1929 to 1978. There are several drafts of many of the compositions in the collection. There is also correspondence, clippings, programs and other professional records, including extensive documentation of Clarke's membership in the Unitarian Universalist Hymnbook Commission, including indexes, texts, scores, reports and memos."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Henry Leland Clarke Papers, JPB 06-28. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Clarke, Henry Leland", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Henry Leland Clarke, American composer and professor of music, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, on March 9, 1907. His studies at Harvard University (1924-29, 1931-32, and 1944-47) included a course in composition with Gustav Holst. He also studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger (1929-31) and in New York and Bennington with Hans Weisse and Otto Luening (1932-38). He held several teaching posts, retiring from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1977 as professor emeritus. He afterwards moved to Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he died on March 30, 1992. In addition to his academic work, Clarke composed two full-length operas. The first, <span class=\"title\">The Loafer and the Loaf</span>, was completed in 1951 and concerns a debate over the morality of stealing a loaf of bread. The music is essentially tonal and makes apt use of musical quotation, with some experimentation with chromaticism and atonality. The vocal lines are rhythmically complex and feature the wide leaps that became characteristic of his later work in the genre. In 1972, Clarke finished his second opera, <span class=\"title\">Lysistrata</span>, based on the play by Aristophanes. The musical style is essentially atonal, with some use of speech-song in the vocal lines. The dramatic character of Lysistrata is portrayed by the wide range and leaps in her vocal lines, in vivid contrast to her comic foils, whose vocal parts are set in a more tonal idiom with frequent use of patter. This work shows the full development of Clarke's 'word tones', in which a specific pitch is assigned to each word of the text, that particular pitch being used at each occurrence of the same word. Clarke was also a member of the Composers' Collective of New York and wrote songs for the group under the pseudonym J. Fairbanks. The collective, which grew out of a seminar in writing songs for the masses in 1933, sought to make an American contribution to the international working-class music movement then flourishing in Europe.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p> The collection contains compositions of Henry Leland Clarke. It includes drafts, orchestral scores, parts and vocal scores of his opera <span class=\"title\">Lysistrata</span>. Among other works are <span class=\"title\">The Loafer and the Loaf</span>, and many scores for piano and vocal such as <span class=\"title\">Alive and Well and Rolling Down the Valley</span>, <span class=\"title\">Blessed is the Man</span>, <span class=\"title\">Confitemini Domino</span>, <span class=\"title\">Let Peace Encircle All the World</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Time Shall Come</span> and others. There are also professional papers which includes correspondence, clippings, programs, Clarke’s writings and notes, his school studies in harmony, papers related to Clarke’s activities in The Hymn Society in America, the International Society for Contemporary Music, the National Association for Composers and Conductors, the Society for Music in the Liberal Art College, and the Unitarian Universalist Hymnbook Commission.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Henry Leland Clarke papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20400#c609114'>Series I: Professional Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1929-1984, undated</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> This Series includes correspondence, clippings, programs and other professional records. There is a extensive documentation of Clarke's work in the Unitarian Universalist Hymnbook Commission as a member, including indexes, texts, scores, reports and memos. There are also professional papers which include correspondence, clippings, programs, Clarke’s writings and notes, his school studies in harmony, papers related to Clarke’s activity in the The Hymn Society in America, the International Society for Contemporary Music, the National Association for Composers and Conductors, and the Society for Music in the Liberal Art College.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20400#c609167'>Series II: Scores (1930-1987, undated}</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>Series II: Scores (1930-1987, undated</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This Series includes scores of Clarke’s work from 1929 to 1978. It is includes drafts, orchestral scores, parts and vocal scores of his operas <span class=\"title\">Lysistrata</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Loafer and the Loaf</span>. Among other works are many scores for piano and vocal like <span class=\"title\">Alive and Well and Rolling Down the Valley</span>, <span class=\"title\">Blessed is the Man</span>, <span class=\"title\">Confitemini Domino</span>, <span class=\"title\">Let Peace Encircle All the World</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Time Shall Come</span> and others.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division.</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p> {manditory if applicable - statement regarding availability of collection on microfil, in published form, etc.}manditory if applicable - statement regarding availability of collection on microfil, in published form, etc.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p></p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Liavon Yurevich; Machine-readable finding aid created by Liavon Yurevich.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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10 linear feet (24 boxes)
- date_start
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1929
- date_end
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1987