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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"18.5 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"22 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"JPB 04-13", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20310", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1905-1992", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1905/1992"}
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1905
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1992
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1905
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{"value"=>"Miriam Gideon papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. <span class=\"subarea\">Music Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The papers of the American composer Miriam Gideon consist primarily of scores and sketches; they also include concert programs, press clippings, school notebooks and papers, personal writing and awards."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Miriam Gideon Papers, JPB 04-13. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Gideon, Miriam, 1906-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The American composer Miriam Gideon (b Greeley, CO, 23 Oct 1906; d New York, 18 June 1996) grew up in Boston and, from age 10, New York. Her parents were a professor of literature and an elementary school teacher. Gideon began music lessons after her family moved to New York, studying piano with her uncle, Henry Gideon, and later with Hans Barth and Felix Fox. Gideon graduated from Boston University in 1926 with a BA in French and mathematics, after which she studied composition privately with Lazare Saminsky (1931 1934) and Roger Sessions (1935 1943). Gideon later received an MA in literature from Columbia University (1946), as well as a doctorate in sacred music from the Jewish Theological Seminary (1981). During her career she taught composition at Brooklyn College, City College, Jewish Theological Seminary and Manhattan School of Music. She also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Brooklyn College (1983), was only the second female composer to be inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1975), and received awards and commissions from, among others, the Ford, Rockefeller and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundations.</p> <p>Gideon was strongly interested in bridging literature and music and produced many musical settings and song cycles for poems, often in two languages. A prolific composer, she also produced music for two complete Jewish Sabbath services (including <span class=\"title\">Shirat Miriam LShabbat</span>, 1974); an opera (<span class=\"title\">Fortunato</span>, 1958); and instrumental compositions, including pieces for orchestra (<span class=\"title\">Symphonia Brevis</span>, 1953) string quartet (1946), and sonatas for flute (1943) and piano (1977). Her harmonic language was often atonal, though not systematically so (she described her music as free atonal). Gideon was a proponent of new music and helped form the American Composers Orchestra in 1977. From the 1970s onward she was often cited as a role model for young female composers, though she admitted later that she had never thought of herself as a woman composer before that time. Gideons husband was the author/scholar Frederick Ewen.</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Ardito, Linda. Gideon, Miriam, <span class=\"title\">Grove Music Online</span> ed. L. Macy (Accessed 7 Jan. 2005), <http://www.grovemusic.com></p> <p>Kessler, Minuetta. Miriam Gideon: Doctor of Sacred Music in Composition. <span class=\"title\">The Pen Woman</span>, June 1985.</p> <p>Kozinn, Allan. Miriam Gideon, 89, a Composer of Vocal and Orchestral Music. <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, June 20, 1996, D21.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Miriam Gideon Papers consist of 18.5 linear feet of material dating from 1905 to 1992. The bulk of the Papers date from 1930 to 1990 and consist primarily of published and unpublished scores, parts and sketches documenting Gideons early compositional efforts and her mature work in progress. They also include a detailed collection of concert programs and clippings which document the performances of her work; a set of text and music notebooks used in Gideons school studies, as well as papers she wrote for her degrees; a small amount of correspondence and personal journals; and several of the awards and commendations she received during her life.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Miriam Gideon papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20310#c560886'>Series I: Scores and Sketches</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1928 - 1990 and undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>15 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of published and unpublished scores, parts and sketches. Many of the scores and parts were used in performance and bear marks written by the composer, conductors or performers. All phases of Gideons career are represented in this series; many of the early pieces are unpublished.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20310#c561195'>Series II: Concert Programs and Clippings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1965 - 1992 and undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The combined elements of this series document the history of the public performances of Gideons work, and the reaction to them, from the middle 1960s to the early 1990s. Many performances are documented in both sub-series.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20310#c561246'>Series III: Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1905 - 1988 and undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Most of this series consists of papers Gideon wrote and notes she took in various classes for her degrees or studies with composition teachers. The rest consists of correspondence, personal journals and poetry.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20310#c561316'>Series IV: Awards</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1974 - 1986</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Notable awards in this series include Gideons doctoral degree from Jewish Theological Seminary (1981) and her induction certificate into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1975). Some of the folders also include correspondence regarding the award and photos of Gideon receiving them.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Miriam Gideon Papers are organized in the following series and sub-series:</p> <p> <ul> <li>Series I: Scores and Sketches, 1928 1990 and undated<ul> <li>Sub-series 1: Scores and Associated Sketches, 1928 1990 and undated</li> <li>Sub-series 2: Other Sketches, 1929 1980 and undated</li> <li>Sub-series 3: Oversized Scores, 1937 1989</li></ul></li> <li>Series II: Concert Programs and Clippings, 1965 1992 and undated<ul> <li>Sub-series 1: Concert Programs, 1965 1992 and undated</li> <li>Sub-series 2: Clippings, 1966 1991 and undated</li></ul></li> <li>Series III: Writings, 1905 1988 and undated<ul> <li>Sub-series 1: School Work, 1905 1969 and undated</li> <li>Sub-series 2: Correspondence, 1926 1988 and undated</li> <li>Sub-series 3: Personal, 1925 1941 and undated</li></ul></li> <li>Series IV: Awards, 1974 1986</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Alexander Ewen, 1997.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Photocopying prohibited.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division.</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Box 13, folder 9-10; Box 14, folder 1-2; Box 21, folder 6, 8, are also available on microfilm; service copy number: *ZB-4292</p>"}
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fre
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{"value"=>"Some of the material in the writings series is in French"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Matthew Snyder; Machine-readable finding aid created by Matthew Snyder.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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18.5 linear feet (22 boxes)
- date_start
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1905
- date_end
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1992