Arthur Lange scores

id
499
origination
Lange, Arthur, 1889-1959
date statement
1907-1950
key date
1907
identifier (local_mss)
19994
org unit
Music Division
call number
JPB 91-95
b-number
b11456484
total components
241
total series
0
max depth
4
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 14:58:56 UTC
updated
2026-01-20 20:49:46 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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unitid
{"value"=>"JPB 91-95", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19994", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1907/1950", "value"=>"1907-1950"}
date_inclusive_start
1907
date_inclusive_end
1950
keydate
1907
date_start
1907
date_end
1950
unittitle
{"value"=>"Arthur Lange scores"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca. 200 items of music"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"49 cm. or smaller"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Music Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
langmaterial
{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>Arthur Lange scores, Music Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Lange, Arthur, 1889-1959", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Lange, Arthur, 1889-1956, American composer, arranger, and conductor.</p> <p>A complete biography, chronology, filmography, and bibliography concerning Arthur Lange appear in <em>The Cue Sheet: The Journal of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music</em>, Volume 7, Number 4, and December 1990.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>Film scores, music manuscripts, published music, unpublished arrangements for various films, sheet music from Tin Pan Alley, photographs, news clippings, autobiographical material, and scrapbooks.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Arthur Lange scores are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/19994#c1194485'>Series 1. Film Scores - International Pictures, Inc</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/19994#c1194491'>Series 2. Bound volumes entitled, \"Alpha - Omega\"</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>The Arthur Lange Collection was donated to the Music Division and processing made possible by Lance Bowling.</p>"}
relatedmaterial
{"type"=>"host", "value"=>"<p>Lange, Arthur, 1889-1959. Papers</p>"}
note
{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Includes holographs in pencil and ink, many signed (some photocopies); and published music (various publishers)"}
{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Includes sheet music for popular songs; musical sketches; scores and some parts for concert works; arrangements; excerpts from film scores, including Under Your Spell, The Great Ziegfeld, Magnificent Brute, and The Vicious Years; and complete film scores for the movies: Casanova Brown, Belle of the Yukon, The Woman in the Window, It's a Pleasure, and Along Came Jones. There is one item by Dimitri Tiomkin, probably arranged by Lange. Much of the music is contained in bound volumes and portfolios entitled \"Alpha to Omega\". Some film score excerpts were composed in collaboration with other composers, chiefly Charles Maxwell"}
extent_statement
ca. 200 items of music
abstract
{"value"=>" Film scores, music manuscripts, published music, unpublished arrangements for various films, sheet music from Tin Pan Alley, photographs, news clippings, autobiographical material, and scrapbooks.", "generated"=>true}

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