MUS. Music, Dance

Research material gathered by the noted educator, composer, conductor and musicologist, Dr. Robert Strassburg (1915-2003), focusing on the career and life of composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959).

Publications, correspondence, contracts, concert posters, tour itineraries, lyrics, albums, photographs, awards, instruments, clothes, and artifacts belonging to American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer, Bo Diddley (Ellas McDaniel), who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

Programs and performances sponsored by the Philharmonic Society of Gainesville as well as other society records.

Personal papers belonging to feminist author, musician, and healer Flash Silvermoon (Deborah Kotler).

Performing Arts research collection comprising materials collected by Professor Estelle Aden related to her own research and for theater classes she taught with materials on artists, entertainers, writers, and playwrights.

Instructional materials, including exercises for singing and voice control, syllabi, and instructional placards, of John William DeBruyn.

Band materials, personal and professional correspondence, mementos and souvenirs, printed materials, records related to music clinics, festivals, and conferences, and publications by and about the musician, Harold B. Bachman.

Copies of the original scores of two concert marches Bowles composed: "The Invisible Boundary" and "Sword and Shield."

Musical scores composed or arranged by Budd Udell, most of which were created using the Ozalid process.

Collection of 753 pieces of American (U.S.A.) sheet music pertaining to the First World War (1914-18), the 12-volume compact disk set of WORLD WAR ONE SONGS (produced by Old Time Victrola Music), and a copy of the two-volume 2007 McFarland publication WORLD WAR I SHEET MUSIC by Bernard Parker.