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Notes 58.3 (2002) 536-540

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The Scheide Music Library in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies at Princeton University (Paula Matthews, Music Librarian) was renamed on 30 July 2001 the Arthur Mendel Music Library. Arthur Mendel served as chair of the Department of Music at Princeton from 1952 to 1967, and held the Henry Putnam University Professorship until his retirement in 1973. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 74. Mendel was widely known as the foremost American Bach scholar of his generation. Mendel's editions and studies of Bach's life and works, most notably the documentary biography The Bach Reader (with Hans T. David, revised ed. [New York: Norton, 1966]), and his practical and critical editions of the St. John Passion, brought him great recognition. He was honored by a Festschrift published in 1974 (Robert L. Marshall, ed., Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Music in Honor of Arthur Mendel [Kassel: Bärenreiter; Hackensack, N.J.: Boonin]) which includes an essay by William Scheide entitled "Some Miscellaneous Chorale Forms in J. S. Bach's Vocal Works" (pp. 209-27).

In 1997, the music collections of Princeton University were brought together for the first time with the opening of the Scheide Music Library in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Firestone Library complements the music library, for it holds important parts of Princeton's music collection. Foremost among its resources is the Hall Handel Collection of first and early editions of the works of George Frideric Handel, the largest such collection in the United States. In a room adjacent to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, visitors will find William Scheide's private library. Although it is not primarily a music collection, this library includes some extraordinary musical treasures, such as the fair copy of Wagner's Das Rheingold, a Beethoven sketchbook, and autograph manuscripts of works by Mozart and Bach.

At Scheide's suggestion, the Music Library has been renamed to honor Arthur Mendel for his contributions as Bach scholar, performer, editor, critic, and teacher to the discipline of music. A sign marking this change appears in the Music Library's foyer and reads as follows:

The University and the Department of Music here gratefully recognize William H. Scheide, Class of 1936, HD 1994, an original Friend of Music at Princeton whose generosity made possible the construction of The Arthur Mendel Music Library. 1997. [End Page 536]

The Northwestern University Music Library (Don L. Roberts, Head) has received a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to provide electronic bibliographic access to its extensive holdings of manuscripts and special collections. The two-year project will focus on converting data in the card catalog of manuscripts to electronic files; creating complete online bibliographic records for uncataloged recently acquired holographs; and providing Web access to reproductions of selected pages. Some of the more significant manuscripts are the working draft of Arnold Schoenberg's "Glück" from Sechs Stücke für Männerchor, op. 35; the preliminary pencil autograph of Sir Michael Tippett's opera The Knot Garden; holographs documenting the gestation of Franz Liszt's Le matin; the final version of Francis Poulenc's Sextuor; the preliminary drafts of György Ligeti's Etudes for Piano (a Grawemeyer Award winner); "Part IV" of Music in Twelve Parts by Philip Glass; and Oliver Knussen's Third Symphony. Collections include the John Cage correspondence files; holographs in the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Notations collection assembled by Cage; the Fritz Reiner Library; scores published by Ricordi, and correspondence to and from officers of the Ricordi firm; the archive of the ONCE Group; a portion of the Moldenhauer Archives; and extensive holdings of manuscripts composed by Thomas Beversdorf, William Ferris, Antonio Gomezanda, Rodolfo Halffter, Ben Johnston, Robert Lombardo, Jean Martinon, Arne Oldberg, Sam Raphling, and Leo Sowerby.

The University of British Columbia Library (UBC) has received a donation of rare materials relating to Igor Stravinsky from Dr. H. Colin Slim, an alumnus of UBC and professor emeritus of the Department of Music, University of California, Irvine...