Harold Boatrite compositions
Scope and Contents
The collection contains music sheet from Boatrite's compositions in choral music, organ music, piano music and string quarter music.
Dates
- Creation: 1953 - 2006
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)
Biographical / Historical
Harold Boatrite, born in 1932, was a musical composer. He studied at the Tanglewood Music Center and over the course of his life studied, and worked, under Stanley Hollingsworth, Lukas Foss and Aaron Copland. In 1967, he received a honorary doctorate from the Combs College of Music. He taught theory of music and composition at Haverford College between 1967 and 1980. Boatrite also served on the music panel of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as the composer-in-residence for the Conductors Institute at the University of South Carolina (since 1992) and a music consultant to the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language
English
Overview
The collection contains music sheet from Boatrite's compositions in choral music, organ music, piano music and string quarter music.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged thematically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Harold Boatrite.
Processing Information
Processed by Alexa Horkava, completed February 2022
- Title
- Harold Boatrite compositions
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Alexa Horkava
- Date
- February, 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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