http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu004005 Julius Gold Collection Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress Music Division, Library of Congress
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Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010563509

Finding Aid encoded by Library of Congress Music Division, 2005 Finding aid written inEnglish 2010 March Editorial revisions made to this finding aid by Nancy Seeger in March 2010. Collection Summary Julius Gold Collection1858-1924 (bulk 1920-1955) ML31.G55 Gold, Julius, 1884-1969 circa 8,000 items 22 boxes 9 linear feet Collection material in English Music Division Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Manuscripts of Gold's theoretical writings, including unpublished translations of and commentaries of the writings of Bernhard Ziehn. Also correspondence with colleagues and students, among the former Hans Joachim Moser, Lloyd Hibberd, and John Alden Carpenter, and the latter Winthrop Sargent, Frank Fragale, Meredith Willson, and Isaac Stern. Programs, printed music, finanancial and legal papers, and photographs. Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

 People Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951--Correspondence. Fragale, Frank, 1894-1955--Correspondence. Gold, Julius, 1884-1969--Autographs. Gold, Julius, 1884-1969. Gold, Julius, 1884-1969. Hibberd, Lloyd--Correspondence. Moser, Hans Joachim, 1889-1967--Correspondence. Sargeant, Winthrop, 1903-1986--Correspondence. Stern, Isaac, 1920-2001--Correspondence. Willson, Meredith, 1902-1984--Correspondence. Ziehn, Bernhard, 1845-1912--Criticism and interpretation. Ziehn, Bernhard, 1845-1912. Subjects Music theory. Musicians--Autographs. Musicians--Correspondence. Administrative Information Provenance

Gift, Jacob Zeitlein 1981.

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The Julius Gold Collection was processed in 1992 by Claudia Widgery. The original finding aid was prepared with WordPerfect 5.1. In 2004 the Julius Gold Collection finding aid was coded for EAD format by Michael A. Ferrando.

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 Biographical Sketch Date Event 1884 February 18 Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, of Russian-Polish parentage 1891 Family moves to San Francisco 1897 Studies violin with Sir Henry Heyman and Henry Holmes 1900-1905 Studies violin with Bernhard Listemann and Emile Sauret at the Chicago Musical College 1905-1910 Studies history and theory of music with Bernhard Ziehn 1910-1914 Professor of music at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa 1914 Returns to San Francisco; plays violin with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra until his resignation in 1937 1922 Plays violin with the San Francisco Opera Association until his resignation in 1937 1931 Summer Holds a lectureship at Stanford University: The Foundations of Music Art 1931-35 Professor of counterpoint and composition at Dominican College in San Rafael, California 1937- Private teaching and research 1969 January 29 Dies in California Scope and Content Note

Julius Gold was a musicologist and teacher of both violin and music theory who was active in California in the first half of the 20th century. Having studied with the German theorist Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago from 1905-1910, Gold became an interpreter of Ziehn and one of his most avid apologists. Although his writings on Ziehn were never published, numerous typescripts of Gold's translations of and commentaries on Ziehn's writings are included in this collection. Gold also wrote extensively on the ecclesiastical modes, and the collection includes an abundance of writings and score examples both on modal doctrines and a wide variety of other subjects of music theory.

The papers of Julius Gold span the period from 1858 to 1964, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1920-1955. In addition to the writings described above there is extensive correspondence, both with notable colleagues such as Hans Joachim Moser, Lloyd Hibberd, and John Alden Carpenter, and with a great many of Gold's students, including Winthrop Sargeant, Frank Fragale, Meredith Willson, and Isaac Stern. Gold collected music books, amassing a 10,000 volume research library, and included here is a body of correspondence addressing the acquisition and sale of books and music, both by Julius Gold himself and by his daughter's firm, Glen Gold Books and Music. A large selection of publishers' catalogs is also pertinent to Gold's book collecting activities.

The remaining papers in the collection consist of promotion materials of Julius Gold and others, financial and legal papers, photographs, programs, and an assortment of printed music for the piano -- much of which may have belonged to Gold's wife, Janet Hale Gold, herself a pianist and a teacher of piano.

 Organization of the Julius Gold Collection

The Julius Gold Collection is organized in 9 series:

Writings Correspondence Promotion Programs Clippings Photographs Financial / Legal Papers Catalogs Printed Music http://lccn.loc.gov/2010563509 Container List Box Contents 1-5 OV 1-2 Writings

The Writings series is represented by two subseries: Writings of Julius Gold; Writings of Others. The materials consist of unpublished writings, translations and commentaries on German theorist Bernhard Ziehn. Gold also wrote extensively on the ecclesiastical modes, and the collection includes an abundance of writings and score examples both on modal doctrines and a wide variety of other subjects of music theory.

Arrangement is alphabetical by subject or title.

 1-4 OV 1-2 Writings of Julius Gold General 1 Contrapuntal inventions: Tonal studies in a variety of moods and motives 1 The elements of musical composition 1 The Musico-Lexicographic Collections of Julius Gold (from brown 3-ring notebook) 1 Open sesame to musical knowledge 1 Proposals for a new dictionary of music 1 The tradition of patronage 1 Biographical and personal Ecclesiastical modes 1 The beginnings of medieval modal theory 1 A brief bibliography of the history of modal doctrines 1 Modal bibliography (from blue 3-ring notebook) 1 Modal doctrines: A new perspective 1 The newer knowledge of the modes 1 Miscellaneous (typed and handwritten) OV 1 Score examples Bernard Ziehn 2 Prospectus for editing The ecclesiastical modes by Bernard Ziehn 2 Ziehn's Harmonie und Modulationslehre: A commentary 2 Translation from Ziehn's Harmonie- und Modulationslehre 2 Translation of Ziehn's "Uber die Kirchentöne" 2 Notes on Ziehn OV 1 Score examples Music theory 2 Canon 2 Chords and Triads 2 Enharmonics 2 Harmony 2 Instruments 2 Intervals 2 Modulation 2 Musical compositions by others 2 Polyphony 2 Scales 2 Symmetry 3 Miscellaneous (typewritten, handwritten, and 3x5 cards) 4 Miscellaneous (score examples; also 2 composition books containing handwritten notes on music theory and theoretical writings) OV 2 Score analysis (Chopin, Trois nocturnes, op. 9) 4 Proposals for teaching and study Comments on writings by others 4 Essays in musical analysis by Donald Francis Tovey 4 "Das Lebenswerk Bernhard Ziehn" by Hugo Leichentritt 4 Review of unidentified work by Ziehn by [Edward] Mitchell 4 Letters to the editor

Contents:

Life Magazine Musical Courier New York Times Saturday Review of Literature 5 Writings of Others Grant, John [Fionn] 5 "The Celtic lyre."

Preface and list of examples only.

 Ziehn, Bernhard 5 <emph render="italic">The church modes</emph>

Excerpts only.

Hibberd, Lloyd, translator

 Isaacson, Charles D. 5 <emph render="italic">Face to face with great musicians</emph>. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1929.

Also published in London.

 Leichentritt, Hugo 5 "Das Lebenswerk Bernhard Ziehns." Mitchell, Edward R. 5 "Julius Gold and the teaching of music theory." 5 "Julius Gold: Master-musicologist." Moser, Hans Joachim 5 <emph render="italic">Bernhard Ziehn</emph>.

Chapters 1-3

 5 "Epochs of musical history."

Excerpt from Introduction.

 5 Introduction to "Über die Kirchentöne" by Bernhard Ziehn. 5 Untitled article(s) for Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Offner, Herbert 5 <emph render="italic">The modal aspects of Bach's chorale harmonization</emph>

Master's thesis, University of California/Los Angeles, n.d.

 Otterstrom, Thorwald 5 "The fugue," excerpt from <emph render="italic">Manual of harmony (advanced)</emph>. 5 "Personal recollections of Bernhard Ziehn." 5 Miscellaneous printed excerpts 6-14 Correspondence

The Correspondence series is represented by five subseries: General; Correspondence with students; Correspondence with family; Correspondence with institutions regarding jobs, grants, fellowships; Correspondence regarding acquiring and selling books and journals. The material consists of correspondence relating to the music, interests and pursuits of Julius Gold.

Arrangement is alphabetical by correspondent or subject.

 6-9 General 6 Adler, Clarence 6 Allen, James Turney 6 Allen, Warren 6 American Musicological Society 6 Apel, Willi 6 Bacon, Ernst 6 Barker, Orville W. 6 Barrymore, Lionel 6 Bates, A. Cyril 6 Berger, Isador 6 Blake, J. P. Art Publication Society 6 Blom, Eric 6 Blume, Friedrich 6 Boguslawski, Moissaye 6 Borowski, Felix 6 Bowhay, Arnold Beverly Hills Unified School District 6 Breeze, Louisa 6 Brother Leo 6 Brune, Adolf 6 Bukofzer, Manfred 6 Calvocoressi, M. D. 6 Cantor, Eddie 6 Carpenter, John Alden 6 Cesana, Otto 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra 6 Chicago Tribune 6 Clark, William Andrews, Jr. Los Angeles Philharmonic 6 Colles, H. C. Grove's Dictionary 6 Cowper, Holmes See: University of California, Berkeley 6 Craft, Robert 6 Deutsch, Monroe See: Drake University 6 Downes, Olin 6 Drake University 6 Einstein, Alfred 6 Elko (Nevada) Independent 6 Elson, Louis C. 6 Engel, Carl 6 Engel, Gabriel 7 Foster Hall Collection 7 Freer, Eleanor Everest 7 Fulton, Muriel Mrs. Mario Palmieri 7 Ganz, Rudolph 7 Gehrkens, Karl W. 7 Goldberg, Albert Los Angeles Times music critic 7 Goldberg, Maurice 7 Godowsky, Leopold 7 Groshong, James W. 7 Guggenheim Foundation 7 Gunn, Glenn Dillard 7 Hartford, Huntington 7 Haydon, Glen 7 Heller, Helen R. 7 Hersholt, Jean 7 Hertz, Alfred 7 Heyman, Henry 7 Hibberd, Lloyd 7 Hill, William G. 7 Hinrichsen, Max 7 Hirsch, Paul 7 Hofmann, Josef 7 Holmes, Henry 7 Hughes, Dom Anselm 7 Irvine, Demar B. 7 Jeppesen, Knud 7 Jonás, Alberto 7 Journal of Music Theory 7 Kelley, Mrs. Edgar Stillman 7 Kleffman, Ervin H. 7 Krohn, Ernst C. 7 Kurth, Ernst 8 Lait, Jack 8 Lang, Paul Henry 8 Leach, Rowland 8 Leichentritt, Hugo 8 Liebling, Leonard 8 Lilienthal, T. and Jesse Lilienthal 8 Lowinsky, Edward E. 8 Luening, E. G. 8 Macmillan Company 8 Mason, Daniel Gregory 8 Mason, Redfern 8 Mathesius, Ebba 8 McEwen, John B. 8 Mendel, Arthur 8 Merton, Felice Mrs. Richard G. 8 Moore, Douglas 8 Monteux, Pierre 8 Morosco, Anthan 8 Moser, Hans Joachim 8 Music Library Association 8 Nettl, Paul 8 Olesen, Edith 8 Olson, Claire C. 8 Orriss, Herbert F. 8 Otterström, Thorwald 8 Parlow, Kathleen 8 Parsons, Louella O. 8 Paterson, John A. 8 Patterson, Frank 8 Persinger, Louis 8 Piston, Walter 8 Pratt, Waldo Selden 8 Purves-Smith, Claude 9 Reese, Gustav 9 Regnery, Henry 9 Remy, Alfred 9 Rowher, Jens 9 Rozsa, Miklos 9 Rubsamen, Walter 9 Russell, Rita and John Russell 9 Sachs, Curt 9 Sarton, George 9 Saunders, Richard 9 Scanlon, John Thomas 9 Schaeffer, Myron 9 Schmulian, S. E. 9 Scholes, Percy 9 Shaw, George Bernard

Includes: transcripts, correspondence regarding sale of Shaw letters

 9 Silverman, Sol 9 Slonimsky, Nicolas 9 Sonneck, Oscar G. 9 Sorabji, Kaikhosru S. 9 Stock, Frederick A. 9 Swain, Arthur B. 9 Szigeti, Wanda 9 Teschan, Elsa H. Mrs. R. F. 9 Tobin, Richard M. 9 Torossian, Berdsch 9 University of California, Berkeley 9 Upton, George P. 9 Vincent, John 9 Wagner, Peter 9 Walter, Bruno 9 Weber, Julius Rehn 9 Werner, Eric 9 Who's Who in Music 9 Work Projects Administration 9 Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield 9 Ziehn, Bernhard 9 Ziehn, Emma 9 Ziehn, Robert 9 Zubryn, Emil 9 Miscellaneous 10-12 Correspondence with students 10 Barthelson, Joyce 10 Campbell, Henry 10 Cesana, Bruno 10 Christensen, Dan 10 Coleman, Corinne 10 Copley, Frank 10 Edmunds, John 10 Ferguson, Allyn 10 Firestone, Nathan 10 Fragale, Frank 10 Frost, Robert 10 Garrett, Jack 10 Gillingham, Harry 10 Granat, Frank 10 Hayes, Jack 10 Herst, Jerome P. 10 Hurbert, Stanley 11 Kimbell, Ray 11 Kohanovich, Lydia 11 Larew, Walter 11 Mitchell, Edward R. 11 Ocnoff, Edward 12 St. Edmunds, John 12 Sargeant, Winthrop 12 Sharp, Florence 12 Sister Edmund 12 Sister M. Dominic 12 Stern, Isaac 12 West, James 12 Willson, Meredith 12 Miscellaneous (A-L, M-Z, Unidentified) 13 Correspondence with family 13 Gold, Glen daughter 13 Gold, Leon cousin 13 Gold, Jacob uncle 13 Gold, Janet Hale wife 13 Gold, Nathan cousin 13 Ross, Anabel Mrs. William D.; sister-in-law 13 Weil, Jennifer Mrs. Paul; cousin 13 Unidentified 13 Correspondence with institutions regarding jobs, grants, fellowships 13 American Operatic Laboratory, Inc. 13 Beverly Hills Unified School District 13 California Council for Adult Education 13 California Institute of Technology 13 Carnegie Corporation of New York 13 Carnegie Institution of Washington 13 Cecil B. DeMille Productions Inc. 13 Drake University 13 Encyclopaedia Britannica 13 Federal Music Project 13 Fisk Teachers Agency 13 Ford Foundation 13 Guggenheim Foundation 13 Immaculate Heart College 13 Juilliard School of Music 13 Kansas City Conservatory of Music 13 Sol Lesser Productions, Inc. 13 Los Angeles City College 13 Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts 13 Loyola University 13 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 13 Mount Saint Mary's College 13 Musical Courier 13 Musical News 13 National Institute of Music and Arts 13 Paramount Pictures Corporation 13 George Pepperdine College 13 City of Philadelphia 13 St. John's College 13 San Francisco Chronicle 13 San Francisco State Teachers College 13 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 13 San Jose State College 13 Stanford University 13 Universal-International Pictures 13 University of California, Los Angeles 13 University of Chicago 13 University of Colorado 13 University of San Francisco 13 University of Saskatchewan 13 University of Southern California 13 Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. 13 Miscellaneous 14 Correspondence regarding acquiring and selling books and journals 14 Julius Gold (4 folders) 14 Glen Gold, Books & Music (3 folders) 14 Tradition subscription requests 14 OV 4 Promotion

The Promotion series consists of printed fliers, brochures, placards, testimonials, etc.

Arrangement is alphabetical by subject.

 14 OV 4 Julius Gold (including printed fliers, brochures, placards, testimonials, etc.)

Contents:

Plan of a representative school for music study and research T'jan, Bookseller and Importer Tradition: A magazine of musical inquiry 14 Glen Gold, Books and Music 14 Miscellaneous others 14 Programs, 1960-1964

The Programs series consists of programs for musical performances (1900-1964, undated).

Arrangement is chronological by date and alphabetical by institution.

 14 Programs of musical performance (1900-1964, undated) 14 Programs of instruction (arranged alphabetically by institution) 15 OV 3 OV 4-5 Clippings, 1860-1915

The Clippings series consists of periodicals, clippings, and promotional material about Julius Gold and various students.

Arrangement is by format and alphabetical by title.

 German periodicals 15 OV 3 Allgemeine Deutsche Musik-Zeitung (Allgemeine Musik Zeitung), 1878-1914

See also: oversize box OV 3 for 1860 issue

 15 Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, 1820, 1868, 1871-73, 1877-78, 1880-81 15 Deutsche Tonkünstler Zeitung (1910) 15 Monatschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst, 1897-1898 15 Die Musik, 1915 OV 4 Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 1896 OV 4 Musik Welt, 1881, undated 15 Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1887-1905 15 OV 3 Unidentified 15 Scrapbook

Clippings and promotional material about Julius Gold and various students.

 OV 4-5 American periodicals 16 OV 3 Photographs

The Photographs series consists of prints of Julius Gold, his family, etc.

Arrangement is alphabetical by subject.

 16 OV 3 Julius Gold, alone and with others 16 Glen Gold (daughter) and her house 16 Others 16 Financial / Legal Papers, 1934-1953

The Financial / Legal Papers series consists of bills, receipts, and other legal documents.

Arrangement is by genre.

 16 Bills and receipts

Contents:

Glen Gold Books Residences Storage Miscellaneous 16 Certificates, licenses, contracts 16 Insurance 16 Medical (correspondence, receipts) 16 Musician's Union (membership cards, pamphlets, correspondence) 16 Papers regarding sale of Gold's music library 16 Tax Forms

Contents:

Federal (1934-1943, 1944-1953) City, County, State (1937-1943) 17 Catalogs

The Catalogs series consists of catalogs from various publishers and institutions.

Arrangement is by genre and publisher.

 Publishers 17 American Institute of Musicology 17 D. Appleton-Century Company 17 Athenaeum Cremonense 17 Bärenreiter-Verlag 17 C. H. Beck'sche Berlagsbuchhandlung 17 The Bookfellows 17 Books & Music 17 Breitkopf & Härtel 17 Bureau of Musical Research 17 Cambridge University Press 17 El Colegio de Mexico 17 Concordia Publishing House 17 J. G. Cotta-Verlag 17 Deutscher Musikliteratur Verlag 17 Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 17 Oliver Ditson Company 17 Ernst Eulenburg 17 J. Fischer & Bro. 17 Helen Gentry 17 Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 17 Ginn and Company 17 Walter de Gruyter & Co. 17 Wilhelm Hansen 17 G. Henle Verlag 17 Max Hesses Verlag 17 Houghton Mifflin Company 17 Insel Verlag 17 Institut d'Estudis Catalans 17 Institute of Renaissance and Baroque Music 17 Wm. A. Kaun Music Company 17 Ernst Klett Verlag 17 Leo Liepmannssohn 17 McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 17 G. and C. Merriam Co. 17 Edition Merseburger 17 Munksgaard 17 Albert Nauck & Co. 17 Martinus Nijhoff 17 Henning Oppermann 17 Oxford University Press 17 Edition Peters 17 Random House 17 Reclam 17 C. G. Röder 17 William Edwin Rudge 17 St. Martin's Press, Inc. 17 B. Schott's Söhne 17 Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft 17 Smith College 17 Steeger Verlag 17 Edition Steingräber 17 Universal Edition 17 University of California Press 17 University of Chicago Press 17 Arno Volk Verlag 17 Joseph Williams Ltd. 17 Yale University Press Exhibitors 17 Goodspeeds (Early English Engraved Portraits) Libraries 17 Foster Hall 17 Library of Congress 17 OV 3 Printed Music

The Printed Music series consists of music by various composers.

Arrangement is alphabetical by composer and title.

 Everest, C. OV 3 The Sabbath, a work containing the most popular psalm and hymn tunes in general use. Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1873.

Signed: Eleanor Warner Everest, 1887

Noted in pencil: Bernhard Ziehn notations, see pages 299, 317, 327.

Pages 223-384 have been cut out

 Fragale, Frank 17 Sprightly flight. New York: Edition Musicus, 1943.

Set of parts.

 Godowsky, Leopold OV 3 Progressive series of music lessons for the use of conservatories, teachers and students. St. Louis, Missouri: Art Publication Society, 1913. Middelschulte, Wilhelm 17 Passacaglia (D moll) für die orgel. Leipzig: C. F. W. Siegel, 1901.

Dedicated to Bernhard Ziehn.

 17 Piano scores by A. Arensky, C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach (2 piano), L. van Beethoven, Franz Bendel, Mathilde Bilbro (2 piano), Fr. von Esterhazy, Leopold Godowsky, Halfdan Kjerulf, Aug. Labitzky, Heinrich Lichner, Immanuel Liebich, Dorothy McGrath, Moritz Moszkowski, Ottorino Respighi (2 piano), Joachim Raff, Erno Rapée, James H. Rogers, Robert Schumann, Trygve Torjussen, and Mortimer Wilson [alphabetically by composer; 3 folders] 17 Piano/vocal scores by Buenta Carter, Palmer John Clark, Franco Leoni, Arthur Lee Mancebo, James H. Rogers, Meredith Willson, and Lawrence Zenda 17 Fragments 17 Miscellaneous