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Collection Overview

Title: Nicholas Temperley Music and Papers, 1786-2019

ID: 12/5/80

Primary Creator: Temperley, Nicholas (1932-2020)

Extent: 19.95 cubic feet

Arrangement:

Temperley's materials have been arranged into five series, which are as follows:

Series 1: Secular Music Reseach is arranged into six sub-series: 1) Publications and Published Scores, 2) Unpublished Edited Scores and Materials Related to Score Editing, 3) Unpublished Lectures and Liner Notes, 4) Research Files, 5) Photographic Slides and Prints, and 6) Historic Opera Scores, Libretti, and Music Catalog Collection. Sub-series 1 is arranged by a numeric code derived by Temperley, which is roughly chronological. Sub-series 2 is arranged chronologically and by material type. Sub-series 3, 4, 5, and 6 are arranged alphabetically by title.

Series 2: Hymn Tune and Sacred Music Research is arranged into four sub-series: 1) Publications and Published Scores, 2) Unpublished Lectures and Edited Scores, 3) Research Files, 4) Photographic Slides and Prints. Sub-series 1 is arranged by a numeric code derived by Temperley, which is roughly chronological. Sub-series 2, 3, and 4 are arranged alphabetically by title.

Series 3: Personal Files is arranged into three sub-series: 1) Personal Papers, 2) Original Published Compositions and Unpublished Music Manuscripts, and 3) Choral Ensemble Files and Arrangements for Choral Ensemble. Sub-series 1 is arranged alphabetically. Sub-series 2 is arranged using two alpha numeric codes given by Temperley, and chronologically thereafter. Sub-series 3 is arranged alphabetically.

Series 4: Teaching and Service Files is arranged alphabetically by title or institution and chronologically therein.

Series 5: Audio Recordings and Digital Research Files is arranged in two sub-series: 1) Audio Files and 2) Digitial Research Files. Sub-Series 1 is arranged by type of material and alphabetically by title therein. Sub-series 2 is arranged alphabetically by title.

This arrangement maintains his original order while applying a new intellectual order around his predominant research areas.

Date Acquired: 08/11/2021. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Church music, Church of England, English History, Music Composition, musicology, Opera, Victorian Music

Formats/Genres: Sheet music

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Contains published books, articles, reviews, and scores by Nicholas Temperley; unpublished research files; a collection of 18th and 19th century scores, libretti, and music publishing catalogs; teaching files, including copies of bound preliminary and final exams from Cambridge University; unpublished music manuscripts; audio recordings; and personal files related to choral music concerts staged by Temperley and his wife. Of particular note are early research files related to Temperley's work on the Hymn Tune Index and collected ephemera from the premiere of Temperley's revival of Raymond and Agnes. In addition, these papers contain Temperley's collection of rare 18th and 19th-century scores and libretti, used throughout his career.

Biographical Note

Nicholas Temperley (1932-2020) was born in Beaconsfield, England on August 7, 1932. His parents were Arthur Cecil Temperley, a Major-General of the British Army who served as a representative at the League of Nations, and Joyce van Oss, a Dutch musician and author. Temperley began his musical studies at the age of five, performing on piano and studying composition. After his father died in 1939, he was admitted to an all-boy's boarding school. In this same year he published his first composition entitled "Elegy," which appeared in a British publication called The Young Musician. In 1945, Temperley won a Foundation Scholarship to study at Eaton College, where he received further musical instruction until 1951. In 1948, his mother married a German refugee named Donald von Hirsch, who would go on to lead the German Institute in London. Temperley then earned his associate degree in piano performance at the Royal College of Music in 1952 as well as a certificate in organ performance at the Royal College of Organists in 1954. Following this, he earned another Foundation Scholarship to study music at King's College, Cambridge University where he earned a bachelor of arts degree (Double First in Music) in 1955, a bachelor's of music degree in 1956, and both his master's and doctoral degrees in 1959. While at King's College, Temperley specialized in the history of English music during the Classical and Romantic periods and he took additional courses in composition and organ performance.

Following his graduation from King's College, Temperley moved to the United States, becoming a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It was here that Temperley met Mary Dorothea Sleator, an assistant professor of English who was also an active singer in Urbana. The two were married a year later in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While in Urbana, Temperley published several early articles on the influence of Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, and Mendelssohn upon English composers; founded an amateur carol group called the "Temperley Singers"; and served as a music critic for the Champaign-Urbana Courier.

In 1961, he and Mary moved to the UK, Temperley having accepted a position as an assistant lecturer at Cambridge University and the Director of Studies in Music at Clare College, Cambridge. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Temperley edited and revised both the entrance exams and the "Musical Tripos" final exams for graduate students. Two of Temperley's children were born during this time, Lucy (1962) and David (1963). During this period, Temperley began publishing short articles on the history of English Parish Church music and Victorian opera. He also combined his historical research with his interest in composition, arranging new editions of Victorian operas. While at Cambridge in 1966, he resurrected the Victorian-era composer Edward Loder's opera Raymond and Agnes. Soon after, Temperley accepted a position as an assistant professor at Yale University, where he taught for a year.

In 1967, Temperley returned to the University of Illinois as an associate professor in musicology. On the first day of school, his third child, Sylvia, was born. Temperley was promoted to full professor in 1972, at which point he had already written nearly two dozen articles about English music in the Victorian era. Temperley published his first book, Jonathan Gray and Church Music in York, 1770-1840 five years later in 1977. Two years later he received the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society for his book, The Music of the English Parish Church. Building upon his research on hymns and church music, Temperley founded the Hymn Tune Index at the University of Illinois in 1982. As a research center, the Hymn Tune Index compiled an archive of hymns printed in English texts up to 1820 and published a reference book of their findings in four volumes begininng in 1998.

In 1981, Temperley published The Romantic Age: 1800-1914, a groundbreaking book on the music of the Victorian era. He would go on to edit several other books related to Victorian music including the 20-volume series The London Piano Forte School 1766-1860. Tied to his research on this era, Temperley also completed critical editions of both Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique (1971) and Haydn's The Creation (1988); a revised edition of John Gay's the Beggar's Opera (1984); and arrangements of two unfinished operas, George Friedrich Handel's Hercules (1985) and Mozart's L'Oca del Cairo (1991).

After serving two terms as department chair of the Musicology Division and being named a University Senior Scholar between 1986 and 1989, he retired in 1996. Temperley continued to research and publish in the areas of English church music and Victorian-era opera. For instance, in 2007, Temperley served as the co-editor alongside Sally Drage for a critical edition of 18^th-Century English church music for the Musica Britannica series. In 2016, he published his twelfth book, Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and His Family. In 2018, he and Beth Quitslund published the first critical edition of the Elizabethan era congregational book The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre.

During his retirement, Temperley remained connected to the Musicology Division at the University of Illinois, establishing a dissertation prize in 2003 and a research prize in 2017. Temperley also spent his retirement staging Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in Urbana and in 2009 he published Christmas is Coming, a collection of original and arranged carols. Temperley died on April 19, 2020 in Urbana Illinois.

Subject/Index Terms

Church music
Church of England
English History
Music Composition
musicology
Opera
Victorian Music

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Accruals: Addition on December 4, 2023

Acquisition Source: gift

Acquisition Method: Donated by Sylvie Khan.

Related Materials: Hymn Tune Index Records 12/5/81

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Secular Music Research, 1786-2018],
[Series 2: Hymn Tune and Sacred Music Research, 1955-2018],
[Series 3: Personal Files, 1940-2020],
[Series 4: Teaching and Service Files, 1957-1987],
[Series 5: Audio Recordings and Digital Research Files, 1961-2013],
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Series 5: Audio Recordings and Digital Research Files, 1961-2013

Materials are arranged into two sub-series: audio recordings and research files. Consists of CDs, tapes, reel-to-reels, DVD, and Disks. Of particular note are the original recording and broadcast recording for Raymond and Agnes and a video production of L'Oca del Cairo.

Sub-Series 1: Audio Recordings, 1961-2015

Materials are arranged alphabetically. Consists of CDs, tape cassettes, reel-to-reels, and a DVD, 10" Disk, and 12" Disk.

Box 31

Item 1: Anglo-American Musical Connections, July 28, 2012: Audio CD. A concert in honor of Nicholas Temperley on his 80th birthday, 2 CDs. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Foellinger Great Hall.
Item 2: Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, 2003-2013: Audio CD. Christmas with Bach. Chester Alwes, Music Director. Selections from Christmas concerts at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Champaign, IL.
Item 3: Benedict, MacFarren, undated: Audio CD. Pieces include: 1) Benedict: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 45; 2) Benedict: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 89; 3) MacFarren: Concertstuck.
Item 4: Benedictus ("Little Organ Mass"), Haydn; En priere, Faure, undated: Audio CD. Joan Ogden, soprano; Lin Hong, piano.
Item 5: Bill of Rights, The: Ten Amendments in Eight Motets, March 8, 2012: Audio CD. Text from various historical sources, ed. by James Madison, music by Neely Bruce. Festival Harmony with assisting instrumentalists. Conducted by Neely Bruce. Wesley University Memorial Chapel.
Item 6: Chamber Music, James Joyce; The Passing Year, undated: Audio CD. A) Chamber Music, James Joyce; B) The Passing Year: A Spring Morning, John Clare; July, Edward Thomas; Reed Music, Peter Levi; Snowing, Walter de la Mare. April Fredrick, soprano; Amy de Sybel, piano; Simone van der Giessen, viola.
Item 7: Come Hither!, Aug. 29, 2010: Audio CD. Laurie Matheson, soprano; Rachel Jensen, piano. Smith Recital Hall, University of Illinois.
Item 8: Der Tod Jesu, March 10 & 13, 2003: Audio CD. Baroque Orchestra & Collegium Singers.
Item 9: Edward J. Loder, Sonata in Eb for Flute and Piano, 1991: Audio CD. Ed. N, Temperley. Alexander Murray, flute; Ian Hobson, piano. Recorded in Urbana, IL.
Item 10: Edward Loder, Raymond and Agnes, Highlights, Feb. 13, 1995: Audio CD. BBC Concert Orchestra, cond. James Lockhart.
Item 11: Edward Loder, Piano Music, July 27-28, 2015: Audio CD. Liner notes, Nicholas Temperley; piano, Ian Hobson. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Foellinger Great Hall, Urbana, IL.
Item 12: English Hymn Anthems, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, July 2013: Audio CD.. Liner notes, Nicholas Temperley. Cond. Stephen Cleobury; Alison Balsom, trumpet; Parker Ramsay & Douglas Tang, organ.
Item 13: Favorite Duos and Solos: Faculty Recital, March 16, 1969: Audio CD. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Frances Crawford, soprano; Evelyn Reynolds, mezzo-soprano; Oscar McCullough, bass-baritone; Alan Thomas, piano; Kenneth Merrill, piano; George Hunter, rarpsichord; Mary Esch, cello.
Item 14: George Frederick Pinto, Four Sonatas, 1995: Audio CD. Riko Fukuda, fortepiano. Nicholas Temperley, liner notes.
Item 15: Bach, A German Baroque Christmas, Dec. 17, 2000: Audio CD.. Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana; Chester Alwes, music director. Recorded Holy Cross Catholic Church, Champaign, IL.
Item 16: Haydn: The Creation, 1991: 2 audio CDs. Simon Rattle, cond. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Item 17: I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Sept. 2006: Audio CD. Smith Recital Hall, Urbana, IL. Laurie Matheson, soprano; Rachel Jensen, piano.
Item 18: Kate Loder: Piano Music, Aug. 2016: Audio CD. Liner notes, Nicholas Temperley;Â Ian Hobson, piano. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Foellinger Great Hall, Urbana, IL.
Item 19: King's Choir, Anthems, undated: Audio CD.
Item 20: Mendelssohn: Christus, etc., undated: Audio CD.
Item 21: N.Temperley. Audio tracks 1, 2, 5, 25., undated: Audio CD.
Item 22: Music & the Wesleys, Nov. 2010: Audio CD. New Room Concert. University of Bristol Music Dept. Singers, Tom Williams, cond. Stephen Banfield, organ. 1761 Snetzler Organ.
Item 23: Timothy Roberts: Piano by Joseph Merlin, 1786, undated: Audio CD.
Item 24: George Frederick Pinto: Piano Music, 2005: Audio CD. Thomas Wakefield, piano.
Item 25: Pinto: Piano Music, 2000: Audio CD. Liner notes: Nicholas Temperley. Miceal O'Rourke, piano.
Item 26: Psalms, undated: Audio CD.
Item 27: Psalms, undated: Audio CD.
Item 28: Robinson College, May 2011: Audio CD. Music by Mary Taylor.
Item 29: Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Anthems, July 2006: Audio CD. Liner notes, Nicholas Temperley. Choir of Clare College, Cambridge; Christopher Robinson.
Item 30: Samuel Wesley: Piano Pieces, undated: Audio CD. Timothy Roberts, piano. Broadwood piano, c. 1890.
Item 31: S.S. Wesley Week, Program 3, Wednesday, undated: Audio CD.
Item 32: S.S Wesley Week, Program 5, Friday, undated: Audio CD.
Item 33: S.S. Wesley, BBC Series, "The Choir", July 2010: Audio CD.
Item 34: Sterndale Bennett: A Recital, March 2010: Audio CD. Gordon Pullin, tenor; Roger Fisher, piano.
Item 35: Who Was Klesmer? Demo CD, undated: Audio CD. Compilation Copy 2. Accompanying handwritten personal note to Temperleys.

Box 32

Item 1: Lily of Killarney, by J. Benedict, BBC recording (1 of 2), 1962: Audio CD.
Item 2: Lily of Killarney, by J. Benedict, BBC recording (2 of 2), 1962: Audio CD.
Item 3: Edward Loder Piano Music, Ver. 4.0, undated: Audio CD.
Item 4: Edward Loder Flute Sonata, undated: Audio CD. Alexander Murray, Flute; Ian Hobson, Piano.
Item 5: Hymn from King's, undated: Audio CD.
Item 6: Night Dancers, CD #1 Edits, 2015: Audio CD.
Item 7: S.S. Wesley (Disc 1 of 2), undated: Audio CD. Copied by Brian Head.
Item 8: S.S. Wesley (Disc 2 of 2), undated: Audio CD. Copied by Brian Head.
Item 9: Wesley Hymns, undated: Audio CD.
Item 10: WBP, undated: Audio CD.
Item 20: J.B. Cramer: Piano Concerto no. 9 in D minor, Op. 70, undated: Tape Cassette.
Item 21: Glasser Zulu Proverbs for tenor, baritone, bass a cappella, undated: Tape Cassette. Zulu Proverbs performed by Lay Clerks of St. George's Chapel Windsor Castle; Songs of a Woman for Mezzo Soprano and Viola, performed by Pat Williams (mezzo) and Michael Newman (viola); Noon tone poem for Orchestra, performed by Symphony Orchestra of South Africa, conducted by Goran Nilson.
Item 22: Haydn and the English Language, Musical Examples for Lecture, April 1998: Tape Cassette. Given at ASECS Conference Notre Dame, April 3, 1998.
Item 23: Johnson 12 Preludes and Fugues, 1995: Tape Cassette. Peter Evans Piano, performing at Reid Concert Hall Edinburgh March 23, 1995.
Item 24: Loder BBC Version of Raymond and Agnes, 1967: Tape Cassette.
Item 25: Loder Flute Sonata, undated: Tape Cassette.
Item 26: The Lost Chord: Essays on Victorian Music, accompanying cassette, 1988: Tape Cassette. Side A: 1) Five Victorian Songs, featuring Phyllis Hurt (soprano), Nicholas Temperley (piano), recorded in Urbana 1986; 2) Piano Pieces, featuring Philip Carli (piano), recorded at Palomar College, 1986; 3) Songs by John Ruskin, featuring Paul Proveaux (baritone), William J. Gatens (piano), recorded at Swarthmore College, 1986; 4) Church Music by SS Wesley, featuring the Medici Chamber Choir and Justin Waters (organ), recorded in Bromley Parish, 1988. Side B: Cycle of Songs from Alfred Tennyson's Maud, featuring Bart Lind Smith (baritone) and Nicholas Temperley (piano), recorded in Urbana, 1986.
Item 27: Macfarren Symphony No. 4 in F minor, 1966: Tape Cassette. Performed by the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra (Brisbane, Aust), conducted by Werner Andreas Albert, performance given April 20, 1966 in the concert hall of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
Item 28: Mozart/Temperley L'Oca del Cairo, Act 1, 1991: Tape Cassette.
Item 29: Spirit of the Age, BBC, 1994: Tape Cassette.
Item 30: West Gallery Workshop, 1991: Tape Cassette. Side A Hymn or Psalms: Come ye that love the Lord, O'er those gloomy hills, O come loud anthems, Hear what the voice, Join all the glorious names, Vital spark of heav'nly flame. Side B: How do thy mercies, the shperherds amaz'd, I praised the earth, Jehovah reigns, While shepherds watched, Weep not for me.

Box 33

Item 1: Barrel Organ Boston Collection, undated: 5 3/4" Reel.
Item 2: Dances for Trombone Quartet - Glasser, ca. 1961: 5" Reel. Box contains newspaper clippings about the original performance by the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Item 3: Dussek Pf. Quintet, undated: 7" Reel.
Item 4: Ear Test, Haydn String Quartet and Wesley Symphony in Bb, undated: 5 3/4" Reel.
Item 5: Illustrations for Temperley "The Music of the English Parish Church" (1 of 2), ca. 1982: 7" Reel. Performed by the Wesleyan Singers, conducted by Neely Bruce.
Item 6: Illustrations for Temperley "The Music of the English Parish Church" (2 of 2), ca. 1982: 7" Reel. Performed by the Wesleyan Singers, conducted by Neely Bruce.
Item 7: Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Tucker of Winterborne Abbas, undated: 5 3/4" Reel.
Item 8: Mozart 2 Piano Sonatas, undated: 7" Reel.
Item 9: Pearsall "Lay a Garland", undated: 7" Reel. Tracks: 1) Pearsall "Lay a Garland", 2) Walmisley "Sweet Flowers, 3) Temperley "Five Carols" (featuring Susan Klin Zaw, Jill Price, Clifford Hughes, Bob Tear, and Christopher Keyte), 4) Pierson "Waldeinsamkeit", 5) Loder The Brookley
Item 10: Pinto Sonatas No. 1, 2, 3, and 10, undated: 7" Reel. Howard Osborn (violin), Nicholas Temperley (piano).
Item 11: Raymond and Agnes by Loder, Cambridge Performance, May 1966: 7" Reel.
Item 12: Raymond and Agnes by Loder, BBC Broadcast, December 1966: 7" Reel.
Item 13: Shawns Other Music, undated: 5" Reel.
Item 14: Tone Quality Experiment, Tone Groups 1-3, undated: 7" Reel.
Item 15: Tone Quality Experiment, Tone Groups 4-6, undated: 7" Reel.
Item 16: Tone Quality Experiment, Tone Groups 7-9, undated: 7" Reel.
Item 17: Tone Quality Experiment, Tone Groups 10-12, undated: 7" Reel.
Item 18: S. Wesley Symphony in Bb and Mary Sleator, undated: 7" Reel.
Item 19: University of Utrecht Electronic Music Vo. 2, Demonstration Tape, 1961: 7" Reel.
Item 20: Mozart/Temperley L'Oca del Cairo, Act 1, November 9, 1991: DVD. Performed by the Illinois Opera Theatre, Kurt Klipstatter, conductor; performance in Urbana.
Item 21: Five Carols by Nicholas Temperley, undated: 10" Disc.
Item 22: Mrs. Edith Cleave, Piano Recital, undated: 12" Disc.

Sub-Series 2: Digital Research Files, 2003-2013

Materials are arranged alphabetically. Consists of discs of computer files and system software.

Box 32

Item 11: Bennett Lectures, April 2006: CD Data Disc, Contains Microsoft Word Files.
Item 12: Dictionary of North American Hymnology: Comprehensive Bibliography and Master Index, 2003: CD Data Disc, Contains Dictionary program software. Compiled by Leonard Ellinwood and Elizabeth Lockwood. Edited by Paul R. Powell and Mary Louise VanDyke.
Item 13: Endora, WSB Lectures 1-8, undated: CD Data Disc, Contains Microsoft Word Files.
Item 14: George A. Macfarren The Adventures of Don Quixote, undated: CD Data Disc, Contains PDF Files.
Item 15: Loder, The Night Dancers MS, ca. 2013: CD Data Disc, Contains JPEG and TIF Files. Liner Notes by Valerie Langfield.
Item 16: Loder, The Night Dancers, Acts Ia and Ib (1 of 2), undated: CD Data Disc, Score dated 1846. Contains JPEG and TIF Files.
Item 17: Loder, the Night Dancers, Acts Ic and II (2 of 2), undated: CD Data Disc, Score dated 1846. Contains JPEG and TIF Files.
Item 18: Temperley Colour Pages, undated: CD Data Disc, Contains TIF FIles.
Item 19: Turner Scores, undated: CD Data Disc, Contains PDF Files.