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Collection Overview
Title: Robert Morgan Music and Audio Recordings, 1962-1974
ID: 26/20/187
Primary Creator: Morgan, Robert (1942-)
Extent: 1.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: Unarranged
Date Acquired: 10/29/2012. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Compositions-Music, Instrumental music, Jazz
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of original music compositions and audio recordings of performances of his early chamber, choral, orchestra, concert, and jazz band works while a student at the University of North Texas and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created between 1962 and 1974.
Biographical Note
Dr. Robert Morgan was raised in Houston, Texas and received his BA in music in 1963 from the University of North Texas. He completed his Masters of Music degree from the University of North Texas in 1965 and a Ph.D. in music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974. In 1976 he joined the faculty of the Houston, Texas' High School for Performing and Visual Arts (HSPV) as the Director of Jazz Studies, a position he held until 1999 when he retired. During his tenure at HSPV he establish the jazz program's national and international reputation, and was inducted into the International Association for Jazz Education Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as one of America's leading jazz educators. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Berklee College of Music in 1999.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals:
"Home Movies" 8mm film accessioned July 14, 2014.
Acquisition Source:
Robert Morgan
Acquisition Method:
Gift
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
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Box 1],
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Box 2],
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Box 3],
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Box 4],
[
Reel 1: "Home Movies", 1970-1979],
[All]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: More Than a State of Mind (CS), 1968
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 2: Canyon Fanfare (P), 1987
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 3: Haiku (CS), 1972
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 4: Dedication Prelude for Organ (P), 1968
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 5: Introduction, Allegro, and Dirge for Brass and Percussion (CS, P), 1968
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 6: Selections from 'Texas' for Concert Band (CS, P), 1967
- Includes recording of optional sound effects. 78, 33 1/2 rpm.
- Composer: Guion, David W. (arr. Robert Morgan)
- Folder 7: Four Short Statements on a Row by Webern (FS, P), 1965
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 8: Take No Thought (FS), 1964
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 9: Introduction and Allegro for Flute and Piano (FS), 1964
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 10: Piece for Trumpet and Piano (PS, P), 1962
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Jazz Cantata on Black Poets (FS), 1974
- Unbound copy of full score.
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 2: Jazz Cantata on Black Poets (FS), 1974
- Onionskin copy of full score.
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Sinfonietta for Orchestra (FS), 1965
- Bound copy of master's thesis.
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 2: Sinfonietta for Orchestra (P), 1965
- Handwritten complete set of parts.
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 3: Sinfonietta for Orchestra (CS), 1965
- Handwritten, spiral-bound full score.
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 4: Sinfonietta for Orchestra (FS), 1965
- Onionskin copy of master score.
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Variations on a Chorale Theme (CS), 1969
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Folder 2: Woodwind Trio #1 (FS), 1963
- Composer: Morgan, Robert
- Reel 1: "Home Movies", 1970-1979
- 8mm silent acetate motion picture film containing the following: 1. Fourth of July parade in Champaign-Urbana, 1970; 2. Notre Dame Jazz Festival, winter, 1971; 3. National College Jazz Festival at the University of Illinois, late spring, 1971, containing clips of Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Al Cohn, Bill Watrous, and others; 4. A party at Ron Elliston's house, c. summer, 1971; 5. Rudy James Dixieland band park concert, with Morgan Powell and others, c. summer, 1971; 6. Duke Ellington at the University of Illinois, c. 1971 or 1972; 7. Illinois Summer Youth Music, 1979; 8. Fourth of July parade in Champaign-Urbana, 1979.
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Box 1],
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Box 2],
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Box 3],
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Box 4],
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Reel 1: "Home Movies", 1970-1979],
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