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By Sarah A. Long and Kelly A. Carlson
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Collection Overview
Title: Harry Begian Papers, 1926-97![Add to your cart. Add to your cart.](themes/library_web/images/addtocart.gif)
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ID: 12/9/25
Primary Creator: Begian, Harry (1921-2010)
Extent: 25.5 cubic feet
Arrangement: The collection is arranged into seven series: Series 1, Clinics and Conference Presentations; Series 2, Sound Recordings; Series 3, Correspondence; Series 4, Administrative Records and Research; Series 5, Teaching Notes; Series 6, Music; and Series 7, Photographs and Uniforms. Materials are arranged in alphabetical and chronological order.
Date Acquired: 12/10/1995. More info below under Accruals.
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, concert recordings, program notes, convention materials, research materials, and published articles that document Harry Begian's career as a conductor, teacher, guest speaker, and scholar from 1946-2005. In addition to administrative materials from his University career, this collection contains his personal teaching materials such as class notes, lesson plans, and conducting exercises. This collection also contains two boxes of his personal arrangements for high school and University bands.
Biographical Note
Harry Begian (1921-2010), University band conductor, composer, arranger, and pedagogue, has appeared as a guest conductor and speaker for numerous high school, University, and professional concert bands throughout the United States and internationally. Dr. Begian started his career as a band director during WWII at McKenzie High school in Detroit before he was drafted. After he finished serving in the war, he went on to become the director of the Cass Technical High School Symphonic Band from 1947-1964, making it one of the finest high school bands in the country.
Dr. Begian was director of bands at Wayne State University, his alma mater, from 1964-1967, and director of bands at Michigan State University from 1967-1970 before his 14 year tenure as director of bands at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1970-1984. After his retirement from the University of Illinois, he went on to become the director of the Purdue University Symphonic Band from 1985-1987.
In addition to being a professional conductor and composer, Dr. Begian is also widely recognized for his pedagogical techniques, and he has published 17 articles on rehearsal analysis and conducting strategies. He has also been the subject of two dissertations, as well as numerous interviews published in the Instrumentalist. Dr. Begian has been the recipient of various awards, including the National Band Association's Citation of Excellence, The Edwin Franko Goldman Award, and the Notre Dame St. Cecelia Award among others.
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Series 2: Sound Recordings],
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Series 3: Correspondence],
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Series 4: Administrative Records and Research],
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Series 6: Music],
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Series 7: Photographs, Ephemera and Uniforms],
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Series 8: Correspondence: Church Functions and Congressional Records, 1961-1973, 1961-62, 1964-68, 1973, 1983],
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- Series 5: Teaching Notes and Scholarly Papers
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- Box 8
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- Folder 19: Pedagogy, 1935, 1950, 1956-57, 1968, 1973-74, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1994
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- Folder 20: Pedagogy: Gustav, Joseph, 1949
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- Folder 21: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, Gamma Omicron Chapter, 1941-47, 1949-50, 1953, 1955-61, 1963, 1973
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- Box 9
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- Folder 1: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Transparencies (1 of 3), 1964
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- Folder 2: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Copies from Transparencies (2 of 3)
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- pages 83-166
- Folder 3: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Transparencies (3 of 3), 1964
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- Folder 4: Negatives: Aubry, Pierre "Musical System of Armenian Church", 1902
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- article in La Tribune de Saint Gervais
- Folder 5: New York World's Fair - Armenian Folk Festival, 1964
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- Folder 6: Photographs of Gormidas Vartabed, Maps & Church Plans, 1964
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- used along until dissertation
- Folder 7: St. John's Armenian Church of Greater Detroit, 1968
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- Folder 11: Tanglewood Notes, 1938, 1947
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- Folder 19: UIUC, Conducting Class, Scores for MUS 431, Notes, Music Articles, 1968, 1972-1975
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- Folder 23: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1959
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- Folder 24: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1950
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- Folder 25: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1961
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- Folder 26: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1962
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- Folder 27: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1962
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- Folder 28: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1960
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- Folder 29: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1960
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- Folder 30: Microfilm: Gomidas Vartabed Dissertation Materials, 1960
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- Box 10
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- Folder 23: Sousa Marches - Advanced Conducting Class Material MUS 449, 1992-93
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- Folder 24: Student Paper - John Locke: "and the mountains rising nowhere" by J. Schwanter, 1981
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- Box 11
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- Folder 36: Graduate Foundations Harry Begian, ca. August 26, 1946
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- Box 12
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- Folder 3: University of Michigan: Musicology Notes (1 of 2), 1956-58
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- Folder 4: University of Michigan: Musicology Notes (2 of 2), 1956-58
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- Folder 5: Veterans Administration (Scholaring), 1942-47, 1950-56
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- Box 15
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- Folder 5: Dodworths Brass Band School, 1992
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- Box 16
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- Folder 1: Program Trends of the MSU Bands - Doctoral Dissertation Richard Johnson, 1991
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- Folder 2: Symphoniphobias by Glen Morely, 1980
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- Folder 3: Joseph Manfredo Dissertation, 1993
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- Folder 4: Emeritus Professor Harry Begian: Conductor and Teacher of Symphonic Bands - Masters Dissertation S.J. Williams, 1995
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- Folder 7: The Life and Work of Leonard Falcone with Emphasis on his years as Director of Bands at MSU: Doctoral Thesis - M.D. Welch, 1973
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- Folder 9: The Modal Systems of Armenian Sacred Music - Masters Thesis Hachig Thomas Kazarian, 1983
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- Folder 13: Selected Band Conductors Preparation to Conduct Selected Band Compositions - Doctoral Thesis by Barry Len Ellis, 1994
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- Box 17: Pedagogical tools, correspondence, publications, pictures
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- Folder 1: Accompanying soloist guest conducting
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- Folder 2: Auditioning procedures
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- Folder 3: Concert staging
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- Folder 4: Conducting
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- Folder 5: Conducting problems
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- Folder 6: Expression
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- Folder 7: Instrumentation and balance
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- Folder 8: March interpretation
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- Folder 9: Programming
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- Folder 10: Rehearsing
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- Folder 11: Score Analysis
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- Folder 12: Seating arrangement
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- Folder 13: Solfege
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- Folder 14: Studies in Time Division
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- Folder 15: Tuning
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- Box 26
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- Folder 3: Scholarly Papers Written by Harry Begian, 1956-1957
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Series 1: Clinics and Conference Presentations],
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Series 2: Sound Recordings],
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Series 3: Correspondence],
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Series 4: Administrative Records and Research],
[Series 5: Teaching Notes and Scholarly Papers],
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Series 6: Music],
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Series 7: Photographs, Ephemera and Uniforms],
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Series 8: Correspondence: Church Functions and Congressional Records, 1961-1973, 1961-62, 1964-68, 1973, 1983],
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Series 9: Books],
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All]