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Collection Overview

Title: Alexander L Ringer Papers, 1921-2002

ID: 12/5/43

Primary Creator: Ringer, Alexander L. (1921-2002)

Extent: 55.0 cubic feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Papers organized into five series, which are further organized into sub-series based on geography, professional group and Ringer's professional roles. The file are arranged chronologically.

Date Acquired: 06/18/2008

Subjects: Faculty, Faculty Papers, Folk music - Instruction and study, Ford Foundation, Kodály Center of America, Kodály Musical Training Center, Music, School of, Music - Instruction and study - Hungary, Music - Instruction and study - Juvenile - 20th century, Music teachers - Scholarships, fellowships, etc., Music teachers - Training of - Israel, Music teachers - Training of - United States

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English, German, Hebrew, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch;Flemish, Spanish;Castilian

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Personal and professional papers of Alexander L. Ringer. Includes correspondence, education materials, administrative documents, video and sound recordings, manuscripts of articles, book chapters and lectures, and photographs that document Ringer's career as an educator, academic musicologist, researcher, and administrator at the University of Illinois and in various academic music associations. The papers also document the development of the Kodaly education program in the United States and Israel.

Biographical Note

Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and Polish descent (b. February 3, 1921-Berlin, d. May 3, 2002, Lansing, Michigan). He was a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1943-44). After the war, Ringer emigrated to New York City in 1947. There he received a M.A. in Sociology and psychology in 1948 from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. of Musicology in 1955 from the City College, Columbia University. At Columbia he studied under Paul Henry Lang.

Following the completion of his degree, Ringer then taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oklahoma, among other places, before coming to the University of Illinois in 1958, where he attained full professor status in 1963. Beginning in 1963, Ringer served as chair of the musicology division for six years. After this period he then directed the school's graduate and professional curricula. Ringer supervised the theses and dissertations of many graduate students, while also teaching many undergraduate courses in musicology. Furthermore, Ringer served on numerous committees at UIUC, including the UIUC-Tehran University partnership, and was active in UIUC's American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, the American Association of University Professors, and the UIUC Philosophy Club (of which Ringer was president for many years). Ringer also founded the UIUC Committee on Jewish Culture and Society. Ringer retired from the university in 1991.

Ringer was also active in other universities, most notably the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he served as Fulbright Visiting Professor in 1962 to 1963 and in 1966 to 1967, in order to found and chair that school's musicology department. Ringer also served as visiting professor at the Eastman Schoolf of Music (1974), Tel Aviv University (1983), and Heidelberg University - Academy for Jewish Studies (1983). Ringer also gave guest lectures at universities, conferences and festivals throughout the world. He was highly active in the American Musicological Society, the College Music Society, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, the International Kodaly Society, the Music Educators National Conference, the Music Library Association, the German Musicological Society, the World Congress on Jewish Music, the International Schoenberg Society, Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Folk Music Council.

In 1975 Ringer helped found the International Kodaly Society, and earlier Ringer was instrumental in bringing the Kodaly method in elementary music education from Hungary to the United States and Israel. He (with the help of Isaac Stern) received grant funding to launch and direct the Kodaly Fellowship program for many years both in America and in Israel. Ringer also served for many years as artistic adviser for the Jerusalem Music Centre.

Ringer also lead ethnomusicology research projects to study the maqam tradition in the Middle East (1970-1975) and the Hebrew Melodies in the Hungarian Oral Tradition (1977-1990). In addition, Ringer wrote and researched extensively on the life and works of Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Weill, Ludwig von Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, George Rochberg. Ringer has also researched and written extensively on romantic era, Western European music; eastern influences on Western music throughout time; the history of Jewish music and Jewish influences into Western music; and Music Education. Ringer primarily wrote in English and German, but he also delivered lectures in Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Hungarian, French and Dutch.

Ringer was a member of the editorial board of Musica Judaica and general co-editor of the collected edition of Arnold Schoenberg's writings. He also served as editor of the International Folk Music Council's Yearbook (1968-1970), which he also founded, and edited a volume in the Music and Society series, "The Early Romantic Era - Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848."

Finally, as a conductor, Ringer held choral positions in New York, Philadelphia, Berkeley, and Norman, Oklahoma. At UIUC he presented works by Mozart, Beethoven and Bruckner, in addition to coaching a number of recitalists.

Subject/Index Terms

Faculty
Faculty Papers
Folk music - Instruction and study
Ford Foundation
Kodály Center of America
Kodály Musical Training Center
Music, School of
Music - Instruction and study - Hungary
Music - Instruction and study - Juvenile - 20th century
Music teachers - Scholarships, fellowships, etc.
Music teachers - Training of - Israel
Music teachers - Training of - United States

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Alternate Extent Statement: 55.0 cu. ft.

Acquisition Source: Ringer Family

Acquisition Method: Donation

Processing Information: Series 1 completed 7/18/2008. Remaining series completed 3/16/2009.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Kodály method (music education), 1966-1997],
[Series 2: University committees, faculty correspondence, teaching and campus engagement, 1955-2000],
[Series 3: Research notes, drafts and correspondence],
[Series 4: Academic associations and professional travel],
[Series 5: Personal material],
[All]

Series 4: Academic associations and professional travel

Alexander Ringer actively participated in a number of music and musicological societies during his career. This sub-series documents this participation by including correspondence related to planning lectures, events and panels at upcoming society meetings; involvement with society administration; and copies of lectures and papers delivered at various society meetings.

Sub-Series 1: American Musicological Society, 1957-1988

Box 83: 1957-1985

Folder 1: AMS/Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College joint meeting, Los Angeles, 1957
Folder 2: American Musicological Society meeting involvement, includes correspondence, programs and papers, 1958, 1969-1973, 1977, 1982-1984
Folder 3: Research file for AMS/Society for Ethnomusicology panel on improvisation, 1960-1961
Folder 4: AMS 1964 Program Committee correspondence, 1963-1964
Folder 5: AMS/College Music Society joint meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, 1963
Folder 6: American Musicological Society/College Music Society meeting, Washington, D.C., 1964
Folder 7: Executive Board of the American Musicological Society correspondence and meeting minutes, 1965
Folder 8: Midwest chapter of the American Musicological Society, 1968-1975
Folder 9: AMS Ph.D. guidelines revision committee, 1969-1970

Box 84: 1970-1985

Folder 1: AMS/CMS 1970 meeting, Toronto, ethnomusicology informal study panel, and 1972 SEM meeting, Toronto, 1970-1972
Folder 2: AMS meeting, Chapel Hill, "Islamic Civilation in Medieval Polyphony" draft and research notes and AMS Council correspondence, 1972
Folder 3: AMS meeting, 1972, Dallas, papers from meeting, 1972
Folder 4: AMS Council correspondence, 1973-1975
Folder 5: AMS meeting, Chicago, 1973, papers and related correspondence, 1973
Folder 6: AMS meeting, 1974, Washington, D.C., planning for Schoenberg panel, Rudolf Stephan and Carl Dahlhaus, 1974
Folder 7: Talk at AMS greater New York chapter meeting, 1975, New York City, "The Quest for 19th century music" drafts and related Elaine Brody correspondence, 1974-1975
Folder 8: AMS meeting, 1975, Los Angeles, "After Wagner" "Romantic Influences" panel, 1975
Folder 9: AMS 1976 meeting, Washington D.C., correspondence related to planning panel on "Berg, Britten, Rochberg", 1976
Folder 10: AMS/Society for Music Theory meeting, Minneapolis, 1978
Folder 11: AMS meeting, New York City, 1979
Folder 12: AMS meeting 1981, Boston, 1981

Box 94: 1990

Folder 12: AMS/SEM (with Society for Music Theory) 1990 meeting, Oakland - panel on late 19th/early 20th century harmony with Stephen Blum, 1990: Paper title: Fin de Siecle Harmony: Myths and Realizations

Sub-Series 2: Multiple Music Societies, especially the College Music Society, 1958-2000

Box 85: College Music Society, 1960-2000

Folder 1: AMS/CMS 1960 conference, Berkeley, paper on teacher education "Music Teachers of Tomorrow" and related correspondence, 1960-1961
Folder 2: College Music Society business, 1964
Folder 3: College Music Society newsletters, correspondence and administrative papers, 1966-1972/1982-1985
Folder 4: College Music Society - employment opportunity listings, 1973-1974
Folder 5: College Music Society, Vancouver, 1985, "Musicology -- Scholarly and Academic: Some Centennial Reflections" paper, 1985-1986: Includes revised version submitted to Journal of Musicological Research.
Folder 6: College Music Society, 2000 lecture drafts and research file - "Education Through Music -- The Dream and the Reality", 1999-2000
Folder 7: Academic Music Societies, principally American Musicological Society and College Music Society (1 of 2), 1958-1962: Includes documents from the first meeting of the College Music Society in 1958
Folder 8: Academic Music Societies, principally American Musicological Society and College Music Society (2 of 2), 1958-1962

Box 86: Multiple academic music associations/societies, 1964-1979

Includes Music Library Association, American Musicological Society, College Music Society, International Folk Music Council, Society for Ethnomusicology, Council of Learned Societies, etc.

Folder 1: Music associations/societies (principally conference programs), 1964-1968: Includes correspondence relating to Midwest Chapter of Music Library Association meeting, 1964; Medieval Conference, 1964; Society for Ethnomusicology, 1963/1964/1965; Midwest Chapter American Musicological Society, 1963/1965; Music Library Association, Midwest Chapter, 1963; Medieval Conference, 1962; Music Library Association, 1964/1965; Inter-American Music Council, 1965; Conference on the Humanities, Ohio State, 1965; International Folk Music Council, 1966/1967; International Seminar on Teacher Education in Music, 1966
Folder 2: Music associations/societies - administrative correspondence and programs, 1964-1968: Includes planning correspondence relating to Ringer's trip to Europe in Fall 1966. Conference correspondence relates to: International Seminar on Teacher Education, 1966; American Musicological Society, 1966; International Folk Music Council, 1966; International Musicological Society, 1967; Society for Ethnomusiciology, 1967; Music Library Association, 1967/1968; American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter, 1968.
Folder 3: Music societies/organizations, 1965-1969: International Folk Music Council, 1969; Midwest Chapter, American Musicological Society, 1965; and other newsletters and programs.
Folder 4: Music society meetings, 1974-1979: American Musicological Society, 1979. Also includes abstracts/hand-outs from 1976 meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Includes Kodaly-related correspondence from 1974 from "Julia."

Sub-Series 3: International Musicological Society, 1959-1965

Box 86: 1959-1992

Folder 5: International Musicological Society 1961, New York Congress: The Employment of Sociological Methods in Music History (1 of 2), 1959-1962
Folder 6: International Musicological Society 1961, New York Congress: The Employment of Sociological Methods in Music History (2 of 2), 1959-1962
Folder 7: IMS general involvement, 1967-1971
Folder 8: Papers from IMS colloquium for Acta Musicologica, 1970
Folder 9: IMS Colloquium 1975, Jerusalem, Israel, with Edith Gerson-Kiwi correspondence, 1972-1975

Box 87: 1972-1984

Folder 1: International Musicological Society 1972, Copenhagen, includes draft of lecture "A Question of Commitment", 1972
Folder 2: IMS 1970, Bonn, correspondence and articles, includes "The Political Uses of Opera in Revolutionary France", 1970-1972
Folder 3: IMS Congress 1977, Berkeley, includes lecture draft "Oral Transmission and Literacy: The Biblical Connection", 1976-1977
Folder 4: IMS 1982, Strasbourg, includes Opera as Public Ceremony" "Opera as Ritual" paper drafts and research notes, 1980-1982
Folder 5: IMS 1981, Bayreuth, includes "New Deal and Music" drafts and research, 1981
Folder 6: Marius Flothius and Ringer, Ideology and Musical Language lecture, IMS 1982, 1980-1982: Includes notes from IMS, 1983, Berlin

Box 88: 1986-1992

Folder 1: "Meyerbeer, Wagner and the Romeo and Juliet Syndrome" draft for the IMS Congress, Bologna, 1987 (with Carl Dahlhaus), 1986-1990
Folder 2: IMS 1992, Madrid, "Meeting of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Musical Cultures on the Iberian Penninsula", 1989-1992

Sub-Series 4: International Folk Music Council, 1961-1977

Box 88: 1961-1976

Folder 3: International Folk Music Council, 1963-1965: Includes correspondence with Maud Karpeles about publication of 1964 bulletin, including contributions by George Rochberg. Also includes correspondence relating to 1963 conference in Jerusalem, including paper "An Investigation into Tonal Structure of the Maqamat" by Dalia Carmi-Cohen
Folder 4: IFMC - 1964 meeting, Budapest, "On the Question of Exoticism in 19th Century Music", 1964: Includes paper drafts, research notes and planning correspondence.
Folder 5: International Musicological Society, Salzburg/IFMC, Budapest, 1964: Includes brief correspondence with Zoltan Kodaly.
Folder 6: IFMC general correspondence (1 of 2), 1966-1970/1976
Folder 7: IFMC general correspondence (2 of 2), 1966-1970/1976
Folder 8: Maud Karpeles correspondence, IFMC Yearbook, 1966-1971
Folder 9: Correspondence with IFMC Yearbook contributors, 1968-1970
Folder 10: IFMC Yearbook financial reports, 1968-1971

Box 89: 1967-1972

Folder 1: General correspondence relating to IFMC Yearbook (1 of 2), 1967-1972
Folder 2: General correspondence relating to IFMC Yearbook (2 of 2), 1967-1972
Folder 3: Articles submitted to IFMC Yearbook, 1968-1969
Folder 4: IFMC Yearbook submissions (1 of 3), 1968-1970: Includes correspondence and drafts from Luis Felipe Ramon y Rivera, Vera Proca Cuertea, Michio Kitahara, Isaih Mwesa Mapoma, Mervyn McLean, Atta Annan Mensah, Norman Fraser, John S. Weissmann, and obituaries.
Folder 5: IFMC Yearbook submissions (2 of 3), 1968-1970: Includes correspondence and drafts from Jurgen Elsner, Balint Sarosi, and Akin Euba.
Folder 6: IFMC Yearbook submissions (3 of 3), 1968-1970: Includes correspondence and drafts Felix Hoerburger, Radmila Petrovic, Barbara Krader, John Okell, V. Vinogradov, and editorial correspondence with Maud Karpeles.

Box 90: 1969-1977

Folder 1: IFMC Conference 1969, Edinburgh, 1969
Folder 2: IFMC Executive board meeting, 1970, London, 1970
Folder 3: A.M. Dauer, film and ethnomusicology paper, IFMC Yearbook, 1970
Folder 4: Announcements, press releases and publicity for IFMC Yearbook, volumes 1 and 2, 1969-1970
Folder 5: Contributions to IFMC Yearbook, 1969: Includes drafts and correspondence from John Blacking, Arnold Bake/A.A. Bake, Diego Carpitella, George W. Boswell, and Viktor M. Beliaev.
Folder 6: Ringer's editorial introduction to IFMC Yearbook, 1970
Folder 7: Book reviews, obituaries, for IFMC Yearbook, 1970
Folder 8: International Folk Music Council Conference, 1977, Honolulu, 1976-1977

Sub-Series 5: Society for Ethnomusicology and other academic associations, 1968-

Box 90: Society for Ethnomusicology, 1968-1970/1976-1979

Folder 9: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) correspondence and meeting planning records, 1968-1970/1976-1979

Box 91: Society for Ethnomusicology and other associations, 1959-1979

Folder 1: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) meeting 1972, Toronto, proceedings, 1972
Folder 2: SEM 1973 meeting, Champaign-Urbana, and improvisation panel, 1973
Folder 3: SEM meeting, 1978, St. Louis, 1978
Folder 4: Peer-review for Ethnomusicology journal, SEM, 1979
Folder 5: Cantors and Ministers Association of Chicago and the Midwest, 1959-1960
Folder 6: Ameria-Israel Cultural Foundation and related corresponce, 1963-1967: Correspondents include Dalia Cohen, David Bloch, and the United States-Israel Educational Foundation, among others.
Folder 7: American Institute of Vocal Pedagogy, 1964
Folder 8: International Society for Music Education, 1966/1971: Correspondence with Rudolfo Zabrisky on proposed Kodaly paper at Buenos Aires conference, 1966
Folder 9: "Musicology and the Future of Music Education" paper for Music Educators National Conference, and Beethoven-Becker-Bartok draft article for Music Quarterly, 1966-1967: Paper originally given at International Seminar on Teacher Preparation in Music at the University of Michigan, August 8-18, 1966. Published in Current Musicology
Folder 10: Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry (1 of 2), 1967-1970
Folder 11: Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry (2 of 2), 1967-1970
Folder 12: American Council of Learned Societies - travel grants, 1958-1970/1974/1981-1987: Includes grant for travel to International Schoenberg Congress, IMS Colloquium on the Sociology of Music, 1974

Box 92: 1973-1987

Folder 1: "Music in Middle Eastern Civilization" panel for Music Educators National Conference (MENC), Milwaukee, 1973
Folder 2: Americans for a Music Library in Israel, 1974-1977
Folder 3: International Conference on Donizetti, 1975: Includes "Aspetti Socio-Economici Dell'Opera Italiana nel Periodo Donizettiano" drafts and research material, research notes
Folder 4: World Congress on Jewish Music, 1977-1981: Includes draft of "Jewish Music - Old Problems, New Dilemmas"
Folder 5: Israel Musicological Society, 1979-1980
Folder 6: The Music Foundation - Youth Music Projects in Israel, 1979-1981
Folder 7: National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, St. Louis, 1979
Folder 8: American Society for Jewish Music, 1980's
Folder 9: German Musicological Society/International Music Society, 1981 conference, Bayreuth, and related correspondence, 1980-1984
Folder 10: American Society for Aesthetics Conference, Milwaukee, 1980
Folder 11: American Federation of Jews from Central Europe, 1983
Folder 12: International Survey of Jewish Monuments, 1985
Folder 13: Association for Jewish Studies, 1986
Folder 14: Society for Advancement of Gifted Education (SAGE) - Israel Arts & Science Adademy/ Society for Excellence Through Education - Israel - International Guidance Panel, 1986-1990: Includes draft of paper "Thoughts on an Israeli High School for the Specially Gifted" paper for Israel Institute for Gifted Education symposium on Specially Gifted Education, 1987, Washington D.C. Also includes transcription of panel on teacher education in which Ringer participated

Box 93: 1974-1995

Folder 1: Neue Bach-Gesellschaft, U.S. chapter, 1972
Folder 2: German Musicological Society/International Musicological Society, Berlin, 1947/Frankfurt, 1989, 1974/1989
Folder 3: Who's Who in World Jewry - Honorary advisory board, 1976-1977
Folder 4: Institute for the Study of Contemporary Social Problems, 1978-1980: Correspondence relating to the International Scholars Symposium' Western Society after the Holocaust, Seattle, 1978
Folder 5: Fulbright alumni association, 1978-1989
Folder 6: World Congress on Jewish Music, 1978: Includes draft of paper "Jewish Music - Old Problems, New Dilemmas"
Folder 7: Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1981, Jerusalem, 1980-1982: Includes drafts of paper "Schoenberg's Last Musical Utterance" and publication correspondence with Leonard Stein.
Folder 8: National Foundation for Jewish Culture - Judith Cardozo - correspondence regarding NEH grant "Independence and Interdependence: Jewish Culture in Israel and America", 1987-1989
Folder 9: Midwest Jewish Studies Association - founding the association, 1987-1989/1997
Folder 10: The Educational Alliance, Centennial, 1989-1990
Folder 11: Foundations of the Milken Families, Music Archive advisory board, 1993
Folder 12: Asociacion Argentina de Musicologia, 1996 conference, 1995-1997
Folder 13: Midwest Jewish Studies Association, 1995 conference, includes lecture draft "A Hundred Years Later: Unheeded Lessons of the Prussian Emancipation Centennial", 1995-1997

Sub-Series 6: Invited lectures, festivals and other academic travel, 1956-2002

Box 18: Oversized material

Folder 2: Promotional materials for lectures at which Ringer spoke, 1956-1983

Includes two glossy photographs of Ringer.

Posters include:

Mozart and the Music of the 18th Century, May 1, 1956, Berkeley

The Influence of Eastern Music on Western Music, 1961, UIUC

Cherubin's Media and the Music of the French Revolution, August 26, 1958, Berkeley

Music and Ideology, May 2, 1960, UIUC

A pre-concert lecture on The Cleveland Orchestra, April 21, UIUC

Music and Religion, 1959, UIUC

Door sign of Ringer's office

Dance on a Volcano: German Music from War to War, October 25, 1974, UIUC

Der Jude Arnold Schonberg, November 16, 1983, Heidelberg (2 copies)

Folder 3: International Mendelssohn-Schuman Conference Poster, Wolfgang Boetticher controversy, 1982

Box 95: 1956-1969

Folder 1: Mozart festival, Berkeley, bicentennial lecture - "Mozart and the Music of the 18th Century", 1956
Folder 2: "Music as the Image of Contemporary Man" lecture, 1959: Contains George Rochberg letter.
Folder 3: "Music and Politics: A Historical View" at University of Iowa, 1960
Folder 4: Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, "Eastern Elements of Medieval Polyphony", 1964
Folder 5: Trip to Switzerland, Hungary, France and Israel, 1964: Contains photographs of Weizmann Institute of Science, Auditorium, Israel.
Folder 6: Weizmann Institute of Science, 1964-1967/1985: Includes Isaac Stern correspondence and proposal for Center for Advanced Musical Study at Weizmann written by Ringer.
Folder 7: Testimonium Music Festival - Israel, 1966-1979: Includes Recha Freier and George Rochberg correspondence.
Folder 8: International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation conference "Creating a Wider Interest in Traditional Music, Berlin, 1967: Includes conference proceedings
Folder 9: Promotional material, flyers and correspondence relating to lectures given by Ringer, 1959-1983: Includes Kodaly related correspondence, 1970.
Folder 10: International Society of Jazz Research - Jazz Institute, Graz, Austria, 1969
Folder 11: Gabriel Faure festival, University of Delaware, "Faure and the Rebirth of French Chamber Music", 1974

Box 96: 1973-1980

Folder 1: Zagreb Colloquium, International Musicological Society, June 1974 - draft of speech "Musical Taste and the Industrial Syndrome", 1973-1975
Folder 2: Aspen Music Festival, 1975, Isaac Stern, Daniel Boorstin, 1975-1977
Folder 3: Charles Seegar celebration, Berkeley, 1976-1977
Folder 4: Beethoven Colloquium, Vienna, 1977
Folder 5: Colloquium in 19th Century French Studies, Michigan State University - "Music as a Document of Cultural History" panel, 1978
Folder 6: Holocaust Conference, Seattle, "Western Society after the Holocaust", 1978
Folder 7: Symposium on the University Library and the Arts, 1979
Folder 8: Lecture at University of Cincinnati correspondence and European travel receipts/correspondence, 1979-1982
Folder 9: Mahler and Wagner lecture, Freiburg, and other European lecture, Basel/Budapest, 1979-1980
Folder 10: The Crusades conference, Binghamton, 1980
Folder 11: Salomon Sulzer Seminar, Vienna, 1980: Lecture: Emanzipation und Exotismus - Bemerkungen zu Sulzers Stellung in der europaischen Musik"
Folder 12: Bela Bartok Celebration, Detroit, Ellwood S. Derr, 1980-1981

Box 97: 1982-1990

Folder 1: Colloquium - Kurt Von Fischer's 70th Birthday, 1983, Zurich, "Bearbeating in Mahler", 1982-1985
Folder 2: Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands, Tel Aviv, 1982
Folder 3: International Mendelssohn-Schumann Conference, North Carolina, 1982: Contains correspondence regarding Wolfgang Boetticher, Nazi controversy
Folder 4: Wagner Centennial, Chicago, 1983 - "Language of Feeling", 1983
Folder 5: Correspondence/Flyers relating to guest lectures, 1983-1988
Folder 6: Symposien des Forschungsinstituts fur Musiktheater, "Nationales Bewusstsein, Nationalitat und Nationalismus im Burgerlichen Operngewand" Beyreuth symposium, 1985, 1984-1990
Folder 7: Heinrich Schutz conference, UIUC, 1985
Folder 8: Princeton lecture, "Allusion, Quotation and the Romantic Self-Image in the Works of Gustav Mahler" and "Arnold Schoenberg's Quest for Language", 1985
Folder 9: Notes for talk at "Music in the University" symposium, Heidelberg, 1986
Folder 10: Northern Illinois University lecture, "Israel - the Making of a Musical Nation", 1987
Folder 11: Adelaide Australia festival, 1988, Symposium on Music Criticism, 1987-1988
Folder 12: Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Edinburgh, 1988
Folder 13: International Symposium, "Charles Ives and the American Musical Tradition," Colon (1 of 2), 1988-1990: Paper: "Amerikanische Musik im Zeitalter des Jazz"
Folder 14: International Symposium, "Charles Ives and the American Musical Tradition," Colon (2 of 2), 1988-1990: Paper: "Amerikanische Musik im Zeitalter des Jazz"

Box 98: 1989-1991

Folder 1: "Music and Germanic Literature: An International Symposium" at UIUC, organizational correspondence, 1989
Folder 2: "Oper Nach Wagner" - Carl Dahlhaus Memorial Colloquium, Berlin, 1989
Folder 3: "Counter-Harmonies: Jewish Experience in 20th Century Music: An Israeli-North American Dialogue", New York City, 1989
Folder 4: Leuven Conference, Belgium, 1990 - "Jewish Identity, National Consciousness and the Course of 20th Century Music" - International Society for the Study of European Ideas, 1990: Includes correspondence with Gerald Seaman
Folder 5: Kussel symposium, 1991, "Mendelssohn oder das Judentum in der Musik" (1 of 2), 1991
Folder 6: Kussel symposium, 1991, "Mendelssohn oder das Judentum in der Musik" (2 of 2), 1991: Symposium title: "Romantik und Biedermeier in einer neuen Offentlichkeit Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy"
Folder 7: Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology Symposium, Mainz, 1991, 1991/1996: Includes draft of paper: "Schriftlose Tradition und musikalisches Geschichtsbewusstsein"
Folder 8: "Mozart Musik als Abbild ihrer Zeit?" Roundtable, Vienna, 1991
Folder 9: First International Festival of Jewish Art Music, Vilnius, 1992: Title of lecture: Concerted Music for the American Synagogue

Box 99: 1993-1997

Folder 1: Ravnsborg Centre forum "Quo Vadis Musica?" Denmark, 1996, and Executive Committee correspondence, European Academy of Muisc (1 of 2), 1992-1997: Includes correspondence and plans relating to the founding of the Centre.
Folder 2: Ravnsborg Centre forum "Quo Vadis Musica?" Denmark, 1996, and Executive Committee correspondence, European Academy of Muisc (2 of 2), 1992-1997: Includes correspondence and plans relating to the founding of the Centre.
Folder 3: Leipziger Mendelssohn Colloquium - "Mendelssohn, ein Problem?", 1993: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Folder 4: Dresden Colloquium - Bar-Ilan University, "Komponisten in den Diktaturen Unseres Jahrunderts", 1993: Lecture title: "Bemerkungen zur musikalischen Judenverfolgung Zehn Punkte fur Dresden"
Folder 5: Voice of Ashkenaz Conference, 1997, NYC, 1994-1997: Lecture title: From Mendelssohn to Lewandowski and Beyond
Folder 6: Musica Reanimata, Berlin, 1994-1997

Box 100: 1995-2002

Folder 1: Rheingau Music Festival, 1995 - "Friedrich Gernsheim - Ein Beispiel" (1 of 2), 1995: Includes records of award given to Ringer at the Festival.
Folder 2: Rheingau Music Festival, 1995 - "Friedrich Gernsheim - Ein Beispiel" (2 of 2), 1995: Includes records of award given to Ringer at the Festival.
Folder 3: Krakow Mozart Academy lectures, European Mozart foundation, 1996
Folder 4: Trip to Germany/Switzerland - includes draft of "Fin-de-Siecle Harmony: Myths and Rationalizations", 1996-1998
Folder 5: Fugato Bad Homburg, orgelfestival, programand correspondence, 1996-1997: Paper title: Jude, Christ und Organist - Mendelssohn und die Sprache der Empfindung
Folder 6: Munster symposium, 1998, with Ringer's lecture "Handel - ein deutscher Musiker?", 1998-2000: Symposium title: "Die Nationalitatenfrage in der Musik des 18 Jahrhunders"
Folder 7: Mahler symposium, Bonn - "Gustav Mahler und die conditio judaica", 2000
Folder 8: London International Jewish Music Conference, 2000
Folder 9: "Musikwissenschaft in Nationalsozialismus und in faschistischen regimen" - symposium, Mainz, 2000
Folder 10: Berne lecture, "Schonberg - Weill - Mihaudi Musikalische Positionen judischer Komponisten", 2001: Symposium title: Die Politisierung 'judischen Musik' im 20. Jahrhunder

Box 131: 1993

Folder 7: Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop, Carnegie Hall, 1993

Box 137: 1956-1957

Folder 1: "Aria" from "Helene et Francique" for Mozart lecture, Berkeley, 1956, by M. Sarti, 1956
Folder 2: "La Chasse du Lievre" from Susato's "Livre Dixieme" for presentation, from Joel Newman, Columbia University, 1957
Item 1: Isreal, East-West lecture music. 7" polyester Reel-to-reel tape.
Item 2: Isreal, East-West lecture music II. 7" polyester Reel-to-reel tape.
Item 3: Israel lecture music, 7" acetate reel-to-reel tape
Item 4: Scott Goldthwaite Memorial concert. 7" polyester reel-to-reel tape., February 4, 1981: Includes concert program and Ringer speech "A Grateful School Remembers."
Item 5: Lecture. 7" acetate reel-to-reel tape.
Item 6: Folk Music Lecture, part 1. 7.5" acetate reel-to-reel tape., November 12, 1961
Item 7: Folk Music Lecture, part 2. 7.5" acetate reel-to-reel tape., November 12, 1961
Item 8: Music tape for Three Generations of Jazz lecture. 7.5" acetate reel-to-reel tape., November 12, 1961
Item 9: "Many Worlds and One: Music and the Middle East" lecture examples, Kalamazoo. 7.5" acetate reel-to-reel tape., 1964
Item 10: Mahler-Wagner Tape I. 7.5" acetate reel-to-reel tape.
Item 11: Mahler-Wagner Tape 2. 7.5" acetate reel-to-reel tape.

Box 138: Lecture recordings and excerpts used during lectures/George Rochberg

Item 1: Kodaly/Bartok/Mahler/Wagner. 7" reel-to-reel tape.
Item 2: Kodaly/Bartok/Mahler/Wagner. 7" reel-to-reel tape.
Item 3: Exoticism music excerpts. 7" reel-to-reel tape.
Item 4: YMCA Friday Forum lecture. 7" reel-to-reel tape., 1979: Title: "Sounds Blowing Back from the Future"
Item 5: Examples for Yale paper. 7" reel-to-reel tape.
Item 6: First America lecture. 7" reel-to-reel tape.
Item 7: 2nd America lecture. 7" reel-to-reel tape.
Item 8: Socialist realism. 7" reel-to-reel tape.
Item 9: Exoticism. 5" reel-to-reel.
Item 10: 3) American Professors for Peace in the Middle East Conference, Christian Attitudes Toward Israel, by A. Roy Eckakat, Lehigh University, Sunday, February 16, 1969 (The Reaction of the Churches). 5" reel-to-reel, 1969

Box 147: Video tapes and classical music cassettes.

Item 1: Unlabeled. VHS tape.
Item 2: Forbidden Sounds, PAL VHS. with English subtitles.
Item 3: Verdi, Nabucco Muti La Scala, VHS tape.
Item 4: CSUN singers, players. Conducted by Daniel Kessner; director Steve Daskini, Gabriel Reoyo, William Trabald, Beth Saunders, Benito Galindo. VHS tape.
Item 5: Guillaume du Fay, Recollectio, edited by Barbara Haggh. A gift. Compact disc. Digital audio.
Item 6: Tsippi Fleischer, vocal music. Compact disc. Digital audio., 1992
Item 18: Heritage lecture. Cassette tape.
Item 19: Kodaly/Bartok/Mahler/Wagner lecture examples. Cassette tape.
Item 20: Berlin, Reform Gemeinde. Casssette tape.
Item 21: East and West in Israel. Casssette tape.
Item 22: Northern Illinois University lecture, "Israel - the Making of a Musical Nation." Casssette tape., April 12, 1987
Item 23: Mahler talk set in Lieden. Casssette tape.
Item 24: CrO2. Casssette tape.
Item 25: American twenties and thirties lecture examples. Casssette tape.
Item 26: "Exocistism" lecture examples. Casssette tape.
Item 27: Leo Karl Gerhartz im Gesprach, Apropos Musik. Casssette tape., January 17, 1996
Item 28: Crusades lecture examples. Casssette tape.
Item 29: Noninsky's 100th. Casssette tape.
Item 30: Die Judeu u.... lecture. Casssette tape.
Item 31: CrO2 - C-64. Casssette tape.
Item 32: Unlabeled. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 33: U.K. Demonstration tape. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 34: Barber, Summer Music, Op. 31. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 35: Erinnerungen an Berlin. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 36: Mahler MS description aid. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 37: Donizetti congress discussion. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 38: Happy End by Kurt Weill. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 39: Unlabeled. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 40: Unlabeled. Unboxed cassette tape.
Item 44: Macmillan audito tape. Microcassette.
Item 45: Loose cassette tape liner notes unassociated with actual cassette tapes.
Item 46: Bruckner Helgoland lecture examples, revised/Bartok, Hindemith examples, revised. Unboxed cassette tape.