Patricia Carpenter papers, 1940s-1980s
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#2053
- Bib ID:
- 15561126 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Carpenter, Patricia, 1923-2000
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 1.5 Linear Feet (3 document boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Description
Arrangement
- Series I: Biographical
- Series II: Correspondence
- Series III: Notes
- Series IV: Music Study, Theory, and Composition
- Series V: Articles, Clippings, Programs, and Advertisements
- Series VI: Photographs
- Series VII: Books
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Patricia Carpenter Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Content Description
Patricia Carpenter was born in Santa Rosa, California on January 21, 1923, and died on July 8, 2000. Carpenter studied several instruments, primarily piano with Ethel Leginska, as well as percussion, bassoon, and conducting. She conducted the San Bernardino Symphony. Learning of Arnold Schoenberg from Leginska, she wrote asking him for lessons (correspondence is preserved in the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna). From 1942 to 1949 she studied with Schoenberg, and in 1944 she gave the Los Angeles premiere of his Piano Concerto in the two-piano version. She was initially accepted into the composition program at Columbia University to study with Douglas Moore, and her compositions included several chamber and orchestra works. Under the supervision of Albert Hofstadter in philosophy and Paul Henry Lang in musicology, she embarked upon studies in the aesthetics and history of music. She completed her Ph.D. in Music and Philosophy at Columbia in 1972. The first woman to present a keynote address to the Society of Music Theory, she served as its Vice-President from 1992 to 1994. She retired in 1989. The Music Theory Society of New York State holds an annual competition for an emerging scholar award named after her.
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