Julius Gold Collection
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Julius Gold Collection1858-1924 (bulk 1920-1955)
Gold, Julius, 1884-1969
Biographical History for: Julius Gold Collection1858-1924 (bulk 1920-1955)
Biographical Sketch Date Event 1884 February 18 Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, of Russian-Polish parentage 1891 Family moves to San Francisco 1897 Studies violin with Sir Henry Heyman and Henry Holmes 1900-1905 Studies violin with Bernhard Listemann and Emile Sauret at the Chicago Musical College 1905-1910 Studies history and theory of music with Bernhard Ziehn 1910-1914 Professor of music at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa 1914 Returns to San Francisco; plays violin with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra until his resignation in 1937 1922 Plays violin with the San Francisco Opera Association until his resignation in 1937 1931 Summer Holds a lectureship at Stanford University: The Foundations of Music Art 1931-35 Professor of counterpoint and composition at Dominican College in San Rafael, California 1937- Private teaching and research 1969 January 29 Dies in California
Scope and Content Note Julius Gold was a musicologist and teacher of both violin and music theory who was active in California in the first half of the 20th century. Having studied with the German theorist Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago from 1905-1910, Gold became an interpreter of Ziehn and one of his most avid apologists. Although his writings on Ziehn were never published, numerous typescripts of Gold's translations of and commentaries on Ziehn's writings are included in this collection. Gold also wrote extensively on the ecclesiastical modes, and the collection includes an abundance of writings and score examples both on modal doctrines and a wide variety of other subjects of music theory. The papers of Julius Gold span the period from 1858 to 1964, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1920-1955. In addition to the writings described above there is extensive correspondence, both with notable colleagues such as Hans Joachim Moser, Lloyd Hibberd, and John Alden Carpenter, and with a great many of Gold's students, including Winthrop Sargeant, Frank Fragale, Meredith Willson, and Isaac Stern. Gold collected music books, amassing a 10,000 volume research library, and included here is a body of correspondence addressing the acquisition and sale of books and music, both by Julius Gold himself and by his daughter's firm, Glen Gold Books and Music. A large selection of publishers' catalogs is also pertinent to Gold's book collecting activities. The remaining papers in the collection consist of promotion materials of Julius Gold and others, financial and legal papers, photographs, programs, and an assortment of printed music for the piano -- much of which may have belonged to Gold's wife, Janet Hale Gold, herself a pianist and a teacher of piano.
series
Writings
The Writings series is represented by two subseries: Writings of Julius Gold; Writings of Others. The materials consist of unpublished writings, translations and commentaries on German theorist Bernhard Ziehn. Gold also wrote extensively on the ecclesiastical modes, and the collection includes an abundance of writings and score examples both on modal doctrines and a wide variety of other subjects of music theory.
subseries
Writings of Julius Gold
file
General
Contrapuntal inventions: Tonal studies in a variety of moods and motives
The elements of musical composition
The Musico-Lexicographic Collections of Julius Gold (from brown 3-ring notebook)
Open sesame to musical knowledge
Proposals for a new dictionary of music
The tradition of patronage
Biographical and personal
Ecclesiastical modes
The beginnings of medieval modal theory
A brief bibliography of the history of modal doctrines
Modal bibliography (from blue 3-ring notebook)
Modal doctrines: A new perspective
The newer knowledge of the modes
Miscellaneous (typed and handwritten)
Score examples
Bernard Ziehn
Prospectus for editing The ecclesiastical modes by Bernard Ziehn
Ziehn's Harmonie und Modulationslehre: A commentary
Translation from Ziehn's Harmonie- und Modulationslehre
Translation of Ziehn's "Uber die Kirchentöne"
Notes on Ziehn
Music theory
Canon
Chords and Triads
Enharmonics
Harmony
Instruments
Intervals
Modulation
Musical compositions by others
Polyphony
Scales
Symmetry
Miscellaneous (typewritten, handwritten, and 3x5 cards)
Miscellaneous (score examples; also 2 composition books containing handwritten notes on music theory and theoretical writings)
Score analysis (Chopin, Trois nocturnes, op. 9)
Proposals for teaching and study
Comments on writings by others
Essays in musical analysis by Donald Francis Tovey
"Das Lebenswerk Bernhard Ziehn" by Hugo Leichentritt
Review of unidentified work by Ziehn by [Edward] Mitchell
Letters to the editor
Writings of Others
Grant, John [Fionn]
"The Celtic lyre."
Ziehn, Bernhard
The church modes
Isaacson, Charles D.
Face to face with great musicians. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1929.
Leichentritt, Hugo
"Das Lebenswerk Bernhard Ziehns."
Mitchell, Edward R.
"Julius Gold and the teaching of music theory."
"Julius Gold: Master-musicologist."
Moser, Hans Joachim
Bernhard Ziehn.
"Epochs of musical history."
Introduction to "Über die Kirchentöne" by Bernhard Ziehn.
Untitled article(s) for Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Offner, Herbert
The modal aspects of Bach's chorale harmonization
Otterstrom, Thorwald
"The fugue," excerpt from Manual of harmony (advanced).
"Personal recollections of Bernhard Ziehn."
Miscellaneous printed excerpts
Correspondence
The Correspondence series is represented by five subseries: General; Correspondence with students; Correspondence with family; Correspondence with institutions regarding jobs, grants, fellowships; Correspondence regarding acquiring and selling books and journals. The material consists of correspondence relating to the music, interests and pursuits of Julius Gold.
Adler, Clarence
Allen, James Turney
Allen, Warren
American Musicological Society
Apel, Willi
Bacon, Ernst
Barker, Orville W.
Barrymore, Lionel
Bates, A. Cyril
Berger, Isador
Blake, J. P. Art Publication Society
Blom, Eric
Blume, Friedrich
Boguslawski, Moissaye
Borowski, Felix
Bowhay, Arnold Beverly Hills Unified School District
Breeze, Louisa
Brother Leo
Brune, Adolf
Bukofzer, Manfred
Calvocoressi, M. D.
Cantor, Eddie
Carpenter, John Alden
Cesana, Otto
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Tribune
Clark, William Andrews, Jr. Los Angeles Philharmonic
Colles, H. C. Grove's Dictionary
Cowper, Holmes See: University of California, Berkeley
Craft, Robert
Deutsch, Monroe See: Drake University
Downes, Olin
Drake University
Einstein, Alfred
Elko (Nevada) Independent
Elson, Louis C.
Engel, Carl
Engel, Gabriel
Foster Hall Collection
Freer, Eleanor Everest
Fulton, Muriel Mrs. Mario Palmieri
Ganz, Rudolph
Gehrkens, Karl W.
Goldberg, Albert Los Angeles Times music critic
Goldberg, Maurice
Godowsky, Leopold
Groshong, James W.
Guggenheim Foundation
Gunn, Glenn Dillard
Hartford, Huntington
Haydon, Glen
Heller, Helen R.
Hersholt, Jean
Hertz, Alfred
Heyman, Henry
Hibberd, Lloyd
Hill, William G.
Hinrichsen, Max
Hirsch, Paul
Hofmann, Josef
Holmes, Henry
Hughes, Dom Anselm
Irvine, Demar B.
Jeppesen, Knud
Jonás, Alberto
Journal of Music Theory
Kelley, Mrs. Edgar Stillman
Kleffman, Ervin H.
Krohn, Ernst C.
Kurth, Ernst
Lait, Jack
Lang, Paul Henry
Leach, Rowland
Liebling, Leonard
Lilienthal, T. and Jesse Lilienthal
Lowinsky, Edward E.
Luening, E. G.
Macmillan Company
Mason, Daniel Gregory
Mason, Redfern
Mathesius, Ebba
McEwen, John B.
Mendel, Arthur
Merton, Felice Mrs. Richard G.
Moore, Douglas
Monteux, Pierre
Morosco, Anthan
Music Library Association
Nettl, Paul
Olesen, Edith
Olson, Claire C.
Orriss, Herbert F.
Otterström, Thorwald
Parlow, Kathleen
Parsons, Louella O.
Paterson, John A.
Patterson, Frank
Persinger, Louis
Piston, Walter
Pratt, Waldo Selden
Purves-Smith, Claude
Reese, Gustav
Regnery, Henry
Remy, Alfred
Rowher, Jens
Rozsa, Miklos
Rubsamen, Walter
Russell, Rita and John Russell
Sachs, Curt
Sarton, George
Saunders, Richard
Scanlon, John Thomas
Schaeffer, Myron
Schmulian, S. E.
Scholes, Percy
Shaw, George Bernard
Silverman, Sol
Slonimsky, Nicolas
Sonneck, Oscar G.
Sorabji, Kaikhosru S.
Stock, Frederick A.
Swain, Arthur B.
Szigeti, Wanda
Teschan, Elsa H. Mrs. R. F.
Tobin, Richard M.
Torossian, Berdsch
University of California, Berkeley
Upton, George P.
Vincent, John
Wagner, Peter
Walter, Bruno
Weber, Julius Rehn
Werner, Eric
Who's Who in Music
Work Projects Administration
Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield
Ziehn, Emma
Ziehn, Robert
Zubryn, Emil
Miscellaneous
Correspondence with students
Barthelson, Joyce
Campbell, Henry
Cesana, Bruno
Christensen, Dan
Coleman, Corinne
Copley, Frank
Edmunds, John
Ferguson, Allyn
Firestone, Nathan
Fragale, Frank
Frost, Robert
Garrett, Jack
Gillingham, Harry
Granat, Frank
Hayes, Jack
Herst, Jerome P.
Hurbert, Stanley
Kimbell, Ray
Kohanovich, Lydia
Larew, Walter
Ocnoff, Edward
St. Edmunds, John
Sargeant, Winthrop
Sharp, Florence
Sister Edmund
Sister M. Dominic
Stern, Isaac
West, James
Willson, Meredith
Miscellaneous (A-L, M-Z, Unidentified)
Correspondence with family
Gold, Glen daughter
Gold, Leon cousin
Gold, Jacob uncle
Gold, Janet Hale wife
Gold, Nathan cousin
Ross, Anabel Mrs. William D.; sister-in-law
Weil, Jennifer Mrs. Paul; cousin
Unidentified
Correspondence with institutions regarding jobs, grants, fellowships
American Operatic Laboratory, Inc.
Beverly Hills Unified School District
California Council for Adult Education
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Cecil B. DeMille Productions Inc.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Federal Music Project
Fisk Teachers Agency
Ford Foundation
Immaculate Heart College
Juilliard School of Music
Kansas City Conservatory of Music
Sol Lesser Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts
Loyola University
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
Mount Saint Mary's College
Musical Courier
Musical News
National Institute of Music and Arts
Paramount Pictures Corporation
George Pepperdine College
City of Philadelphia
St. John's College
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco State Teachers College
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
San Jose State College
Stanford University
Universal-International Pictures
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University of San Francisco
University of Saskatchewan
University of Southern California
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
Correspondence regarding acquiring and selling books and journals
Julius Gold (4 folders)
Glen Gold, Books & Music (3 folders)
Tradition subscription requests
Promotion
The Promotion series consists of printed fliers, brochures, placards, testimonials, etc.
Julius Gold (including printed fliers, brochures, placards, testimonials, etc.)
Glen Gold, Books and Music
Miscellaneous others
Programs, 1960-1964
The Programs series consists of programs for musical performances (1900-1964, undated).
Programs of musical performance (1900-1964, undated)
Programs of instruction (arranged alphabetically by institution)
Clippings, 1860-1915
The Clippings series consists of periodicals, clippings, and promotional material about Julius Gold and various students.
German periodicals
Allgemeine Deutsche Musik-Zeitung (Allgemeine Musik Zeitung), 1878-1914
Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, 1820, 1868, 1871-73, 1877-78, 1880-81
Deutsche Tonkünstler Zeitung (1910)
Monatschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst, 1897-1898
Die Musik, 1915
Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 1896
Musik Welt, 1881, undated
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1887-1905
Scrapbook
American periodicals
Photographs
The Photographs series consists of prints of Julius Gold, his family, etc.
Julius Gold, alone and with others
Glen Gold (daughter) and her house
Others
Financial / Legal Papers, 1934-1953
The Financial / Legal Papers series consists of bills, receipts, and other legal documents.
Bills and receipts
Certificates, licenses, contracts
Insurance
Medical (correspondence, receipts)
Musician's Union (membership cards, pamphlets, correspondence)
Papers regarding sale of Gold's music library
Tax Forms
Catalogs
The Catalogs series consists of catalogs from various publishers and institutions.
Publishers
American Institute of Musicology
D. Appleton-Century Company
Athenaeum Cremonense
Bärenreiter-Verlag
C. H. Beck'sche Berlagsbuchhandlung
The Bookfellows
Books & Music
Breitkopf & Härtel
Bureau of Musical Research
Cambridge University Press
El Colegio de Mexico
Concordia Publishing House
J. G. Cotta-Verlag
Deutscher Musikliteratur Verlag
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
Oliver Ditson Company
Ernst Eulenburg
J. Fischer & Bro.
Helen Gentry
Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
Ginn and Company
Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Wilhelm Hansen
G. Henle Verlag
Max Hesses Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Company
Insel Verlag
Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Institute of Renaissance and Baroque Music
Wm. A. Kaun Music Company
Ernst Klett Verlag
Leo Liepmannssohn
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
G. and C. Merriam Co.
Edition Merseburger
Munksgaard
Albert Nauck & Co.
Martinus Nijhoff
Henning Oppermann
Oxford University Press
Edition Peters
Random House
Reclam
C. G. Röder
William Edwin Rudge
St. Martin's Press, Inc.
B. Schott's Söhne
Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft
Smith College
Steeger Verlag
Edition Steingräber
Universal Edition
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
Arno Volk Verlag
Joseph Williams Ltd.
Yale University Press
Exhibitors
Goodspeeds (Early English Engraved Portraits)
Libraries
Foster Hall
Library of Congress
Printed Music
The Printed Music series consists of music by various composers.
Everest, C.
The Sabbath, a work containing the most popular psalm and hymn tunes in general use. Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1873.
Sprightly flight. New York: Edition Musicus, 1943.
Progressive series of music lessons for the use of conservatories, teachers and students. St. Louis, Missouri: Art Publication Society, 1913.
Middelschulte, Wilhelm
Passacaglia (D moll) für die orgel. Leipzig: C. F. W. Siegel, 1901.
Piano scores by A. Arensky, C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach (2 piano), L. van Beethoven, Franz Bendel, Mathilde Bilbro (2 piano), Fr. von Esterhazy, Leopold Godowsky, Halfdan Kjerulf, Aug. Labitzky, Heinrich Lichner, Immanuel Liebich, Dorothy McGrath, Moritz Moszkowski, Ottorino Respighi (2 piano), Joachim Raff, Erno Rapée, James H. Rogers, Robert Schumann, Trygve Torjussen, and Mortimer Wilson [alphabetically by composer; 3 folders]
Piano/vocal scores by Buenta Carter, Palmer John Clark, Franco Leoni, Arthur Lee Mancebo, James H. Rogers, Meredith Willson, and Lawrence Zenda
Fragments