Call Number:

C1081

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.6 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: William Oliver Strunk Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1937-1979 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver), 1901-1980

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century and Lecture notes--20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of selected papers of W. Oliver Strunk, who was a professor of music at Princeton University (1937-1966).

W. Oliver Strunk was a musicologist and served as a professor of music at Princeton University from 1937-1966. During his tenure he was enormously influential for both his students at the university and for American musicology at large.

The collection consists chiefly of some correspondence of Strunk, lecture notes for his Princeton classes (Music 302, 402), and other notes about music and opera. Included are thirty-seven letters by Strunk to his friend Mrs. Rosamond McGuinness, some of which refers to his father's 1918 book The Elements of Style; eighteen letters to Strunk from Paul Hindemith, in both English and German; and one photograph of Strunk with Louis Bagger.