Collection Information
Collection
Lloyd and Doris Farrar donation
Location
Dispersed among cataloged holdings in circulating and Special Collections areas of Music and Performing Arts Library; uncataloged items in University Press storage area and Special Collections cataloging backlog cabinets (unknown location–possibly moved to University Press Building); some materials were not retained. See also, the Lloyd Farrar Music Instrument Collection, 1893-1957 Finding Aid at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.
Provenance
Personal library of Lloyd and Doris Farrar.
When acquired
March 1996
Description
Donation consisted of 662 items, including 42 books, 7 antiquarian items, 32 scholarly editions and anthologies, 279 items of sheet music, 13 choral octavo editions, 192 scores and/or sets of parts, and 97 miniature scores. Strong emphasis upon percussion and wind ensemble music. Antiquarian materials include, among other items, four 19th-century church and school song collections, and a commonplace book (Christian Greenwald: His Book… [1846]). Also included scattered issues of three music magazines, and manuscript materials (Xaver and Phillpp Scharwenka). Items from Farrar’s personal collection of musical instruments were donated to the University of Illinois and are under the jurisdiction of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.
Arrangement
Cataloged materials dispersed among circulating and Special Collections holdings in the Music and Performing Arts Library; uncataloged items arranged by medium of performance/composer/title in the University Press storage area. Some items may remain in the Special Collections cataloging backlog cabinets on the upper level of the Music Library.
Access/Finding Aids/Bibliography
Two detailed lists (see below) by title of donated items are filed in the Collections File folder (“Farrar, Lloyd P. and Doris V.”), along with correspondence between Lloyd Farrar and Music Librarian William McClellan.
See Also
For the musical instrument collection, see the Lloyd Farrar Music Instrument Collection, 1893-1957 Finding Aid at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.
Index terms
Farrar, Lloyd; Greenwald, Christian; Scharwenka, Philip; Scharwenka, Xaver