{"id":1703,"date":"2017-04-19T21:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/?page_id=1703"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:41:30","slug":"blankenship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/collections_descriptions\/blankenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Blankenship Harp Legacy Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Shirley Meyer Blankenship was the first woman to receive a doctorate degree in music composition from the University of Illinois. She instituted the Blankenship Harp Legacy Project, which encouraged new compositions for harp literature. The materials from the project were donated to MPAL over time. More information about Shirley can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societyofcomposers.org\/members\/ShirleyMeyerBlankenship\/\">Society of Composers website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Location\/Access<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Music and Performing Arts Library Special Collections<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Items can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?query=creator,exact,Blankenship,%20Shirley,AND&amp;tab=LibraryCatalog&amp;search_scope=MyInstitution&amp;vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;facet=creator,exact,Blankenship,%20Shirley&amp;lang=en&amp;mode=advanced&amp;offset=0\">online catalog<\/a>\u00a0under the project\u2019s name.<\/li>\n<li>For papers, see also the finding aid for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/archon\/index.php?p=collections\/findingaid&amp;id=10702&amp;q\">Shirley Meyer Blankenship Music and Papers, 1950-2016 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Shirley Meyer Blankenship was the first woman to receive a doctorate degree in music composition from the University of Illinois. She instituted the Blankenship Harp Legacy Project, which encouraged new compositions for harp literature. The materials from the project were donated to MPAL over time. More information about Shirley can be found on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1703\/revisions\/5281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}