{"id":229,"date":"2016-11-28T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:20:21","slug":"young","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/collections_descriptions\/young\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnard and Morris Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-241\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/11\/Young_anthem-sheetmusic-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Examples of Sheet Music and correspondence by Young\" width=\"387\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/11\/Young_anthem-sheetmusic-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/11\/Young_anthem-sheetmusic.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Barnard and Morris Young owned and ran several music publishing, marketing, producing, and artist representation enterprises between ca. 1934 and 1972.<\/p>\n<p>The collection was described in\u00a0<em>Resources of American Music History<\/em>\u00a0as consisting of \u201c20,000 items, mostly 1790-1910, containing 48,000 music titles, and comprising 10,500 sheet music items, of which the black American collection of 3,500 items is particularly important\u2026\u201d (Krummel, et al., p.263). These conservative totals were considerably enhanced by the 1986 donation of a supplementary segment of \u201cover 70,000 items, mostly issued 1902-1961 [including 21,750 sheet-music items\u2026\u201d. The initial purchase occurred in 1985 and a further segment (consisting of additional sheet music, recordings, business archives, and other materials) was donated to the University of Illinois in 1995 by Morris Young.<\/p>\n<h2>Location\/Access<\/h2>\n<p>Major groupings of materials are deposited across the Music and Performing Arts Library and the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music as follows:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Music and Performing Arts Library<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>American sheet music, including items related to African-Americans\u2014interfiled in U.S. sheet music holdings by medium\/year\/accession number; searchable in the Music and Performing Arts Library\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/mpal\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/uiucsheetmusic\/\">online sheet music catalog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Individually cataloged items, including songsters, 19th-century sacred and secular vocal collections, college song anthologies, LP recordings, manuscripts, and broadsides<\/li>\n<li>Choral octavo editions\u2014interfiled among existing holdings in <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/collections_descriptions\/choral-reference-file\/\">Choral Reference File<\/a> cabinets by type of ensemble\/title.<\/li>\n<li>Reference resources<\/li>\n<li>Opera scores, miscellaneous 20th-century music editions<\/li>\n<li>National anthems collection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Sousa Archives and Center for American Music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>See the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/archon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=9856&amp;q=12%2F9%2F108\">Morris and Barnard Young Music Business Records, 1832-1988 Finding Aid<\/a> at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music for information about the brothers\u2019 business records, periodicals and publications; and the Merle Kendrick papers, George Whitling papers, and EM Wickes papers.<\/li>\n<li>Dance orchestra parts sets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Index terms<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>African-American music recordings<\/li>\n<li>Alverson, Eleanor<\/li>\n<li>Binder\u2019s collections<\/li>\n<li>Broadsides<\/li>\n<li>College songs<\/li>\n<li>Dance orchestra music<\/li>\n<li>Davis, Gussie L.<\/li>\n<li>Edwards, Gus<\/li>\n<li>Foster, Stephen<\/li>\n<li>Harrigan &amp; Hart<\/li>\n<li>Hutchinson Family<\/li>\n<li>Joplin, Scott<\/li>\n<li>Kendrick, Merle<\/li>\n<li>Lind, Jenny<\/li>\n<li>Manuscripts.<\/li>\n<li>Minstrel groups<\/li>\n<li>Motion picture music<\/li>\n<li>Music business records<\/li>\n<li>Music ephemera<\/li>\n<li>Music journals<\/li>\n<li>National anthem<\/li>\n<li>Recordings: 78 rpm<\/li>\n<li>Recordings: L<\/li>\n<li>Rosenfeld, Monroe<\/li>\n<li>Sheet music: United States<\/li>\n<li>Show tunes<\/li>\n<li>Smith, Chris<\/li>\n<li>Song text serials<\/li>\n<li>Songsters<\/li>\n<li>Sousa, John Philip<\/li>\n<li>Vocal music<\/li>\n<li>Whiting, George<\/li>\n<li>Wicks, Eddie<\/li>\n<li>Williams, Bert<\/li>\n<li>Young, Barnard<\/li>\n<li>Young, Morris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>See also<\/h2>\n<p>A detailed description of the collection from this time also exists in\u00a0Lubrano, John and Jude Lubrano. 1985. \u201cAmerican Popular Music 1795-1920.\u201d\u00a0<em>AB Bookman\u2019s Weekly<\/em>\u00a076 (24): 4267.<\/p>\n<p>Shim, Eunmi.\u00a0<em>Chris Smith and the ragtime song<\/em>\u00a0(M.M. thesis, University of Illinois, 1993)<\/p>\n<p>York, Elizabeth. 2017. &#8220;Barney and Gloria: Revisiting Tin Pan Alley.&#8221; <em>Notes<\/em> 73 (3) (03): 473-501.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Barnard and Morris Young owned and ran several music publishing, marketing, producing, and artist representation enterprises between ca. 1934 and 1972. The collection was described in\u00a0Resources of American Music History\u00a0as consisting of \u201c20,000 items, mostly 1790-1910, containing 48,000 music titles, and comprising 10,500 sheet music items, of which the black American collection of 3,500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/5255"}],"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=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}