Music

Includes general information concerning the Department of Music (annual reports, budgets, and expenditures, bulletins, calendar of events, concerts, correspondence, curricula, entertainment, folklore, itineraries, National and Inter-American Music Week, folk songs, Negro spirituals, pamphlets, pictures, programs, and advertisements, sheet music, the Musical Arts Society and tour data); the Hampton Institute Choir and the Hampton Institute Quartette (activities of the concert choir, glee club, male chorus and the quartette, advertisements of various engagements, names of student participants, photographs, tours in Virginia, the United States, and Europe); Dr. R. Nathaniel Dett - correspondence, reports, telegrams, biographical data, pictures, newspaper clippings, printed materials, arrangements, compositions, poems, etc., (The Album of a Heart, "In the Bottoms", "Listen to the Lambs", " The Ordering of Moses", The Dett Collection of Negro Spirituals, Religious Folk Songs of the Negro, information regarding radio broadcasts and tour engagements, characteristic suite for the piano, orchestra and symphony compositions and arrangements). Other individuals involved with the music of Hampton Institute were Howard Brucker (research and grants/original music compositions); Richard Copley; Natalie Curtis Burlin (Hampton Series/Negro Folk Songs, correspondence); Don Davis; M.A. Dillard; Joseph Douglas (concert violinist); W. H. Hackeny; Arthur Howe; Thomas Jesse Jones; George F. Ketcham; Dorothy Maynor; Orpheus McAdou; Leigh Richmond Miner; Albert Morini; Robert R. Moton; Elizabeth Northurp; Arthur Packard; George Foster Peabody; Hubert Peet ; Robert Purves; Harlow Sharpley; N. C. Smith ('My Soul Wants Something" - new arrangement); Henry N. Switten (living musical theory); William M. O. Tessman, and Charles W. Welsh.