Guide to the Papers of Jamie and Michael Kassler, 1678-2021

Summary

Collection number:

MS 10371

Creator:

Kassler, Jamie Croy and Kassler, Michael

Extent:

(11 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 1 large folio box + 4 map folios)

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item],Papers of Jamie and Michael Kassler, National Library of Australia, MS 10371, [class/series/file/items number(s)]

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Part available for research; part not available for research until March 2045. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The collection features correspondence, music scores, artworks, manuscripts, printed and published works and related papers. The correspondence is primarily with composers, music scholars and musicologists, as well as scientists working in the field of robotics.

Correspondents include Clarence Adler, Samuel Ashkensi, Ingmar Bengtsson, Noam Chomsky, Helen Coates, Aaron Copland, George W. Corner, Ernest Crome, Alfred Durr, Malcolm Elwin, Joseph F. Engelberger, Reis Wenger Flora, Allen Forte, Vittorio Giannini, Harry Glickman, Kerry Grant, Alfred D. Hagle, Sidney Harth, Olwen Hedley, Joyce Hemlow, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Peter Isaac, Stella D. Jenkins, Charles Jones, Slava Klima, Robert Koff, Howard Chandler Robbins Landon, Douglas Leedy, Roger Lonsdale, Bohuslav Martinu, Arthur Mendel, Gian Carlo Menotti, Darius Milhaud, Maboth Moseley, Nils J. Nilsson, Claude V. Palisca, Vincent Persichetti, Walter Piston, Alois Podhajsky, Edmund Poole, Alvaro Ribeiro, Wallingford Riegger, George Rochberg, Albi Rosenthal, A.L. Sachar, William Sacksteder, Percy A. Scholes, Peter Sculthorpe, Jose Serebrier, Elie Siegmeister, Herbert A. Simon, Vladimir Sokoloff, Meredith Wooldridge Thring, Alan Tyson, Sir Jack Westrup and John Young.

Other material in the collection includes published music scores for works by Aaron Copland and Walter Piston; a manuscript by John Claudius Loudon; an extract from a sermon by Carleton M. Fisher; a translation of 'Treatise on Cryptography' by Andre Lange and E.A. Soudart; correspondence relating to new editions of writings by Charles Burney and his daughter, Frances Burney d'Arblay; a copy of 'Universal history of music, compiled from diverse sources, together with various original notes on Hindu music' by Raja Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore; papers relating to the Spanish Riding School in Vienna; works by Stan Symonds; 'A bibliography of Thomas Holcroft' by Elbridge Colby; an undeciphered shorthand manuscript found inside book published in England in the 1890's; a dry point etching by Charles Wells of the composer Alban Berg; a watercolour cartoon entitled 'Kentucky Colonel', inscribed by the artist 'Jeff'; a collotype copy of Thomas Gainsborough's painting of Karl Friedrich Abel and a copy of William Hogarth's print 'Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism'; Centenary Medal to Dr Jamie Kassler.

Biographical Note:

Michael Kassler is an Australian musicologist and computer consultant. Research interests include: computers and music; the English composer Samuel Wesley; the English Bach awakening; Heinrich Schenker's theories of tonality; and music entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710-1818. Also involved with the Australian Robot Association and has published a guide to the Australian robot marketplace.

Jamie C. Kassler was elected a fellow (1991) of the Australian Academy of Humanities for contributions to musicological theory and received the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of philosophy. Her interests include the use of musical models in the history of science; physical theory and metaphysics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; and the writings of the polymath, Roger North.

Provenance:

The collection has been acquired from Jamie and Michael Kassler in instalments received in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Performing arts
Science and technology

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5977647).

Conditions Governing Use:

Please note that copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. Further information about copyright and the use of manuscript material is available from the Library's website.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item],Papers of Jamie and Michael Kassler, National Library of Australia, MS 10371, [class/series/file/items number(s)]

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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