PITTSBURGH MUSIC - ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

CHARLES N. BOYD (1875-1937)

Contents

• Typescripts of articles such as Music and the Community (2)
• Music Education (6)
• Bach at Berea (Ohio)
• Music and the Church (6)

Time period  1894-1932

Subject

Educator (Western Theological Seminary), organist, writer, editor who was a co-founder of the Pittsburgh Musical Institute. He also founded the Pittsburgh Musicians Club. His work as editor, compiler, writer and critic was prodigious.

Location

Oliver Room, Pittsburgh Music Archive, Miscellaneous Box #1

See

• Baynham, Edward G. A History of Pittsburgh Music, 1758-1958 - rqML200.8 .P6 B39 1970x
• Gerson, Sara. Boyd Memorial Collection in the Music Division of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - rqML136 .C374 1951x
• Pittsburgh Music Information File
• Link to author entry in online catalog - Boyd, Charles N Charles Newell 1875 1937
• Uncatalogued scrapbooks in Oliver Room
• Oral History of Music in Pittsburgh (use “Find”)
• Pittsburgh Concert Programs in the Oliver Room

FINDING LIST

Typescripts of Articles

FOLDER 1:  Music and the Community

1. for Pittsburgh Post "community with ideal musical conditions'
2. for Pittsburgh Record "The City of Organ Recitals"

FOLDER 2:  Music education

1. "Pittsburgh High Schools: Plan for crediting outside musical study under private instruction"
2. "Musical Education in the United States"
3. "This Music-Lesson Business" (Individual students)
4. "This Music Lesson Business" (Long history of music in U.S.)
5. "Definition in Music Education" - for New York Times 07.18.31 (N.A.S.M.)
6. "Modern Music Teaching" - for Cosmopolitan 12.23.29

FOLDER 3:  Bach at Berea (Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival and Albert Riemenschneider)

FOLDER 4:  Music and the church

1. History of the North Avenue M.E. Church Choir written by Bessie Law
2. "Some Sources of Hymn Tunes"
3. "Teaching Hymn-Tunes in a Theological Seminary" - Talk for Hymn Society, New York, 11.14.32
4. "The Religion of Music" 02.27.1918
5. "The Old Hundredth"
6. "One Sunday School Orchestra" - for New York Musical Observer 07.11.29

FOLDER 5:   Boyd articles listed in Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature and The Education Index

FOLDER 6:   Notes; a review