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UCT SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: MANUSCRIPTS
Ms Michal Singer (Principal Archivist)
E-mail: michal.singer@uct.ac.za
General:
Tel.: +27 21 650 3123
Fax: +27 21 686 1505
E-mail: lib-mss@uct.ac.za
| Physical Address: | Postal Address: | |
| Special Collections Jagger Library Upper Campus University of Cape Town South Africa |
University of Cape Town: Special Collections Private Bag X3 Rondebosch 7701 South Africa |
Collections: 73
Potential acquisitions:
None.
Annual reports
Artefacts
Articles
Autograph books
Bequest documents
Broadcasts
Brochures
Catalogues
Certificates
Contracts
Correspondence
Diaries
Financial documents
Lectures
Memoranda
Microfilms
Monographs
Music manuscripts
Newsletters
Newspaper cuttings
Notation scores
Notes
Objets d’art (Drawings; Paintings; Pencil scketches; Portraits; Prints)
Periodicals
Personal documents
Photographic negatives
Photographs
Posters
Printed music
Programmes
References
Reviews
Schedules
School reports
Scrapbooks
Sketch books
Sound recordings (Films; Gramophone records; Sound cassettes; Videos; Wax cylinders)
Textbooks
Research projects (complete):
None.
Research projects (current):
Erik Chisholm catalogue (electronic).
Digitisation projects (complete):
None.
Digitisation projects (current):
None.
| Ashworth, Alexander Hargreaves | |
| Call number | BC 647 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 22 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Brochures; Correspondence; Music Manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Photographs; Programmes; Posters; Scrapbooks. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Composer, teacher and music and art critic. |
| Bell, William Henry | |
| Call number | BC 212 ; TPA BELL |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 218 items (TPA); 48 pamphlet boxes; 15 oversize folders. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Autograph books; Catalogues; Contracts; Correspondence; Diaries; Lectures; Music manuscripts; Photographs; Printed music; Programmes; Sound recordings (CDs; DAT tapes; Reel tapes). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Contains manuscripts of Bell and his students. |
| Bini, Albina | |
| Call number | BC 889 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 66 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Personal documents; Photographs; Printed music; Programmes; Textbooks. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Boniface, Charles Etienne | |
| Call number | BC 360 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 5 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Uncatalogued. |
| Description Language(s) | - |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes. |
| Acquisition | Purchased. |
| Notes | Purchased at Dorothea Fairbridge sale in Cape Town in 1945. Guitar method. |
| Cape Town City Ballet | |
| Call number | BC 1177 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 80 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Notation scores; Printed music. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Cape Town Performing Arts Board (CAPAB) and Cape Town City Ballet. |
| Cape Town Performing Arts Programmes | |
| Call number | BC 1550 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 5 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Performing arts programmes: ballet, opera, musicals, theatre and orchestral and vocal music. |
| Cecilia Wessels Miscellany | |
| Call number | BC 1230 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 7 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Annual reports; Correspondence; Memoranda; Objets d'art (Prints); Posters; Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Chisholm, Erik | |
| Call number | BC 129; TPA CHI |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 168 items (TPA); ca 3000 items (BC 129). |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Broadcasts; Brochures; Certificates; Contracts; Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newsletters; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Personal documents; Photographs; Printed music; Programmes; School reports; Scrapbooks. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Contains information on the Active Society for the Promotion of Contemporary Music and the Operatic Society in Glasgow. Contains correspondence from well-known composers and musicians. Includes newspaper cuttings on the Eoan Opera Group. |
| Circus and Theatre Miscellany | |
| Call number | BC 1449 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 2 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Newsletters; Posters; Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Theatrical and musical performances. |
| Composers' Music Scores | |
| Call number | TPA |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | - |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Printed music. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Catalogue available for general collection (composers and BMus students). Separate finding aids for collections of individual composers. Online catalogues for works of Erik Chisholm and Thomas Rajna. Composers include: Hubert du Plessis (TPA DUP), Stuart Findlay (TPA FIN), Eric Grant (TPA GRA), Stefans Grové (TPA GRO), Victor Hely-Hutchinson (see also BC 685 and BCZB 95/7363), Leslie Heward, John Joubert (TPA JOU), Giuseppe Paganelli (see also BC 1104 and BCS538), Colin Taylor (see also BC 76 and BCZA 93/8469), Maurice E.W. Whittaker (BC 663; TPA WHIT), Bernard van Dieren (TPA VAN) and Arnold van Wyk. Major collections of individual composers include: William Henry Bell (see also BC 212), Alan Bush, Erik Chisholm (see also BC129 and BC1396), Malcolm Forsyth (see also BC 1265), Blanche Gerstman (see also BC 673), Friedrich (FH) Hartmann, Peter Klatzow, Priaulx Rainier (see also BC 957), Thomas Rajna and Alicia Slater |
| Cree, Edgar | |
| Call number | BC 1444 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Notes; Periodicals; Photographs; Programmes; Newspaper cuttings. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Dederick, Robert | |
| Call number | BC 996 |
| Type | Popular music; Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 1200 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Broadcasts; Correspondence; Diaries; Notes; Personal documents. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Collection of Robert St. Clair Dederick. |
| De Kock, S.J. | |
| Call number | BC 590 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 4 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Notes; Monographs. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Books related to Servaas Johannes de Kock, teacher at Tot Nut van't Algemene Skool, Cape Town. |
| Doris Lardner Memorabilia | |
| Call number | BC 808 |
| Type | Music education; Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 580 items; 1 pamphlet box. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Catalogues; Certificates; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Periodicals; Photographs; Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | See also BC 1322. |
| Doris Lardner Miscellany | |
| Call number | BC 1322 |
| Type | Music education; Western art music. |
| Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Notes; Certificates; Photographs. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | See also BC 808. |
| Du Plessis, Hubert | |
| Call number | TPA DUP |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 2 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | See also Richard Lilienfeld, BC 692 (UCT). |
| English Folk Dance Society Collection | |
| Call number | BC 691 |
| Type |
Folk music. |
| Extent | 12 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Financial documents. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Findlay, Stuart | |
| Call number | TPA FIN |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 2 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Forsyth, Malcolm | |
| Call number | TPA FOR |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 65 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Composer. Mostly compositions submitted for BMus Degree. Includes materials donated via Kathy Primos for doctoral dissertation. |
| Gerstman, Blanche | |
| Call number | BC 673; TPA GER |
| Type |
Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 121 items (TPA); ca. 160 items (BC 673). |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Grainger, Percy | |
| Call number | BC 75 |
| Type | Folk music; Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 545 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Brochures; Newspaper cuttings; Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Grant, Erik | |
| Call number | TPA GRA |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 152 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Greathead, Lucy | |
| Call number | BC 744 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 30 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Singer and lecturer at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. |
| Gregorio Fiasconaro Memorabilia | |
| Call number | BC 952 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 206 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Artefacts; Newspaper cuttings; Objets d'art (Portraits); Photographs; Programmes; Scrapbooks; Slides. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Grové, Stefans | |
| Call number | TPA GRO |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 2 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Gutsche, Thelma | |
| Call number | BC 703 |
| Type | Military music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 29 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| ScScope and content |
Artefacts; Articles; Broadcasts; Certificates; Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Periodicals; Personal documents; Photographs; Programmes; School reports; Sound recordings (Films). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Hall, Elsie | |
| Call number | BC 10 ; TPA HAL |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 578 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content |
Articles; Brochures; Correspondence; Diaries; Monographs; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Objets d'art (Pencil sketches; Prints); Periodicals; Photographs; Schedules; Scrapbooks. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Hartmann, Friedrich Helmut | |
| Call number | TPA HAR |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 14 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| ScScope and content |
Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Hely-Hutchinson, Victor | |
| Call number | BC 685; TPA HHL |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 40 items (BC 685); 192 items (TPA). |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content |
Broadcasts; Catalogues; Lectures; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Personal documents. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Herring Bequest Collection | |
| Call number | BC 1157 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 4 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content |
Artefacts; Bequest documents; Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings; Objets d’art (Drawings; Portraits; Prints; Sketches); Photographs. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Collection of music teacher Elizabeth Herring. |
| Joubert, John | |
| Call number | TPA JOU |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 3 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Joubert, Manuel | |
| Call number | BC 314 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 23 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Uncatalogued. |
| Description Language(s) | - |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings; Periodicals. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Collection of music critic and musicologist Dr Manuel Joubert. |
| Kirby / Bloom Papers | |
| Call number | BC 1513 |
| Type | African music; Folk music; Military music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 0.5 pamphlet box. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Articles; Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Mary Bloom (Mary Wayburne), student of Percival Kirby. |
| Kirby, PR | |
| Call number | BC 750 |
| Type | African music; Folk music; Military music; Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 1500 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Artefacts; Articles; Bibliographies; Correspondence; Monographs; Musical instruments; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Objets d’art (Drawings); Periodicals; Photographic negatives; Photographs; Printed music; Slides; Sound recordings (Wax cylinders). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Wax cylinders in poor condition: they have been digitized. See also music instrument collection at South African College of Music (UCT) and UCT Music Library. |
| Klatzow, Peter | |
| Call number | TPA KLA |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 108 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Kraus, Lili | |
| Call number | BC 712 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 160 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings; Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Contralto and singing teacher. |
| Latrou, Angelo | |
| Call number | BC 740 |
| Type | Popular music. |
| Extent | ca. 450 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Sound recordings (Reel tapes; Sound cassettes). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Lilienfeld, Richard | |
| Call number | BC 692 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 39 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Mainly correspondence with Hubert du Plessis. |
| Manuscripts and Archives in Microform (UCT) | |
| Call number | BCZ |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 500 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Microfiche; Microfilms. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | BCZA 93/8469: Peter Warlock. Correspondence. BCZB 95/7363: Victor Hely-Hutchinson. Album containing programmes and newspaper cuttings. Original manuscripts in British Library. |
| Marx, Beatrice | |
| Call number | BC 363 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 500 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Artefacts (includes personal items); Brochures; Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Photographs; School reports; Scrapbooks. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Founded the first orchestra in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1910. |
| Mulder collection | |
| Call number | BC 207 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 1461 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Uncatalogued. |
| Description Language(s) | - |
| Scope and content | Broadcasts; Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Periodicals. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Collection of poet Hendrik Adolph Mulder (Willem Hessels). Includes setting of his 'Arabesk' by Rosa Nepgen. |
| Musical Times | |
| Call number | BCS 31 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 1 item. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Periodicals. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Photographic copy of parts of handwritten journal. |
| Niay-Darroll, Apolline | |
| Call number | BC 656 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 40 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Brochures; Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings; Photographs; Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Norton, W.A. | |
| Call number | BC 40 |
| Type | African music; Liturgical music. |
| Extent | 16 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Diaries Monographs; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Printed music; Reports. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Professor of Bantu Philology. |
| Paganelli, Guiseppe | |
| Call number | BC 1104; TPA PAG |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 8 items (TPA); 6 pamphlet boxes (BC 1104). |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Articles; Certificates; Contracts; Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Personal documents; Photographs; Programmes; Scrapbooks; Sound recordings (Gramophone records; Videos). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Teacher, composer, tenor and opera producer. See also Single Manuscript Items (UCT) BCS 538. |
| Philharmonia Choir of Cape Town | |
| Call number | BC 1338 |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 29 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Minutes; Notes; Photographs; Programmes; Sound recordings (CDs; Sound cassettes; Videos). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Pickerill, William J. | |
| Call number | TPA PIC |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 4 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Pullen Song | |
| Call number | BC 588 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 3 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Music manuscripts (copies). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Items of Dr E.D. Pullen. |
| Pulvermacher, Gunther | |
| Call number | BC 1481 |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 8 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Articles; Broadcasts; Lectures; Notes; Speeches. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Racster, Olga | |
| Call number | BC 73 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 4 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Notes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Notes by Olga Racster for articles in the Grove Dictionary of Music. |
| Rainier, Priaulx | |
| Call number | BC 957; TPA RAI |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 400 items (BC 957); 3 items (TPA). |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Articles; Catalogues; Lecture notes; Music manuscripts; Notes; Photographs; Programmes; Reviews. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Rajna, Thomas | |
| Call number | TPA RAJNA |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 39 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts (includes photocopies). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Redvers Llewellyn Memorabilia | |
| Call number | BC 910 |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 37 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Objets d'art (Portraits; Sketches); Periodicals; Photographs. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Rodger, Jacobus | |
| Call number | BC 108; BC 244 |
| Type | Liturgical music; Music education; Western art music. |
| Extent | 28 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Written inventory. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Certificates; Music manuscripts (Tonic Solfa); Photographs. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Items regarding Tonic Solfa College. |
| Selley, Robert | |
| Call number | BC 1566 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 3 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings; Photographs; Programmes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | City organist and Director of Music, Port Elizabeth. |
| Single Compositions (UCT) | |
| Call number | TPA |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 273 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Works by various composers. Includes compositions and arrangements by students. |
| Single Manuscript Items (UCT) | |
| Call number | BCS |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 6 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Artworks; Correspondence; Microfilms; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes |
BCS 269: Evangelistarium solemnitatum nativitatis. Latin missal. Music in square notation. |
| Smith, Barry | |
| Call number | BC 1042 |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 35 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Broadcasts; Brochures; Certificates; Contracts; Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newsletters; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Personal documents; Photographs; Printed music; Programmes; School reports; Scrapbooks. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Organist and choir master at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town. |
| Solomon, Yonty | |
| Call number | TPA SOL |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 2 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Sorabji, Kaikosru Shapurji | |
| Call number | TPA SOR |
| Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 2 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | See also Erik Chisholm (UCT, BC 129). |
| South African Composers' Letters (UCT) | |
| Call number | BC 162 |
| Type | Liturgical music; Music education; Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 20 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (Electronic and print) on request. Access at Manuscripts and Archives Department. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Letters from South African composers to Peter Hart for his bibliography on South African composers. |
| Strauss-Smith, Lloyd | |
| Call number | BC 1496 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 16 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (Electronic and print). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Correspondence; Personal documents; Programmes; Newspaper cuttings; Photographs; Printed music; Slides; Sound recordings. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | Collection of opera singer and singing teacher Lloyd Strauss-Smith. |
| Talbot, Desiré | |
| Call number | BC 1251; BC 1284 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 16 pamphlet boxes; 22 sound cassettes (BC 1251); 5 boxes (BC 1284). |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print) on request. |
| Description Language(s) | English.td> |
| ScScope and content | Articles; Correspondence; Notes; Periodicals; Personal documents; Photographs; Scrapbooks; Sound recordings (Sound cassettes; Videos). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Taylor, Colin | |
| Call number | BC 76; TPA TAYL |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 500 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Articles; Autograph books; Broadcasts; Correspondence; Diaries; Lectures; Monographs; Music manuscripts; Newsletters; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Objets d'art (Paintings; Portraits); Photographs; Printed music; Programmes; Scrapbooks; Sound recordings (Grammophone records; Sound cassettes). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | See also BCZA93/8469. Includes correspondence from Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) and Prof. William Henry Bell, and photographs of staff and students at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. |
| UCT College of Music Photographs | |
| Call number | BC 1412 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 3 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Uncatalogued. |
| Description Language(s) | - |
| Scope and content | Photographs. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| UCT College of Music: Photographs of opera productions | |
| Call number | BC 1284 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 5 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Uncatalogued. |
| Description Language(s) | - |
| Scope and content | Photographs. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| University Musical Society | |
| Call number | BC 336 |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 1 item. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic) |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Minutes; Reports. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | University of Cape Town Musical Society. |
| Van Dieren, Bernard | |
| Call number | TPA VAN |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 1 item. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts (Microfilm). |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Webb, Helen | |
| Call number | BCS 30 |
| Type | African music. |
| Extent | 1 item. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Notes. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
| Wendland Papers | |
| Call number | BC 677 |
| Type | African music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 30 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | No list available. |
| Description Language(s) | - |
| Scope and content | Articles; Notes. |
| Acquisition | By donation and purchased. |
| Notes | Colection of Wend Wilhelm Wolfgang Wedland. |
| Wendt, Theo | |
| Call number | BC 723 |
| Type | African music; Western art music. |
| Extent | ca. 200 items. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | No list available. |
| Description Language(s) | - |
| Scope and content | Articles; Monographs; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Photographs; Programmes; Reviews. |
| Acquisition | By donation and purchased. |
| Notes | Founder of the Cape Town City Orchestra. Unpublished autobiography. |
| Westphal, EOJ | |
| Call number | BC 1143 |
| Type | African music; Western art music. |
| Extent | 9 pamphlet boxes. |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Finding aid (print and electronic). |
| Description Language(s) | English |
| Scope and content | Notes; Sound recordings (Sound cassettes). |
| Acquisition | By donation and purchased. |
| Notes | Collection includes items relating to research trips of Prof Westphal of the University of Cape Town African Languages Department. Includes recordings of 'Bushmen' language and music. |
| Whittaker, Maurice E. | |
| Call number | BC 663; TPA WHIT |
| Type | Western art music. |
| Extent | 18 items (BC 663); 31 items (TPA). |
| Level of description | Sorted. |
| Access | Handwritten inventory. Card catalogue. |
| Description Language(s) | English. |
| Scope and content | Music manuscripts; Notes; Scripts. |
| Acquisition | By donation. |
| Notes | - |
