Ms Anri van der Westhuizen
Tel.: +27 12 429 2560
E-mail: avdwesth@unisa.ac.za
Ms Lufuno Kgamedi
Tel.: +27 12 429 3866
E-mail: kgamel@unisa.ac.za
Physical Address: | Postal Address: | |
Unisa Library Archives Anton Lembede Library Building Level 2 Preller Street Muckleneuk Campus Pretoria 0003 South Africa |
Unisa Library Archives Anton Lembede Building PD 2-3 P.O. Box 392 Unisa Pretoria 0003 South Africa |
Collections: 27
Potential acquisitions:
General acquisition of collections.
Acts and statutes
Africana sheet music
Agendas
Annual reports
Application forms
Artefacts
Aural tests
Brochures
Bursaries
Catalogues
Certificates
Constitutions
Contracts
Correspondence
Curricula
Financial documents
Lectures
Libretti
Minutes
Monographs
Music scores
Music manuscripts
Musical instruments
Newsletters
Newspaper cuttings
Notes
Objets d’art (Paintings; Pencil sketches: Drawings)
Periodicals
Personal documents
Photocopies
Photographs
Posters
Printed music
Programmes
Reports
Sound recordings (CDs; Gramophone records; Reel tapes; Sound cassettes; Videos)
Speeches
Theory papers
Tickets
Research projects (complete):
None.
Research projects (current):
General research on all collections.
Prospective digitizing project.
Digitisation projects (complete):
None.
Digitisation projects (current):
None.
For digitisation projects in general, see Unisa Library Digital Collections.
Afrikaanse Musiekklub, Pretoria | |
Call number | MSS no 40 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Acts and statutes; Annual reports; Application forms; Bursaries; Correspondence; Constitutions; Financial documents; Minutes; Notes; Photocopies; Photographs; Posters; Printed music; Programmes. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Afrikaanse Musiekklub, Pretoria (1955-1980). |
Afrikaans Music Scores (UNISA) | |
Call number | MSS no 169 |
Type | Folk music; Popular music. |
Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | Afrikaans. |
Scope and content | Music manuscripts. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Includes music of Dolly Heiberg, Hubert du Plessis, Pieter de Villiers (Boerneef songs), Anna Rudolph, S Le Roux Marais, Anne Neser, P. McLachlan, P.J. Lemmer, Jan Pohl, Jan Swart, Gerrie Snyman, Cissie & Willie Cooper, and Danie Bosman. |
Badenhorst, Rachie | |
Call number | MSS no78 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Catalogued; Correspondence; Printed music. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Collection of Africana sheet music. |
Buchuland (Roelof Temmingh) | |
Call number | MSS no 121 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 13 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory ; Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English. |
Scope and content | Libretti; Music manuscripts (Copies). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Opera commissioned by UNISA for ISME concert, 1989. |
Cherry, Richard | |
Call number | MSS no 59 |
Type | Military music; Popular music; Western art music. |
Extent | 49 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English. |
Scope and content | Correspondence; Lectures; Music manuscripts; Photographs; Programmes; Sound recordings (Gramophone records). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Compositions (220 original manuscripts): Film, orchestral, songs and braille. |
Coertse, Mimi | |
Call number | MSS no 110 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Newspaper cuttings; Sound recordings (Gramophone records). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | - |
Correira, J. Manuel | |
Call number | MSS no 113 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | ca. 50 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Artefacts; Brochures; Certificates; Correspondence; Lectures; Monographs; Newspaper cuttings; Periodicals; Photographs; Printed music; Programmes; Sound recordings (Gramophone records). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Owner of Prime Press. |
De la Porte, Betsy | |
Call number | - |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | ca. 110 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Handwritten index. Catalogued on library catalogue (Oasis). Arranged alphabetically according to composer. |
Description Language(s) | English. |
Scope and content | Printed music. |
Acquisition | By purchase. |
Notes | In process of being catalogued. |
Deutscher Männerchor Pretoria | |
Call number | Accession 87 |
Type | Folk music; Liturgical Music; Military music; Western art music. |
Extent | 10 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory; Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Notes; Printed music; Programmes. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Choir came to an end in 2005; Collection resorts under Hesse Collection of German Africana. |
Erich Mayer Liederbuch | |
Call number | Accession 26 |
Type | Military music; Western art music. |
Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Music manuscripts; Notes. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Prisoner of War during Anglo Boer War. Items resort under Hesse Collection of German Africana. |
Everson, Oliver Cromwell | |
Call number | MSS no 168 |
Type | Military music; Western art music. |
Extent | 10 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | In process of being listed. |
Description Language(s) | English. |
Scope and content | Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes (Poems); Photographs. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | - |
Helgard Steyn Composers Competition | |
Call number | MSS no 154 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | ca. 5 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Unctalogued. |
Access | No inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Music manuscripts; Sound recordings (CDs). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Helgard Steyn Composers Competition, 2002. Original music compositions sent in for competition and CD recordings thereof. |
International Society for Music Education (ISME) | |
Call number | Unisa Archives – monographs |
Type | Music education |
Extent | 5 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Arranged alphabetically and chronologically. No inventory available. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Correspondence; Minutes; Programmes; Reports. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Only for 1998. |
Joubert, Hennie | |
Call number | MSS no 67 |
Type | Popular music; Western Art music |
Extent | 40 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English |
Scope and content |
Certificates; Correspondence; Financial documents; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Personal documents; Photographs; Posters; Programmes; Sound recordings (Gramophone records; Reel tapes; Sound cassettes). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Hennie Joubert (1950-1986) Music Competitions. |
Korsten, Gè | |
Call number | MSS no 142 |
Type | Popular music; Western art music |
Extent | ca. 28 items. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English |
Scope and content | Sound recordings (CDs). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Operas sung in Afrikaans. |
Marais, S. le Roux | |
Call number | MSS no 158 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 4 items. |
Level of description | Unsorted. |
Access | Uncatalogued. |
Description Language(s) | No inventory available. Access on campus only. |
Scope and content | Objets d'art (Paintings). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | - |
Marivate, D.C. | |
Call number | AAS 124 |
Type | African music; Liturgical music; Music education; Western art music. |
Extent | 12 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English |
Scope and content |
Correspondence; Financial documents; Music manuscripts; Minutes; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Photographs; Printed music; Speeches. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | 1 pamphlet box contains music related materials (includes Tonic solfa). Resorts under Documentation Centre for African Studies. |
Nepgen, Rosa | |
Call number | MSS no 33 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 4 items. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory available. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Items relating to Nepgen’s work, Op die flottina. |
Pretoria Musical Society | |
Call number | MSS no 44 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 8 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English |
Scope and content | Correspondence; Financial documents; Minutes; Newspaper cuttings; Photographs; Programmes. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | - |
Pretoria Youth Orchestra | |
Call number | MSS no 63 |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English |
Scope and content |
Agendas; Brochures; Constitutions; Correspondence; Financial documents; Programmes. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | - |
Roode, D.J. | |
Call number | MSS no 74 |
Type | Liturgical music; Music education; Western art music. |
Extent | 1 pamphlet box. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English |
Scope and content | Certificates; Correspondence; Music manuscripts; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Photographs; Printed music; Programmes. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | - |
Samuel, Lessie | |
Call number | MSS no 56 |
Type | Music education; Western art music. |
Extent | 7 volumes. |
Level of description | Uncatalogued. |
Access | No inventory; Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content | Scrapbooks (Certificates; Contracts; Correspondence; Newspaper cuttings; Programmes). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Copies of documents referring to Ms Samuel’s involvement in music. |
Slotow Collection | |
Call number | MSS no 76 |
Type | Liturgical music; Western art music. |
Extent | 20 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory; Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | Afrikaans. |
Scope and content | Sound recordings (CDs; Sound cassettes). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Historical papers, with 1 box Africana sheet music. |
Transvaal United African Teachers’ Association (TUATA) | |
Call number | AAS 121 |
Type | Music education. |
Extent | 44 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Printed inventory; Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English. |
Scope and content |
Certificates; Correspondence; Newsletters; Newspaper cuttings; Notes; Periodicals; Programmes; Reports; Tickets. |
Acquisitionstrong> | By donation. |
NoNotes | ca. 3 pamphlet boxes of music related materials (Eisteddfods; Music competitions). Resorts under Documentation Centre for African Studies. |
Unisa International Music Competitions | |
Call number | - |
Type | Western art music. |
Extent | ca. 75 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Arranged chronologically. Printed Inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | Afrikaans; English |
Scope and content | Correspondence; Financial documents; Minutes; Photographs; Programmes; (Printed music); Sound recordings (CDs; Sound cassettes; Videos). |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | From 1982 to 2000. Also contains works by South African composers. Resorts under Unisa Archives. |
Unisa Music Certificate Examinations | |
Call number | - |
Type | Music education; Western art music. |
Extent | ca. 46 pamphlet boxes. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Arranged alphabetically and chronologically. No printed Inventory. Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | - |
Scope and content |
Aural tests; Curricula; Guides; Printed music (Prescribed examination albums); Theory papers. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | From 1894 ; Also contains prescribed works by South African composers ; Resorts under Unisa Archives. |
Unisa Music Instrument Collection | |
Call number | UMIC |
Type | - |
Extent | 351 items. |
Level of description | Sorted. |
Access | Electronic: Catalogued on DB Text (InMagic). Access on campus only. |
Description Language(s) | English |
Scope and content |
Musical instruments. |
Acquisition | By donation. |
Notes | Includes Steafel collection of musical instruments. |