Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings

Recipient: Seubert, David (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA)

Goal: This project will add 30,000 additional entries to the comprehensive Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (1900-1950), which is a searchable electronic database freely available on the Internet.

Description: The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) is a comprehensive online resource that documents both the daily recording activities and all 78-rpm disc releases of the largest record company in the U.S., Victor Records, from 1900 to 1950. It details more than 165,000 recording sessions produced by the company, including information about more than 300,000 "takes" and over 90,000 works recorded with the participation of 29,000 performers. The EDVR database is the basis of the most comprehensive discographic resource yet available over the internet, with recording data on 40,000 sessions through 1920 to be available online at the completion of the 2007-09 grant cycle and an additional 30,000 sessions from the 1920s by mid-2011. The recorded content includes music of all types--classical, popular, and ethnic--as well as radio programs, motion picture soundtracks, drama, poetry, instruction, and other genres of recorded sound.

Grant: 194540 / PW-50447-09,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources,   Year Awarded: 2009

Digitizing Public Domain Musical Scores and Books from the Sibley Music Library

Recipient: Farrington, James (Rochester, NY 14604 USA) in affiliation with University of Rochester (Rochester, NY 14627 USA)

Goal: The digitization of 10,000 rare or unique late 19th- and early 20th-century musical scores and books for online access through the university's digital repository, the rehousing of original materials, and the production of preservation photocopies.

Description: The principal goal of this project is to provide free online access to approximately 10,000 uncommon public domain musical scores and books selected from the collections of the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music. Our plan is to digitize and make them available from the University of Rochester???s Digital Repository.

Grant: 194381 / PW-50288-09,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources,   Year Awarded: 2009

Mozart's Worlds: The German Operas

Recipient: Benedum, Richard P (Dayton, OH 45469-0104 USA) in affiliation with University of Dayton (Dayton, OH 45469 USA)

Goal: A four-week school teacher institute in Vienna, Austria, for twenty-five participants to explore Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his German operas in their cultural and historical context.

Description: The University of Dayton seeks support for a four-week interdisciplinary institute, "Mozart's Worlds: The German Operas," for twenty five teachers chosen from across the country. We will study intensively Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) and Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), bookends to the final decade of his life, after he had moved to Vienna. This Institute reflects the belief that scholarship, cultural and historical context, and curriculum development should be closely linked. Thus, the Institute will immerse its 25 participants in these multiple "worlds" of Mozart: eighteenth century Hapsburg history and Enlightenment philosophy, the built environment of Vienna with its imperial architecture, the dramatic and literary conventions that Mozart inherited, understood, and used so successfully, and of course, his music.

Grant: 197460 / ES-50292-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Compilation of the Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale, 1900 to 1950 [RIPM]

Recipient: Cohen, H. Robert (Baltimore, MD 21211 USA) in affiliation with RIPM Consortium Ltd. (Baltimore, MD 21211-1948 USA)

Goal: Continuing editorial work to compile 25,000 annotated bibliographic records documenting music and musical life in Europe and the Americas during the twentieth century and integrate them with existing print and searchable Internet databases.

Description: While an urgent need for the retrospective indexing of music periodicals has been recognized since the 1930s it was not before the early 1980s that RIPM was established to undertake this task. Initially focusing on 19th-century music journals, RIPM has, since 1988, produced 225 volumes and an online database of some 525,000 annotated records treating 118 music periodicals. In 2004, RIPM expanded its scope to 1950 and took the first significant step toward filling the widely-acknowledged access gap in music periodical literature published between 1900 and the beginning of the modern indexing projects (1949); and, in 2005 RIPM created an Americas Initiative aimed at treating a number of North and Latin American music journals. This grant would permit RIPM to continue its work both on twentieth-century European journals and on those published in the Americas, and to produce twelve volumes and the equivalent data in electronic formats.

Grant: 194436 / PW-50343-09,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources,   Year Awarded: 2009

Afropop Worldwide

Recipient: Barlow, W. Sean (Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA) in affiliation with World Music Productions

Goal: Production of six new one-hour episodes, re-editing of twelve encore episodes, development of a set of interactive maps of the history of music in Mali, and revision of the website to enhance user-friendly access and interactivity.

Description: Since 1988, the public radio program Afropop Worldwide has introduced American listeners to the cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. The series is distributed by PRI to 113 U.S. stations, and is available via XM radio, and on-demand streaming from our website, www.afropop.org. Over the past five years, Afropop has collaborated with scholars and authors to develop the acclaimed, NEH-funded Hip Deep series, which introduces humanities themes to general audiences. Our 2007 NEH grant also funded a prototype ???exploratory map,??? providing interactive, online access to Hip Deep materials. This year, World Music Productions requests a grant of $200,000 from the NEH to continue this work by 1) producing 6 new and 12 encore programs. 2) develop a new exploratory map set focused on the history and music of Mali, and 3) overhaul our website to support dialog and exchange between listeners and scholars, and make Hip Deep materials dramatically more available to web users everywhere.

Grant: 194688 / TR-50052-09,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: America's Media Makers Production,   Year Awarded: 2009

Dvorak in America

Recipient: Horowitz, Joseph I (New York City, NY 10025 USA) in affiliation with Pittsburgh Symphony, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA 15222 USA)

Goal: A three-week school teacher institute for twenty-five participants to explore Dvorak's New World Symphony to understand American culture and society in the late nineteenth century.

Description: Dvorak's American sojourn (1892-1895) acutely posed the questions: "What is America?" and "Who is an American?" Dvorak's answers, embracing African-Americans and Native Americans, were influential and controversial. His quest for America links to innumerable topics in history, literature, the visual arts, etc. The proposed institute would train teachers to use the Dvorak story to infuse the arts and humanities into classroom instruction.

Grant: 197446 / ES-50278-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Johann Sebastian Bach: Celebrating the 325th Anniversary of Bach's Birth in Germany

Recipient: Binford, Hilde Marga (Bethlehem, PA 18018 USA) in affiliation with Moravian College

Goal: A four-week school teacher institute in Germany for twenty-five participants to explore the life, music, and intellectual milieu of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

Description: Moravian College's Summer Institute for Teachers 2010 is a four-week institute for classroom teachers on J. S. Bach in the Age of the Baroque and the Enlightenment to take place in Germany. The goal of the Institute is to provide classroom teachers with methods and tools to integrate the music of Bach and the world of the Enlightenment into elementary, secondary and high school classrooms. The Institute will demonstrate how to use Bach as a vehicle for the teaching the social, cultural, intellectual and religious changes taking place in Europe from the 17th to 18th centuries. By situating the Institute in Eisenach, Leipzig, and Postdam, participants will be immersed in the very places where Bach lived, and will have access to the finest cultural and scholarly resources on Bach. Internationally known scholars will present lectures and workshops that describe the relationship of Bach's life and music to the world around him, spanning the late Baroque era to the Age of Enlightenment.

Grant: 197443 / ES-50275-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Digitizing the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale Archive of Music Periodicals, 1800 to 1950

Recipient: Cohen, H. Robert (Baltimore, MD 21211 USA) in affiliation with RIPM Consortium Ltd. (Baltimore, MD 21211-1948 USA)

Goal: The online retrieval of the full texts of more than 500,000 scholarly articles on music from an online database that incorporates 89 journals in 13 languages and covers the period 1800 to 1950.

Description: While an "urgent need" for the retrospective indexing of music periodicals has been recognized since the 1930s, it was not before the early 1980s that RIPM was established to undertake this task (see www.ripm.org). Focusing on journals published between 1800 and 1950 RIPM has, between 1988 and 2007, produced 205 critically-acclaimed volumes and a cumulative online database consisting of over 500,000 annotated records in thirteen languages. One major impediment, however, has prevented RIPM from being fully utilized, namely, the difficulty encountered in locating copies of the journals indexed. Aware of this problem, the RIPM organization has filmed and collected microform copies of many of "its" periodicals. The primary aim of the present undertaking, then, is to create an online full-text archive of "RIPM journals" searchable and "browsable" through the RIPM Online database. This will be the largest digitization project of music periodicals ever undertaken.

Grant: 189717 / PW-50015-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources,   Year Awarded: 2008

Monuments of Solfeggi

Recipient: Gjerdingen, Robert O (Evanston, IL 60208 USA) in affiliation with Northwestern University

Goal: Preparation for online free access of the scores and musical sound files of surviving manuscripts of 18th-century solfeggi, or vocal exercises, for voice and bass accompaniment. (36 months)

Description: Monuments of Solfeggi is a project to prepare online editions of the surviving manuscripts used for melodic training in the time of Bach and Mozart. Unlike modern solfeggi (Italian, "vocal exercises") for voice alone, eighteenth-century solfeggi were duos for voice and bass accompaniment. Mozart himself wrote solfeggi, as did Haydn's teacher Porpora and the many other Italian masters of that era. Italian conservatories and city libraries have preserved numerous never- published manuscripts which, aside from their historical and theoretical interest, contain gorgeous melodies. Not only will the project provide scholars with access to these rare documents, but the addition of MIDI sound files will allow student musicians to match their developing vocal skills against the sound of a properly performed solfeggio. The project will build on the web infrastructure developed through the highly successful NEH-funded Monuments of Partimenti.

Grant: 191462 / RQ-50344-08,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2008

Music of the United States of America (MUSA): A National Series

Recipient: Crawford, Richard (Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA) in affiliation with American Musicological Society (Brunswick, ME 04011-8451 USA)

Goal: Preparation for publication of volumes 19-24 and continued editorial work on four other volumes. (36 months)

Description: The American Musicological Society, through its Committee on the Publication of American Music (COPAM), has planned, organized, and is now publishing a national series of scholarly editions of American music. Funds are sought to continue the salary of the executive editor, who maintains the project's headquarters, assists the volume editors in their work, and acts as principal developmental editor and copy editor for the MUSA series.

Grant: 191445 / RQ-50327-08,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2008

WNYC Radio's The Jazz Loft Project

Recipient: Fishko, Sara (New York, NY 10007 USA) in affiliation with WNYC Radio (New York, NY 10007-1602 USA)

Goal: Production of two one-hour radio programs, 10 shorter modules (8 to 14 minutes each) and digital components on the history and culture of jazz in New York during the 1950s and 1960s.

Description: WNYC Radio requests a $100,000 production grant (outright funds) from the NEH for the broadcast portion of The Jazz Loft Radio Project, a documentary radio series that will feature a collection of audio recordings taken by photojournalist W. Eugene Smith during the years 1957-1965 in the "Jazz Loft," an after-hours meeting place for many of the day's best jazz musicians. Sara Fishko, WNYC producer and host, will work with Sam Stephenson, The Jazz Loft Project founder, and a panel of scholarly and professional advisors to produce 10 programs of 8 to 14 minutes in length featuring material from audio archive, interviews, narration, and sound design. The series is designed to introduce Smith's collection to the general public and investigate a range of broad-based humanities themes, including jazz and musicology, urban politics, civil rights, and cultural development, among others, through the lens of jazz music.

Grant: 191738 / TR-50008-08,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: America's Media Makers Production,   Year Awarded: 2008

Teaching Jazz as American Culture

Recipient: Early, Gerald (St. Louis, MO 63130 USA) in affiliation with Washington University

Goal: A workshop series for twenty St. Louis-area high school and middle school teachers on the history and cultural significance of jazz in America.

Description: ?Teaching Jazz as American Culture? Faculty Humanities Workshop is a fresh reconfiguration of the successful NEH institutes that the Center for the Humanities at Washington University administered on the same subject in the summers of 2005 and 2007. It aims to introduce middle and high school teachers to the ways that interdisciplinary approaches to popular music, specifically jazz, can enrich a variety of humanities subjects. The primary goal of the Workshop is to help teachers understand how, through the study of the social, cultural, technical, and aesthetic history of a major American musical genre, jazz, they can reconfigure aspects of teaching American history, literature, art, and music while broadening students? understanding of the political, social, and commercial impact that an artistic movement can have.

Grant: 189987 / EZ-50247-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2008

105 Voices of History- HBCU National Student Choir

Recipient: Phifer, Mabel (Durham, NC 27713 USA) in affiliation with Partners Achieving Success, CDC (Mitchellville, MD USA)

Description: Inaugural performance for the nation's first historically black colleges and universities, at the Kennedy Center, September 7, 2008. Provide program notes for the audience. Provide research opportunities for HBCUs in collaboration with a musicologist/historian to develop program notes and historical information for narrative from the stage. Provide historical data on website-education.

Grant: 194058 / EE-50603-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development,   Year Awarded: 2008

The Chansonniers of Nicholas Du Chemin (1549-1551): A Digital Forum for Renaissance Music Books

Recipient: Freedman, Richard (Haverford, PA 19041-1392 USA) in affiliation with Haverford College (Haverford, PA 19041 USA)

Goal: Development of an open source bilingual database and collaborative digital forum to facilitate research and scholarly exchange about Renaissance music.

Description: The digital environment offers much that might advance the study, teaching, and performance of early music. Focusing on a neglected but important repertory of chansons from mid-sixteenth-century Paris, this unique project will put old books before a diverse audience of modern scholars and musicians in ways that will prompt renewed understanding of these cultural artifacts and their meanings. Our work will advance scholarship and serious study of Renaissance music in several related ways, offering a searchable image archive, an innovative electronic display for music books, commentaries and examples, and tools for research, transcription and collaboration.

Grant: 192213 / HD-50422-08,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants,   Year Awarded: 2008

Compilation of Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale [RIPM]

Recipient: Cohen, H. Robert (Baltimore, MD 21211 USA) in affiliation with RIPM Consortium Ltd. (Baltimore, MD 21211-1948 USA)

Goal: The compilation of 12 volumes documenting music and musical life in Europe and the United States during the 20th century.

Description: While an ?urgent need? for the retrospective indexing of music periodicals has been recognized since the 1930s it was not before the early 1980s that RIPM was established to undertake this task. Initially focusing on 19th-century music journals, RIPM has, since 1988, produced 205 volumes and an online database of some 500,000 annotated records. In 2004, RIPM expanded its scope to 1950 and took the first significant step toward filling the widely-acknowledged ?access gap? in music periodical literature published between 1900 and the beginning of the modern indexing projects (1949). This grant would permit RIPM to continue its work on 20th-century music periodicals, and to produce twelve volumes and the equivalent data in electronic formats.

Grant: 184826 / PM-50045-07,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials,   Year Awarded: 2007

Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR)

Recipient: Seubert, David (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA)

Goal: The editing of a comprehensive database for the period 1913-1928 that documents the daily recording activities of Victor Talking Machine Company and Victor Records, the largest American record company in business from 1900 to 1950.

Description: The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings is a comprehensive database which documents the daily recording activities from 1900 to 1950 of the largest record company in the U.S., Victor Records. It details every recording session produced by the company?over 150,000?including information about more than 400,000 "takes" and over 80,000 works recorded with the participation of 25,000 performers. The database will be the basis of the most comprehensive discographic resource yet available over the internet. The content recorded includes music of all types?classical, popular, and ethnic?and radio programs, motion picture soundtracks, drama, poetry, instruction, and other genres of recorded sound.

Grant: 184839 / PM-50058-07,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials,   Year Awarded: 2007

Publishing Musicologal Research in the 21st Century

Recipient: Robertson, Anne W (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with American Musicological Society (Brunswick, ME 04011-8451 USA)

Goal: Endowment for publication subventions and an award program in musicology as well as fund-raising costs.

Description: The American Musicological Society seeks an NEH challenge grant of $240,000, which with a 4:1 match will yield $1,200,000. These funds will endow four publication-related initiatives of the Society. The bulk of the funds ($900,000) will create a new subvention supporting the publication of first books by young scholars, whose work often represents the cutting edge of scholarly research, but whose careers are often at their most fragile or challenging point. The remainder will go primarily to existing publication subvention programs, supporting musicological books more generally ($125,000) as well as a monograph series sponsored by the Society ($100,000). These subventions aim to optimize the quality of the best scholarly books on music while keeping their prices affordable. Finally, we propose a new award for books on music in American culture ($50,000), a vital area of musical research that appeals to the broadest literary and musical public.

Grant: 182683 / CH-50421-07,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 2007

Mozart's Worlds

Recipient: Benedum, Richard P (Dayton, OH 45469-0104 USA) in affiliation with University of Dayton (Dayton, OH 45469 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute in Vienna, Austria, for twenty-five school teachers to study the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in its cultural and historical context.

Description: The University of Dayton seeks support for a four-week interdisciplinary Institute, "Mozart's Worlds," for 25 K-12 teachers chosen from across the country. The Institute will be held in Vienna, Austria from June 16 to July 11, 2008, and will study intensively selected works from Mozart's Salzburg years and two operas--The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni--along with other instrumental music. The Institute will not only immerse participants and faculty members in Mozart's music, but also in 18th-century Habsburg history and Enlightenment philosophy, the dramatic and literary conventions that Mozart used so successfully in his operas, and in Austrian art and architecture of the period.

Grant: 187101 / ES-50195-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song

Recipient: Root, Deane L (Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA) in affiliation with University of Pittsburgh

Goal: A five-week institute for twenty-five school teachers that would explore topics in American history, including American values and attitudes, through the lens of music.

Description: "Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song" is a five-week summer institute for 25 secondary school teachers to explore topics in American history through the lens of music. Participants will utilize popular songs as primary source documents to enrich discussions of American history, while field trips and authentic performances will offer a uniquely engaging evocation of an historical context. Aided by the perspectives of historians, musicologists, and teaching performers, participants will both strengthen their skills as historians and develop innovative strategies to integrate music into their teaching of American history. This proposal is for a third Institute; previous Institutes were held in 2004 and 2006.

Grant: 187087 / ES-50181-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

Afropop Worldwide

Recipient: Barlow, W. Sean (Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA) in affiliation with World Music Productions

Goal: Production and distribution of 10 original programs and 14 re-edited "Hip Deep" programs for the 2007-08 season and a prototype of new knowledge distribution models.

Description: Afropop Worldwide is a weekly public radio program that since 1988 has introduced American listeners to the music and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. Hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the series is distributed by PRI to 99 stations in the U.S. and by XM satellite radio. Over the past four years, with support from the NEH, Afropop Worldwide has collaborated with leading humanities scholars and authors to add depth and authority to our programs. In particular, we have developed the Hip Deep series within Afropop Worldwide, a distinct set of programs that introduce humanities themes to the general public through comprehensive musical narratives. World Music Productions requests a grant of $150,000 from the NEH ton continue this work by researching, producing, and distributing 10 original programs and encoring 14 re-edited Hip Deep programs for the 2007-2008 season. This grant will also allow us to reach new audiences through new technology.

Grant: 187293 / UI-50026-07,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media Radio Production,   Year Awarded: 2007