The Sousa Archives for Band Research is built around the performance collection of the John Philip Sousa Band which has been housed at the University of Illinois since Sousa’s death in 1932. The catalogue of collections is divided into four sections. Sections 1-3 comprise the Sousa Performance Collection: 1) works for band, reduced woodwind or brass ensemble, and orchestra; 2) vocal solos with band accompaniment; 3) instrumental solos and ensembles with band accompaniment. Section 4 comprises the Clarke Performance Collection. The late Phyllis Danner was the archivist at the Sousa Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

About the Author

Phyllis Danner was associate professor of library administration and archivist of the Sousa Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  In 1997 she secured an NEH grant for the preservation of the Sousa collection.  The present catalogue is an outgrowth of that project, which she directed until her death in 2002.


DSMB 85 / 216p / 0-89990-115-8 / Paperback / 2005 / $44.00

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REVIEW 

“Sousa left his extensive library and personal mementoes to the University of Illinois….There are close to 3,500 titles in the collection…including manuscript and published music, sketches and holograph scores in Sousa’s hand, and performing parts to original works, transcriptions, and arrangements prepared by Sousa or his copyists[,]…original scores and transcriptions by Sousa contemporaries …, concert programs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, recordings, piano and vocal sheet music, and artifacts.
     The catalogue is clearly laid out and well edited (save for an occasional error…), with a highly readable font…. It is altogether a laudable and very useful publication that should prove to be an invaluable resource for Sousa and Clarke researchers well into the future.”

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“This guide, by the former librarian Phyllis Danner (1944–2002), encompasses the [Sousa and Clarke collections] scores and parts, published or in manuscript… Several facsimiles are presented, some with annotations and others with ink caricature drawings of Sousa…During her work, Danner unearthed some previously unknown Sousa manuscripts scores, including the operetta ‘The Irish Dragoon’ (1915)…The tome contains very useful information for researchers, with details not displayed in the [library] online finding aid.”

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