Cook Music Library: Jarecki Archive : Collection Background

William and Gayle Cook Music Library

Jarecki Archive

Collection Background

The Jarecki Archive contains the manuscripts, scores, and papers of Polish-American composer and conductor Tadeusz Jarecki and his American wife Louise Llewellyn Jarecki. Compositions of Tadeusz Jarecki include symphonic, chamber, keyboard, and choral works as well as songs and arrangements of sother composers' materials. Louise Llewellyn Jarecki's compositions consist solely of songs, some of which are published. Other materials in the collection include musical manuscripts and scores of other Polish and Slavic composers as well as other music, some of which is inscribed to the Jarecki's by the composers. Also in the collection are manuscript lecture and program notes and several articles in both manuscript and print form by Tadeusz Jarecki. Many articles and stories by Louise Llewellyn Jarecki are also included. Ephemera include photographs, letters, passports, as well as concert reviews and posters. This collection has yet to be catalogued.

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Notes to Users

This resource was created by Karen Walker, a student in the Music Librarianship Seminar (L631), at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the Spring of 1997. It is designed to be a finding aid for the materials in the archive of Tadeusz and Louise Llewellyn Jarecki. A brief background statement describes the contents of the collection.

For this initial version, the scope of analysis was limited to just the music in the collection. Tadeusz Jarecki's compositions are arranged by genre, with a separate page for each, listing titles to facilitate browsing. Connected to each of these pages is a page that contains annotations to the works. The page for Louise Llewellyn Jarecki's songs is designed in the same way. To provide ease of access and again to facilitate browsing, other composers whose works appear in the collection are listed in a single alphabet listing which contains links to annotations.

Information in the annotations was taken from the actual items themselves. When titles appeared, as they frequently did, in languages other than English, translations are given in parenthesis where possible. Where a translation was not possible or deemed not necessary, the title is given in the original language only. One of the characteristics of the Polish and Slavic languages is the prevalent use of diacritics, which unfortuately in this HTML format was impossible to replicate.

The annotations of works contain the following descriptive headings, where applicable: Publisher, Instrumentation, Text, Contents, Note, and Location. The "Contents" category describes the physical contents of the item in hand, in terms of format and number of pages.

Access to thie collection is limited. For information about access to material in this collection, please contact Michael Fling, Assistant Head, Music Library, Room M275a; e-mail, fling@indiana.edu; phone: (812) 855-2974.

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