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Call Number: SC0723
Creator:
Allen, Warren Dwight, 1885-1964.
Title: Warren Dwight Allen papers
Dates: 1929-1957
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
Summary: These papers pertain largely to his teaching career at Florida
State University and Stanford University. The papers include his mimeographed texts on
music and history that he used for classes at Florida State University School of Music;
typescripts of papers and lectures, 1936-54 and undated; reprints and articles by Allen
and others; correspondence, mostly pertaining to publication permissions, 1944-53, and
his retirement from Stanford, 1950; and assorted clippings, programs, and other
ephemera, 1929-55.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Warren Dwight Allen Papers (SC0723). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Warren Dwight Allen attended the University of California at Berkeley and was admitted
to the American Guild of Organists in 1909. After two years of study in Paris and
Berlin, he returned to the United States and taught at the College of the Pacific prior
to his appointment in 1918 as the University Organist at Stanford, a post that he held
until 1947. He received his A.B. degree in Philosophy from Stanford in1934 and then
completed his Master of Arts degree in 1935 at U.C. Berkeley. In 1939 he received his
Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in the fields of educational sociology and
musicology. Allen played a pivotal role in the establishment of a Music Department at
Stanford and was appointed Professor of Music and Education in 1941. He left Stanford in
1950 to teach at Florida State University.
These papers pertain largely to his teaching career at Florida State University and
Stanford University. The papers include his mimeographed texts on music and history that
he used for classes at Florida State University School of Music; typescripts of papers
and lectures, 1936-54 and undated; reprints and articles by Allen and others;
correspondence, mostly pertaining to publication permissions, 1944-53, and his
retirement from Stanford, 1950; and assorted clippings, programs, and other ephemera,
1929-55.
Allen, Warren Dwight, 1885-1964.
Stanford University. Dept. of Music.
Music--Instruction and study.
Musicology.