Guide to the Warren Dwight Allen Papers
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
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
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Administrative Information
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Cite As
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.
Description of the Collection
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.
Access Terms
Allen, Warren Dwight, 1885-1964.
Stanford University. Dept. of Music.
Music--Instruction and study.
Musicology.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Music and History: Volume 1 (To A.D. 900)
1957
Box 1, Folder 2
Music and History: Volume 3 (1601-1800)
1957
Box 1, Folder 3
Music and History in Five Great Cycles
Box 1, Folder 4
Music and History in Five Great Cycles, Volume Two
1957
Box 1, Folder 5
Music and History: Since 1800 (1 of 2)
1957
Box 1, Folder 6
Music and History: Since 1800 (2 of 2)
Box 1, Folder 7
Music and History: The XIX Century
1957
Box 2, Folder 1
A Bibliography of General Music Histories, typescript
Box 2, Folder 2
Music and Language, typescript
Box 2, Folder 3
Philosophies of Music History, corrected text of book published in
1939
Box 2, Folder 4
Philosophies of Music History: Preface and Supplement to the 2nd
Edition, typescript, 1954
Box 2, Folder 5
“Arts and the Man,” presidential address to MTNA, 1940
Box 2, Folder 6
Commencement Address For Music And Arts Institute of San Francisco,
1950
Box 2, Folder 7
“Our Idioms of Musical Expression,” reprint, 1945
Box 3, Folder 1
Miscellaneous Essays, 1940-1952
Box 3, Folder 2
Miscellaneous Lectures, 1949
Box 3, Folder 3
“The Modern Cycle: Songs & Polyphony Under Henry VIII” – class
materials and typescript text/lectures
Box 3, Folder 4
Music 348: 1801-1914 – typescript text/lectures
Box 3, Folder 5
“Music and the Idea of Progress,” 1946 and "Music in Russia and the
West," 1949 – reprints
Box 3, Folder 6
“Music Amid World Revolutions,” typescript, 1951
Box 3, Folder 7
“Philosophies of Music History,” typescript, 1939-1954
Box 3, Folder 8
Journal of Human Ecology: Miscellaneous Articles 1951-1953
Box 3, Folder 9
“Music History in Climatic-Cultural Cycles” 1952
Box 3, Folder 10
“Music History in Five Five-Hundred-Year Cycles” 1951
Box 4, Folder 1
Publications of the Faculty and Theses Directed, Florida State
University, 1950
Box 4, Folder 2
Miscellaneous correspondence and newspaper clippings
1940-1952
Box 4, Folder 3
Miscellaneous recital announcements 1935-1953
Box 4, Folder 4
Pat Allen, Creative Writing class notes, poetry and stories,
1938-1939
Box 4, Folder 5
Permissions for use of material in Allen's publications,
1944-1953
Box 4, Folder 7
Stanford Miscellany 1937-1949
Box 4, Folder 8
Victoria Music Festival 1929-1931
Box 4, Folder 9
Typescript papers and lectures, 1936-1953 and undated
Box 4, Folder 10
Typescript papers and lectures, 1939-1941 and undated
Box 4, Folder 11
Miscellaneous clippings, articles, etc., 1930-55
