Sister Mary Dominic Ray Library
(1913-1994)
Sister Mary was founder and director of original American Music
Research Center, which she started at Dominican College in San Rafael,
Ca. (1964-1989).
Location
Mus Sp Coll.
Description
Original collection purchased to start the University of Colorado
AMRC. Collection contains psalters and tune books, reference works,
18th century comic operas, 18th and 19th century sheet music, scores
and parts for chamber music, cantatas, oratorios, piano, violin, organ,
vocal, and orchestral works.
Status
Collection organized. Collection
cataloged into Chinook. Separate finding aid for Sister Mary Personal
Collection, California Mission Music Collection, Early American Musical
Theater Collection, and Moravian Church and Music Collection.
Arrangement
Sheet music, scores and parts, hymnals and tune books, comic (ballad)
operas, piano/vocal albums (19th century anthologies of sheet music)
are cataloged into Chinook.
Size
182 linear feet.
Access
Open.
Provenance
Purchased from Dominican College through CU Humanities Special Purchase
Fund.
