Robert Jordahl Music Collection

1873; 1941; 1951-2002

8.73 linear feet

Collection Number 154

Prepared by Patricia A. Threatt
January 2005

CITATION: The Robert Jordahl Papers, Collection No. 154, Box number, Folder number,
Archives and Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.

Archives and Special Collections Department

Frazar Memorial Library

McNeese State University

Biographical Sketch

Robert Jordahl was born in San Antonio, Texas. Jordahl received his doctorate from the Eastman School of Music and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the University of Texas at Austin. Jordahl published approximately 70 compositions, including organ, choral, and various instrumental ensembles. Larger works include two ballets, four masses, and a comic opera, “The Remarkable Talking Bird.” Jordahl was the coordinator of music theory at McNeese State University, 1968-1999.

Scope and Content Note

The Papers consist of Robert Jordahl's published and unpublished sheet music, books, clippings, photographs, printed materials, and programs. The Papers are arranged into five series: Published sheet music, Unpublished sheet music, Printed material and photographs, Oversized materials, and Books. All sheet music, unless otherwise noted, was composed by Robert Jordahl.

Container List

Series A. Published Sheet Music

Box	Folder	Description
1	1	"At the Cry of the First Bird"
	2	"Awake and Sing the Song"
	3	"The Calendar Song"
	4	"Canto for Trombone and Piano"
	5	"Celebrate the Lord"
	6	"Christmas Triptych"
	7	"Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies"
	8	"Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life"
	9	"Come, Thou long-expected Jesus"
	10	"Come to Me, Gentle Sleep"
	11	"Death and the Maiden"
	12	"Deep Peace: An Old Irish Blessing"
	13	"Diptych"
	14	“Diptych for 12 Trombones”
	15	"Diversion"
	16	"Divertimento for Two Pianos"
	17	"Drum"
	18	"Elegy"
	19	"Evocation for Strings"
	20	"Forty Days and Forty Nights: Lenten Organ Improvisations"
	21	"Four Short Dances"
	22	"Gather Around the Christmas Tree"
	23	"Glory!"
	24	"Good Vibrations"
	25	"Go Ye Therefore"
	26	"Harvest Hymn"
	27	“A Hebrew Blessing”
	28	"Horn Set - Six Etudes for Horn in F"
	29	"Images for Orchestra"
	30	"Introduction and Allegro for Horn & Piano "
	31	"A Jazz Mass" (optional instrumental parts)
	32	"A Jazz Mass" (piano & vocal scores)
	33	"Lament for Magda"
	34	"Let All the World in Every Corner Sing"
	35	"A Lewis Carroll Sampler"
	36	"A Little Chamber Music"
	37	"Love Came Down at Christmas"
	38	"Lyric Serenade"
	39	"Minstrel Song"
	40	"Missa Sine Nomine"
2	1	"Music, When Soft Voices Die"
	2	"Mystery of Wonder"
	3	"Never Seek to Tell Thy Love"
	4	"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
	5	"O For a Shout of Sacred Joy"
	6	"Psalm Suite"
	7	"Remember O Thou Man"
	8	"Rhapsody"
	9	"Risen Today"
	10	"Sing a Song of Shakers"
	11	"Sing Me a Riddle"
	12	"Six Character Pieces"
	13	"Songs from Shakespeare"
	14	"Sunday MusicB Three Short Anthems"
	15	"Sweet Day"
	16	"Sweet Hymns and Songs"
	17	“The Temple”
	18	"They Lie at Rest"
	19	"Three Dialogues for Two Trumpets in B flat No. 1"
	20	"Treasures"
	21	"Triobook for Bassoon Trio"
	22	"Trumpet Voluntary"
	23	"12 Miniatures"
	24	"Two Evensongs"
	25	"Two Pieces for Brass"
	26	"Verses from Ogden Nash"
	27	"We Did Not Sing In Eden"
	28	"A Welsh Prayer"
	29	“Where shall my soul begin?”
	30	"Winterset"

Series B. Unpublished Sheet Music

Box	Folder	Description
3	1	"Above Years" (written at the age of 14, 1941?)
	2	"Ah Dolente Partita"
	3	"April is My Mistress' Face"
	4	"Canticle"
	5	"Canto" (has been published)
	6	"Chancione"
	7	"Chanson de Roland"
	8	"Come Unto These Yellow Sands"
	9	"Diversion - For Tuba and Piano" (has been published)
	10	"Doubles"
	11	"Evangeline"
	12	"Evocation"
	13	"Fantasie"
	14	"Five Events for Two Pianists"
	15	"Fugue a la Mendelsohn"
	16	"Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints Above"
	17	"How Beautiful Upon the Mountains"
	18	"Images"
	19	"The Legend of Bras-Coupe"
	20	"Love Learns by Laughing"
	21	"Modules"
	22	"Puer Natus"
	23	"Processional"
	24	"The Prospector"
	25	"Recessional"
	26	"Riternello"
	27	"Sound Design"
	28	"Three Minimal Studies"
	29	"The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"
	30	Untitled
	31	"Venite Adoremus"
	32	"Virilay"
	33	"Weep You No More Sad Fountains"
	34	"Where the Bee Sucks"
	35	"5 Haiku"

Series C. Printed material & photographs

Box	Folder	Description
4	1	Journal of Church Music February 1973
	2	"The Legend of Bras-Coupe" NEA Grant Application
	3	Newsletter of the University of Texas School of Music v.16 Fall 2000
	4	Newspaper Clippings
	5	Photographs
	6	Programs, 1951-1968
	7	Programs, 1980-2002
	8	Programs, nd
	9	Programs, Lake Charles Ballet Society, 1977
	10	The Remarkable Talking Bird
	11	"The Shaker 'Noted' Song," July 1978
	12	Contracts
	13	Harrock Hall Music Print and Distribution Contract
	14	"Et zic et zic," by Andre E. M. Gretry; “Achetez a ma boutique” by Nicola Piccinni

Series D. Oversized Materials

Box	Folder	Description
5		“Barcelona Nights” “Dances for a New Land” “Evangeline” Lake Charles Symphony posters “The Remarkable Talking Bird”

Series E. Books

Box

Folder

Description

Evans, John M., The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book for Public Worship (Philadelphia: The Bible and Publication Society, 1873).

Jordahl, Robert A., “A Study of Music Composition in the Public High Schools of Texas,” M. M. Thesis, University of Texas, 1951 (Includes Correspondence and questionnaires).

Jordahl, Robert A., “A Study of the Use of the Chorale in the Works of Mendelssohn, Brahms and Reger,” Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Rochester, 1965.

Leslie, C. E., The Joy Bells of Heaven (Chicago: The Chicago Music Company).

Parker, J. C. D., Richter’s Manual of Harmony: A Practical Guide to its Study: Expressly Prepared for the Conservatory of Music at Leipsic by Ernst Fredrich Richter (Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company, 1873).

Schuman, Robert, Les Maitres de la Musique.

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