Norma Reynolds Dalby Freestone papers, 1910-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Dalby, Norma Reynolds
Title
Norma Reynolds Dalby Freestone papers
Dates
1910-2006 (inclusive)
Quantity
37.75 linear feet, (23 boxes)
Collection Number
ACCN 2651
Summary
The Norma Reynolds Dalby Freestone papers (1910-2006) contain biographical information, correspondence, musical education material, notes, budget information, books, and music scores, including original scores by Freestone. She was a professor of music and dance at the University of Utah and Sarah Lawrence College, specializing in simultaneous improvisation of dance and music.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English, French, Spanish; Castilian, German, Czech, Norwegian

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Norma Reynolds Dalby Freestone was born in 1923. She studied music and dance at Brigham Young University (BYU) and then she taught music at Roland Hall School for Girls and Stevens College in Missouri. She then moved to New York where she taught at Cornell Univeristy and Sarah Lawrence College where she retired in May 1989. Norma was an accomplished musician in areas of technique and composition as well as music director and performer. She also developed music courses for several dance workshops for students of all ages and for films, television, and theatre. Her specialty was piano and percussion. She worked with the Virginia Tanner School of Dance, Ririe Woodbury Dance Co., Repertory Dance Theatre, Children's Dance Theatre, University of Utah School of Dance, and the Royal Academy of Dance, London, England, plus many others. Freestone died in Utah on the 4th of May, 2006.

(Biographical information was taken in excerpts from her obituary printed in the Deseret News, May 9, 2006.)

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Norma Reynolds Dalby Freestone papers contain biographical information, correspondence, musical education material, notes, budget information, books, and music scores, including original scores by Freestone.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection is organized in four series: I. Personal and professional documents; II. Music scores by Freestone; III. Music scores by other composers; IV. General oversize material.

Processing Note

Processed by Taylor Ouimette in 2014.

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Separated Materials

Photographs materials were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Freestone's recorder was seperated, but kept in the Manuscripts Divison of Special Collections. Please contact the Manuscripts Curator to gain access to the recorder.

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Personal and professional materialsReturn to Top

Contains biographical information about Freestone, as well as papers on her dance workshops musical improvization classes and other things relating to her professional career.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Biographical Information
 1975
1 2-3
Correspondence
 1964-2000
1 4
Financial Records
 1979-1981
1 5
Religious Material
 1988-2006
1 6
Notes
2 1
Musical Education Material
Contains some explanations for alternative notations that Freestone uses in her pieces.
1982-1986
2 2
Improvization Class Materials
 1986
2 3
Improvization Class Notebooks
2 4-6
Music and Choreography Notes
Contains notes used to coordinate dancers and musicians for performances.
2 7-8
Music Theory Book
2 9
Dance Workshops
2 10
Stage Lighting Diagrams
2 11
Stage Diagrams
2 12
Audio Equiptment Information and Budgeting
3 1-2
Research Material
 1970-1994
3 3
Elizabeth Sewell
3 4
Collected Prose
3 5
Collected Poetry
 1972-2000
3 6
Published Images
3 7
Sarah Lawerence College Faculty Essays
 1973-1976
3 8
Sarah Lawerence College Letterhead
3 9
Playbills and Programs
 19855-1988
3 10
Advertisements
3 11
Directory of Publishers
 1985
3 12
Magazine Articles
 1968-1989
3 13
Newspaper Clippings
 1965-2006
4
Professional Materials
 1948-1994

Music scores by FreestoneReturn to Top

The scores in this series are organized by size and then alphabetically.
Container(s) Description
Box Folder
5 1
"Ann's Dance"
5 2
"Back by Noon"
5 3
"Ballad"
5 4
"Bird Images"
5 5
"Birds"
5 6
"Black Sheep, Where you Left You' Lamb"
5 7
"Calico Romp"
5 8
"Canon"
5 9
Caroling Dusk
5 10
"Chaconne"
5 11
"Chariot Out of Time"
5 12
"Conductor"
5 13
"Crossing"
5 14
"Dance in 7's"
5 15
"Desert"
5 16
"The Double-Voiced Fluffmung"
5 17
"Dragon"
5 18
"Elbow Room"
5 19
"En Route"
5 20
"Fanfare"
5 21
"Fiddlin" for Piano
5 22
"Folk Tunes"
5 23
"For Abby"
5 24
"For Alice"
5 25
"For Joan and Roland"
5 26
"For Ricki and Leslie"
5 27
"For Stacey"
5 28
"For Susan"
6 1
"Boulder Mountain Blow-Out"
6 2
"Brazil"
6 3
"Doña Amada"
6 4
"Dream-scape"
6 5
"Hark! The Bells are Ringing"
6 6
"Mulii-Percussion"
6 7
"Namuru"
6 8
"Passage"
6 9
"Shoreline"
7
"Canticle"
8
"Chantotem"
Folder
9 1
"Fannie's Feet"
9 2
"Folding Time"
9 3
"For Cher Jennison"
9 4
"For Rosa"
9 5
"For Susan"
9 6
"Gethsemane"
9 7
"Jessica's Dance"
9 8
"Jesus Came as a Whisper"
9 9
"Linda"
9 10
"A Marvelous Work"
9 11
"My Horse Fell Down the Well"
9 12
"Nita's Lullaby"
9 13
"Nurses"
9 14
"Once There Was ..."
9 15
Overture
9 16
Overture and Part I
9 17
IV
9 18
Part VI
9 19
Play
9 20
Unidentified Score
9 21
Unidentified Score
9 22
Unidentified Score
9 23
Unidentified Score
9 24
Unidentified Score
9 25
Unidentified Scores
9 26
Score Notebooks
10
"Glyph II"
Folder
11 1
"Games People Play"
11 2
"Giraffe"
11 3
"Guilty by Rumor"
11 4
Haiku Suite
11 5
"Haila"
11 6
"Max and the Huttunes"
11 7
"If You Could Hie to Kolob"
11 8
"Isles of the Heart"
11 9
"Israeli Suite"
12 1
"Jazz Moods (Unsquare Dance)"
12 2
"Kinetic Chants"
12 3
"Lady MacBeth"
12 4
"Magnificent"
12 5
"Martha's Structure"
12 6
"Metric Mix"
12 7
"New Age"
12 8
"No Letters"
12 9
"Moon"
12 10
"Ondine's Dance"
12 11
Overture
12 12
Overture and Dance
12 13
"The Parable of the Ten Virgins"
12 14
Part III
12 15
Part IV
12 16
"Pavanne"
12 17
"Percussion Symphony"
13 1
"Pond"
13 2
"Prayer for Light"
13 3
"Primitive"
13 4
"Red Ant Hill"
13 5
"Red Cliff"
13 6
"Repetoire for Piano Students"
13 7
"Romp"
13 8
Royal Suite
13 9
"San Diego"
13 10
"Shapes of Dance"
13 11
"Sisters Etude"
13 12
"Sky"
13 13
"Sleigh Bells in 5"
13 14
"Switch"
13 15
"Testaments"
13 16
"A Thousand Times"
13 17
"Tone Totem"
13 18
"Waiting"
13 19
"Water Cycle"
13 20
"What is this Thing Called Charm?"
13 21
"The World Aint Flat or Round"
13 22
"7-7-10"
14 1
"View from the Mountain"
Box 14, folders 1-6, contains a single piece entiteld "View from the Mountain" which comes in multiple movements. The movements are seperated into their own folders.
14 2
"Aquarium"
14 3
"Rain"
14 4
"Moon"
14 5
"Fire"
14 6
"Stream and Finale"
15 1
Songs for Elementary School Students
ox 15, folders 1-11, contains pieces by Freestone that are unnamed, and are distinguished by extra writing which was on the pieces.
15 2
Allan Seznec
15 3
Calvin
15 4
Lesley Retzer
15 5
Puki and Leslie
15 6
Essay for Soprano, Treble and Piano
15 7
For Guitar
15 8
Quintet in Four Movements for Eight Instruments
15 9
Unidentified Score
15 10
Unidentified Score
15 11
Score Notebooks

Collected Music ScoresReturn to Top

This series contains music scores not composed by Freestone.

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
16 1
"Americana"
16 2
"Canción y Danza"
16 3
Cants Mágics
16 4
"Elégie
16 5
"Galaxy"
16 6
"Nightpiece"
16 7
"Préludes"
16 8
The Catalogue Cantate
16 9
Cinq Préludes pour Piano
16 10
Operatic Anthology
16 11
Organ Music for Funeral
16 12
Pièces Miniscules pour les Enfants
16 13
Songs by Brahms
16 14
"Selected Catholic Music
16 15
Trois Petites Pièces
16 16
I
17 1
"Be Still and Know that I am God"
17 2
"Des Grieux"
17 3
"Fear Not, Little Flock"
17 4
"God So Loved The World"
17 5
"How Beautiful upon the Mountains"
17 6
"Hradčanské Písníčky"
17 7
"Joy Dawns Again on Easter Day"
17 8
"Lord of the Dance"
17 9
"A Mother's Christmas Lullaby"
17 10
"Mysterious Mountain"
17 11
"Santana"
17 12
"Scarlatti"
17 13
"Sérénade"
17 14
"Sweet Is The Work, My God, My King"
17 15
The Gang That Sang "Heart of My Heart"
17 16
"Trust in the Lord"
17 17
Canon by Mozart
17 18
Chanonne in D Minor
17 19
Concert for Violin by Bach
17 20
Fritz Kreisler Compositions
17 21
Gavotte by Bach
17 22
Sonata by Mozart
17 23
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
17 24
Symphony in G Minor
17 25
Choral Songs of the Bantu
17 26
English Songs
17 27
O, Verdi
17 28
Operatic Anthology
17 29
Russian Songs
17 30
Sacred Songs with Latin Text
17 31
Selections from LDS Hymnal
17 32
Piano Scores Book
18 1
"Crushed Quarts"
18 2
"Insected Surfaces"
18 3
"Loyalty"
18 4
"Orbs" with Flute
18 5
"Quashed Clutch"
19 1-2
Percussion Scores
19 3-5
Piano Scores
19 6-7
Vocal Scores
20 1
Bass Clarinet Scores
20 2
Cello Scores
20 3
Clarinet Scores
20 4
Double Base Scores
20 5
Flute Scores
20 6
French Horn Scores
20 7
Guitar Scores
20 8
Harp Scores
20 9
Harpsichord Scores
20 10
Trombone Scores
20 11
Trumpet Scores
20 12
Tuba Scores
20 13
Violin Scores
20 14
Musical Educational Material
21 1-3
Unnamed Group Scores
21 4
Unnamed Piano Peice
21 5
Unidentified Score
21 6
Unidentified Score
21 7
Unidentified Instrumental Scores
22
Unnamed Oversized Scores

General Oversized MaterialReturn to Top

In addition to the two folders below, the box contains some posters for dance performances and other general music teaching aides.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
23 1
Calenders
 1976-1990
23 2
Musican and Choreography Notes
Contains notes used to coordinate dancers and musicians for performances. As well as some explanations for alternative notations that Freestone uses in her peices.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Dance teachers--United States--Archives
  • Music--Instruction and study
  • Women composers--United States--Archives
  • Women in the theater--United States

Personal Names

  • Dalby, Norma Reynolds--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Calendars
  • Financial records
  • Instructional and educational works
  • Musical sketches
  • Notated music
  • Personal correspondence
  • Scores
  • Stage directions

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2014 (last modified: 2018)

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