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Perry, Catherine Eleanor, 1916-1992.
Catherine Perry Collection
1924-1965
0.25 cubic ft.
The Catherine Perry Collection consists of
music-related materials assembled by Perry as a music student and
teacher.
Materials in English.
Biographical Note:
Catherine Perry was an OSU alumna and Corvallis music teacher. She was
born in Corvallis and graduated from Corvallis High School. Perry enrolled (as
Catherine Eleanor Jordan Sherwood) at Oregon State College in 1934 and attended
OSC from 1934 to 1939 and again from 1944 to 1947 as a home economics student.
She took numerous music courses during this time including piano courses,
likely taught by Lillian Petri. She enrolled again at OSU for music courses in
the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was a close friend of Paul and Lillian
Petri. Paul Petri was head of the Music Department at Oregon State from 1924-
1947. Perry died in Corvallis in October 1992.
The Petri publications include
Mind Over Muscle (1924) and
Music Fundamentals Correlated, volumes I-III
(1927). Both pertain to piano technique. The programs include musical events
sponsored by the Oregon State College Liberal Arts Programs Committee, the
Corvallis OSU Music Association, the OSU Music Department, and other
organizations. The notebooks include notes, directions, and instructions
received by Perry in piano lessons, probably given by Lillian Petri.
Organized into three series: I. Lillian Jeffreys Petri Publications; II.
Music Concert Programs; III. Notebooks.
Catherine Perry Collection, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
Other materials pertaining to music instruction at OSU are in the
Department of Music Records (RG 148), the Helen Plinkiewisch Papers, and the
Lillian Jeffreys Petri Collection.
Petri,
Lillian Jeffreys.
Concert
programs--Oregon.
Music--Instruction and
study--Oregon.
Mind over muscle.
Music fundamentals correlated.
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