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Collection Overview
Abstract
Professor of music at Calvin College. The collection includes Oratorio Society constitution, minutes, correspondence, television releases, source work, program notes, sing-along activities, photographs, press clippings, rehearsal plans, dissertation materials, and oratorio notes for the Messiah, St. Paul, Requiem, King David, Creation, St. John's Passion, The Crucifixion, St. Matthew's Passion, and Easter Oratorio. The collection also contains minutes and materials from the Grand Rapids American Guild of Organists.
Biographical Note
Howard J. Slenk was born in Holland, Michigan in 1931. He attended Calvin College and went on to earn his Ph.D. from Ohio University. Slenk taught at Trinity Christian College but perhaps is best known for his service at Calvin College as professor of music for 28 years.
From 1967-1995 Slenk taught organ and music theory as well as directing Calvin’s choirs and conducting the Oratorio Society. Slenk also served as the organist and music director for Woodland CRC in Grand Rapids. Slenk wrote A Well-Appointed Church Music in 1960. Slenk, (now emeritus professor of music) has received the honor of a scholarship named after him. He was a very active member of the Grand Rapids American Guild of Organists and served as Dean from 2006 -2008. The Howard J. Slenk Music Scholarship is awarded to Calvin College students with a music focused career path such as choral conducting, organ music, or musicology.
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Series 1: Oratorio Notes, 1980-1993],
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Series 2: Tapes of Past Performances],
[Series 3: Dissertation Notes and Research Materials],
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Series 4: Grand Rapids Chapter of American Guild of Organists (GRAGO)],
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- Series 3: Dissertation Notes and Research Materials
- Box 5
- Folder 1: First draft of PhD dissertation
- Folder 2: Final draft of PhD dissertation
- Folder 3: Reference material for PhD dissertation
- Folder 4: PhD dissertation notebook
- Folder 5: Notes for dissertation
- Folder 6: Dissertation material-musical scores
- Folder 7: Dissertation material-musical scores
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Dissertation material-musical scores
- Folder 2: Dissertation material-musical scores
- Folder 3: Dissertation material-musical scores
- Folder 4: Dissertation material-musical scores
- Folder 5: Dissertation material-musical scores
- Box 9: Dissertation material file cards
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Research Material - "Christopher Plantin and the Genevan Psalter"
- Folder 2: Research Material - "Four Unpublished Documents Concerning Christopher Plantin and the Question of Heresy"
- Folder 3: Research Material - "Christopher Plantin and the States General: Some New Documents"
- Folder 4: Research Material - "An Investigation of Hubert Waelrants's School of Music"
- Folder 5: Research Material - "The Way Toward an Anglo-Genevan Psalter"
- Folder 6: Research Material - "Jan Utenhove's Psalms in the Low Countries"
- Folder 7: Research Material - "The Music of Protestantism"
- Folder 8: Research Material - "Early Polyphonic Settings of Morat's Psalm"
- Folder 9: Research Material - "Music in Antwerp Under the Calvinist Regime"
- Folder 10: Research Material - "The English Psalm Settings of Richard Byrd"
- Folder 11: Research Material - Knives
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