Blog topic: New acquisitions

Founded by Richard Weize in 1975, the German re-issue label Bear Family Records has been a leader in reissuing lavishly produced box sets of American roots music, with a particular focus on American country music (and related genres) from the 1920s through the 1980s.   Bear Family’s box sets are impeccably curated, with recordings sourced from the best known copies, or master tapes whenever possible.  The reissued recordings are accompanied by extensively researched discographies and book-length liner notes. Bear Family recordings have been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including 17 ARSC (Association for Record Sound Collections) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research and 6 Grammy nominations.

Stanford has recently acquired and processed two collections from American military officers operating overseas in the early 20^th century. The papers of Morris Cooper Foote (M2103) and Warren Jay Terhune (M2132) chronicle several critical episodes in Western expansionism and occupation in Asia and its responses.

Morris Cooper Foote’s papers include a variety of material (manuscripts, journals, letters, memos, reports, photographs, maps, newspapers) from his service in the United States Army’s Ninth Infantry. Most of it concerns his experiences in the Boxer Rebellion, but he was already a seasoned veteran at the time. Foote was born September 16, 1843 in New York. His great-grandfather was William Cooper, the founder of Cooperstown, and he was also related to Jacob Morris, who served in the Revolutionary War, and novelist James Fenimore Cooper.

For your browsing pleasure, we present the following list of new scores added to composer complete editions, historical sets, and facsimiles. 

Modern editions

Buxtehude. Keyboard works. part. 3 : preludes, toccatas, fugues, and canzonas for organ (manualiter), harpsichord, or clavichord (v. 17); Keyboard works. part. 4 : suites and variations for harpsichord or clavichord (v. 18). The collected works / Dieterich Buxtehude

Crüger Concert Choräle : Kritische Ausgabe ausgewählter Werke / Johann Crüger.

Liszt. New edition of the complete works / Ferenc Liszt. Suppl. 7: Magyar dallok / Ungarische National-Melodien, and other works. Suppl. 10: Consolations, Grand Solo de Concert, and other works.