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This catalog site is designed so that it can be searched by keyword, collection, type of instrument, and date. It contains information on instruments in the possession of Duke University, with the exception of modern practice and performance pianos.
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Contact Info
Dr. Brenda Neece, DPhil (Oxon.)
Curator, DUMIC
Box 90665
Durham, NC 27708-0665
USA
Tel: 919-660-3320
Fax: 919-660-3301
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Welcome
Welcome to the official Duke University Musical Instrument Collections (DUMIC) website. This site is designed to function as an online, database-driven catalog of the musical instrument collections at Duke.
Instruments, recordings, and printed materials are still being added to this catalog. If you have any questions or comments about the contents of this site or of the collections, please contact the curator, Dr. Brenda Neece (bneece@duke.edu).
The website was designed by David Wehrs, a Duke University alumnus.
2010 Spring Semester DUMIC Hours*
Mondays Closed
Tuesdays 2-5 PM
Wednesdays 2-5 PM
Thursdays 2-5 PM
Non-Rare Music Fridays 2-5 PM
Rare Music Fridays: January 15, February 19, March 19, April 23
(DUMIC is closed on Rare Music Fridays, but please come to Rare Music in the Rare Book Room at Perkins Library on West Campus!)
*When Classes are in Session
N.B. Small group visits are encouraged, but all group visits need to be booked in advance through the curator, Dr. Brenda Neece (bneece@duke.edu) or (919) 660-3320.
Special Online Exhibit: Romanian Musical Instruments at DUMIC
This exhibit is the result of the research of scholar Ioana Sherman and features Duke University's Romanian instruments.
Please click here to see our special exhibit
News and Events
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April 23, 2010
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
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This Rare Music program will feature the three winning compositions in the New Music for Old Instruments Competition. Every effort will be made to have the three winning works performed in the program, and the winning composers will be invited to discuss their work. Three winners will receive $100 each, and their works, if performed, will be recorded in the performance and broadcast on iTunesU.
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Here is some information about each of the families of instruments included in this competition:
March 19, 2010
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
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Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)—child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, and prolific composer of well over four hundred works—was an extraordinary musician and astute observer of European culture. Granddaughter of the Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the legendary composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, she has, in recent decades, finally secured her place as the leading European woman composer of the nineteenth century. She excelled in exquisite songs of epigrammatic intensity and short, lyrical piano pieces, but the
expressive range of her art also accommodated virtuoso piano and chamber works, orchestral music, and cantatas that paid homage to J. S. Bach.
R. Larry Todd, author of the award-winning Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, will discuss and sign copies of his newly released biography, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn. He will be joined by soprano Penelope Jensen to perform some of Hensel’s songs, which her brother recognized as among the finest examples of the genre.
February 16, 2010
10AM
Bone Hall
Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, Duke University East Campus
Tristan Jones & Jonathan Parker, epeeists
Reginald Patterson, speaker
Today fencers Tristan Jones and Jonathan Parker will give a fencing demonstration on the epee, the modern version of the traditional dueling weapon, the rapier.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges fought famous duels and was an extraordinary swordsman. Like Duke’s head fencing coach, Maitre Alex Beguinet, the Chevalier studied fencing in Paris. This demonstration will show you how this ancient tradition mastered by the Chevalier in the 18th century is still going strong today at Duke University.
After the demonstration you will have chance to ask questions of the fencers and of Mr. Patterson, our scholar on the biography of the Chevalier, and there will be a Mardi Gras themed reception with King Cake and coffee in our new exhibition celebrating the life of this most famous master of the bow and foil, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
About DUMIC
The Duke University Musical Instrument Collections(DUMIC) are founded on the flagship collection, the G. Norman and Ruth G. Eddy Collection of Musical Instruments, which arrived here in Durham in 2000. The Eddy Collection has inspired further generous gifts and the acquisition of the Frans and Willemina de Hen-Bijl Collection of Musical Instruments, which arrived at Duke in 2003. While the Eddy Collection consists primarily of instruments and paintings of instruments from America and Europe, Duke’s de Hen Collection includes over 200 musical instruments from all over the world. The de Hen Collection together with the Eddy Collection and other individual gifts make up the DUMIC.
It is the aim of DUMIC to provide students, scholars, performers, and interested members of the public with access to these instruments in order to foster awareness and interest in music of the past and an understanding of the complex network of interrelationships among the areas of cultural history, composition, performance, and the art of instrument making. Highlights include instruments from the time of Mozart and Beethoven, the American Civil War, and instruments from around the world, including objects from the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia.
The maintenance of the Eddy Collection at Duke is made possible through the generosity of the Ethel Sieck Carrabina Fund.