NORMAN DEL MAR
COLLECTION
The Normal Del Mar Collection of historical recordings is held in the Special Collections section of
the Hartley Library, University of Southampton. This is one of a number of web
pages provided by the Musis department to support the study of historical recordings
at Southampton.
Guide to Library
Resources
Resources for research into historical recordings at Southampton include
over 100 discographies, ranging from classical to popular music. They also
incude an extensive range of record journals, reviews and catalogues, covering
a wide period and large selection of countries and record labels, with much of
historical interest. The Hartley Library will consider increasing this
collection to match individual research requirements.
The following is intended as a convenient guide to the main resources (it
is not a comprehensive listing of sometimes fragmentary and largely
uncatalogued holdings), and is divided into three sections:
Locations of individual items may be found by consulting the Library's WEBCAT.
Reviews of recorded music
- ARSC journal of the
Association for Recorded Sounds (1973 – 1995 & 1997)
- American record guide (1935
– 1941; 1946 - 1984)
- BBC Music Magazine top 1000
CDs guide (Levi, Erik & MacDonald, Calum. 1996)
- Building a library: a
listener`s guide to record collecting. (Lade, John. 1980)
- Classical music: the rough
guide. An A-Z of composers and key recordings (Buckley. J. 1994)
- Classic CD (1991-1998)
- Consensus and review
(1960-1973, 125 vols)
- Gramophone (1936 – 1997)
- Gramophone classical good CD
guide (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998)
- Gramophone jubilee book
(Wimbush, Roger. 1973)
- High fidelity (1955 - 1961,
1965 – 1970)
- HMV record review (1948 -
Nov 1950. 14 issues, 50% holdings).
- International classical
record collector (1995-1997)
- Monthly letter – a critical
review of recent recordings (1947-1981)
- The monthly guide to
recorded music (1982-1985)
- Stereo record guide and
Penguin guide to records, cassettes and CDs (1960-1996) ed. Edward
Greenfield, Ivan March, Denis Stevens and Robert Layton.
Discographies
Listed under classical (artists),
classical (composers), classical (general), opera, jazz
(artists), jazz (general),
popular music and musicals, reference.
Jazz (individual
artists)
- Basie, Count (Sheridan,
Chris. 1979)
- Cole, Nat 'King' (Teubig,
Klaus. 1994)
- Coltrane, John (Davis,
Brian. 1967 & Yasuhiro, Fujioka. 1995)
- Dolphy, Eric (Simosko,
Vladimir. 1974)
- Ellington, Duke (Timner,
W.E. 1988)
- Kenton, Stan (Sparke,
Michael. 1994 & 1998)
- Mingus, Charles (Wilbraham,
Roy J. 1967; Ruppli, Michael. 1982)
- Parker, Charlie (Bregman,
Robert. 1993)
- Porter, Cole (Rimler, 1995)
- Shaw, Artie (Simosko,
Vladimir, 1998)
- Tatum, Art (Laubich, Arnold.
1982)
- Vaughan, Sarah (Brown,
Denis. 1991)
Jazz (general)
- A guide to longplay jazz
records (Frederic Ramsey, 1954)
- Index to jazz: jazz
recordings, 1917-1944 (Blackstone, Orin, n.d.)
- Jazz: its evolution and
essence (Hodeir, André. 1980)
- Jazz on record: a critical
guide (Fox, Charles. 1960)
- Jazz standards on record,
1900-1942 (Crawford, R. 1992)
- Women in jazz: a dicography
of instrumentalists, 1913-1968 (Leder, 1985).
Classical (artists)
- Beecham, Sir, Thomas (Sir
Thomas Beecham Society, 1975)
- Bjoerling, Jussi (Porter, J.
1982)
- Caruso, Enrico: his recorded
legacy (Freestone, J. 1960)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Stuart, Philip. 1997)
- McCormack, John (Worth, Paul
W. 1986)
Classical (composers)
- Britten, Benjamin (Parsons,
Charles H. 1990)
- Bruckner, Anton (Lovallo,
Lee T. 1991)
- Elgar, Sir Edward (Moore,
Jerrold Northrop. 1974)
- Mahler, Gustav (Smoley, Lewis
M. 1986; Paeter Feuléop, 1995)
- Monteverdi (Westerlund,
Gunnar. 1972)
- Schoenberg (Shoaf, R.
Wayne, 1994)
- Stokowski, Leopold (Hunt,
John. 1996)
- Stravinsky, Igor (Stuart,
Philip. 1991)
Classical (general)
- A discography of Tudor
church music (Day, Timothy, 1989)
- A discography of 78 rpm era
recordings of the horn: solo and chamber literature with commentary
(McBeth, Amy. 1997)
- A Gregorian chant
discography (Weber, Jerome F. 1990)
- The gramophone book: a
complete guide for all lovers of recorded music (Johnson, William W. 1954)
- Discography of solo song
(Stahl, Dorothy. 1984)
- Discopaedia of the violin,
1889-1971, 2 vols (Creighton, J. 1997)
- Historical records (Bauer,
1937 & 1947)
- Index to record reviews:
based on material originally published in Notes, the quarterly journal of
the Music Library Association between 1949 and 1977 (Myers, Kurtz. 1978)
- Soviet Russian L.P.
discography (Bennett, John R. 1981)
- New guide to recorded music
(Kolodin, Irving. 1947)
- The golden age recorded, a
collector`s survey (Hurst, P.G. 1946 & 1963)
- The orchestra on record,
1896-1926 (Arnold, Claude Graveley. 1997)
- The record guide
(Sackville-West, Edward and Shawe Taylor, Desmond, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955
& 1956)
- Walter Legge, a discography
(Sanders, Alan. 1984)
- World`s Encyclopaedia of
recorded music (Clough, Francis F. and Cuming, G.J. 1952)
Opera
- Opera discography, 2 vols
(Parsons, Charles H. 1990)
- Parsifal on record: a
discography of complete recordings, selections, and excerpts of Wagner`s
music drama (Brown, Jonathan. 1992)
- The Metropolitan Opera on
record: a discography of the commercial recordings (Fellers, Frederick P.
1984)
Jazz
(artists)
- Basie, Count (Sheridan,
Chris. 1979)
- Cole, Nat 'King' (Teubig,
Klaus. 1994)
- Coltrane, John (Davis,
Brian. 1967 & Yasuhiro, Fujioka. 1995)
- Dolphy, Eric (Simosko,
Vladimir. 1974)
- Ellington, Duke (Timner,
W.E. 1988)
- Kenton, Stan (Sparke,
Michael. 1994 & 1998)
- Mingus, Charles (Wilbraham,
Roy J. 1967; Ruppli, Michael. 1982)
- Parker, Charlie (Bregman,
Robert. 1993)
- Porter, Cole (Rimler, 1995)
- Shaw, Artie (Simosko,
Vladimir, 1998)
- Tatum, Art (Laubich, Arnold.
1982)
- Vaughan, Sarah (Brown,
Denis. 1991)
Jazz
(general)
- A guide to longplay jazz
records (Frederic Ramsey, 1954)
- Index to jazz: jazz recordings,
1917-1944 (Blackstone, Orin, n.d.)
- Jazz: its evolution and
essence (Hodeir, André. 1980)
- Jazz on record: a critical
guide (Fox, Charles. 1960)
- Jazz standards on record,
1900-1942 (Crawford, R. 1992)
- Women in jazz: a dicography
of instrumentalists, 1913-1968 (Leder, 1985)
Popular music and musicals
- Entertainment discography,
from 1897 to 1942 (Rust, Brian. 1979)
- Led Zeppelin, the complete
guide to the music of (Lewis, Dave. 1994)
- Movie musicals on record: a
directory of recordings of motion picture musicals, 1927-1987 (Lynch,
Richard Chigley. 1989)
- Pink Floyd, complete guide
to the music of (Mabbett, Andy. 1995)
- Queen, the complete guide
to the music of (Hogan, Peter K. 1994)
- The Who, the complete guide
to the music of (Charlesworth, Chris. 1995)
- TV and studio cast musicals
on record: a discography of television musicals and studio recordings of
stage and film musicals (Lynch, Richard Chigley. 1990)
Reference
- Brian Rust`s guide to
discography (Rust, Brian. 1980)
- Classical music discographies,
1946-88, a bibliography (Gray, Michael, 1989)
- Gramophone record libraries:
their organisation and practice (Currall, Henry. 1963)
- Systematic discography
(Foreman, Lewis, 1974)
Catalogues covering
individual record labels
There is a large quantity of rare catalogues from individual record
companies, including Capitol, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, HMV, Harmonia
Mundi, Parlophone, Pathé Marconi, Philips, Polydor, Polygram, RCA and Victor.
Continuous holdings of record catalogues are detailed below (part of a vast but
currently uncatalogued archive), together with general discographies covering
individual labels.
- Atlantic Records: a
discography (Ruppli, Michel. 1979)
- Bielefelder Katalog der Schallplatten
klassischer Musik: 12 vols. (1960 - 1971; 1984)
- Blue Note label, the: a
discography. (Cuscuna, Michael, 1988)
- Columbia Records: 41 vols.
(catalogues: 1904-05; 1938-1958)
- Columbia, blue and green
labels – LPs (Poulton, Alan J. 1975)
- Columbia twelve-inch
records in the United Kingdom, 1906-1930: a discography (Taylor, Ronald.
1994)
- Clef/Verve labels, the: a
discography. (Ruppli, Michel, 1986)
- Decca: 15 vols. (1936-1951;
1954; 1988-91)
- Deutsche Grammophon
(including Archiv Produktion, Heliodor, Polydor, Brunswick, Coral, MGM and
USA production): 13 vols (1961-63; 1968-70)
- Gramophone Company
- Berliner Gramophone
records: American issues, 1892-1900 (Charosh, Paul. 1995)
- Gramophone
Catalogue, The: 131 vols (1954-1990)
- The Gramophone shop
encyclopaedia of recorded music (Leslie, G.C. 1942)
- A catalogue of vocal
recordings from the English catalogues of the Gramophone Company,
1898-1925 (Bennett, John R., 1955)
- A catalogue of vocal
recordings from the German catalogues of the Gramophone Company,
1898-1925 (Bennett, John R., 1956)
- A catalogue of vocal
recordings from the Italian catalogues of the Gramophone Company,
1899-1925 (Bennett, John R., 1957)
- A catalogue of vocal
recordings from the Russian catalogues of the Gramophone Company,
1899-1915 (Bennett, John R., 1977)
- A complete numerical
catalogue of French Gramophone recordings made from 1898-1929 in France
and elsewhere (Kelly, Allan, 1990)
- The complete known
issued recordings: Gramophone Company/Victor/Pathé (Calvé, Emma. 1991)
- HMV
- His Masters Voice:
40 vols (catalogues: 1922-23; 1926; 1929-31; 1936-56)
- HMV red label: LPs
(Poulton, Alan J. 1975)
- The catalogue of 'D'
and 'E' His Master`s Voice recordings: straight couplings, automatic
couplings (Smith, Michael. [n.d.])
- The international
red label catalogue of 'DB' His master`s voice recordings, 1924-1956
(Bennett, John R. and Hughes, Eric, 1956)
- The international
red label catalogue of 'DA' His master`s voice recordings, 1924-1956
(Bennett, John R. and Hughes, Eric, 1956)
- His master`s voice:
the German catalogue: a complete numerical catalogue of German gramophone
recordings made from 1898 to 1929 in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere by
the Gramophone Company (Kelly, Allan. 1994)
- His master`s voice:
the Italian catalogue: a complete numerical catalogue of Italian
gramophone recordings made from 1898 to 1929 in Italy and elsewhere by
the Gramophone Company (Kelly, Allan. 1988)
- Long Player – A
comprehensive catalog of classical long play records: 8 vols (Oct, 1954;
Feb, 1955; May, August, September,1957; Dec, 1957; Jan-Feb, 1959)
- Parlophone: 30 vols
(1933-55)
- Philips: 6 vols (1956-60)
- Prestige label: a
discography (Ruppli, Michel. 1980)
- RCA: 8 vols (1956-1975,
partial holdings)
- Savoy label: a discography
(Ruppli, Michel. 1980)
- Schwann Long Playing Record
Catalogue: 93 vols (1949 - 1984)
- Telefunken: 6 vols (1937 -
38; 1941 - 42; 1961-62)
- Victor: 13 vols
(catalogues: 1921 - 1941)
- Victor Records: a catalogue
with bibliographical sketches, new portraits & special red seal
section (RCA Victor Division, 1936)
Guide compiled by Charles Tebbs, May 1999 (updated 10 October, 2000)