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Scope and Contents
This collection contains material relating to the professional career of Professor Philip Greeley Clapp, a composer, conductor of symphony orchestras, accomplished pianist, and music instructor. Some Greeley and Clapp genealogy is included in boxes 1 and 6, as well as some documentation of Mr. Clapp's studies at Harvard in box 12.
Four scrapbooks of carefully dated newspaper articles are housed in box 12. Mr. Clapp and his father, Henry Lincoln Clapp, authored many of the articles, while some announce their accomplishments. Henry Clapp was principal of Putnam Elementary School in Connecticut during the 1800s, and his theories of elementary education were highly-regarded. Articles dated 1879 to 1918 by the senior Clapp on the topic of education, and his hobby of horticulture in the Boston area, are preserved here.
Boxes 15 and 16 hold plaster casts of faces and hands, of adults and a child, and it is not recorded of whom they were made.
Biographical Note
Philip Greeley Clapp was born in Boston on August 4, 1888. His mother, Florence Greeley Clapp, and his aunt, Mary Greeley James, were his first music teachers of piano. At age 11 he began to study composition under the dean of the Boston University Music Department, John P. Marshall. He continued his education at Harvard, earning his B.A. in 1908, and M.A. in 1909, while studying under Dr. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. During 1909-1911, Mr. Clapp studied in Germany under a Harvard fellowship, and took his Ph.D. in 1911. Mr. Clapp taught at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, and other schools for the next seven years, before joining the faculty at the University of Iowa.
At Iowa, he continued as a composer, and conducted the University Symphony Orchestra, among others. He was hired to organize an official music department, as such instruction was private since 1906. Associated with the University of Iowa as a professor and department head since September 1919, Mr. Clapp became director of the School of Music in 1932, a position he held until his retirement on July 1, 1953. Philip Greeley Clapp died of a heart attack on April 9, 1954. During his 35 years of guidance, the University of Iowa School of Music gained a reputation that attracted students from across the nation, largely for the varied experience, and due to the development of graduate study by Mr. Clapp. The University of Iowa Clapp Recital Hall was named in his honor in 1971.
Related Materials
Biographical folder, "Philip Greeley Clapp," in Faculty and Staff Vertical Files collection (RG 01.15.03)
Biographical folder, "Himie Voxman," in Faculty and Staff Vertical Files collection (RG 01.15.03)
White, Dorrance Stinchfield. “A Biography of Dr. Philip Greeley Clapp, Director of Music at the State University of Iowa, 1919 -- 1954,” in University of Iowa Historical Papers collection (RG 01.01.03)
Compositions by Philip Greeley Clapp are listed in "Philip Greeley Clapp," Holcomb, Dorothy R., Books at Iowa, November 1972
Records of the School of Music (RG 06.24.01)
Thomas Sample Turner Papers (RG 99. 0133)
Box Contents List
Family Bible, includes genealogy
Large photograph of Clapp on stage with orchestra, n.d.
The Flaming Brand music score, by P.G. Clapp
Clapp anniversary programs, July 26, 1944
"The Use and Development of the Orchestral Woodwind," by P.G. Clapp, 133 handwritten pages, n.d.
The Lion and the Clown, vocal score
Box 2
The Flaming Brand, text and music score, by P.G. Clapp
Box 3
The Flaming Brand, text and music score, by P.G. Clapp
Box 4
The Flaming Brand, text and music score, by P.G. Clapp
Box 5
The Flaming Brand, text and music score, by P.G. Clapp
Box 6
Greeley genealogy
The Clapp memorial. Record of the Clapp Family in America, Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants, and a Genealogy of Their Descendants Bearing the Name. With a Supplement, and the Proceedings at Two Family Meetings. Ebenezer Clapp, Compiler. 1876
Fifty Ancestors of Henry Lincoln Clapp, Who Came to New England from 1620 to 1650, part 1. 1902
P.G. Clapp's early sketch books
Diary of Florence Greeley, 1888 -- 1895
An Account of School Garden and Herbarium Work Done During Fourteen Years, 1890-1904, in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by Henry Lincoln Clapp
Correspondence from Alice I. Whitehall, University of Iowa music student, 1938 -- 1944
Phi Beta Kappa, positions held by Clapp
Correspondence of Clapp to his wife, Gladys, 1925
Correspondence of Clapp held at the Library of Congress, and clippings, 1908 -- 1918
Correspondence folders, 1919 -- 1932
Catalogue of the Roxbury Latin School, 1904-05 (Philip Clapp's college preparatory school)
Concert programs
Box 7
Correspondence, 1933 -- 1956
Box 8
Orchestra programs, 1919 -- 1947
Box 9
Orchestra programs, 1947 -- 1955
Clapp pioano performace programs
1937
1904 -- 1912
1908 -- 1945
1945 --
Box 10
The Taming of the Shrew, music score for play
Box 11
The Flaming Brand, play, text and music score by P.G. Clapp
Scrapbooks
Newspaper clippings by and about Clapp, 1911 -- 1916
Clippings and articles about Clapp's father, Henry Lincoln Clapp, 1879 -- 1918
Clippings, programs, correspondence, exams, Harvard activities of Clapp, 1904 -- 1909
Clippings and two undated photographs of Clapp from a New York studio, 1912 -- 1945
Box 13
Original music scores, 1896 -- 1902
Box 14
Writings by Clapp
Typed and handwritten, n.d.
Harvard Monthly, 1908
Harvard Musical Review, April 1913
Box 15
Plaster casts of one adult face
Box 16
Plaster casts of 5 sets of hands (2 of adults and 3 of a child)
Box 17
Music scores
Box 18
Music scores, cont.
Box 19
Music scores, cont.
Box 20
Music scores, cont.
Box 21
Music scores, cont.
Box 22
Music scores, cont.
Box 23
Music scores, cont.
Box 24
Music scores, cont.
Box 25
Music scores, cont.
Box 26
Music scores, cont.
Box 27
Music scores, cont.
Box 28
Music scores, cont.
Box 29
Music scores, cont.
Box 30
Music scores, cont.
Box 31
Music scores, cont.
Box 32
Music scores, cont.
Box 33
Music scores, cont.
Box 34
Music scores, cont.
Box 35
Music scores, cont.
Box 36
Music scores, cont.
Box 37
Mahler broadcast, July 18, 1942, on 78 RPM audio records
Concert, January 12, 1948, on eight 33 RPM audio records
