American Symphony Orchestra Repertoires 1842-1970 [United States] (ICPSR 35235)

1. Others contributed to this project. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios supervised undergraduate workers. Ann Louise Davidson served as typist-linguist-chartmaker-researcher. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Griffith searched for and documented timings of each composition. Document Solutions Inc. (Oakland, CA) scanned and digitized the data collected by the original researchers. The project was produced by Indiana University Press, 1973, Bloomington, Indiana.

2. This data collection was previously distributed by the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA). The CPANDA Identification Number (study number) is a00225. CPANDA conducted the following processing steps for release of this collection: produced a codebook, checked for undocumented codes, performed consistency checks, provided frequencies, performed recodes, and reformatted the data.

3. Three orchestras also classified as major were not included in this study because of short histories and difficulty in securing records: The American Symphony founded 1962; Honolulu, Hawaii; and San Antonio, Texas, founded 1939.

4. Data may not be categorized according to modern classifications. For example, when nationality of composers was recorded, it included, as separate categories: England, Scotland, and Britain.

   Assigning nationalities to composers was not always a straightforward task for the researchers. The book described the decision-making process as follows: "For most composers the place of birth gives immediate national identification, except in those cases where political boundaries have shifted in two world wars, notably in the Balkan areas. There are always those special cases however, of composers who change their citizenship either by choice or necessity. 'Unless there are strong reasons to the contrary a composer is allocated for present purposes to the country in which he has produced his major works and in whose culture he has shared and participated. . . Handel is counted as British, Chopin as French. . . Theodore Thomas and Walter Damrosch as American. . .Stravinsky, Schoenberg and others who migrated with mature reputations to the United States are assigned to their respective European origins.'" (Quoted text within the book was cited as originating in Mueller, John H. THE AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MUSICAL TASTE. Indiana University Press, 1951.)

5. An error exists in the printed source document regarding the death year of Johan Sebastian Bach. It is given as 1850, but the correct year is 1750.

6. Due to limitation in Stata, the original open-text REVIEW variable was divided across REVIEW1 and REVIEW2 variables created by ICPSR. Blanks in these variables were recoded to -9 and labeled as "Blank."

7. Due to the limit in the number of allowable rows of 65,536 in Excel 97-2003 (file ending, xls), the Excel file being distributed with this collection is in the later version of Excel (file ending of xlsx).

• Mueller, Kate Hevner. American Symphony Orchestra Repertoires 1842-1970 [United States]. ICPSR35235-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-01-23. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35235.v1

2015-01-23 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Created online analysis version with question text.