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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/98705351
Collection material in English, German, and French
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Gift; widow of George Hodges; June 1919.
No further accruals are expected.
The Hodges Family Collection was processed in 1992 by Cheryl Dempsey, Timothy Bullard, Albert Jones, Claudia Widgery, and Robert Saladini. The conversion from Word Perfect 5.1 into XML and then into EAD was done by Michael A. Ferrando in 2003.
Materials from the Hodges Family Collection are governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.) and other applicable international copyright laws.
The Hodges Family Collection is open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Music Division prior to visiting in order to determine whether the desired materials will be available at that time. Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Hodges Family Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Organist, composer and writer Edward Hodges was born in Bristol, England in 1796 and acquired a MusD from Cambridge in 1825. After a very brief tenure as organist at St. James's Cathedral in Toronto, Hodges accepted in 1839 a similar position at Trinity Church in New York City. At Trinity Parish, he was successful in establishing an English cathedral-style music program--an approach to church music which had far-reaching consequences and continues to be in evidence at mainline Protestant churches in this country to the present day. His musical compositions are devoted almost exclusively to the church, as are his writings on the study and performance of music. As a collector, Hodges evidenced an interest in antiquarian music materials that was unrivalled by any of his contemporaries in this country at the time. In addition to his standing as an important 19th-century church musician and composer, Hodges' remarkable music collection warrants his being accorded an important place in the history of music in America.
The Hodges Family Collection contains manuscript and printed music, writings, and other materials compiled and collected by Edward Hodges (1792-1867) and subsequently by his son, John Sebastian Bach Hodges (1830-1915). Soon after the collection arrived at the Library of Congress Music Division, approximately two-thirds of the bound volumes of the collection were cataloged and dispersed both throughout the Division and to other collections of the Library. No attempt to reconstruct the original contents of the collection has been made; the present finding aid serves as a guide primarily to the one-third of the original gift that has remained uncataloged. The only catalogued items included here are music manuscripts and writings of Edward Hodges himself and the 16 bound volumes M1.H7 (described below), as well as various other appropriate materials that had received only minimal cataloging. These items have been reunited with the uncataloged items in the Hodges collection in order to facilitate their access.
Noteworthy among the Edward Hodges' writings are the Annuary -- his attempt in later life to depict his earlier life -- and documents relating to the design and construction of the 1846 Erben organ at Trinity Church. The music scores and sketches of the collection may well be the largest extant source of Hodges' manuscript music, including both original music and transcriptions and arrangements of the works of others, mostly intended for performance in the context of a religious service. Among the numerous printed scores are two copies of Edward Hodges'
Manuscript and printed scores of the music of two of Edward Hodges' children are also found in this collection. Faustina Hasse Hodges (1823-1895), Edward's only daughter, was an organist and church-music composer like her father. However, it was with her secular compositions, both songs and piano pieces, that she reached a degree of success. Her brother, John Sebastian Bach Hodges (1830-1915) was also a composer and organist, as well as being an ordained Episcopal priest. As rector of St. Paul's Church in Baltimore he enabled his church's choir to become the standard against which such choral organizations were measured for many years.
Sacred music in the collection that was not composed by Hodges family members provides insight into the kind of music that was typically performed in Episcopal churches in this country during the 19th- and early 20th- centuries: chants, psalm and hymn tunes, litanies, introits, offertories, oratorios, and the like. Especially interesting are the Breitkopf & Härtel publications of Haydn's
Among the scores of secular music, John Stafford Smith's
Although the chief's desk report is not available, the finding aid does give a brief bibliographic item listing for each volume. The various volumes contain both sacred and secular choral works and solo songs, organ music, piano music, and piano duets. The dates of publication range from the mid-18th century to 1892 -- suggesting that whereas many of these printed scores were collected by Edward Hodges, at least some of the volumes were compiled and bound by John Sebastian Bach or Faustina Hodges, as Edward died in 1867.
As with the Newland / Zeuner Collection, which is also housed in the Library of Congress Music Division, the scholarly significance of the Hodges materials goes well beyond their intrinsic value as early or rare prints and manuscripts. William Newland and Edward Hodges each served as composer, collector, and church musician, and each of their collections of music manuscripts and scores provides a rare insight into the musical activities of a 19th-century musician
Processed by Robert Saladini, Claudia Widgery, Timothy Bullard, Cheryl Dempsey, and Albert Jones, April 1992.
The Hodges Family Collection is organized into seven series:
Holographs on various subjects by Edward Hodges and John Sebastian Bach Hodges.
Arrangement is by author and title.
Holographs and printed music of the Hodges family.
Arrangement is by composer and title.
Contents:
Printed music for services and other occasions composed by others. Printed music unless otherwise indicated.
Arrangement is by composer and title.
Printed music composed by others.
Arrangement is by composer and title.
Sixteen volumes of miscellaneous printed sheet music (principally English imprints) consisting of vocal and instrumental compositions of various kinds [Shelf list M1.H7 No. 1-16]
Listed in the order in which the works are bound within each volume . Publication dates and plate numbers included where given.
Musical material pretaining to instruction, study or performance.
Arrangement is by composer and title.
Miscellaneous items related to music and music interests.
Arrangement is by format.