“I had Walked the Damascus Road, Seen the Light, Repented of Past Transgressions…and Switched to Viola.” AN ANNOTATED INDEX OF THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM PRIMROSE

Authors

Jennifer Call, Brigham Young University
Dr. Claudine Bigelow, Brigham Young University

Keywords

William Primrose, viola, PIVA, Primrose International Viola Archive

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Music

Abstract

This project was designed to create an index to the over 5,000 letters of the violist William Primrose that are held in the Primrose International Viola Archive (PIVA) at Brigham Young University. This index will be an aid to violists or others interested in researching aspects of the life and career of William Primrose through his letter. After my work on the index it is over halfway completed. As it is with many archival projects, this was a great task for one undergraduate. Dr. Claudine Bigelow, my advisor and viola professor, desired that the catalog include the date, author, and a short summary of every letter. This required me to read every letter, many handwritten and multiple pages. My goal was to catalog all 5,000 letters, but after 9 months and over 300 hours of working on the project I had read about 2,000 letters, or four out of the ten boxes. Two others students have since been hired by the library to finish the project over the course of this summer.

Recommended Citation

Call, Jennifer and Bigelow, Dr. Claudine (2013) "“I had Walked the Damascus Road, Seen the Light, Repented of Past Transgressions…and Switched to Viola.” AN ANNOTATED INDEX OF THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM PRIMROSE," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 2288.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/2288