Briefkarte von Natalie Curtis an Ferruccio Busoni (New York, 17. Juni 1915)
author: Natalie Curtis
source date: 1915-06-17
edition published: 2023-04
language: en
availability: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Thursday. Wave Crest. Far Rockaway. Long Island. N. Y.

[Mus.Nachl. F. Busoni B II, 1360]

Lieber Meister! – Indian Book goes to you by this mail.[^1] Yes, I have many unpublished themes – will send you some soon. Other works are

- American Primitive Music Frederick Burton

- devoted to the songs of one tribe (Ojibway)
- some of the music newly arranged by the author, Burton.

- Indian Story and Song. Alice Fletcher

- harmonized by Fillmore, (à la Richter and Jadassohn. Harmonielehre)

[^1: The Indians’ Book von Natalie Curtis war Teil von Busonis Bibliothek (vgl. [...], S. 75, Nr. 917), im Gegensatz zu allen weiteren unten genannten Titeln aus der amerikanischen Musikethnologie.]

A real letter follows. This is just a hasty line. – You will find in the libraries some works of Franz Boas – themes from the North West coast tribes.[^2] Also some Hopi melodies (11)[^3] by Gilman, or Gilmore.

[^2: Unter den Arbeiten von Franz Boas finden sich zwei ältere Aufsätze mit Melodietranskriptionen (vgl. [...] und [...]).]

[^3: Das 1908 erschienene Buch Hopi Songs von Benjamin Ives Gilman enthält 17 Hopi-Melodien.]

Don’t scold the mails! – It is my fault that my card was only mailed to you in Philadelphia Tuesday evening en route to Far Rockaway, where I now am –

with affectionate greetings
N. C.