Louise Rood Papers
Scope and Contents
Contains biographical information, photographs, correspondence, sheet music, and lecture notes covering Rood's career as a faculty member at Smith College and as a performing musician.
Dates of Materials
- 1937 - 1983
Creator
- Rood, Louise, 1910-1964 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Louise Miles Rood was born in 1910 to James and Myrtle Merrill Rood in Easton, Pennsylvania. She obtained her bachelor degree in 1929 from the University of Wisconsin. Around 1934, Rood taught for three years at Sweet Briar College on a Julliard Extension Fellowship. In 1937 Rood was hired as an instructor of music at Smith. While teaching full time, she completed her master degree in 1942 at Smith College. In 1945, she received a diploma from the Julliard Graduate School of Music.
Rood taught a wide range of musical subjects, from theory to practical, focusing on the violin and the viola. She performed as a soloist with Smith groups and elsewhere around New England and the Midwest. Rood also wrote the book Introduction to the Orchestra Score. During many summers, Rood taught sessions at the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, and Mary Washington College. In 1958, she became a professor at Smith.
Rood died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 7, 1964. Following her death, the annual Louise Rood Memorial Concert was established in her honor.
Extent
0.667 linear feet (2 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Instructor of music 1937-1958, Professor of Music 1958-1964. Contains biographical information, photographs, correspondence, sheet music, and lecture notes.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Louise Rood papers were donated to the Smith College Archives from a number of sources.
Processing Information
Please note that prior to 2018, folder inventories were not always updated when new material was added to the collection. As a result, folder inventories may not be complete and folder numbers may be incorrect.
- Title
- Finding aid to the Louise Rood Papers
- Status
- Legacy Finding Aid (Updated)
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Jeanne Lowrey.
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 07/26/2017: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2018-11-12: Containers added and finding aid updated as part of College Archives survey
Repository Details
Part of the Smith College Archives Repository
