In block 2 of 2025, Lidia Chang’s “Music and Gender in Jane Austen’s England” class (with special guest Ofer Ben-Amots) visited Special Collections to look at the way music was copied and distributed in Europe from the medieval period through the 19th century.
They took a close look at this manuscript leaf showing part of a choral arrangement of Psalm 46, copied probably in the 14th century:
And then … THEY SANG IT! The words are “Omnes gentes plaudite manibus” (the fifth line from the top). Note that the staff has only four lines, rather than the now-standard five.
We are very proud to announce that Juanita Stroud Martin has donated a collection of Stroud Family Papers to Special Collections. The finding aid is here, and some material is transcribed here (scroll down to “manuscript materials”).
Effie Stroud’s sophomore yearbook photo (1929); Dolphus Stroud’s senior yearbook photo (1931). All CC yearbooks are in digitalCC.
Stroud family, 1929, courtesy Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Seated from left: James, Bobby, Rev. K.D., Rosa May, mother Lulu. Standing from left: Jack, Nina, Dolphus, and Effie.
Stroud Papers, Ms 0429, Box 1, Folder 1.
We are especially extra super wildly excited about Dolphus Stroud’s unpublished memoir in the Papers. It’s riveting, witty, and devastating. It covers his childhood in Colorado Springs, a stint as a busboy at the Fred Harvey Lunch Room in Chicago’s Union Station, a run (so to speak) at the Olympics, and a Colorado College education. You can read a transcription of it here.
