A Guide to MMF’s Archival Holdings
& Finding Aids for Each Collection
This page displays how the collections are organized.
A wealth of information about each collection is contained in the finding aids.
An Update on GemeinKat (3/1/2021)
Those of you who’ve been following the Moravian Music Foundation for some time will be aware of the ongoing GemeinKat project – converting the more-than-50,000 cards in our card catalog to electronic, online records accessible world-wide!
We actually started planning this project and doing some work “in the background” almost 15 years ago, but it was only 7 years ago that we were able to move “full-speed-ahead” with the project. It was fall of 2014 when Barbara Strauss and Dave Blum joined our staff to tackle this project, and they are in the throes of completing some large collections, updating and enhancing the information through research as they go.
Dave and Barbara have been able to identify a great many pieces that were previously listed as “anonymous” or “unidentified”; they’ve moved a few things around to get all the parts to a piece together; and all in all the project has greatly enhanced the body of knowledge about Moravian music!
Other resources at MMF:
- Reference library: the Peter Memorial Library in Winston-Salem
- Irving Lowens Collection of early American tunebooks and songbooks, in Winston-Salem
- An extensive international collection of hymnals (mostly Moravian) in many languages, dating to the 16th century, in Winston-Salem
Archival Collections at MMF:
| Collection Title | Location | MMF Code | Overview, Background | |
| Bethlehem Congregation Collection | Bethlehem | B | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Bethlehem Bound Volumes | Bethlehem | BBV | on WorldCat | |
| Bethlehem Manuscript Books | Bethlehem | BMB | on WorldCat | |
| Bethlehem Scores Collection | Bethlehem | BS | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Dover Congregation (Ohio) | Bethlehem | D | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Herbst, Johannes Collection | Winston-Salem | H | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Lancaster Congregation | Bethlehem | La | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Lancaster Bound Volumes | Bethlehem | LaBV | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Lancaster Manuscript Book (w/LMB) | Bethlehem | LaMB | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Lititz Congregation Collection | Bethlehem | L | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Lititz Bound Volumes | Bethlehem | LBV | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Lititz Collegium Musicum | Bethlehem | LCM | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Lititz Manuscript Books | Bethlehem | LMB | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Nazareth Congregation | Bethlehem | N | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Philharmonic Society of Bethlehem | Bethlehem | PSB | on WorldCat | |
| Salem Band Collection | Winston-Salem | SB | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Salem Bound Volumes | Winston-Salem | SBV | ||
| Salem Congregation | Winston-Salem | S | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Salem Collegium Musicum | Winston-Salem | SCM | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Salem Liturgy Group | Winston-Salem | on WorldCat | Finding Aid | |
| Salem Manuscript Books | Winston-Salem | SMB | on WorldCat | Finding Aid |
| Salem Sisters Collection | Winston-Salem | on WorldCat | Finding Aid | |
| Sandresky, Margaret Vardell | Winston-Salem | on WorldCat | Finding Aid | |
| Tannenberg, David, Collection | Winston-Salem | on WorldCat | Finding Aid | |
| Teague Band Collection | Winston-Salem |
| Smaller Collections | |
| In Bethlehem | |
| Beckel (CEB) | |
| Bethlehem Miscellaneous | |
| Lititz Miscellaneous | |
| Odes (Bethlehem) | |
| Tunebooks | |
| Samuels | |
| Tietze | |
| Warner (BWAR) | |
| Weiss, Jedediah | |
| In Winston-Salem | |
| Bethania Congregation | Finding Aid |
| Clemens, Theodore Liley | Finding Aid |
| Dunford, Benjamin | |
| Erbe, Ernst Immanuel | Finding Aid |
| Fussell, Charles | |
| Gore, Richard | |
| Hagen, Francis Florentine | Finding Aid |
| Johnson, Thor | |
| Kurth | |
| Martin | |
| Music Scores, Printed, Salem | Finding Aid |
| Odes (Winston-Salem) | |
| Ohio Manuscript Book | |
| Peter Codex | |
| Pfohl, Bernard J. | |
| Siewers | |
| Tannenberg documents | |
| Teague band music | |
| Tutors | |
| Vardell, Charles |
