LaBauve, Jack (1916-2000). Collection, 1976-2000
Scope and Contents
This collection includes mostly concert scores (parts for instruments in band or orchestra) for pieces which were arranged, edited or transposed by LaBauve. Some selections include multiple versions of arrangements of the same musical piece. Most of the pieces also include separate parts for strings sections. Some of the pieces also include organ parts, brass ensemble parts, solo instrumental parts, or separate parts for each band or orchestra instrument. Most pieces include a first draft, intermediate draft, and final/published draft. The pieces arranged by Jack LaBauve were selected from well-known musical composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy.
Hilma Levis donated the collection.
Dates
- 1976-2000
Creator
- LaBauve, Jack (Jack LaBauve), 1916-2006 (Person)
- Big Hill Music Press (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Jack LaBauve was born on October 11, 1916. He was a native of New Orleans, Louisiana and lived in Lafayette, Louisiana most of his life. During World War II LaBauve served in the Pacific Theater as a member of the U.S. Army. He became a music professor at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in 1948 where he taught brass, percussion, and musical arranging. He also founded Big Hill Music Press in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. He used Big Hill Music Press to publish his own arrangements for band and orchestra, which are included in this collection. In 1950 he helped his sister, Hilma LaBauve Levis, to arrange a contest-winning song which became the University’s fight song, now known as the Ragin’ Cajun Fight Song. Jack LaBauve retired in 1977 and passed away in 2006.
Extent
12.5 Linear Feet (12.5 feet of material contained in 6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Jack LaBauve Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Zack Stein
- Date
- 01/14/2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu