Mary Frances Dunham papers, 1964-2002

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Series II: Documentation of Twelve Selected Jarigan Songs

(Music, Text Transcriptions, Analyses)



Box 22 Folder 1 Contacts for Jarigan book ("Precious"), 1994, 1 volume

(Dhaka & U.S.A.)



Box 1 Folder 1 Twelve Jarigan Songs from Jasimmudin Recordings, 1964 Original MFD documentation for MFD book: "Jarigan", 1964

(Includes MFD transcriptions, analysis, and texts of the 12 sample Jarigan tunes recorded (1964) for Jasimuddin's book about Jarigan)


Box 1 Folder 2 Black and white photos with negatives of MFD transcriptions


Box 1 Folder 3 MFD hand written analyses of Jarigan tune structure [Index Cards]


Box 1 Folder 4 Notebook titled "Bengali Fork Song; Example Jari Songs: Sung by a village bard from Dacca district, "E. Pakistan". Recorded in Dacca in 1964 by Jasimuddin and MFD. Listed and annotated for Prof. Willard Rhodes, Columbia U., Spring 1968 including lyrics for the Jari songs in Bengali., 1964, 1968


Box 1 Folder 5 MFD typed analysis of the 12 selected jari songs for MFD's Essay 1972 Part II [Manila folder], 1972


Box 1 Folder 6 MFD hand written descriptions 12 selected Jari Songs describing: rhythm, tempo, melodic structure [Manila folder]


Box 1 Folder 7 Xerox pages from "Bangia Palligiti" by Chittaranjan Dev


Box 1 Folder 8 MFD hand written notations and analyses of 12 selected Jar; songs, 1971-72; includes 12 Xeroxed pages from Jasimuddin's book with diagrams of melodic contours [Red Folder]


Box 1 Folder 9 MFD typed analyses of relationship between the melodies and their words [Manila folder]


Box 1 Folder 10 Newspaper clippings (1996) about MFD Jarigan work [Yellow folder]


Box 1 Folder 11 MFD hand written diagrammatic analyses of 12 selected Jari songs [Manila folder]


Box 1 Folder 12 MFD typed notes showing musical notations, Jari lyrics and Jari structural analysis [Manila folder]


Box 1 Folder 13 MFD typed notes, diagrams, maps, images about taxonomies and genealogies of Jari songs (where they come from) [Manila folder]



Box 2 Folder 14 MFD hand drawn graphed studies of Jari songs [folder]


Printed musical transcriptions of 12 Jari songs in western staff notation (SLS finale) in preparation for MFD book on Jarigan including typed brief verbal description of each song:


Box 2 Folder 15 Jari-Gan Musical Data, August 1995


Box 2 Folder 16 Steve Set #1, October 1995. Staff Notation.


Box 2 Folder 17 Steve Set #2, December 1995. Staff Notation.


Box 2 Folder 18 Old extra notations. Use for practice cut & paste. Not for book final.


Box 2 Folder 19 Enlarged notations of 12 Jari songs. III D. .


Box 2 Folder 20 MFD typed notes of her studies of Jari song tempos.


Box 2 Folder 21 MFD analysis of syllabic and melodic relationships in 12 Jari songs



Box 19 Folder 6 Book review of Jarigan: Muslim Songs of Bangladesh


Box 19 Folder 7 Jarigan Comments from Scholars, 1998


Box 19 Folder 8 Letters to Mary Frances Dunham re. Jarigan book, 1986-2000


Box 19 Folder 12 Correspondence re. Jarigan, 1996-2003


Box 19 Folder 9 Mary Frances Dunham notations for Jarigan/Jasimuddin songs 1-12, 1964

"Very precoius Includes I. Katz review of Songs 6 & 8 (3/30/1995)"


Box 19 Folder 10 Jasim Song #2 (rearranged properly)


Box 19 Folder 11 Jarigan book royalties


Box 19 Folder 13 Moushumi Bhowmik "Jarigan Information", 31 March 2008, 4 pages


Box 19 Folder 16 Jarigan by Jasimuddin (excerpts), 1968


Hand written original translations to the Jari songs by local Bengalis:



Box 2 Folder 22 Translators: Individual Accounts


Box 2 Folder 23 Translators: List


Box 2 Folder 24 Khalida


Box 2 Folder 25 Professor M.T.H. Khan


Box 2 Folder 26 "Moshin" and "Kartik"


Box 2 Folder 27 Priscillam


Box 2 Folder 28 Hand written preliminary musical and text transcription of Jarigan song


Box 2 Folder 29 MFD hand written first draft musical notations with text of 12 Jari songs


Box 2 Folder 30 Pulak Gupta's Indian musical notations with Bengali text of 12 Jasimuddin Jari songs and other folk songs (not part of Jasimuddin collection


Box 2 Folder 31 12 Jari Songs. Notations (Pulak Gupta)



Box 19 Folder 5 Advertisement: "Jarigan: Muslim Epic Songs of Bangladesh"



Box 20 Folder 3 Jarigan book sales