Collection ID: SC 17
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Summary

Creator:
Maults-By, Carl
Abstract:
The materials in this collection relate to Carl MaultsBy's activities as a composer, arranger, conductor, organist, keyboardist, singer, author and former music industry executive. Included are scores and recordings of his compositions as well as concert programs, photographs, notated music, sound recordings, videos and information about his performances and recordings.
Extent:
1 cubic foot
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

Carl MaultsBy Collection, SC 17, Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

A native of Orlando, Florida, Carl MaultsBy is a composer, arranger, conductor, organist, keyboardist, singer, author, and former artist and repertoire (A&R) staff producer for RCA Records who is well-versed in a variety of musical idioms. He started learning piano at an early age from the keyboardist at Shiloh Baptist Church in Orlando and attended Jones High School where he was active in music programs under the direction of "Chief" James Wilson. In 1964, MaultsBy was captain of the historic Jones High School marching band during their performance at the World's Fair in New York, and also began arranging music for the band.

MaultsBy attended Lake Forest College, where he dual majored in mathematics and music, while also performing with his R&B group, The Soul Syndicate. He then received a Masters of Music degree in jazz and commercial composition from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied composition with Richard DeRosa and film scoring with Ed Green, and at Columbia University he studied music composition with the late Vladimir Ussachevsky and electronic music composition with Mario Davidovsky. Returning to Lake Forest College, he earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree and also studied sacred music and organ at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA.

A 2002 inductee into the African Music Hall of Fame and a 2002 awardee of the American Music Center Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program, MaultsBy is also a recipient of a 2001 Harvard University Fromm Music Foundation Award, Eye of the Sparrow, and a 2003 New York State Council on the Arts Commission for his woodwind quintet piece, The Journey, composed for Quintet of the Americas. MaultsBy is particularly well known as a composer of sacred choral music, and is the author and composer of the books Afro-Centric Liturgical Music and Playing Gospel Piano: The Basics, as well as the founder and executive artistic director of Rejoicensemble!, a chamber vocal group dedicated to African American sacred music. A 2003–2009 member of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church, he is also the former director of music at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, NY and music associate at St. Philip's Church in Harlem, and currently serves as organist and music director at St. Richard's Episcopal Church in Winter Park, Florida. MaultsBy is the first cousin of distinguished scholar and ethnomusicologist, Dr. Portia K. Maultsby; they have collaborated on several projects.

Scope and Content:

Series 1 consists of MaultsBy's professional papers, which include several performance programs and photographs. Series 2 contains MaultsBy's collection of notated music, including several of his arrangments. Series 3 has MaultsBy's collected time-based media separated into four subseries: audiocassettes, LPs, CDs, and digital audio files.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Carl MaulstBy in regular installments from 1996 to 2022.
Processing information:

Processed by AAAMC Staff. Completed in 2022.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into 3 series:

Series 1: Papers
Series 2: Notated Music
Series 3: Time-based Media
--- Subseries 3.1: Audiocassettes
--- Subseries 3.2: Commercial LPs (12 in.)
--- Subseries 3.3: CDs
--- Subseries 3.4: Digital Audio Files
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

Use of time-based media materials (audio and video) may require production of listening or viewing copies.

Access to streaming audio, moving image, and full resolution digital image materials may currently be restricted to researchers who can authenticate with an IU account or who are physically present on campus. Remote streaming to individual researchers may be allowed with the completion of applicable forms.

For further information about access to online audiovisual materials, contact AAAMC staff at aaamc@indiana.edu.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to the Indiana Public Records Act (5-14-3-2 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Indiana University assumes no responsibility.

Copyright is retained by the creators/authors of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. All requests for copying and publishing materials must be submitted in writing to the Archives of African American Music and Culture, and may require the written permission of the creator(s)/author(s) or donor(s).

PREFERRED CITATION:

Carl MaultsBy Collection, SC 17, Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
Smith Research Center, Rooms 180-181
2805 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47408-2601, United States
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
812-855-8547
aaamc@indiana.edu