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Preferred Citation

John U. Guillory, Jr. music compositions, C0533, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Donated by Eleanor B. Sutter on October 9, 2020.

Processing Information

Processing and finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in April 2025.

Biographical Information

John Ural Guillory, Jr. was born on July 15, 1940. In the early 1970s, he founded Musica Antiqua, a Medieval and Renaissance musical ensemble, and served as the group's director, musicologist, and wind instrument performer for 25 years, retiring in 1999. Additionally, he served as president of the Washington Early Music Society, performed with the Story Minstrels, and wrote over 30 musical compositions and 20 scholarly works on music history.

A physicist by training, Guillory graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and would go on to receive his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in physics from the University of California, Berkely in 1970. As a plasma physicist Dr. Guillory specialized in the study of ion and electron beams, a field with applications in astrophysics, and wrote over 100 publications. He taught at the University of Maryland from 1975-1979, consulted for a number of organizations, including the Naval Research Laboratory, and joined the faculty of George Mason University in 1993. During his time at Geroge Mason he helped develop the graduate program at the Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics. Dr. Guillory retired in 2008. He passed away on July 28, 2013 at the age of 73.

Scope and Content

A collection of 36 pieces of sheet music composed by former George Mason University professor and physicist Dr. John Ural Guillory, Jr. between 1963-2012. All musical composition pieces are photocopies of handwritten or typed pieces, some with cover pages and some with accompanying lyrics. Each composition includes a title, date, attribution, including the names of sources and lyric contributors, and other information required for performance, such as musical instruments, written at the top of the first page. There are possible duplicate copies of a few individual titles.

Arrangement

This is a single folder collection.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center also holds the Sam di Bonaventura papers and "Three solos for the violoncello with accompaniment for a bass" by Johan Arnold Dahmen music manuscript .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Composition (Music)
• Music -- 20th century
• Sheet music