Guides to the Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

                          THE GHEORGHE AND EUGENIA 
                          POPESCU-JUDETZ COLLECTION

                                AFC 1990/022

                             Library of Congress
                            American Folklife Center

                                  July 1995

                               Library of Congress
                             American Folklife Center

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           THE GHEORGHE AND EUGENIA POPESCU-JUDETZ COLLECTION
                                AFC 1990/022

                                   SUMMARY

The Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz Collection consists of
manuscript materials, audio recordings, graphic materials, and
moving images that document primarily Romanian folk dance and
music. The materials span the years 1938-1974 and 1995. The
bulk of the materials were collected between 1950 and 1972 by
Gheorghe and a fieldwork team that sometimes included Eugenia. 
Their goal was to gather traditional folk dance and music to
serve as the basis of choreographies for their government-
sponsored performance ensembles. Through this effort, Gheorghe
amassed a collection of at least several thousand notated folk
dance variants, more than 3,200 audio-recorded melodies, and
approximately 4,000 notated dance melodies, from all regions of
Romania.

The collection focuses on the folk song and dance of the
Romanian people. Materials documenting costume, rituals, and
customs are also included. Music arrangements, choreographic
diagrams, photographs, and show programs document activities of
the Ciocirlia and Perinitza Ensembles.  The collection also
provides insight into the lives of the Popescu-Judetzes through
manuscript and photographic documentation of their work as
ethnographers, dancers, choreographers, and teachers.

The initial collection of audio recordings and some manuscript
and graphic materials were donated to the Library of Congress
by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz in 1990. Subsequent additions of
manuscript and graphic materials were accessioned in 1995. Oral
history interviews with the donor in 1995 complement the
collection.

Access and Reproduction:  Listening and viewing access to the
collection is unrestricted. Duplication of the recorded
materials may be governed by copyright and requires prior
permission from the donor. In addition to standard permission
requirements, publication of the materials requires prior
permission of the donor. 

Key Subjects: clothing and dress; costume; dance notation; East
Indian songs; instruments; melodies; performance ensembles;
Romanian folk dance and music; Romanian songs; social life and
customs; Turkish songs 

Primary Languages: Romanian, Turkish

Physical Description:                               Location Numbers:

                             SERIES I

Manuscripts

199 Folders
159 Notebooks

Audio Recordings

48 mono 5" reels                          AFC 1990/022:SR1-48
                                          (original field recordings)

14 DT 7" reels                            (listening copies)                   
    

Graphic Materials

100 b&w photoprints
1 color photoprint
2 copy negatives

Moving Images                                       Box 33

2  8 mm, 100 ft. and 55 ft., 
          silent, b&w films                         AFC 1990/022:F1-2 
   
1  16 mm, 86 ft., 
          silent, b&w film                          AFC 1990/022:F3            
                         

                                 SERIES II

Manuscripts

3 Folders

Audio Recordings                                    Box 34

18 audiocassettes                                   AFC 1990/022:SR49-57
                                                    (originals)
                                                    AFC 1990/022:SR49-c1 
                                                    to SR57-c1
                                                    (listening copies)

Graphic Images

4 b&w photoprints
36 b&w negatives
1 b&w contact sheet

Moving Images                                       Box 35

5 videocassettes, 
          hi8, color                      AFC 1990/022:V1-5

5 videocassettes,                         AFC 1990/922:V1-v1 to  V5-v1
          1/2" VHS, color

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                      SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Introduction

The Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz Collection spans the
years 1938-1974 and 1995, with the largest portion dated 1950-
1972. It is arranged into two groups or series. Series I, the
bulk of the collection, consists of the documentary materials
donated by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz and includes manuscripts,
audio recordings, graphic materials, and moving images.  Series
II consists of material about the collection, primarily
generated by the American Folklife Center at the Library of
Congress, such as manuscript material, audio recordings,
graphic materials, and moving images. It is an open series.

The Popescu-Judetzes were Romanian dancers who worked primarily
as choreographers and teachers. Series I contains the
accumulation of decades of Gheorghe's notes, research, and
choreographic work as well as examples of Eugenia's dance work
and research. It includes at least several thousand notated
folk dance variants, more than 3,200 audio-recorded melodies,
and approximately 4,000 notated dance melodies. The bulk of the
recordings resulted from fieldwork Gheorghe and his team
conducted to collect Romanian folk dance and music in all
regions of the country.  Gheorghe and Eugenia used these
materials primarily to create choreographic works for their
government-sponsored performance ensembles, and also to develop
curricula for dance workshops, to publish dance instruction
books, to provide methods to teach Romanian character dance,
and to record an endangered dance culture.  In addition to
documenting and providing examples of traditional Romanian folk
dance and the work of the Ciocirlia and Perinitza Ensembles,
material in the collection includes theoretical research,
ethnographic descriptions, and a unique dance notation system
that they developed. 
 
The fieldwork materials are interrelated; however, these
relationships are not always readily apparent. That is, for
each dance variant notated, there probably exists a music
transcription for the accompanying dance tune. There also may
be an audio recording of the dance tune or descriptive notes in
the field notebooks. Furthermore, the dance is probably
described on an index card or found in a list. Although the
majority of the dance tunes and dance variants are inventoried,
no concordance exists that links them together. 

The breadth of materials in this collection demonstrates a
progression of scholarly research and performance development,
and provides insight into dance research and performance in
communist Romania. The manuscript materials range from rough
field notes describing folk dance variants in various villages
to colored diagrams of choreographic works staged for
professional performance. Since the dance notations included
progress from early field sketches to publication-ready
drawings of fully-notated dances, the development of the dance
notation system itself is also documented.

Series I

The collection was donated to the Library of Congress in 1990
and 1995 in batches that included parts of each subseries of
material, i.e., one shipment contained some music arrangements
and notebooks; another shipment included the rest of the
arrangements and notebooks. The inventories for the audio
recordings and manuscript materials (such as the dance and
music notations) were prepared by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz to
accompany each shipment. Since she was able to spend more time
on the initial inventories, the first parts of these documents
are more detailed than later addendums. Furthermore,
introductions to the inventories refer to the items donated at
the time the initial inventory was written but not to later
additions.

The field transcriptions of music are contained in notebooks
and sheet sets. The 113 music notebooks are bound, paper
volumes that contain holographic scores and sketches of more
than 3,000 Romanian dance tunes and songs transcribed in the
field between 1949 and 1972. The 40 sets of sheet music
(referred to by the donor as "music sheets") are bound and
unbound sets of pages that contain more than 250 melodies
transcribed between 1950 and 1970. The notebooks and sheets
were used to record songs performed on request in the villages
and during on-going events such as festivals. They document the
work of the fieldwork team's music transcriber, primarily
Grigore Suchici, fiddler, and Constantin Arvinte, the
composer/music arranger for the Ciocirlia Ensemble. The
transcriber notated the melody played with the dance under
study, either on the spot or later by listening to a field
recording. Each book and sheet set contains a number of
melodies. Later, under Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz's direction,
Arvinte and others used these materials to write arrangements
and scores for stage performances of the ensemble. In fact,
many pages contain notes and references that were added later
by Gheorghe. 

The 50 music arrangements in the collection represent
compositions that were prepared for performing purposes. They
consist of harmonizations, scores, and compositions created by
various composers for dance performances of the Ciocirlia and
Perinitza Ensembles, primarily based on fieldwork conducted by
the Popescu-Judetzes. Some of the arrangements were used for
rehearsals and to teach Romanian folk dances and suites to
other dance ensembles. 

The notation that documents the Romanian folk dance in this
collection is found in the field notebooks and notation files.
Gheorghe created this unique system of notation out of his need
to record the dances in the field accurately and quickly, at
villages, festivals, and competitions. From 1949 to 1955,
Gheorghe worked on a system that focused on footwork, including
the positions and movements of the passive (non-weight-bearing)
foot. The system could be used to make quick notes in the field
or notate complete dances. Gheorghe refined the system and used
it in choreography work for the ensemble, published books, and
teaching. Eugenia also used the notation for the same purposes
and continued to draw on it when teaching and choreographing
Romanian folk dance in the United States. After further
developing the system, she published _Judetz Folk Dance
Notation_ in 1979 (see folder 32).

Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz's 45 field notebooks are rich in dance
notation and other information. He used the notebooks, which
date between 1950 and 1970, to document his dance research and
professional activities. They serve as the primary source of
field documentation and provide an insight into his life and
creative process. Arranged in random order (some volumes
contain multiple years), the notebooks contain a variety of
information such as names and addresses of informants; quick
sketches of dance notation accompanied by written descriptions;
notes from his participation on dance competition juries; notes
describing performance groups and dances at folk festivals;
sketches of costumes, textile patterns, and motifs; and
descriptions of informants documented in photographs. The
notebooks also contain information relating to professional
ensemble activities, such as dance rehearsal schedules, casting
lists, and production notes. 

The 33 dance notation "files" (the donor's groupings) contain
hundreds of leaves primarily of notation and written
descriptions of at least several thousand Romanian folk dance
variants, from rough drafts to final forms. They were made by
Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz between 1949 and 1972, either in the
field or transcribed later, and include camera-ready versions
prepared by a cartographer for publication. The dances are
mainly grouped by region, and represent field work and
choreographies for the stage. Of special note are seven files
of calu dance variants, and the staging diagrams for
choreographic works Gheorghe created for performing ensembles,
predominantly Ciocirlia.

The dance notation files include materials other than notation.
"Nunta la Beleti," a 26-page, handwritten manuscript, describes
a wedding ritual in Beleti village (Gheorghe's birthplace),
Muscel district, as it was performed between 1900 and 1940.
Gheorghe formally researched this event between 1960 and 1964.
The ethnographic document includes descriptions of the
participants, costuming, orations, dance, music lyrics, and
explanations of the rituals involved. "Mic Dictionar al
Jocurilor Populare din Zonele Folclorice Neamt si Bacau" (Small
Dictionary of Folk Dances from Neamt in Bacau District) is a
421-page handwritten manuscript. Gheorghe wrote it as part of a
larger ethnographic work on the folk arts of the Bicaz-Neamt
area, Moldavia, that was never published.  Based on research he
conducted for 17 years, it contains an alphabetically-arranged
description of almost 800 dance variants from the area,
including type of dance, posture, place, dance name synonyms,
accompanying lyrics or chants, and so forth. (Elsewhere the
collection includes graphs, maps, and indexes intended to
accompany this chapter.) The last nine files in the series are
devoted to Gheorghe's work on the metric and rhythmic analysis
of Romanian dance. He held the theory that the roots of
Romanian dance rhythms share a common origin with classical
Greek poetic meters. The files contain classifications of dance
rhythms; taxonomic, rhythmic, and metric diagrams; and specific
dance examples.

One of Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz's goals was to make a general
catalog of all Romanian folk dances and their variants.  To
that end, with Eugenia's assistance, he drew on the research
described above to compile iterations of lists of dances on
index cards and paper sheets. Dances listed individually on
index cards often include descriptive information. At least
4,000 dances are listed. Some of this material appeared in the
glossaries and indexes of his published books.

The audio recordings in Series I were made in the field by
Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz between 1950 and 1972. They
contain more than 3,200 melodies of Romanian, Turkish, and East
Indian folk and traditional music, with some informant
interviews.  The bulk of the recordings are Romanian dance
tunes, songs, and ballads performed by folk musicians, singers,
and ensembles from all regions of Romania and Yugoslavian
Banat. The collection also includes recordings made by Eugenia
of Turkish folk music in Dobrudja, Dervish ceremonies in
Anatolia, and samples of folk and classical music in India. 

The 100 graphic images in this series are primarily black and
white photoprints of various sizes and include some collages
made of photoprints, drawings, postcards, and text. They are
arranged in five groups: fieldwork, Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz and
the Ciocirlia Ensemble, portraits of the Popescu-Judetzes,
series for sketches of the Doiul dance from Banat, and Eugenia
Popescu-Judetz. The images span the years 1938 to 1974, with
the bulk dating between 1950 and 1970. The collage pages,
created by Gheorghe, were taken from scrapbooks he kept to
document fieldwork projects, dance competitions, and world
dance tours.

The moving images in the collection consist of three short,
silent, black and white films (two 8 mm and one 16 mm). They
provide a glimpse of several dance styles and costuming as well
as views of the Romanian countryside.

Series II

Series II consists of materials about the collection generated
by the Library of Congress. It contains manuscipt material,
audio recordings, graphic materials, and video recordings
concerning the March 1995 interviews with donor Eugenia
Popescu-Judetz. The interviews provide background information
on the collection, biographical information about the Popescu-
Judetzes, and further insight into the relationships between
the materials in the collection. This series is open. 

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                      BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
              GHEORGHE AND EUGENIA POPESCU-JUDETZ

Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz (1911-1972) was born in the village of
Beleti-Negresti, Muscel district, in the Muntenia region of
Romania. He became interested in folk dancing as a teenager,
and began performing as principal dancer with amateur ensembles
in Bucharest. He obtained degrees from several universities,
and entered the teaching profession. In the 1930s and 1940s he
was leader of and dancer with a number of organizations,
including Asociatia Alunelul, the Dance Group of Liga Culturala
Association, and the soldier dancers from the 30th Dorobantzi
Army Unit. Gheorghe toured with some of these groups nationally
and abroad. From 1949 to 1966, he was the choreographer and
director of the Ciocirlia Ensemble dance group, and made a
number of foreign tours with them. Throughout the years, he
also served as guest choreographer for other dance groups,
professor of folk dance at various schools and seminars, and
jury member at national folk arts competitions. In 1948 he
married Eugenia Marisescu, who became his dance partner and
research associate. In 1950 they won first prize in the
International Folk Dance Competition in Prague for excellence
in character dance performance.

Early in his career, Gheorghe became fascinated with his
country's abundance of folk dances. Consequently, he dedicated
his life to compiling a complete catalog and ethnographic
description of all Romanian dances and variations. With no
formal ethnographic training, he conducted extensive fieldwork
throughout Romania between 1949 and 1972, often accompanied by
a music transcriber, costume designer, ensemble dancers, and
Eugenia. He published some of his research in ten books on folk
dance (see "Related Publications") as well as in many journal
and magazine articles. Gheorghe received numerous artistic
awards throughout his life, and was honored in 1957 with the
title, Artist Emeritus of Romania, for his work in the field of
folk dance.

Eugenia Popescu-Judetz (1925-) was born in Giurgiu, a town on
the Danube river in the Muntenia region of Romania.  Although
she trained in classical ballet as a child, Eugenia always had
an interest in folk dance, which increased after she married.
In her early career, she was a professional dancer and folk
dance teacher with the National Theatre Ballet of Bucharest,
performed with the Opera Theater, and taught dance in the High
School of the Arts and in the Folk Ensemble of Bucharest. For a
time she conducted research with the Romanian Folk Lore
Institute, which gave her valuable training for future
fieldwork. From 1954 to 1970 she was ballet master and
choreographer of the Perinitza Folk Ensemble and toured
internationally with them. Throughout these years, she taught
workshops for folk dance instructors and amateur
choreographers, created many choreographies for film and
television, conducted field research, and lectured in Europe.

As part of a cultural exchange program, Eugenia traveled to the
United States in the late 1960s to teach Romanian folk dance
workshops. In 1973, she returned to the United States on an
invitation from the Duquesne University Tamburitzans in
Pittsburgh, PA.  She became an adjunct professor at Duquesne
and continued to teach and choreograph for the Tamburitzans.
Eugenia received a master of arts degree in theology from
Duquesne University and a doctorate in theatre criticism from
the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of numerous
articles and books and continues to pursue intellectual
interests.

For more detailed biographical information on the Popescu-
Judetzes, see folder 16, "Curriculum vitae," and folder 196,
"Oral history interview."

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                  COLLECTION INVENTORY AND DESCRIPTION

                               SERIES I

MANUSCRIPTS

Location                       Contents

Folder 1                       Archive of Folk Culture administrative
                               materials. The collection guide (this
document).

Administrative Materials

Folders 2-4                    Inventory of music notebooks. 200-page typed
                               inventory prepared by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz. 
                               In numerical order by notebook number. 
                               Includes melody title and genre, transcriber,   
                               place of recording, composer (if appropriate),
                               instrument, singer/musician, and date of
                               recording. 

Folder 5                       Inventory of music sheets. Sixteen-page typed
                               inventory prepared by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz.   
                               In numerical order by sheet number. Each 
                               multi-leaved "sheet" contains a number of       
                               melodies. Includes transcriber, melody title,   
                               place of recording, musician, instrument, and   
                               date of recording.

Folder 6                       Inventory of music arrangements. Three-page
                               typed inventory prepared by Eugenia Popescu-
                               Judetz. In numerical order by arrangement
                               number. Includes name of arrangement, composer,
                               and date of recording.

Folder 7                       Inventory of field notebooks-dance notation.
                               Four-page inventory prepared by Eugenia         
                               Popescu-Judetz. In numerical order by notebook  
                               number.

Folder 8                       Inventory of dance notation files. Seventeen-
                               page typed inventory prepared by Eugenia
                               Popescu-Judetz. In numerical order by file
                               number. Includes descriptions of types of       
                               dances by region or dance style, title of 
                               dance or choreography, or general description   
                               of contents (i.e., glossary, rhythmic           
                               diagrams).

Folders 9-11                   Inventory of audio recordings. 238-page typed
                               inventory prepared by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz.   
                               In numerical order by original tape number,     
                               with reference to the listening copies.         
                               Includes melody title and genre, singers and/or
                               musicians, place of recording, instruments, and
                               date of recording.

Folder 12                      Audiotape concordance. Concordance of original
                               audiotapes and listening copies. Includes
                               handwritten concordance prepared by Eugenia
                               Popescu-Judetz without AFC numbers.

Folders 13-14                  Inventories of audio recordings by tape reel.
                               Originals and photocopies of typed and
                               handwritten sheets listing the contents of each
                               audiotape reel. Prepared by Gheorghe and        
                               Eugenia Popescu-Judetz. Originals were housed   
                               with the tape reels.

Folder 15                      Miscellaneous inventories. Inventories of dance
                               indexes, photoprints, films, and published LPs
                               (LPs transferred to Recorded Sound Division).

Folder 16                      Curriculum vitae. Curriculum vitae of Gheorghe
                               Popescu-Judetz and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz.
                               Prepared by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz. Also
                               includes miscellaneous biographical             
                               information.

Music Transcription

Boxes 2-6                      Music notebooks.  113 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 bound,      
                               paper music notebooks. Arranged numerically in  
                               the collector's order. Contain holograph        
                               sketches and scores of more than 3,000 melodies
                               transcribed in the field, 1949-1972.
                               Predominantly dance tunes and songs.            
                               Identifying information includes melody title,  
                               transcriber, informant/musician, instruments,   
                               date, and place of recording (in Romanian). See 
                               folders 2-4 for inventory.

Folders 17-23                  Music sheets. Forty sets of 9 1/2 x 14 bound    
                               and unbound, multiple-leaved music sheets.      
                               Arranged numerically in the collector's order.  
                               Contain holographic sketches and scores of more 
                               than 250 melodies transcribed in the field,     
                               1950-1970. Predominantly dance tunes and songs. 
                               Identifying information includes melody title,  
                               transcriber, informant/musician, instruments,   
                               date and place of recording (in Romanian). See  
                               folder 5 for inventory.

Folders 24-31                  Music arrangements. Fifty sets of 9 1/2 x 14
                               bound and unbound, multi-leaved music sheets.
                               Arranged numerically in the collector's order.
                               Contain holographic harmonizations and scores
                               created for performances by Ciocirlia and
                               Perinitza Ensembles, 1949-1969. Each score has  
                               a title, composer, and often the date of
                               composition or transcription (in Romanian). See
                               folder 6 for inventory.

Dance Notation

Boxes 11-15                    Field notebooks-dance notation. Forty-five      
                               bound (hard- and soft-covered) paper notebooks,
                               predominantly 5 3/4 x 8.  Arranged numerically
                               in the collector's order. Used by Gheorghe
                               Popescu-Jedetz in the field, 1950-1970. Contain
                               his handwritten notes, dance notations,
                               sketches, etc. (in Romanian). Contributions
                               occasionally made by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz.    
                               See folder 7 for inventory.

Folder 32                      Dance notation book. One copy of _Judetz Folk
                               Dance Notation_, created by Gheorghe Popescu-
                               Judetz. Edited and revised by Eugenia Popescu-
                               Judetz and James Rocevic. Pittsburgh PA:
                               Duquesne University Tamburitzans, Institute of
                               Folk Arts, 1979. Bound, paper-covered
                               publication that explains the Judetz dance
                               notation system. Includes notation exercises.

Folders 33-156                 Dance notation files. Thirty-three "files"
                               (original groupings) of 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 paper
                               sheets of dance notation and description.
                               Originals and photocopies. Arranged numerically
                               by file number in the collector's order.
                               Prepared by Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz, 1949-1952.

                               The bulk of the material is handwritten dance
                               notation, from sketches and rough drafts        
                               through publication-ready final versions.       
                               Descriptive information may include name of     
                               dance/variant, place, informant, and date.      
                               Dance notations usually grouped by region or    
                               dance type. Files also contain choreographies   
                               for performances, including staging diagrams; a 
                               manuscript of an ethnographic description of a  
                               wedding ritual (23 pages); a manuscript of a    
                               glossary of dances from Bicaz, Moldavia (421    
                               pages); and classifications, diagrams, and      
                               analyses of rhythm and meter patterns (in       
                               Romanian).

Dance Index

Box 25,                        Index cards. Seven "stacks" (groups) of 6 x 4
Folders 157-166                sheets of paper containing information on
                               individual dances. Arranged numerically in the
                               collector's order, with several groupings by
                               geographical region. Created by Gheorghe
                               Popescu-Judetz, with some assistance from
                               Eugenia and others, 1950-1970. Primarily based
                               on information collected in the field and
                               documented in sources listed above. For the     
                               most part, each sheet contains handwritten or   
                               typed information on a single dance type,       
                               including variants, locations, and other        
                               descriptive information (in Romanian). "Stack   
                               eight" consists of two-sided 8 x 11 3/4 sheets  
                               of thin paper, each containing handwritten      
                               copies of multiple index cards that since have  
                               been destroyed.

Box 27                         Listing 1. Bound, alphabetically-tabbed 8 1/2 x
                               11 3/4 volume containing a list of more than
                               4,000 dance names. Within each tabbed section,
                               dance names and locations listed in random      
                               order(in Romanian). Handwritten by Gheorghe     
                               Popescu-Judetz, 1965-1970. Primarily based on
                               information collected in the field and
                               documented in other sources in the collection.
                               Contains notes on informants and so forth in    
                               the back.

Folders 167-168
                               Listing 2. Thirty-four page manuscript listing
                               dances from Bicaz, Moldavia region. Typewritten
                               with handwritten corrections (in Romanian).
                               Based on materials collected in the field 1954-
                               1956 and documented in other sources listed
                               above. Dances indexed by name, place, and
                               variants. Created by Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz to
                               accompany unpublished volume on folk dances     
                               from the Bicaz area (see folders 113-136,       
                               174-178).

Folders 169-173
                               Listings 3-4. Two sets of paper sheets (one 8
                               1/2 x 11 3/4 and one 6 x 8 1/2, respectively)
                               containing drafts and worksheets of dance
                               listings from all regions. Handwritten by
                               Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz (in Romanian).

Graphs and Maps

Folders 174-178
                               Graphs and maps. Two multi-paged, bound,
                               handwritten graphs and three hand-drawn maps
                               containing analyses of dances from the Bicaz
                               area (originals and photocopies). Prepared by
                               Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz to accompany the
                               manuscript on folk dances from this area (see
                               folders 113-136, 167-168). The graphs depict
                               characteristics of 213 dances (such as
                               formation, positions, function, location) and
                               the frequency by location of 90 dances,
                               respectively. The maps portray 1) the
                               "interference and circulation" of dances
                               (transmission and dissemination), 2) the
                               transmission of one dance type (ardelesc), and
                               3) zones of "interpenetration" (influences from
                               other regions).

Scenarios

Folders 179-180
                               Scenarios. Two handwritten manuscripts
                               describing scenarios for two stage productions
                               by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz (in Romanian). The
                               Dobrudja Suite scenario was created in 1960 for
                               the Perinitza Ensemble. The Moldavian Folk
                               Theater scenario was created in 1964 for the
                               Ciocirlia Ensemble.

Dance Notes

Folders 181-182
                               Dance Notes. Draft of introduction to
                               unpublished volume on 200 folk dances from Olt,
                               Muntenia region (in Romanian). Handwritten and
                               typewritten by Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz, based   
                               on research conducted 1966-1972.

Ephemera

Folders 183-184
                               Show programs. Miscellaneous programs of
                               performances in Romania and elsewhere of the
                               Perinitza Ensemble and other groups that        
                               feature choreographic works by Gheorghe and     
                               Eugenia Popescu-Judetz, 1938-1974. In Romanian, 
                               Turkish, French, German, and English. 

Folders 185-188
                               Show programs, Tamburitzans. Performance
                               programs of the Duquesne University
                               Tamburitzans, 35th to 43rd seasons. Arranged
                               chronologically (1971-1980). Includes
                               choreographic works by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz.

Folder 189                     Publicity. Photocopies of newsclippings
                               documenting the international activities of
                               Eugenia Popescu-Judetz and the Perinitza
                               Ensemble, 1968-1971. In English, Finnish,
                               French, and Turkish.

Folder 190                     Printed music from the collection. Four printed
                               music folios of dance music from the collection
                               (n.d.). The music was used by the Popescu-
                               Judetzes in workshops where they taught folk
                               dances to teachers from folk art schools and to
                               amateur choreographers. 

Miscellaneous

Folders 191-192
                               Album jackets and sheet music covers.
                               Photocopies of published album jackets and      
                               sheet music covers of Romanian folk dance       
                               music. Original materials transferred to        
                               Recorded Sound Division.

Folder 193                     Album notes. Photocopies of portions of the
                               booklets accompanying "Antologia Muzicii
                               Populare Romanesti" (Anthology of Romanian Folk
                               Music), volumes one and two. Describes folk
                               instruments, songs, dances, and customs in
                               English. Original discs and booklets            
                               transferred to Recorded Sound Division.

Folders 194-195
                               Costume collection, Kent State University.
                               Accession reports and inventory lists from the
                               Kent State University Museum collection of
                               costumes, artifacts, and photographs donated by
                               Eugenia Popescu-Judetz. Includes items on long-
                               term loan from the Duquesne University
                               Tamburitzans' Popescu-Judetz Collection of
                               Romanian Costumes and Artifacts. Also includes
                               two copies of the brochure, "The Romanian
                               Exhibition," presented by the Kent State
                               University Museum that contains photographs of
                               costumes donated by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz.

AUDIO RECORDINGS

Forty-eight mono 5" reels. AFC 1990/022:SR1-48. Original field
recordings made by Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz between
1950-1972. Arranged numerically in the collector's order. 
Listening copies are available in the Folklife Reading Room.
See folders 9-11 for inventory.

GRAPHIC MATERIALS

Location                       Contents

Boxes 30-32                    100 black and white photoprints of various
                               sizes, one color photoprint, and two copy
                               negatives. AFC 1990/022:P1-P100. Photographed   
                               by Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz and others. Arranged 
                               in rough chronological order in the following
                               groups: fieldwork, Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz and
                               Ciocirlia Ensemble, photoprints and portraits   
                               of Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz, series  
                               for sketches of the Doiul dance from Banat, and
                               Eugenia Popescu-Judetz. See folder 15 for
                               inventory.

Folders 198-200
                               Photocopies of photoprints.

MOVING IMAGES

Location                       Contents

Box 33                         1 reel, 8 mm, 100 ft., silent, black and white
                               film. Filmed by Marty Koenig, 1966, in          
                               Dobrudja, Romania. Koenig later gave this copy  
                               of the film to Eugenia Popescu-Judetz.          
                               Documents Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz, in street    
                               clothes, demonstrating a Briul dance.           
                               AFC1990/022:F1. 

                               1 reel, 16 mm, 55 ft., silent, black and white
                               film. Filmed by Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz, 1952,
                               in Transylvania. Informants Liana Tircolea and
                               Gheorghe Covaci, dressed in costume,            
                               demonstrate a couple dance, Suita de pe Somes.  
                               Covaci the demonstrates a men's dance,          
                               Barbuncul. AFC1990/022:F2. 

                               1 reel, 8 mm, 86 ft., silent, black and white
                               film. Filmed by Gheorghe Popescu-Judetz, 1955,
                               in Moldavia, Muntenia, and Oltenia. Documents
                               various informants in costume, outdoor scenes,
                               and panoramic views. AFC1990/022:F3. 

 
                                                              SERIES II
MANUSCRIPTS

Location                       Contents

Folder 196                     Oral history interview. Questions, tape logs,
                               and notes from interviews with donor Eugenia
                               Popescu-Judetz, March 28-30, 1995. Conducted by
                               Michelle Forner at the American Folklife        
                               Center, Library of Congress. See audio          
                               recordings AFC 1990/022:SR49-57 and video       
                               recordings AFC 1990/022:V1-5. Also includes     
                               notes from phone interview on June 16, 1995.

AUDIO RECORDINGS

Location                       Contents

Box 34                         Oral history interview: Nine audiocassettes,    
                               AFC 1990/022:SR49-57. Interviews with Eugenia
                               Popescu-Judetz conducted by Michelle Forner at
                               the American Folklife Center, Library of
                               Congress, March 28-30, 1995. Recorded
                               concurrently with videotapes. Listening copies
                               available in the Folklife Reading Room.

GRAPHIC MATERIALS

Location                       Contents

Folder 197,                    Interview session photographs. One sheet of
                               black and white 35 mm negatives (36 images),
Envelope 1                     one 8 x 10 black and white contact sheet, and
                               four black and white 8 x 10 photoprints taken   
                               of Eugenia Popescu-Judetz and Michelle Forner
                               during an interview session, March 30, 1995.
                               Photographed by James Hardin.

MOVING IMAGES

Location                       Contents

Box 35                         Oral history interview: Five videocassettes,
                               hi8, AFC 1990/022:V1-5. Interviews with Eugenia
                               Popescu-Judetz conducted by Michelle Forner at
                               the American Folklife Center, Library of
                               Congress, March 28-30, 1995. Filmed             
                               concurrently with audiotapes. Viewing copies    
                               available in the Folklife Reading Room.

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                       RELATED PUBLICATIONS

The contents of the following books were drawn from field
research conducted by the Popescu-Judetzes:

Popescu-Judetz, Eugenia. _Sixty Folk Dances of Romania_.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne University Tamburitzans,
Institute of Folk Arts, 1979. GV1685.P67

Popescu-Judetz, Eugenia and James Roncovic, ed. _Judetz Folk
Dance Notation_. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne University
Tamburitzans, Institute of Folk Arts, 1979. GV1587.J82

Popescu-Judetz, Gheorghe. _Briul_ (Dance on Belt). Bucharest:
Editura de Stat Pentru Literatura si Arta, 1956.

________. _Dansul Popular Romanesc - StudII_ (Romanian Folk
Dance Studies). Bucharest: Editura de Stat Didactica si
Pedagogica, 1958.

________. _Jocuri Din Banat_ (Dances from Banat). Bucharest:
Editura de Stat Pentru Literatura si Arta, 1956. GV1685.P64

________. _Jocuri Populare Din Dobrogea_ (Folk Dances from
Dobrudja). Dobrudja: Casa Regionala a Creatiei Populare, 1965.
GV1679.P66 

________. _Jocuri Populare Din Oas Si Maramures_ (Folk Dances
from Oas and Maramures). Maramures: Casa Regionala a Creatiei
Populare, 1963. GV1686.M37P66 1963

________. _Jocuri Populare Din Regiunea Arges_ (Folk Dances
from Arge Region). Bucharest: Editura Muzicala, 1963.
GV1686.A73P66 1963

________. _Jocuri Populare Din Regiunea Bucharesti_ (Folk
Dances from Bucharest Region). Bucharest: Editura Muzicala,
1961.

________. _Jocuri Populare Oltenesti Vol. I._ (Folk Dances from
Oltenia). Bucharest: Editura de Stat Didactica si Pedagogica,
1958. GV1686.044P67 1958

________. _Jocuri Populare Oltenesti Vol. II._ (Folk Dances
from Oltenia). Bucharest: Editura de Stat Didactica si
Pedagogica, 1959.

________. _Jocuri Populare Romanesti_ (Romanian Folk Dances).
Bucharest: Editura Muzicala, 1959. GV1685.P66

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