Robert P. Manookin Christmas music manuscripts and pageant script, approximately 1974-1995

Sub-Series — Box: 4, Folder: 2

Identifier: MSS 7821 Series 2 Sub-Series 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The series contains manuscripts of spiritual Christmas music, including original works as well as arrangements. The pieces are mostly vocal, particularly choir, with piano accompaniment. Other manuscripts include organ accompaniment as well as other instruments. Present is also a script for a Christmas program, as a presentation that could be performed along with the songs. Dates range from approximately 1974-1995.

Dates

Creation: approximately 1974-1995

Creator

Manookin, Robert P., 1918-1997 (composer, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Robert P. Manookin music manuscripts, scores, and other materials must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Biographical History

From the Collection:

Robert P. Manookin (1918-1997) was a prominent LDS composer and BYU faculty emeritus who contributed hymns to the 1985 LDS hymnbook and Children's Songbook.

Robert Park Manookin was born on April 12, 1918, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from East High School in 1936, shortly after which he was called to serve in the German Austria Mission from 1937 to 1939. Upon arriving home, he married Edna Lucile Burningham in 1940, but that marriage ultimately culminated in a divorce. He later married Helen Adele Haugen in 1965. In terms of his educational history, he received a BA from Brigham Young University in 1955, a Master's in Music from the University of Illinois in 1959, and a doctorate from the University of Utah in 1967. Throughout all of this, he studied with some of the greatest LDS composers: Frank W. Asper, Alexander Schreiner, J. Spencer Cornwall, and B. Cecil Gates. Manookin taught at BYU as a professor of theory and composition until 1980, when he was called to serve a mission in the New Zealand Temple with his wife, Helen. They served three additional missions after: Manila Philippines Temple in 1984, the Sydney Australia Temple in 1989, and England, Leeds in 1993. He was also a member of the General Church Music Committee. Manookin died in Orem in 1997.