Scope & content
The records of the Music Department contain office files from the University of Rhode Island Music Department, as well as materials donated to the Department. The donated materials include a sheet music collection given by Lucia Caito, wife of the late Maury Caito, a piano teacher based in Cranston, R.I., documents collected by mezzo-soprano singer and URI vocal instructor Mary Langdon, written arrangements and personal papers from the estate of bandleader and music teacher Joseph Conte, donated by Al Conte, and publications from the personal collection of composer Vladimir Ussachevsky.