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File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes for a talk at the Royal Canadian College of Organists banquet in Waterloo, Ontario (April 26, 1971).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes for his remarks at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music open house (October 30, 1971).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes for his opening remarks at the meeting of the New York chapter of the Music Library Association (MLA) at the University of Toronto (October 30, 1971).

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes and correspondence for a talk that he gave at the Royal Ontario Museum as part of their "The Arts as Communication" lecture series (March 9, 1967).

File consists of correspondence and drafts of John Beckwith's unpublished essay on Ludwig van Beethoven.

File consists of John Beckwith's handwritten lecture notes, with musical examples, for a talk that he delivered on November 28, 1970.

File consists of John Beckwith's notes for the orientation staff-student meeting at the beginning of the academic year (September 16, 1971).

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes, promotional pamphlet, and correspondence relating to a talk that he gave at the Music Forum for Piano Teachers in Buffalo, New York (April 20, 1966).

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes for a talk that he gave at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (February 2, 1967).

File consists of John Beckwith's interview answers for an interview published in MusiCanada (Fall 1967).

File consists of correspondence, outlines, and drafts for a proposed music history text for the Royal Conservatory of Music, titled Music Was, Music Is or A Music History Capsule, which was never published. File includes correspondence with Nipper Cole, Ettore Mazzoleni, Gladys E. Neale, Harvey J. Olnick, Boyd Neel, Patrick M. Egan, Francess G. Halpenny, and Ruth Don Carlos. File also includes Beckwith's research card index for this volume.

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes for a talk that he gave to the Toronto chapter of the Royal Conservatory Alumni Association (May 24, 1970).

File consists of correspondence, notes, and musical examples (including overhead transparencies) for a lecture that John Beckwith gave at York University on February 10, 1971.

File consists of John Beckwith's introductory remarks and related correspondence to the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) Convention (March 3, 1971).

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes for a talk on Igor Stravinsky as part of a colloquium on November 29, 1971.

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes and a promotional flyer for a talk that Beckwith gave at McMaster University (July 15, 1965)

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes for a talk that he gave at the Inter-provincial Music Camp (IMC) (November 9, 1967).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes for the orientation staff-student meeting at the beginning of the academic year (September 24, 1970).

File consists of the convocation program and a copy of John Beckwith's presentation of the honorary Doctor of Laws to Helmut Kallmann (May 31, 1971).

File consists of drafts and final copies of John Beckwith's convocation address (May 29, 1972).

File consists of a copy of a review by John Beckwith of the International Federation of Music Students (IFMS) 1950 symposium (March 8-11, 1950), which was held at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto.

File consists of a copy of the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto Monthly Bulletin (April 1951), which includes this contribution from John Beckwith, written March 13, 1951.

File consists of a copy of John Beckwith's performance notes with a note from Helmut Kallmann. The copy was found by Keith MacMillan.

File consists of a copy of the TSO [Toronto Symphony Orchestra] News (May 1952), which includes John Beckwith's review.

File consists of a copy of a talk by John Beckwith that he gave at the intermission of a CBC Opera performance (October 15, 1952).

File consists of an article by John Beckwith for Opera in Canada magazine, initially titled "A Canadian composer's view of opera." The article was published under the title "Let's seek a recipe for Canadian opera."

File consists of an unpublished article by John Beckwith, written in the early 1950s.

File consists of a copy of an unpublished talk that John Beckwith gave at the Royal Ontario Museum Theatre in Toronto in honour of Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday (March 21, 1950).

File consists of John Beckwith's letter to the editor in response to an article in TSO News, vol. 3, no. 9 (October 1951): "Music and Men." Beckwith's annotated copy of TSO News is also included.

File consists of correspondence and a typescript talk on the arts in Canada that John Beckwith gave to the Humanities Association of Canada (Ottawa, June 13, 1957). Correspondence is predominantly with Malcolm Ross and the MacMillan Company of Canada Publishers regarding the publication of an edited version of this talk in Ross' book The Arts in Canada: A Stock-taking at Mid-century (1958).

File consists of notes, a draft article, and correspondence relating to an article on music education that John Beckwith wrote for the Encyclopedia Canadiana, published by the Grolier Society of Canada Limited and edited by John E. Robbins (1958).

File consists of a copy of John Beckwith's article in The Canadian Forum (November 1959) reviewing the compositions and writings of Igor Stravinsky.

File consists of a copy of a talk by John Beckwith for the CBC International Service (December 18, 1952).

File consists of a copy of John Beckwith's article and a rejection letter from The Canadian Forum.

File consists of a copy of John Beckwith's article, as published in TSO [Toronto Symphony Orchestra] News (February 1953).

File consists of a copy of John Beckwith's article, as published in CBC Times (June 16-22, 1957).

File consists of correspondence, questions, and a transcript of John Beckwith's responses as part of the CBC radio program "The Arts in Canada" (1959).

File contains correspondence, book reviews, and three photographs by Peter Smith of the International Conference of Composers (Stratford, 1960). Included in the photographs are Murray Adaskin, John Beckwith, Luciano Berio, John Weinzweig, Oskar Morawetz, Jean-Marie Beaudet, Vagn Holmboe. The conference proceedings were published in 1961 under the title The Modern Composer and His World.

File consists of a copy of The Canadian Forum (January 1961), which includes John Beckwith's article on Glenn Gould.

File consists of correspondence and notes for a talk that John Beckwith gave to the Hamilton Association on March 11, 1961.

File consists of draft articles and related correspondence for a review article published under the title "A killing at the opera : respectability, $200,000 and the 3-star selection" for Maclean's magazine (vol. 75, iss. 24, December 1, 1962).

File consists of notes, drafts, and correspondence relating to a chapter on Canada's production of phonograph records, which John Beckwith wrote for Music in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press in co-operation with the Canadian Music Council, 1955), edited by Sir Ernest MacMillan. File also includes a draft follow-up article that appeared in the Canadian Library Association Bulletin (1956) titled "List of Canadian recorded music."

File consists of a copy of the article draft and related correspondence for John Beckwith's contribution to a souvenir program for the Vancouver International Festival (1959).

File consists of draft articles and related correspondence for the Canada Council Bulletin (February 1960).

File consists of a copy of a talk that John Beckwith gave at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto.

File consists of correspondence and program information relating to the International Conference of Composers (Stratford, August 1960).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes, course outlines, handouts, and assignment outlines for a course that he taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music titled "Topics in Contemporary Music" and later "Topics in Twentieth-Century Music."

File consists of course notes, assignments, and handouts for a course that John Beckwith taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (Fall 1988).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes, including handwritten musical excerpts, and course outlines for a series of conductors' workshops on score study that Beckwith led in 1991-1992 and 1992-1993.

Subseries consists of drafts, research notes, reviews, and correspondence relating to books, lectures, and articles written by John Beckwith. Subseries includes materials for both unpublished and published writings.