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File consists of notes, correspondence, and drafts for an article that John Beckwith wrote for Intersections (2013). Beckwith delivered an earlier version of the paper (typescript included) at the Canadian University Music Society (CUMS) conference at the University of Victoria (June 7, 2013). File also includes copies of related correspondence with Istvan Anhalt (1988-1989) and a draft libretto for Anhalt's Oppenheimer opera (1990).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes and musical examples for a talk entitled "What's Special about the Piano?", given at the Russell Hill Retirement Residence (November 20, 2015) and to the Women's Musical Club of Toronto (WMCT, May 4, 2017).

File consists of John Beckwith's review for Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture by Walter Pitman.

File consists of John Beckwith's notice of retirement for William Aide, which appeared in the University of Toronto's Faculty Notes (Spring 2003).

File consists of notes, correspondence, reviews, and photographs for Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works by James Reaney, edited and with an introduction by John Beckwith (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004).

File consists of correspondence regarding John Beckwith's book In Search of Alberto Guerrero (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006). Correspondents include Luis Merino Montero, Juan Orrego-Salas, Ted Maroney, Richard Butler, Ray Dudley, Margaret Sheppard Privitello, Marilyn Brown, Kevin Bazzana, and William Aide. Correspondence includes discussions of Glenn Gould and Alberto Guerrero.

File also contains a program, photographs, and correspondence relating to the memorial concert for Alberto Guerrero in Walter Hall at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (October 25, 1990) and other photographs of Alberto Guerrero used in Beckwith's book. Two photographs, previously framed, are autographed by Guerrero: (1) signed for Gwen Duchemin (former student); (2) photograph (ca. 1947) taken by Margaret Sheppard Privitello (former student), and signed by Guerrero (not addressed).

File consists of John Beckwith's paper "Vagabond of Glory: Calixa Lavallée as stage hero," which he gave at the Retired Academics and Librarians of the University of Toronto (RALUT) symposium at Massey College (April 11, 2006).

File consists of John Beckwith's critical reviews of performances and new works, including: Isis and Osiris by Peter Anthony Togni and Sharon Singer (Voicebox, Opera in Concert, 1 April 2016); Julie by Philippe Boesmans (2015); Pyramus and Thisbe by Barbara Monk Feldman (2015); The Bride of Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti; and King Roger by Karol Szymanowski (Bastille Opera, Paris, 2009).

File consists of background notes, the contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and reviews of the manuscript of Mapping Canada's Music: Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann (2013), edited by John Beckwith and Robin Elliott.

File consists of John Beckwith's review and related correspondence of Niki Goldschmidt: A Life in Canadian Music by Gwenlyn Setterfield, which was published in CAML Review (Summer 2003).

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes, musical examples, and photographs for a talk entitled "Composing, Cycling: Two Harmless Pursuits" given at Fairlawn (February 3, 2014); Jubilee United (November 22, 2017); and to Sprint Senior Care (March 16, 2018).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes and overhead transparencies for a talk that John Beckwith gave on rhythm on December 8, 2001.

File consists of correspondence and drafts for the "Canada" entry for The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (2002), co-authored by John Beckwith and Kathleen McMorrow.

File consists of John Beckwith's notes and drafts for the obituary of pianist Ray Dudley.

File consists of correspondence and notes regarding the book Weinzweig: Essays on his Life and Music (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), co-edited by Brian Cherney and John Beckwith. File includes digital photos from the book launch event. File includes correspondence with Elaine Keillor, John Weinzweig, Rebecca Sinnaeve (Toronto Musicians' Association), Cheryl Martin (Royal Conservatory of Music), Clark Ross, Robert Aitken, and Bruce Mather.

File contains research notes, correspondence, re-writes, editorial comments, press releases, and reviews for John Beckwith’s memoirs Unheard Of: Memoirs of a Canadian Composer (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012). Beckwith’s research notes include a list of important personal and professional events from 1937 to 1990, various copied correspondence, and some original correspondence from Nadia Boulanger and Beckwith’s father. File also includes correspondence from Ben Conway and William Toye and Beckwith's contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the publication of the book.

A portion of Beckwith's source materials and research notes were originally stored in a vertical file folder, arranged alphabetically by subject matter. This arrangement is replicated in the folder storage of these records. Beckwith's source material included the following divisions and contents:

1. Beckwith [family] : a copy of Beckwith Notes: Number Six (Albert C. and Edward S. Beckwith, 1907) and other genealogical records and notes on the Beckwith family, including family photographs, correspondence, newspapers clippings, marriage certificate for John L. Beckwith and Agnes F. McLeod.
2. Children : photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and graduation programs relating to John Beckwith and Pamela Terry's children Jonathan, Robin Jane, Symon, and Lawrence.
3. Dunn : photographs, correspondence, and research notes pertaining to Mary and George Dunn.
4. Education : photographs, programs, and correspondence pertaining to John Beckwith's education prior to attending the University of Toronto, including programs from recitals of Gwendoline Harper's students.
5. Photograph of Marian Scott, Helmut Kallmann, and John Beckwith at the National Library of Canada (1997).
6. Grace [Dean McLeod White] : correspondence and notes pertaining to John Beckwith's paternal aunt.
7. Harold [Beckwith] : photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and notes, including an interview with Michael Hutcheon, pertaining to Harold Arthur Beckwith, John Beckwith's father.
8. Margaret [Alice Beckwith, nee Dunn] : photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence from and about John Beckwith's mother.
9. Nuptials : photographs from weddings, anniversaries, and christenings in the Beckwith family.
10. Pamela [Terry Beckwith] : photographs of Pamela Terry Beckwith and a transcription of her Paris diaries (1950-1952).
11. Sisters : photographs of and correspondence with John Beckwith's sisters, Jean and Sheila, including their notes on portions of the manuscript for Unheard Of.
12. Tree : the Beckwith family tree [oversize]
13. Pictures and captions : two photographs and a program from the premiere performance of John Beckwith's Rhapsody for piano by Gene Gash (December 13, 1951).
14. Works : newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding reviews of John Beckwith's compositions.

File consists of correspondence relating to John Beckwith book Music at Toronto: A Personal Account (1995) and the preceding talks that Beckwith gave at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in celebration of its 75th anniversary (1993). Correspondents include Helmut Kallmann, Rivi Frankle, Chan Ka Nin, Marnie Hare, David Beach, John Hamilton, Stephen Brathwaite, Bruce Minorgan, Paul Pedersen, Paul Green, Fred Clarke, Ezra Schabas, and Doreen Rao. File also includes a photograph of Sir Ernest MacMillan, Godfrey Ridout, Leo Smith, John Weinzweig, and Healey Willan (photo by Herb Nott, ca. 1942), which was used in Beckwith's book.

File consists of John Beckwith's review of When the Music Stops…: Managers, Maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music by Norman Lebrecht. Beckwith's published review in The Globe and Mail was titled "And they shall have music…if they're willing to pay for it."

File consists of correspondence, speaking notes, and flyers for a talk that John Beckwith gave at the University of Western Ontario (November 15, 1996).

File consists of John Beckwith's review of Opera: Desire, Disease, Death by Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon in the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Newsletter (December 1996).

File consists of correspondence, editing notes, reviews, and the contract with Golden Dog Press for John Beckwith's book Music Papers: Articles and Talks by a Canadian Composer, 1961-1994 (Ottawa: Golden Dog Press, 1997). The file includes correspondence with the publishers, editors, and other related individuals regarding publishing permissions.

Correspondents include Michael Gnarowski and Dennis Forcese (Gold Dog Press), Howard Brown, Louis Applebaum, Glenn Colton, Rick MacMillan (SOCAN), Robert Fulford, David Lasker (Globe and Mail), John B. Lawson, Harry Somers, Raymond Ringuette, William Toye, Carl Morey, John Weinzweig, Ezra Schabas, and Geoffrey Payzant.

File consists of draft papers, correspondence, and the conference program for a talk that John Beckwith gave as part of an opera panel discussion at a conference, "A Visionary Tradition: Canadian Literature and Culture at the Turn of the Millennium" (University of Toronto, November 13, 1999).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes, correspondence, and a program from a lecture at the Festival of the Sound (July 17-18, 1993) weekend symposium "The MacMillan Era, 1900-1950," which was held to mark the centenary of Sir Ernest MacMillan.

File consists of research notes and correspondence for volume 18 of the Canadian Musical Heritage series, "Oratorio and cantata excerpts," edited by John Beckwith (1995).

File contains research notes, correspondence, and handwritten musical examples for John Beckwith's article, which was published in the Canadian University Music Review, vol. 19, no. 1 (1998).

File consists of correspondence, draft papers, and newspaper clippings relating to Robertson Davies and John Beckwith's response to "Music in the Works of Robertson Davies: an Introduction" by Clayton Henderson at the Society for American Music (Toronto, November 2, 2000). File includes a copy of Beckwith's article "What I think about The Golden Ass" (Opera Canada, Spring 2000) and his unpublished response to a letter to the editor in the Globe and Mail by Robertson Davies regarding his novel The Cunning Man (October 14, 1995).

File consists of John Beckwith's notes, handwritten musical examples, correspondence with Istvan Anhalt, drafts, and other notes relating to the chapter "Orchestral Works" that Beckwith contributed to the book Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory, edited by Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith (Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001). File also includes photographs from the book launch.

File also includes a typescript copy of John Beckwith's tribute to Istvan Anhalt at the memorial celebration at Queen's University School of Music (September 23, 2012) and related correspondence; a typescript talk that Beckwith gave for Istvan Anhalt's centenary at Confluence in Toronto (March 4, 2019); and a chronological index to his correspondence with Anhalt (1957-1995)

File consists of correspondence, pamphlets, and a copy of John Beckwith's talk as part of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC) panel at the Open Ears Festival (Kitchener, May 2001).

File contains research notes, correspondence, and a typescript copy of John Beckwith's talk for the colloquium "Serge Garant (1929-1986): figure marquante de la modernité au Québec" at the Université de Sherbrooke (November 2, 1996).

File consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of a paper titled "Composing in the Nineties." Beckwith delivered the paper as a public talk at Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec (January 22, 1998), and at the University of South Carolina, Columbia (March 19, 1998). It was an expansion of a presentation to the Canadian University Music Society (CUMS, June 4, 1997) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, under the title "Accessibility, Elitism, Oblivion: Options for the Composer." The file includes all three versions of the paper, some earlier drafts, and correspondence with Ulla Colgrass and Tom Gordon (Bishop's University).

File contains correspondence and programs relating to John Beckwith's visit to the University of Alberta as a Distinguished Visitor (October 14-21, 1997).

File contains correspondence and lecture notes for John Beckwith's talk "Hyphenating Bach" at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (March 3, 1998) and at Dalhousie University (February 4, 1999).

File consists of John Beckwith's research notes and related correspondence on the Colonial Harmonist by Mark Burnham (1832, rev. 1836), which is held in the University of Toronto Music Library. Beckwith's article was published in The Halcyon (newsletter of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) and a revised version, entitled "Mark Burnham and Upper Canada's First Tunebook, Colonial Harmonist," appeared in the University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2 (2002).

File consists of John Beckwith's paper, program, and correspondence for the keynote talk that he gave as part of the "Harpsichord Then and Now" symposium at Bishop's University (February 15-17, 2001).

File consists of correspondence and a copy of the talk that John Beckwith gave at the University Alumnae Dramatic Club (UADC) reunion (April 21, 2001).

File consists of the program and correspondence for a guest lecture-recital by John Beckwith at the University of Saskatchewan (October 14, 1992) and Brandon University (October 6, 1992).

File consists of correspondence, manuscript musical examples, and a copy of the article that John Beckwith wrote for a special issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly (1994) in honour of Ben-Z. Shek.

File consists of correspondence and program notes for a series of lectures by and performances of music by John Beckwith in Hong Kong (August 28, 1996 to September 3, 1996).

File consists of correspondence, speaking notes, and flyers for a talk that John Beckwith gave at the University of McGill (March 15, 1999).

File consists of a talk for Howard Brown's 80th birthday (July 2000), read by Rick Phillips.

File consists of two speeches that John Beckwith gave at citizenship ceremonies (August 22-23, 2000 and November 22, 2000), as well as photographs from the ceremonies.

File consists of John Beckwith's lecture notes and related correspondence for a talk given at the University of Edinburgh (February 21, 1985).

File consists of correspondence and draft papers entitled "Choral and Hymn-Tune References: How? Why?." John Beckwith first gave the paper at the American Society of University Composers (ASUC) conference on March 8, 1986 in Toronto. The paper was then revised for a planned festschrift for Robert Stevenson. File also includes Beckwith's manuscript diary of a car trip to and attendance at the ASUC conference in 1968.

File consists of John Beckwith's remarks and related correspondence for a talk that John Beckwith gave at the Mississauga Music Council in recognition of Joseph Macerollo (April 26, 1987).

File consists of John Beckwith's remarks at the celebration for Helmut Kallman's retirement at the Sharon Temple (July 25, 1987).

File consists of notes for a talk by John Beckwith for graduate careers night (April 29, 1988).

File consists of correspondence and a program from John Beckwith's lecture on his operatic compositions, including Night Blooming Cereus, which was to be performed by the University of Victoria Opera Ensemble "Opera Nova." Beckwith's lecture (January 1992) was part of the University of Victoria School of Music Colloquium Series.

File consists of programs and related correspondence for a talk by John Beckwith at the Canadian Music of the 1950s symposium (University of Western Ontario, October 21-22, 1983).

File consists of a copy of an unpublished column that John Beckwith wrote regarding the new Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music and the Institute for Canadian Music at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

File consists of John Beckwith's talk on J.P. Clarke, Hugh A. Clarke, William Horatio Clarke, and Herbert L. Clarke, entitled "Toronto's Four Musical Clarkes". Beckwith originally gave the talk as part of a University College Symposium on January 20, 1984, and delivered a revised version as part of the Toronto Historical Board series on "Toronto's Musical Past" on February 9, 1995. File includes musical examples (overhead transparencies) and related correspondence.