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Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, 1750-1950, (bulk 1890-1929)

Title: Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection 1750-1950 (bulk 1890-1929)

This collection is comprised in large part of printed music, widely representing 18th century Italian and 19th century Russian operatic music. Includes rare pre-revolutionary editions of Russian folk songs, annotated performance scores of Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gounod, Cimarosa. Non-musical materials include three letters from S. Prokofiev to S. Diaghilev, rare edition of books on music, literature and theater, libretti and synopses, souvenir books and programs and photographs. Several of the programs and photographs show Léon Bakst's set and costume designs. Non-musical materials also include Diaghilev’s personal notebook, containing entries in French, Russian, and English made in 1926-1929.

ArchivalResource: around 1,350 items; 81 boxes; 91 linear feet

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Lutyens Collection. Vol. lxxxi. Caprice sur la Pastorale of Frescobaldi, transcribed for string orchestra; [1931-1932]. Pencil draft full score; -ink fair copy full score and parts. ff. 13. 450 x 315mm.; 355 x 265mm.Girolamo Frescobaldi, compose..., 1931-1932

Title: Lutyens Collection. Vol. lxxxi. Caprice sur la Pastorale of Frescobaldi, transcribed for string orchestra; [1931-1932]. Pencil draft full score; - ink fair copy full score and parts. ff. 13. 450 x 315mm.; 355 x 265mm.Girolamo Frescobaldi, compose... [1931-1932]

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

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FANTASIAS and other compositions for organ, violin, spinettina, or lute, in 2, 3, 4, and 5 parts, in score, by Girolamo Frescobaldi. The only pieces to which a name has been given are a 2-part " fuga per l'organo," beginning with a " canzona " (f. 3)..., 17th century-18th century

Title: FANTASIAS and other compositions for organ, violin, spinettina, or lute, in 2, 3, 4, and 5 parts, in score, by Girolamo Frescobaldi. The only pieces to which a name has been given are a 2-part " fuga per l'organo," beginning with a " canzona " (f. 3)... 17th century-18th century

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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"FIORETTI d[e]l [Girolamo] Frescobaldi," for harpsichord. Paper; ff. i + 40. Oblong octavo. First half of xvii cent. At the beginning is inserted a (later ?) "Orario delli seruizij Feriali della Cappella Pon[ti]fi[ci]a," of which Frescobaldi was orga...

Title: "FIORETTI d[e]l [Girolamo] Frescobaldi," for harpsichord. Paper; ff. i + 40. Oblong octavo. First half of xvii cent. At the beginning is inserted a (later ?) "Orario delli seruizij Feriali della Cappella Pon[ti]fi[ci]a," of which Frescobaldi was orga... 1st half of 17th century

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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1. " TOCCATA Quarta per l'Elevazione," for the organ, by Girolamo Frescobaldi. Followed by an imperfect figured bass. Autograph? f. 1. 2. Sinfonias, containing a "canzone" with introduction and other compositions in four parts for violin, lute, spine..., 17th century

Title: 1. " TOCCATA Quarta per l'Elevazione," for the organ, by Girolamo Frescobaldi. Followed by an imperfect figured bass. Autograph? f. 1. 2. Sinfonias, containing a "canzone" with introduction and other compositions in four parts for violin, lute, spine... 17th century

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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VOLUNTARIES, masque tunes, dances, psalm tunes, etc., for the organ or virginal, in score, by Orlando Gibbons, " Docter " [John] Bull, [Robert?] Johnson, Hugh Facy, Edward Beuin, and Emanuel Soncino; copied shortly before 23 Apr. 1630, when the, MS. ..., 17th century-18th century

Title: VOLUNTARIES, masque tunes, dances, psalm tunes, etc., for the organ or virginal, in score, by Orlando Gibbons, " Docter " [John] Bull, [Robert?] Johnson, Hugh Facy, Edward Beuin, and Emanuel Soncino; copied shortly before 23 Apr. 1630, when the, MS. ... 17th century-18th century

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