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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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003011 View

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Bound Manuscript Collection, 1301-1928 (bulk 1515-1928).

Title: Bound Manuscript Collection, 1301-1928 (bulk 1515-1928).

The APTS bound manuscripts collection includes Spanish cartas ejecutorias, sermons, lectures, various documents, and music scores. Series I, Sermons and Religious Manuscripts, comprises nearly a third of the collection and includes collected sermons and religious essays from the 17th to the 19th century. Series II, Spanish Language Manuscripts, contains an important group of 14 cartas ejecutorias dating primarily from the 16th and 17th centuries. Other early Spanish documents are also represented in the series. Series III, Other Manuscripts, is a miscellaneous assortment of material ranging from a royal privilege of 14th century Castile to 17th century British legal documents and 20th century poetry. The series represents nearly a half of the entire collection. Series IV, Music Manuscripts, includes a group of late 19th century scores in Hebrew by Eduard and Herman Darewski, together with vocal music scores in western languages written between the 17th century and 1829.

ArchivalResource: 23 boxes (10 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123574342 View

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View

Darewski, Herman, 1883-1947. Au revoir, my little hyacinth [collection] / words by A.E. Sidney Davis ; music by Hermann E. Darewski Jun.

Title: Au revoir, my little hyacinth [collection] / words by A.E. Sidney Davis ; music by Hermann E. Darewski Jun. ca. 1906.

Arranged in five groups: I. Scores (1). II. Vocal scores (1). III. Orchestra parts (15). IV. Vocal parts (1). V. Piano scores (1). The vocal score is an imprint of B. Feldman & Co. (London, c1906). The remaining material is manuscript. The full score appears to be incomplete.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16652918 View

Darewski, Herman, 1883-1947. [Au revoir, my little hyacinth / music by Hermann E. Darewski.].

Title: [Au revoir, my little hyacinth / music by Hermann E. Darewski.].

ArchivalResource: 1 score (9 p.) ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15372609 View

Edison Sheet Music Collection, 1830-1958, (bulk 1890-1940)

Title: Edison Sheet Music Collection 1830-1958 (bulk 1890-1940)

The collection consists chiefly of American sheet music published in the United States between the years 1830-1930. While a significant minority of the music in the collection is instrumental music, the vast majority is for voice and piano. Notable in this collection are imprints from California dating from before 1850, first editions by Irving Berlin and others, and many European imprints among the instrumental pieces.

ArchivalResource: circa 13,000 items; 148 containers; 444 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002003 View