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"Niurba ohuokaia," recorded by Eduard Alekseyev

This recording of songs from the Yakut round dance was made by ethnomusicologist Eduard Alekseyev in the village of Maar in the Niurba district on…

Broadway Melody of 1940, draft screenplay and dialogue cutting continuity

Shown here are documents from the beginning and end of production of the MGM musical Broadway Melody of 1940: a draft screenplay with revisions…

Additional Images

Here you can find all the images used throughout the online exhibit to supplement the featured items. These images do not come from scans of the…

Benny Carter, "Myra"

The Harvard Jazz Band commissioned this piece from saxophonist Benny Carter in honor of Myra Mayman, director of Harvard’s Office for the Arts from…

Boston punk/rock cassette tapes, recorded by Arthur Freedman

In the late 1970s, Arthur Freedman (b. 1957) began to record in the clubs of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. The resulting collection comprises…

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Six Easy Keyboard Sonatas (Wq. 53)

This collection of six “easy” pieces, composed between 1762 and 1766, was the last of C.P.E. Bach’s seven Berlin sonata collections, and one of…

Copy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

An early manuscript copy in several hands of Mozart's 1786 opera Le Nozze di Figaro (the unusual misspelling “nozzi” on the cover is repeated on the…

Duke Ellington, arrangement of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's "Stormy Weather"

This score for "Stormy Weather," in Ellington’s hand, notates the saxophone section accompaniment to the soloists' melody line. This arrangement, one…

Fred Ho, Warrior Sisters: The New Adventures of African and Asian Womyn Warriors

Chinese-American composer, baritone saxophonist, activist, and Marxist Fred Ho's avant-garde jazz opera Warrior Sisters (1998), written with…

Georg Solti, annotated score for Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

This annotated copy of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was owned by Sir Georg Solti, and chronicles 19 groups of performances dating from 1959-1992.…