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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.…

"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…

Jeanne Beauvais, annotated score for Vernon Martin's Ladies' Voices

This copy of Vernon Martin's nine-minute Ladies’ Voices contains veteran Broadway and classical singer Jeanne Beauvais’ performance markings from the…

Guido Adler, annotated copy of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Chronological Catalog of the Works of Ludwig von Beethoven

Jewish scholar, writer, critic, pedagogue, and editor Guido Adler’s library was a working collection: like this interleaved copy of Thayer’s Beethoven…

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…

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…

M. le comte de la Cépède, La poétique de la musique

La poétique de la musique, a 700-plus page treatise on aesthetics by French naturalist and amateur composer Bernard Germain de la Cépède, was first…

Lou Harrison, Gending Alexander

American composer Lou Harrison's Gending Alexander, a work for Javanese gamelan ensemble, was first performed April 22-24, 1981 at the University of…

Lili Boulanger, Cortège, arranged by Nadia Boulanger

This manuscript of Lili Boulanger's 1914 violin-piano duet Cortège is an arrangement by her sister Nadia for solo violin and chamber orchestra. 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…