Music Library Digital Scores Collection. Home » Music Library Digital Scores Collection The Music Library Digital Scores Collection contains manuscript musical scores dating from the 17th through 19th centuries. The majority of the collection is comprised of 17th and 18th century operas, opera excerpts, and other vocal music. The original manuscripts reside in the Music Library’s Rare Book Collection. Materials from the collection are also indexed in the RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 database. Links to the images are also provided in the University of Washington’s online catalog. About the Database This project was funded by the University of Washington Libraries 21st Century Awards in 2007-2008. Opening the Geese Book.
Music MSS. Ballads. Early printed music. Treatises. Polycron_sm2.jpg (JPEG Image, 648 × 857 pixels) About the Rare Book Collections The University Library's Rare Book Collection was founded in 1954 and transferred to The Bancroft Library in 1970. It is responsible for collecting, preserving, and making accessible old, rare, fragile, and sensitive materials over the entire range of the Library of Congress classification scheme. As it is impossible to collect actively in all fields, certain collections are more significant than others. As a rule, the Rare Book Collections avoid the subject areas of law, medicine, music, and East Asiatic languages, since other campus libraries specialize in these areas.
Genealogy and military science are not collected. The overview of collections provides a brief overview of some of the more important rare book collections available for use at The Bancroft Library. Overview of collections Tebtunis PapyriContains nearly 35,000 papyrus fragments, ca. 300 B.C.-300 A.D. History of ScienceMany landmark books in the history of science are available at Bancroft. Goldberg Forum - Viewing Topic: Paris BN f. fr. 1597. WDB. La Trobe University - Library: Medieval Music Database - Annual cycle of feasts of liturgical chant, liturgical polyphony and secular music of the late middle ages. Medieval Music Database A thirteenth-century Cistercian gradual of 200 folios from the Abbey of San Stephano al Corno, Lodi, Italy. This manuscript is now in the Dixson Collection, State Library of New South Wales.
It contains a Temporal Cycle, a Sanctoral Cycle, some Commons and a Hymnal. A certified Dominican antiphonal of 428 folios from Poissy, written 1335-1345, with a complete annual cycle of chants for the Divine Office (Temporal, Sanctoral and Commons) and a hymnal. The manuscript also contains rules for copying chant and 23 historiated initials: it is in the State Libary of Victoria A Franciscan Common of the Saints of 155 folios from Rimini, written 1328 and palimpsested on 40 folios with new texts and altered melodies sometime after 1582.
A 13th century Italian antiphonal of 180 folios from Christmas to the Saturday after Epiphany held by the State Library of South Australia. LC: Moldenhauer Archives. The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial. Music History from Primary Sources. A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era and is the richest composite gift of musical documents ever received by the Library. Before his death, Hans Moldenhauer (1906-1987) established a directive and provided funds for the Library of Congress to publish The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: a Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives (2000). This online presentation includes representative examples of more than 130 items from the Archives including many complete works and, as a special presentation, an electronic version of the book's text, which is intended to replace the printed edition.
Goldberg Forum - Facsimile Sources.