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ITEM — Reel: AWM RL 16349 Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 98

Festival, Reel No. 16, 1972-02

Dates

  • Creation: 1972-02

Conditions Governing Access

None

Extent

1 collection (Original deposit: Sound recordings (22 acetate and polyester audio tape reels, 7 VHS PAL videocassettes); one folder of original reel boxes with notes in Russian.)

General note

Participants in a local amateur arts competition in the village of Maia, Megino-Kanghalasskii ulus were recorded in February of 1972. Folk singers from the Churapchinskii ulus A. K. Arkhipov (b. 1930) and Ye. A. Makarov were recorded at the family home of Nikolai Gavrilievich Gromov. Artists from the Amga ulus were recorded during and after their concert in the regional “House of Culture.” Khomus (jaw harp), Yakut violin (kyryympa) and throat singing performances are also included.

Repository Details

Part of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library Repository

The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library is the primary repository of musical materials at Harvard. The Music Library’s collecting mission is to serve music teaching and research programs in the Music Department and throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In addition, it supports the musical needs of the broader Harvard community as well as an international scholarly constituency. We collect books, musical scores, serial titles, sound recordings and video formats, microforms, and rare and archival materials that support research in a wide variety of musical disciplines including historical musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, composition, and historically informed performance practice, as well as interdisciplinary areas related to music. The special collections include archival collections from the 19th, 20th and 21st century.

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