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Luigi Ricci collection of scores, 1865-1969

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 179
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of printed scores: vocal exercises, opera and other large-scale vocal genres, instrumental music and songs. Many are annotated, some heavily, by Ricci and others.

Marti Epstein collection of scores and recordings: approximately 1977-

File Identifier: Ms. Coll. 181
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of autograph manuscript scores dating from the composer’s training to 2020, as well as photocopies of printed and autograph materials. The autograph materials are notated in ink and in graphite pencil. The scores are chiefly for chamber ensembles and for orchestra, with many works for solo piano.

Michel Huglo papers, approximately 1950-2012

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 163
Content Description:

Research materials, correspondence, photographs, including materials by Michel Huglo, his wife Barbara Haggh, and his companion Nancy C. Phillips.

Nadia Boulanger letters to Members of the Chanler and Pickman Families.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 101
Overview:

Letters from Nadia Boulanger, the French teacher of music, conductor, and composer, to her student and friend Theodore Chanler, as well as to members of his family.

Nadia Boulanger scores by her students, 1925-1972.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 125
Overview:

This collection contains musical scores submitted by the students of French composer Nadia Boulanger while attending the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France.

Otto Gombosi Papers, 1925-1955.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 136
Overview:

Music and text transcriptions, notes, and drafts documenting thirty years of research in historical musicology.

Paul Hastings Allen manuscript scores, published scores, and other material, 1900-1952

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 157
Overview:

Manuscript and published scores by the twentieth-century American composer

Peggy Stuart Coolidge manuscript scores and other material, 1924-1981.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 107
Overview:

Manuscript scores and related materials of the American composer, pianist, and conductor Peggy Stuart Coolidge.

Philip Batstone manuscript scores and other material, 1953-1980

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 158
Overview:

Manuscript scores and sketches by the twentieth-century American composer

Professor David Lewin manuscript scores, 1955-1991.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 113
Overview:

Manuscript scores of the American theorist, composer, musician and Walter W. Baumberg Professor of Music at Harvard University.

Randy Weston recordings and papers

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 159
Overview:

Consists of recordings, manuscript scores, and papers documenting the work of the composer and pianist, Randy Weston (1926-2018).

Richard Aldrich family letters from colleagues, 1904-1937.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 131
Overview:

Correspondence of music critic Richard Aldrich (1863-1937), primarily with American and English musical colleagues.

Richard Cozzens Arabic Rap Fieldwork Collection: Original Ethnographic Sound Recordings (2007)

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 104
Scope and Contents: The Richard Cozzens Arabic Rap Fieldwork Collection contains 97 digital audio files of performances, interviews, conversations, demonstrations both formal and informal, and workshops from a range of Arabic hip-hop artists including DAM, DanDrill, NIZ-R, Ahmad Jay, Abdallah, MC Maze, and E Qube, among others. The collection contains material from Jordan, Syria, Israel, Palestine, and the United States. The language of the materials is mostly Arabic with some content in French and English....

Robert C. Provine Collection of recordings of performances originating at the College of Music, Seoul National University

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 109
Scope and Contents: These performances were recorded by Robert C. Provine at the Seoul National University circa 1974. The performances feature narrative/theatre genres, such as ch’anggǔk and p’ansori as well as virtuosic music for solo melody instrument, such as the kŏmungo (zither), accompanied by percussion, such as the changgo (double-headed hourglass drum). Several of the performances showcase the stylistic features of a particular musical master's school, such as Kim Yundǒk, who was active in Seoul in the...

Robert Di Domenica manuscript and published scores, 1953-1996.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 156
Overview:

Manuscript and published scores by the twentieth-century American composer

Rubén Blades recordings and papers

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 100
Overview:

Commercial and privately produced sound and audiovisual recordings; periodicals; books; promotional materials, photographs, posters, correspondence, professional and business documents, scripts, ephemera and realia documenting the career of Rubén Blades, musician, actor and political figure from Panama.

Somali Songs, 1955-1991: The Maryan “Aryette” Omar Ali Collection

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 103
Scope and Contents: The Maryan “Aryette” Omar Ali Collection of Somali Songs contains cassette recordings of some of Somalia’s most famous singers and poets, including Faduumo Qaasim, Magool, Maxamad Suleebaan, Fadumo Cabdillaahi Maandeeq, Sahra Axmed Jaamac, and Cumar Dhuule. Based on various themes of love, nature, war, class and gender relation, politics, and patriotism, the contents of the poetry is the aesthetic focal point of the music. The primary genre in this collection is known as hees or heello, a...

Songs in the English language, 1675-approximately 1870, bulk 1700-1822.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 143
Overview:

Collection of over 2000 English-language songs published between 1675 and 1870.

Stephen "Lucky" Mosko scores, recordings, and other material, 1957-2008.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 140
Overview:

Papers and audiovisual collections of composer and conductor Stephen Lee “Lucky” Mosko, including musical scores, audio and video recordings, correspondence, press and publicity materials, teaching materials, photographs and concert programs.

The Eduard Alekseyev Fieldwork Collection of the Musical Culture of Yakutia, 1957-1990.

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 98
Overview:

This collection contains original field recordings by ethnomusicologist Eduard Yefimovich Alekseyev. The recordings were made in various regions in Russia, and primarily represent the musical culture of the Yakut (Sakha) peoples, as well of Crimean Tartar and Ukrainian peoples.

The Kay Kaufman Shelemay Syrian-Jewish Collection, 1984 -1993.

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 96
Overview:

Original field recordings of the Syrian-Jewish genre of pizmonim (paraliturgical hymns) as it has evolved from the early 20th century. Fieldwork was conducted in Brooklyn, NY between 1984 and 1993, and in Brooklyn, NY; Deal, NJ; Mexico City; and Jerusalem between 1986 and 1993.

The Marie-Thérèse, Baroness Ullens de Schooten Collections at Harvard University of original ethnographic sound recordings, radio transmissions, and film soundtracks, ca. 1951-1972.

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 97
Overview: The sound recordings in this collection were made by Marie-Thérèse, Baroness Ullens de Schooten in Iran between 1951 and 1972. These are primarily field recordings of music, ceremonies, and scenes from daily life of some of the major nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes, including the Qashqā'ī and the Bakhtiari peoples of the west and the south, as well as the Baluchi, Kurds and Turkmen, and Sufi dervishes. The collection also contains recordings of radio transmissions from Radio Iran in Tehran,...

The Rulan Chao Pian Collection at the Loeb Music Library

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 107
Overview:

Sound and A/V recordings made between 1966-1974 of various art forms among ethnic groups such as Korean communities of Northeast China, indigenous communities of Taiwan, and Han Chinese Opera in mainland China. Some recordings include performances in the USA, including the Boston-Cambridge area. The collection also includes hundreds of commercial recordings from mainland China and some television and commercial recordings from Southeast Asia, as well as various musical scores and books.

The Stephen Blum Collection of Music from Iranian Khorāsān at Harvard University: Original Ethnographic Sound Recordings

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 99
Overview:

The sound recordings in this collection provide examples of the musical culture of the region of Khorāsān, in the northeast of Iran.