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Primary Sources: Music Manuscripts and Early Imprints

The Hazel and Sidney Coven Music Microforms Collection

• Music manuscripts, imprints, and music dissertations
• To find these microforms in LOUIS, do a keyword search with truncation:
  music? microform
• Important microfilm sets in the Coven Collection include (among many):
• • Pre-1801 Books about Music and Related Topics in the Library of Congress Collections
    Creative Arts - Microforms ML113 .P74
  • History of Music [Early Printed Music & Books on Music at Harvard]
    Creative Arts - Microforms M1 .H666 1985
  • The Music Collection of Christ Church, Oxford
    Creative Arts - Microforms M2.8 .O95 1981
  • Venetian Opera Libretti
    Creative Arts - Microforms ML48 .V4

Facsimile Editions & Reprints of Music Manuscripts & Early Imprints

• The library owns hundreds of such editions; a few are kept in Special Collections.
• To find facsimile editions in LOUIS, do a keyword search with truncation: music? facsim?

Rare Early Editions of Music

• The Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints, 1501-1650
  Special Collections - restricted use

Digital Music Collections Available on the Internet

• Digital Music Collections (Web site hosted at Harvard University)

In-depth guide to music

This page was last modified on: Mar 23, 2007