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Microform Collections in Music

Microfilm and microfiche collections of music manuscripts, librettos, printed music, and other primary sources.

All microforms are kept in the Government Publications Department  in the Fondren Library basement, x5483.  For questions about the music microform collections, contact the music librarian at x2593 or mdumont@rice.edu.
  • Music Manuscripts from the Great English Collections. Harvester Press/Research Publications et al.

Series 1:  Bodleian Library, M2 .B63
Series 2: St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, M2 .S24 1986
Series 4:  British Library, M2 .B75
Series 5:  Royal College of Music, M2 .R69
Series 6:  Cambridge Libraries (Cambridge Univ. Library, Ely Cathedral, King’s College,
                Fitzwilliam Museum, M2 .C36
Series 7:  Royal Academy of Music, M2.3 .E6
Series 8: Gerald Coke Handel Collection M2 .G47 1987

  • European Music Manuscripts in the British Library: Austrian, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Other European Music, c. 1640-1820, Primary Source Media.  M2 .B75 E95
  • Italian Music Manuscripts in the British Library, Harvester Press.
  • Section A: c. 1640-1720, M2 .B75 I8
  • Section B: c. 1720-1740, M2 .B75 I82
  • Section C: c. 1740-1770, M2 .B75 I83
  • Section D: c. 1770-1820, M2 .B75 I84
British Library. Printed music before 1800, Harvester Press. M2.3 .E6 B75
  • Autograph Music Manuscripts from the Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig, Adam Matthew Publications; Bach, Haydn, Handel and Mendelssohn, autograph letter of Mendelssohn and Robert and Clara Schumann, M2 .M88 L45 2002.
  • Musikhandschriften der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussitzer Kulturbesitz, K.G. Saur.
  • Pt. 1: Bach collection from the Archiv der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, M2 .S86 P7 B32 1997
  • Pt. 2: Telemann collection, M2 .S86 T35 2001
  • Pt. 3: Beethoven collection, M2 .S86 P7 B4 2002
  • Musikhandschriften der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, H. Fischer, M2 .A93 1997
  • Musickdrucke der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsbug, 1488-1630, H. Fischer, ML138 .A92 S82 2000
  • Early Music, Adam Matthew, ML136 .P45 E37
  • Pt. 1 Pembroke Choirbooks and other music manuscripts from Pembroke College, Cambridge.
  • Pt. 2 Music Manuscripts, 1500-1793, from the National Library of Scotland.
  • Women Composers’ Collection, University of Michigan Library, Research Publications, M2 .W88 1998
  • Wilhelm Fürtwangler’s Annotated Conducting Scores,  IDC, 1999, M1000 .F87 v. 1-10  Filmed from the original held by the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich.
  • French Opera Scores: Collection of the Théâtre français de la Haye, IDC, M1500 .T47 1983
  • History of Music, 1400-1800, ML136 .H37 H57 
  • Microfilm reproductions of early printed music and music treatises in the Houghton and Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Libraries, Harvard University.
  • Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections of the World, MMF Publications.  ML461 .T43
  • Gilbert and Sullivan, Adam Matthew, ML410 .S95 A3
  • Pt. 1 Correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, and prompt copies of W.S. Gilbert from the British Library.
  • Music periodicals, 1722-1840, from the Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig, Adam Matthew Publ., ML4 .M87
  • American Periodical Series.
  • Pt. 1 18th century, AP2 .A2 A81
  • Pt. 2 1800-1850, AP2 .A38
  • Pt. 3 1850-1900, AP2 .A381
  •     Issues of American periodicals published during the above time periods.  All subject areas are covered.  Includes many early music periodicals.  Guide and index at Gov-Micro AP2 .A38, and in Reference at Ref Z6951 .H65.

 


 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 
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