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  • Early Printed Editions and Manuscripts of Music
    Music and Performing Arts Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The music scores in this collection include manuscripts and first or early published editions of works from the late 18th and early 19th centuries held in the Music and Performing Arts Library Special Collections. These manuscripts and first/early editions are important resources for scholars researching the origins of musical works. In many cases, there is no extant autograph manuscript and the first printed and published edition serve as the primary source for the work. These materials are indexed in the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) catalog (https://rism.info/), which is a tool that aims to comprehensively document extant musical sources worldwide. The University of Illinois was one of the initial contributors to RISM from its formation in 1952. We now have over 1,700 records in RISM, over 300 of which are unica or unique items. The first phase of this digital collection will include these unique items. Note that the majority of University of Illinois Items described in RISM dating from 1800 and earlier are held in the University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  • Illinois Songs
    Music and Performing Arts Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The Illinois Songs collection features sheet music and songbooks related to the University of Illinois or the state of Illinois. All items are from the Music and Performing Arts Library’s collection.
  • Musica de la Theatro
    Music and Performing Arts Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Musica de la Theatro was likely used by an instrumental ensemble in a British theatre in the second half of the 18th Century. It is a compilation of 68 works bound in 8 part books (violin 1, violin 2, viola, oboe 2, corno 1, corno 2, bassoon & violoncello, and basso continuo). It contains a variety of incidental music for the stage, as well as overtures and concerto movements by such composers as Handel, Arne, Purcell, Lampe, and others. Some pieces are in copyists' manuscripts, while others are early printed editions. Not all pieces use all 8 parts and at times parts for other instruments have been substituted in (e.g., oboe 2 for violin 2). This is not a complete set of parts for performance, as the oboe 1 part book is missing, and many of the works in the collection are concertos and arias without solo parts.