{"id":96,"date":"2006-11-10T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T02:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:52:50","slug":"digital-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/10\/digital-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"digital scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was randomly surfing around the Web last night and happened upon a couple great resources: first is the Library on Congress’ Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance<\/a>. It is a page designed primarily for researchers looking for in-depth information that can be found in the major repositories of musical manuscripts and primary sources. From this list I found the Loeb Music Library at Harvard College Library. They happen to have a few gems of manuscripts and first editions<\/a> – including Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute<\/a><\/em>, and a rare first edition printing of Mozart’s Opus X Quartets<\/a> (the set of six dedicated to Joseph Haydn) – all of which you can view on your computer screen in minute detail.<\/p>\n

The Library of Congress also has a pretty extensive digital collection, especially concerning American music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[click on images below to view full-size versions.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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\nAaron Copland composing in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, September 1942.<\/p>\n

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\nLetter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein.<\/p>\n

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\nSketches for Appalachian Spring<\/em> ballet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was randomly surfing around the Web last night and happened upon a couple great resources: first is the Library on Congress’ Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance. It is a page designed primarily for researchers looking for in-depth information that can be found in the major repositories of musical manuscripts and primary sources. 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