Music & Performing Arts Primary Sources: Documents & Manuscripts

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Eighteenth Century Drama
Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

Music Online: African American Music Reference
Chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Contains full text from major reference works, biographies, and personal narratives from oral histories. Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. primary sources documents manuscripts
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Includes volumes I, II, III, and IV. An authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Contains full, study, piano, and vocal scores. primary sources documents manuscripts

RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
Series A/II of the RISM project. Documents music manuscripts, printed music, works on music theory, and libretti, written after 1600, stored in libraries and archives in 31 countries. Includes bibliographic description, music incipit, provenance, and holding library. primary sources documents manuscripts

Shakespeare in Performance
This resource features the world-famous prompt book collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

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