What We Saw
Library and archives items brought to class.
Wednesday, January 25
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Tickets, 1882-3 and 1883-4 seasons. See them again
- Programme / Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1881-1884. See it again: Loeb Music Library Mus 55.1
Friday, January 27
- Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hippolite et Aricie tragedie mise en musique par Mr. Rameau; les paroles de M. Pellegrin (Paris: l'Hauteur, 1733). See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 791.2.644 PHI
- Maria Antonia Walpurgis, [Letter] 27 Luglio 1767, Dresda [to] Signor Conte Spinucci. Signed holograph, requesting she be acclaimed a member of the Academy. See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 3977.15.21 (with digital facsimile)
Friday, February 17
- Arcangelo Corelli, Sonatas, violin, continuo, op. 5. XII sonata's or solo's for a violin a bass violin or harpsicord compos'd by Arcangelo Corelli. His fifth opera. This edition has ye advantage of haveing ye graces to all ye adagio's and other places where the author thought proper by Arcangelo Corelli (London: Printed for J. Walsh servt. to her majesty & J. Hare, [ca. 1711]). See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 640.2.385.12 PHI
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, VI. sonates pour le clavecin avec des reprises variées : dediées a son altesse royale Madame La Princesse Amelie, Princesse de Prusse par Charl. Phil. Eman. Bach, 1st ed., variant issue with French title (À Berlin: chez George Louis Winter, 1760). See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 627.2.416 (with digital facsimile)
Monday, February 27
- Franz Schubert, Winterreise von Wilhelm Müller; in Musik gesetzt für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte von Franz Schubert; 89stes Werk, 1st ed, 2nd issue (Wien: bey Tobias Haslinger, [1828]). Binder's volume, with Schwanengesang (1829) and hand-written contents. See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 800.1.717.10 PHI (with digital facsimile)
Monday, March 20
- Franz Hauser, Johann Sebastian Bach's Saemtliche Werke, [Manuscript thematic catalogue, ca. 1860]. See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 627.1.31.5 (with digital facsimile)
- Robert Schumann, Studien für den Pedal-Flügel, op. 56, erstes Heft (Leipzig: Whistling, 1861). See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 800.2.401.3
Monday, April 3
- Charles Ives, 114 Songs (Redding, Conn.: C. E. Ives, 1922). See it again: Loeb Music Library Merritt Room Mus 716.1.710 (with digital facsimile)
Friday, April 7
- Hanns Eisler, The Crisis in Music (New York: Downtown Music School, 1936). See it again: Loeb Music Library Mus 100.704
- Music Vanguard, vol. 1, no. 1-2 (1935). See it again: Loeb Music Library Mus 13.114
- Ruth Crawford Seeger, American folk songs for children in home, school and nursery school; a book for children, parents and teachers (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1948). See it again: Loeb Music Library Mus 532.25
- Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet, 1931, in New Music; a quarterly of modern compositions, vol. 14, no. 2 (1941). See it again: Loeb Music Library Mus 14.10 (14/2)
- Elie Siegmeister, Music and Society (New York: Critics Group Press, 1938). See it again: Loeb Music Library ML3795.S43 M8 1938