Formerly: Unpublished music manuscripts from the great English collections. The Center holds the following parts of this collection:

CRL owns this complete series. Fifty-one volumes of men's part-books, 24 volumes of organ part -- including an important sequence of 18th-century accompaniments -- 12 treble books, and several miscellaneous manuscripts make up the collection of St. George's Chapel. Composers include William Child, Benjamin Rogers, Thomas Tudway, Theodore Aylward and James Adcock. The part-books, ranging from 1660 to the mid-19th century (when printed music became predominant), are an important source for the works of these composers, and for tracing stylistic developments within the canon of English sacred music.

This set is a facsimile reprint of 44 orchestral scores of selected operas. The scores are authoritative -- either the composer's autograph manuscript or a manuscript or printed copy, preferably one corrected or supervised by the composer. Opera scores that are readily available in other sources have not been included, and comic opera of the period and the operas of the German Romantic tradition were omitted with a few exceptions. All titles appear in CRLCATALOG.

GUIDE: Reference Folder #94 This set reproduces 26 titles, published from 1914-1977, although most are from the mid-1930s to 1950. The first reel of each title contains an introduction to the periodical and a statement of missing issues. All except five of the titles were published in the U.S.

GUIDE: Weichlein, William J. A checklist of American music periodicals, 1850-1900. Reference Folder #278 This is a microfilm set reproduced some of the popular and scholarly periodicals listed in Weichlein. The titles are not cataloged individually and do not appear in the Center's catalog. Use the checklist or request the most recent list of titles received from the Access Services Department.

GUIDE: The Oxford Music School collection. Brighton. Reference Folder #18 CRL owns part one (of six), subtitled "Unpublished Music Manuscripts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries from the Oxford Music School Collection." The collection contains original compositions for voice and instruments, including the repertoire of the weekly music meetings held in Oxford in the Commonwealth and early Restoration periods (16th and 17th centuries). Reel 1 includes an index to composers and their works and a catalog of the collection.