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Evan A. McCarthy Notation is the very name we use for the organized system of written symbols that represent aurally perceived music. These written symbols, however, can only capture so much information about music, a musical performance, or the...

Laura Boulton Patmos, Greece, 1960 The music collector and anthropologist Laura Boulton (1899-1980) recorded some 30,000 examples of folk and liturgical music of the world's cultures during her lengthy career. In the late 1950s, she began a research...

Béla Bartók Georg Solti London, England; New York, NY, 1946 (ca.) The Sir Georg Solti Archive in the Loeb Music Library includes hundreds of musical scores annotated by Solti, one of the 20th century’s most renowned conductors of opera and symphony...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) (composer) Antonin Trantoul (1887-1966) (former owner) Paris, France, 1907 Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, had its first performance at the Paris Opéra-Comique (30 April...

Antiphonary 1200 (ca.) Western Germany This is the left side (verso) of the first (and only remaining) leaf of Latin text and notes from a choir book written in western Germany around the turn of the 13th century, used to record both the musical notes (...

Nikolai Sergeev St. Petersburg, Russia, 1903 Dance notation for the Mariinskii Theatre production of Giselle, for Pas de deux from Act I for Agrippina Vaganova and Anatolii Obukhov. Also includes piano reduction score (manuscript) for the scene. In 1892...