Rare Music at Stanford Online Exhibit Event Notice

We are pleased to announce that the refreshed and greatly expanded Rare Music
at Stanford online exhibit is now available for exploration (raremusic.stanford.edu). This
exhibit was established in 2016 as a beachhead for items digitized for patrons from the
Memorial Library of Music, and numbered approximately 250 objects.

In 2016 Ray Heigemeir, Head of Public Services in Music, initiated the Memorial Library of
Music Plus project (MLM+), a systematic review of rare music collections in the Stanford
University Libraries holdings aiming to identify all manuscript scores and musicians’
letters. The review included the Memorial Library of Music Collection plus other collections
such as the Mario Ancona Collection, as well as items added individually to our rare music
holdings over the decades. With MLM+ completed, 1300 digital objects are now available to
the public for close viewing and download.

Exhibit highlights include autograph manuscript full scores by Cherubini, Brahms, Mascagni,
and Stravinsky; collections of letters by Vieuxtemps, Spohr, and Gounod; copyist manuscripts
documenting Lully’s operatic output; a complete set of 16th-century Flemish master
engravings, Encomium musices; and archival materials from the life of the Swedish soprano
Jenny Lind.

Browse nine broad categories, or search by keyword for personal names or work titles.
Explore over thirty illuminating essays by current and former doctoral students in music,
library staff, and guests. Maximize the Stanford Digital Repository’s image viewer to
zoom in on image details, and download files in a variety of sizes.

Finally, the section, “Calling all detectives,” is a plea for assistance in
identifying scores that have thus far proved elusive. All feedback is appreciated!