Special Collections for Music are spread throughout the libraries, though the highest concentrations are in the Gilmore Music Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," text by James Weldon Johnson and music by J. Rosamond Johnson. Concert edition dedicated to Miss Marian Anderson in the hand of J. Rosamond Johnson. From MSS 21, The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers.
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Digitized audio and video are in the Aviary platform, and may be browsed there, but links will also be found in the Archives or Manuscripts results.
Many works are in the public domain and therefore freely accessible to any interested researcher. Others require only an online registration and acknowledgement of copyright in order to access digital content within minutes.
Visitors may also register as special collections researchers and either schedule visits to study the special collections onsite or request reproductions to be delivered online using the request links from Archives or Manuscripts records.
Music Special Collections Reproductions
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