Notes for Notes (2022)

Notes for Notes Gary R. Boye, Melissa E. Wertheimer, and Stephanie Sussmeier ________ The Special Collections Research Center of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC has acquired the collection of guitar scholar and publisher Matanya Ophee (1932–2017). Acquired through J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians, this is one of the largest collections of nineteenth-century printed guitar music in existence and will be kept intact as the Matanya Ophee Collection. Highlights include over five hundred first and early editions of major guitar composers including Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, and many others, as well as the only complete manuscript of the Dix Etudes by Giulio Regondi, discovered by Ophee in 1987. The collection also includes the personal scores and papers of Argentinian guitarist Doming Prat (1886–1944), as well as a large amount of rare music for the Russian 7-string guitar from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr. Gary R. Boye Appalachian State University ________ The Library of Congress has released a third collection of web archives administered by the Music Division. The Music Division’s web archives curator and collection lead is Melissa Wertheimer, Music Reference Specialist (MLA Archivist from 2017–2021). The newest collection is the Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.natlib/collnatlib.00000144). Crawls began in November 2019 and are ongoing. The Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive contains websites and select social media to document professional networks in the performing arts over time. The collection items are those of professional, labor, and advocacy organizations at regional, national, and international levels. The websites in this collection represent the range of fields within the performing arts, including performance, publishing, scholarship, technology, education, advocacy, and labor organizing. The breadth of this web archive is an opportunity for users to discover the interrelated nature of professional performing arts organizations and also invites research and appreciation of other disciplines, such as education, technology, journalism, and labor. The LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.natlib/collnatlib.00000120) was released in 2019. Crawls began in 2018 and are ongoing. The LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive [End Page 380] contains websites of composers who have been commissioned by Music Division funds. This web archive is not only a resource in itself, but also an information pathway to the Music Division’s unique collection materials and a digital record of the Music Division’s role as an active commissioning body in the new music community. The LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive includes the professional websites of living and deceased composers, as well as websites of foundations, institutes, museums, and awards established in memory of deceased composers. Archived websites include content that documents composers’ careers over time, including biographical information, photos, musical recordings, videos, writings, concert calendars, reviews, social media, upcoming projects, and works lists. The Performing Arts Web Archive (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.natlib/collnatlib.00000048) began crawls in 2011 and is an ongoing collection. The Performing Arts Web Archive contains web-based content related to the Music Division’s current special collections and rare material holdings. The goal of this web archive collection is to reflect, enhance, and contextualize the division’s unique holdings with websites that have direct personal, institutional, or subject relationships to them. Wertheimer took over the curation of this collection and revised its scope in 2018. Wertheimer’s online research guide Performing Arts Web Archives at the Library of Congress is forthcoming at https://guides.loc.gov/. Melissa E. Wertheimer Music Division, Library of Congress ________ The Talbott Music Library of Westminster Choir College of Rider University has digitized the Julia A. Perry Collection (https://cdm15457.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16471coll12/search). To date, the Julia A. Perry Collection is Talbott Music Library’s most requested Special Collection, with inquires received from all over the world. A Westminster Choir College Alumna (BM 1947, MM 1948), Julia A. Perry was a prolific composer, and her life and works continue to be studied to this day, providing a glimpse into the work of a mid-20th century Black woman composer. Her works received significant attention in the 1950s and...