Music Manuscripts
name: label: Collection Musician
content: Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
label: Collection Donor
content: Moody, Linda
label: Collection Musician
content: Moody, James, 1925-2010
setName: label: See more items in
content: James Moody Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1405, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials comprise the largest portion of the collection and includes original music manuscripts (parts and scores), copy scores, and arrangements of compositions by James Moody and other artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Dave Brubeck.  The music often includes notes relating to essential parts needed for performing a song title; parts for each instrument; and the name of the composer, arranger, and transcriber. Materials are arranged in alphabetical order by song title.