giving descriptions of the collections and administrative information. Cover-
age has thus far extended to North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand,
and Japan. Details in Duckles7.1.- Seaton, Douglass. “Important Library Holdings at Forty-one North American
Universities.” Current Musicology17 (April 1974): 7–68.
A general survey, in which certain opera collections are identified. Some of
them are in Boston University (Risë Stevens collection), Columbia (Berlioz),
Cornell (18th- and 19th-century scores), Harvard (Rossini), Indiana (black
music and Latin American music), Stanford (recorded sound; early singers),
University of California, Berkeley (18th-century French libretti; 19th-century
Italian and French scores), University of California at Los Angeles (18th-
century libretti, including a 117-volume set of Venetian works), Texas (libretti),
Washington (17th–19th century scores), and Western Ontario (editions and
manuscripts, 1751–1800). - Bradley, Carol June. Music Collections in American Libraries: A Chronology.
Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1981. 249p. ISBN 0-89990-002-X.
ML111 .B79.
An inventory of 374 institutions in the U.S., citing significant dates, special col-
lections, published catalogues, and writings by and about the library. Index
identifies major subject collections. - Penney, Barbara. Music in British Libraries: A Directory of Resources. 4th ed.
London: Library Association, 1992. 112p. ISBN 0-85365-739-4. ML21 .L66.
First edition, 1971. Describes holdings and facilities of some 700 libraries.
Index of composers cited and of other special collections by subject.
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