Ella Fitzgerald Collection [collection]
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- Title
- Ella Fitzgerald Collection [collection]
- Dates Created
- Span: 1956-1992
- Bulk: 1960-1985
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 176 ft.
- 285 boxes
- Repository
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Music Division, Library of Congress
- Abstract
- Ella Fitzgerald, "The First Lady of Song," was a jazz singer, a stylist, and a pop singer. Boasting an instrument of wide range, unerring pitch, and a combination of musicality and inventiveness that few, if any, other singers could match, Fitzgerald is the standard against which singers of popular songs are measured. Fitzgerald is also set apart by both the quantity and quality of her song choices—estimated at 2,309 recordings of 1,117 songs. She is also credited as being one of the progenitors of scat singing, and the recording of themed and "songbook" albums, which feature songs by single composers and/or lyricists. The Ella Fitzgerald Collection consists primarily of the extraordinary arrangements created for her by more than fifty of the finest practitioners of that art and craft.
- Contents Note
- Full scores, short scores/piano-conductor scores, parts, lyric sheets, piano-vocal scores of songs arranged for and performed and/or recorded by Ella Fitzgerald.
- Note
- Betamax and VHS videocassettes transferred to MBRS
- notes
- No
- Ella Fitzgerald Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
- Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
- Copyright Information
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http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Subjects
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African American Music
Arrangers
Jazz Band Music
Songs
Popular Music
Women in the Performing Arts
Fitzgerald, Ella
Bregman, Buddy
Bulling, Erich
Byers, Billy
Carson, Tee
Carter, Benny
DeVol, Frank
Doggett, Bill
Donahue, Gus
Ellington, Duke
Feller, Sid
Flanagan, Tommy
Garcia, Russ
Hefti, Neal
Hillery, Art
Holman, Bob
Hughart, Jim
Jenkins, Gordon
Johnson, J.J.
Jones, Jimmy
Lipman, Joe
Mancini, Henry
May, Billy
Paich, Marty
Pierce, Nat
Previn, André
Riddle, Nelson
Smith, Paul T.
Spence, Johnnie
Weston, Paul
Wilson, Gerald
- Updated
- 08-13-2008