Resource Views:
- Description
- Finding Aid
This collection is not available online. For more
information on accessing this material:
Ask a
Librarian
From:
{
download_links:[
{
label:'MODS Bibliographic Record',
link: 'mods.xml',
meta: 'XML'
},
{
label:'METS Object Description',
link: 'mets.xml',
meta: 'XML'
}
]
}
Tams-Witmark Collection, 1701-1915 [collection]
- Title
- Tams-Witmark Collection, 1701-1915 [collection]
- Dates Created
- Span: 1701-1915
- Bulk: 1801-1900
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 164 ft.
- 829 boxes
- Abstract
- The Tams-Witmark Music Library was established in 1925 through the merger of the Arthur W. Tams Music Library and the rental library of M. Witmark & Sons. The Tams Music Library began in 1883 and specialized in sacred music and opera. By the 1920s, it grew into one of the largest libraries of its kind. The Witmarks entered the music publishing business in 1885 and started their own rental library in 1898. It handled mostly popular operas and musicals, including those of Victor Herbert, Reginald DeKoven, and George M. Cohan. In 1969, the Tams-Witmark Music Library dispersed a large part of its older materials among five libraries: the Library of Congress, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Princeton University, the Eastman School of Music, and Westminster Choir College.
The Tams-Witmark Collection contains music (manuscript and printed scores) that was being performed in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The scope of the collection ranges from eighteenth century operas of Handel and Glu¨ck to a musical by George M. Cohan. The bulk of the materials are nineteenth century English, French, German, and Italian operas and operettas, the majority in full score, with some instrumental parts. The collection also contains a small amount of concert music, including secular and sacred choral works, patriotic music, symphonic scores, and incidental music. - Contents Note
- Music scores, printed and manuscript.
- Preferred Citation
- Tams-Witmark Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
- Access Permissions
- Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site.
- Copyright
- Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
- Subjects
- American Musical Theater
- Opera
- Sacred Music
- Choral Music
- Tams-Witmark Music Library
- Call Number
- ML31.T36
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Finding Aid
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010022
Last Updated: 08-21-2012