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"A fascinating look into the manuscripts from a prestigious music institution with manuscripts from classical music’s famous composers."
Juilliard School Library Music Manuscripts: By and For Performers Edited by Jane Gottlieb, with Richard Griscom
Publisher Description: The first full examination of the priceless scores of the Juilliard School’s unparalleled collection that has educated performing artists for more than a century. This stunning publication offers the first full examination of the priceless scores at the heart of the Juilliard School’s unparalleled collection that has supported the education of performing artists for more than a century. Treasures including hand-annotated and autographed works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Mahler, Schumann, Stravinsky, and others are illuminated by exquisite photography and accessible essays, revealing their importance in the context of musical scholarship and the history of the performing arts.
How to present this to library customers: This book is great for libraries with extensive music collections that support a music loving community. If your collection is used by music lovers and musicians then this is the book for you. You can pair this book with classical music recordings or biographies of famous classical music composers or performers.
Audience Key:
NOVICE:
A patron who does not know about the arts but is looking for new interests. These items are for public collections that call for you to introduce the arts to patrons and ignite their interests. They often know much more about popular culture than what’s happening in the arts.
EXPLORER:
These items are for customers who have some knowledge of the arts and want to learn more. Oftentimes these patrons stream music from your music streaming service, take out music and art biographies and they may attend music and art programming at your library.
AFICIONADO:
Ordering for aficionados requires knowledge about their habits when consuming the arts. These patrons are aware of the arts through museums, classical music, jazz and more. Oftentimes, these patrons attend music and art programming at your library, are professionals in the arts world with thorough knowledge of visual and/or performing arts.
