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1. George Crumb papers, 1944-2022

   approximately 7,800 items. 71 containers. 48 linear feet. 5,600 digital files (1.2 TB). -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   George Crumb was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who was long associated with the University of Pennsylvania. The collection consists of holograph manuscript scores and sketches, correspondence, business papers, subject files, and a series of meticulously assembled scrapbooks that chronicle Crumb's career as a composer.

2. Theodore Presser Company archive, 1814-2019

   approximately 300,000 items. 1,708 containers. 794 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Theodore Presser Company Archive contains not only business records and music published by the Theodore Presser Company, but also that of the publishing companies they acquired, including the Oliver Ditson Company and John Church Company and their subsidiaries. The music includes manuscripts, annotated galley proofs, and printed music for solo instruments and voices, chamber ensembles, choirs, band, and orchestra. Catalogs and indices, correspondence, financial and legal records, photographs, and other administrative files comprise the business records. Please note that some words typically used in song titles do not match the language preferred by members of the communities to which they refer.

3. Randolph S. Rothschild collection, 1942-1992

   approximately 225 items. 11 boxes. 6 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Randolph S. Rothschild Collection consists primarily of music and accompanying correspondence, programs, and reviews. The majority of the music in the collection is facsimile scores of compositions commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from American composers such as Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Ernst Krenek, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Rouse, Gunther Schuller, and Charles Wuorinen. Many of these scores are inscribed to Rothschild and signed by the composers, and a few include programs and reviews of the concerts at which they were performed.