Irving and Verna Fine, Tanglewood, 1947 [photograph], Author/Creator Photographer unknown About this image
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The Irving Fine Collection consists of the holograph music manuscripts and sketches, copyists’manuscripts, and published musical scores of the composer’s works, as well as published scores of other composers. Fine’s writings and correspondence, photographs, concert programs, newspaper clippings, and subject files (unprocessed) are also included.
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General
- Span Dates
- 1940-1991
- Bulk Dates
- 1950s-1960s
- Major Language(s)
- English
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Number of Items
- 1500
- Number of Containers
- 25
- Linear Feet
- 20
- Contents
- Holograph and published music manuscripts and sketches; correspondence; writings; photographs; concert programs; newspaper clippings; scrapbooks, miscellaneous subject files.
- Processing History
- Partially processed
- Transfers
- Forty (40) tapes have been transferred to the Library’s Recorded Sound Reference Center (Motion Picture, Broadcast and Recorded Sound Division)
- Provenance
- Gift of Mrs. Verna Fine (1963, 1991).
Access/Copyright
- Access Permissions
- Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures, to processed portion of collection only.
- On Microfilm?
- Holograph music manuscripts only, as “MFM 84/20,203
”. Two additional holograph music manuscripts, those of Fine’s String Quartet (1951-2) and the Romanza for wind quintet (1963), are held in microfilm copies as “MUSIC 1811, ITEM 27” and “MUSIC 1636,” respectively. These two manuscripts were commissioned respectively by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, and are housed in the Library collections of the same name. - Copyright Info
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Preferred Citation
- Irving Fine Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress