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|| About the Collection ||
Elizabeth Hunter Morrill was a soprano with a special interest in 18th-century Italian opera. She and her husband, F. Gordon Morrill, are most noted for establishing the Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill Music Library at Villa I Tatti, considered the finest collection on Italian Medieval and Renaissance musicology in Italy. Though their primary home was in Florence, they maintained residences in Massachusetts and Florida as well, and during their travels in the United States, Mrs. Morrill came to know the vast holdings of opera scores and librettos in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. This collection consists of conductor’s scores and vocal parts Mrs. Morrill extracted from the Music Division’s opera scores as well as recordings of her singing many of the arias.
|| Collection Details ||
General
- Major Language(s)
- English, Italian
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Number of Items
- 500
- Number of Containers
- 7
- Linear Feet
- 10
- Contents
- Piano-conductor scores, parts, and some full scores – mostly of early Italian operas; English translations of Italian librettos; 25 reel-to-reel audiotapes.
- Processing History
- Unprocessed; most items in good condition; no finding aid or inventory available.
Access/Copyright
- Access Permissions
- Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
- On Microfilm?
- No
- Copyright Info
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Preferred Citation
- Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
