14. Music collections

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This collection consists of printed scans and photocopies of posters created by Little Bobby Duncan for the Houston music venue, Rockefeller's.

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This collection contains Ralph Fales' negatives and digital imagesof musicians and other entertainers from a variety of performance venues in Houston.

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This collection consists of the audio research interviews and manuscript materials for the book, "Looks Like Rain: The Songwriting Legacy of Mickey Newbury" by Brian T. Atkinson.

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This collection consists of audio by Kathy Rote and an oral history with her.

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This collection consists of digital WAV and MP3 files of live performances from the radio show "Live from Joe's Roadhouse."

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This collection contains the records of the Houston Blues Society.

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This a collection of Houston-related music photographs originally owned and created by the Houston Chronicle and its staff.

Abstract The Francis Poulenc archive contains two autograph autograph musical manuscripts by Francis Poulenc, dedicated and inscribed to operatic singer Denise Duval. In August 1960 he composed a series of melodies, based on various poems by Maurice Carême, titled La Courte-Paille (The Shortest Straw). The following year, Poulenc composed a soprano and piano (or orchestra) piece, La Dame de Monte-Carlo (The Lady of Monte-Carlo), after a poem by Jean Cocteau. Both works are on music paper from a...

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This collection consists of fliers, issues of Public News, and concert recordings on CD.

Abstract: Thirteen individual leaves of rare 15th and 16th century original music manuscripts depicting portions Catholic masses and prayers in Latin, hand drawn and beautifully illustrated with brilliant tempera paints on large vellum sheets. A podcast by Rice University features this material online: "Sing the Glory: an illuminated manuscript of adoration", available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDW5Op5Iwjs. The materials are available online at...