Notes for notes.(Juilliard School of Music recieves music manuscripts from Bruce Kovner)(National Endowment for the Humanities donates grant to University of California)(Bettie Jean Harden wins Music OCLC Users Group's award)

The Juilliard School has received an extraordinary collection of music manuscripts from Juilliard Board Chairman, Bruce Kovner. Formally announced by Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi at a press conference on 28 February 2006, the donation comprises 139 autograph manuscripts, sketches, Stichvorlagen, and first editions with composer annotations. Among the many highlights of the collection are the newly discovered manuscript of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, in his arrangement for piano, 4 hands; the engraver's proof of Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 with extensive markings by the composer; the "lost" continuo part for Bach's Cantata no. 176 with composer markings; the autograph final scene of wind parts to Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro; the earliest surviving manuscript for Purcell's Dido & Aeneas; and sketchbooks for parts of Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Stravinsky's Petrushka, and Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. The collection will be housed in a new Scholars Reading Room, to be completed in September 2009 as part of a campus-wide renovation and expansion project. Access to individual items is quite limited until that time, although it may be possible to provide digital surrogates in some cases. Please contact Jane Gottlieb, Vice President for Library and Information Resources, the Juilliard School, for additional information (e-mail: gottlieb@juilliard.edu).

The Pepys Ballad Archive (http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/index.asp [accessed 31 May 2006]) of the Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Patricia Fumerton, director), has received a significant grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which will enable completion of recording and mounting online all of the estimated 1,000 identifiable tunes for the ballads collected by famed diarist Samuel Pepys--the largest single collection of ballads of the seventeenth century, the heyday of the printed broadside ballad. The archive meets a pressing scholarly need by providing unique and full digital access to all 1,857 of the Pepys ballad texts, which, due to their fragility and frequently almost illegible black letter font, have been virtually inaccessible to most scholars up to now. At the Web site, users may access online images of each ballad in several sizes as high-quality facsimiles; in addition, the archive provides online "facsimile transcriptions," which preserve the ballads' original "look" with all their ornamental woodcuts, while transcribing the black-letter font into easily readable white-letter or roman type. Currently, the archive contains about fifty recorded ballad tunes; completion of the tune recording project will provide literary and music scholars with unique access to the tunes together with their texts.

The executive board of the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG) is honored to name Bettie Jean Harden as the sixth recipient of MOUG's Distinguished Service Award. This award has been established to recognize and honor a librarian who has made significant professional contributions to music users of OCLC. The MOUG executive board selects a recipient based on nominations received from the MOUG membership. Jean received the award during MOUG's annual business meeting, on 22 February 2006 in Memphis, TN.

Jean Harden began her professional library career in August of 1992, when she began work at the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music as a retrospective conversion cataloger. She brought a rich background to cataloging--a Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University, an MLS from Syracuse, a solid record of research and publication on medieval music, a good grounding in music bibliography through work in the US-RILM office and contributions to the New Harvard Dictionary of Music and the New Grove Dictionary ...