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Bishop
COLLECTION: Henry R. Bishop materials
LOCATION AS OF 2001: Music Library Special Collections (cataloged materials),
and Special Collections cataloging backlog cabinets, upper level.
PROVENANCE: Archival materials on Bishop assembled by English music critic
Richard Northcott and acquired from J. & J. Lubrano (1994), with additional
items acquired by Lubrano for University of Illinois from Sotheby's London Music
Auction (1996); folio engraved portrait of Bishop acquired from Lubrano at later
date. Lubrano purchases supplement Bishop items already held by Music Library
(about 50 entries for "Bishop, Henry R." in online catalog as of Sept. 2001).
WHEN ACQUIRED: 1990s
DESCRIPTION: Six autograph music manuscripts; three autograph lectures on the
history of music; over 75 letters, mostly in Bishop's hand but a few by his
second wife, Anna Bishop, or by other individuals writing to Bishop; printed
piano-vocal scores of five stageworks; three libretti; over 100 items of sheet
music (mainly excerpts from Bishop operas and other vocal works), in British and
U.S. editions; 22 bound volumes in two "sets" (12 editions of Bishop operas, 10
volumes of glees edited by Bishop); large engraved portrait of Bishop;
miscellaneous additional archival materials. Also six letters to Northcott
concerning his Bishop research.
ARRANGEMENT: Individually cataloged items housed in Special Collections by shelf
number (portrait [f.ML410.B196F67] on Special Collections folio shelf). U.S.
sheet music imprints incorporated into American vocal sheet music collection.
British sheet music in separate document box in Special Collections [M3.1
B47S6]. Uncataloged materials, including bound volume sets, on separate shelf in
Special Collections cataloging backlog cabinet.
ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: See online catalog for individually cataloged
items. Refer to Collections File ("Bishop, Henry") for Lubrano's detailed
description of the Northcott archive (1994); a
statement of materials received in the 1994 shipment not described by Lubrano; a
list of American sheet music imprints, with shelf numbers; and correspondence
and notes relating to the purchase of these
materials.
INDEX TERMS: Bishop, Henry; Manuscripts; Northcott, Richard; Opera Sheet music,
American; Sheet music, British
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