Description
Six autograph music manuscripts; three autograph lectures on the history of music; 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; large engraved portrait of Bishop. Acquired from J. & J. Lubrano in the 1990s to supplement existing Library holdings.
Location/Access
Music and Performing Arts Library Special Collections
- Individually cataloged items housed in Special Collections by shelf number (portrait has the call number f.ML410.B196F67 in the Library catalog and is located on the Special Collections folio shelf). American sheet music imprints can be accessed through the U.S. Sheet Music Database. British sheet music in separate document box in Special Collections (call number M3.1 B47S6 in the Library catalog).
- See online catalog for individually cataloged items. American sheet music imprints can be accessed through the U.S. Sheet Music Database.
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Several additional Bishop titles are held at RBML in the Fraenkel collection.
Index terms
- Bishop, Henry
- Manuscripts
- Opera Sheet music
- Sheet music