Document Type
Article
Date
1-1972
Keywords
Music Archives, Czechoslovakia, Church music
Language
English
Disciplines
Music
Description/Abstract
Small but significant former church libraries in Poland and Czechoslovakia, often in remote areas, do not normally have the facilities or the technically skilled personnel to provide photographic copies of their unique sources. Music and documents relating to pre-eighteenth-century musical establishments, especially ecclesiastical foundations, are often preserved in such libraries. One of these is located in the small town of Kromerli in Moravia, Czechoslovakia. The unique musical sources in this somewhat remote library are now most felicitously preserved on microfilm at Syracuse University. The films are part of the growing microfilm resources of the University, and, for American scholars, constitute in themselves a unique source of seventeenth-century Central European music, particularly since the specific Czech archive was never microfilmed previous to the complete filming for Syracuse University. Scholars especially interested in the culture and history of the Hapsburg or Holy Roman Empire will find this music terra incognita and a necessary adjunct to their arsenal of seventeenth-century sources.
Recommended Citation
Smithers, Don L., "The Liechtenstein Music Archive on Microfilm at Syracuse" (1972). The Courier. 13.
https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc/13
Source
local input
Additional Information
The Courier, v.9 no. 2 1972 p. 37-47