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Fall semester seminar & topic in fall 2008

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Music

Music manuscripts can be about more than music. The Newberry's collection contains material from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century, including both classic works and popular song.

(Click on the pictures to see larger versions.)

Composition from 1391

Left: Musical composition by Friar G. de Anglia (October 2, 1391).

Right: Frederic Chopin, manuscript for Nocturne, Opus 62 (1846). Chopin wrote this nocturne in 1846, a few years before his death.

Chopin Nocturne
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