LibraryGeorge J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives

In the foreword to Bowdoin Is a Singing College, President James Coles stated: "A world without music would scarcely be human; a college without music would be dreary indeed.... How integral a part of liberal education!"

Benefiting that education are at least seventy-five works including:

• Markus Meibom

  Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septum, in Greek and Latin, 1652

• Antiphonarium Romanum de Tempore et Sanctis

  1662

• The Musical Miscellany ...

  1730

• The Social Choir

  1836-38

• Lowell Mason

  Several volumes of songs collected by Lowell Mason

• New and Enlarged Edition of the Patriotic Song Book

  c1862

• Francis Child

  War Songs for Freemen, 1863

• Paul Dukas

  Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, c1907, the composer's autograph presentation copy

• Reginald Robbins

  Songs, 131 pieces, 1922

• Aaron Copland

  Autographed copy of the miniature score for Appalachian Spring, c1945

• Elliott Schwartz

  Several works by the Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music are in the Bowdoin College Authors Collection. A collection of Prof. Schwartz's works in manuscript (M161) is also among department holdings.

• Antiphonary-gradual, ca. thirteenth century (manuscript)
  
  
• Le Duc, Mark

  "A Catalogue of the Early American MusicCollection of Bowdoin College." Written by LeDuc (Bowdoin 1980), for his 1978 American Music class. (M194.L4386)

• Longfellow Poems Set to Music

  A collection of 668 pieces, arranged in alphabetical order by the title of each poem.

• Miscellaneous Music Collection

  A collection of 208 pieces of sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this material includes popular tunes arranged by composer, including 46 pieces composed by Latham True.