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Collection Thumbnail	Title	Formats	Subjects
	Chicago Jazz Archive The collections span more than eight decades of Chicago and general jazz history. The collections include recordings, publications, photographs, articles, posters, programs, ticket stubs, and other ephemera of musicians, clubs, record companies, and jazz organizations.	Formats Archives & Manuscripts Audio Music Scores	Subjects Music Chicago and Illinois
	Chopin Early Editions Digitized version of the Library's collection of early printed editions of Chopin's musical compositions. The collection can be searched by a variety of data points including uniform title, genre, plate number, dedicatee, publisher. place of publication, etc., allowing scholars to study the differences between scores as they were published concurrently in different countries with variant texts.	Formats Digital Music Scores	Subjects Music
	Gregorian Chant Digital Manuscript Collection The Gregorian Chant Manuscript Collection was digitized from a set of microforms that came to the University of Chicago Library in the 1990s. Reproductions were obtained from various Western European institutions, libraries, and religious houses mainly in France and England. The collection of liturgical codex manuscripts dates from the 9th through 17th centuries with a concentration in the 12th and 13th centuries and include antiphonaries, missals, graduals, breviaries, sacramentaries, kyriales, tropers, sequentiaries, and others. The first twelve titles in this collection have been digitized and can be accessed from the Library's online catalog.	Formats Digital Microform	Subjects Music
	St. Albans Collection of Music The St. Albans Collection of Music came to the University of Chicago as 34 volumes of printed and manuscript music acquired by successive Duchesses of St. Albans between 1780 and 1860. The collection provides an interesting and unusually complete picture of the musical life of an aristocratic English family in Georgian and early Victorian times.	Formats Music Scores	Subjects Music Special Collections