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	American Popular Music and Entertainment: The Gay Nineties to the Great Depression Exploring a unique era in American musical and cultural history, the exhibit features sheet music, cylinders, discs, and phonographs from the extensive private collection of Allen G. Debus, the Morris Fishbein Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 31, 1989	Subjects Music
	Artivism: Italy and Social Justice Art activism in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room June 11 — Dec. 15, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music Art Italian Literature
	Envisioning Earth This exhibit points to historical references to conservation and the environment; the approach is one that is multidisciplinary, accomplished through music, literature, and cartography.	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room May 1 — Sept. 4, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Literature Music Maps
	Frederic Chopin and His Publishers This exhibition, which surveys the relationship between Chopin's music and its publishing history, includes first editions, images of Chopin and his associates; facsimiles of autograph manuscripts; and later editions prepared by Chopin's students and performers of his music.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 30, 1998	Subjects Music History of Print
	From Dreamland to Showcase: Jazz in Chicago, 1912 to 1996 This show highlights the development of jazz music and musicians in the Chicago area through the use of sheet music, photographs, recordings, music manuscripts, posters and other treasures from the University Library's Chicago Jazz Archive and from private collections.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Feb. 28, 1997	Subjects Music
	Jazz-The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet The Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930 is memorialized in this exhibit, which showcases over 60 watercolors, drawings, and collages by art-historian and long-time jazz observer Stephen Longstreet.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Nov. 30, 1989	Subjects Music
	The Late Sketches and Autographs of Beethoven The books in which Beethoven carried out his sketching can be identified as falling into one of three categories: collections of loose leaves, large sketchbooks, and pocket books. The first of these, loose leaves, were used by Beethoven early in his life (from around 1786 to 1799) to draft compositions, as well as to write out compositional exercises, often for the keyboard. These loose leaves were later collected, sorted, and sewn together into book format by the composer himself.	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room June 21 — Dec. 14, 2019 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music
	The Legacy of Virdung: Rare Books in the Collection of Frederick R. Selch Important in the Study of the History of Musical Instruments Rare books on the history, design, and use of musical instruments collected by Frederick R. (Eric) Selch (1930-2000) will be on view in this traveling loan exhibition.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 1, 2006	Subjects Music
	Music in the University of Chicago Library: Selected for an Exhibition at the Joseph Regenstein Library Representative of the Library's music collection, this exhibition includes fine first editions, works of general historical interest, and music manuscripts showing how the contemporary composer works.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 1 — Oct. 31, 1972	Subjects Music
	On Reading Spring "On Reading Spring" is divided into six thematic sections, each offering a discreet meditation on the unfolding of the season through experiences commonly ascribed to spring: Refreshment, Vulnerability, Epiphany, Restoration, Tenderness, and Joy. By pairing a selection of the Special Collections Research Center’s rare and unusual published works with archival letters, diaries, photographs, musical manuscripts and early drafts of poems composed between March and June, "On Reading Spring" considers the ways in which diverse works reveal a sympathetic vernal experience across disciplines, cultures, and time periods.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 6 — June 30, 2020 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music Art Literature Photography
	Ralph Shapey Manuscripts The exhibit showcases some of the manuscripts and sketches Ralph Shapey has donated, which vividly demonstrate his methods for scanning text and seating ensembles. The scores themselves are included as well.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1981	Subjects Music
	Sounds from Tomorrow's World: Sun Ra and the Chicago Years, 1946-1961 This exhibit explores Sun Ra’s Chicago years through images and sound recordings of his poetry and music, vinyl records and album artwork, promotional materials and early controversial broadsheets. While living in Chicago, Herman Poole “Sonny” Blount became Sun Ra—the leader of the Arkestra and a composer and arranger of some of the most avant-garde jazz of the time.	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room Dec. 1 — Aug. 20, 2010 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Music Chicago and Illinois
	Victorian Song Victorian Song	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1977	Subjects Music