james h. moore collection

James H. Moore, professor in the Music Department at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1984, was one of the leading scholars researching seventeenth-century Venetian sacred music. After Professor Moore's premature death in 1984, his parents presented his papers and scholarly research materials to the University of Chicago Library. These included a major collection of primary and secondary sources on microfilm. The microfilms are not yet catalogued, but a handlist of their contents is available from this website. They are available in the Microform Reading Room on the third floor of Regenstein Library.

The microfilm research materials fall into the following categories:

• Printed editions of music by individual 17th-century composers
  
• Printed anthologies of 17th-century music
  
• Printed and manuscript 17th-century liturgical books and historical records (with minimal or no musical notation)
  
• Manuscripts of 17th-century music
  
• Dissertations on Renaissance and Baroque Music
  
• Miscellaneous