Collections : [Yale University -Irving S. Gilmore Music Library]

Correspondence, music, and photographs by and about the American music librarian, critic, music administrator, recording executive, and program annotator Leonard Burkat (1919-1992)

Music and other papers by and about the British-American composer, conductor, and organist James G. Barnett (d. 1885)

Music and other materials by Adelina Carola Appleton (1886-1958).

This collection documents the career of Adelina Patti, and many of the items in the collection are housed in a large scrapbook. Also included in the collection is a biography of Patti: Adelina Patti: Her Loves and Letters, by her goddaughter, Gladys Adelina Lewis. The collection also includes an autograph book presented to Selma Gruenberg, which includes an Adelina Patti autograph and inscription (1882), and correspondences from Patti to Giulia Valde and various other people. Objects in the collection include a slipper autographed by Patti, a pair of opera glasses, a pair of formal evening gloves, and an ornate collapsible fan.

Rocky Clark was a journalist who wrote about the jazz scene in Southern Connecticut. As the first president of the Dixieland Society of Southern Connecticut, his papers document the activities of this organization. Also represented in the collection is some coverage of the Intercollegiate Jazz Festival at Quinnipiac College. Clark collected a large number of jazz-related photographs for his features, which are also included in the collection.

Arrangements for theater orchestra of music suitable for silent films

Scores, sheet music, lyrics, and librettos belonging to Sylvia Fine and Danny Kaye

Copyists' manuscripts of 19th-century Italian opera excerpts (in full score, reductions, or arrangements), as well as copyists' scores of 19th-century chamber music