Music Collection
The main strengths of the musical score and sound recording collections are:
- Opera
- Collected editions of scores (of which Latrobe has 76 collected sets)
- Orchestra, chamber, strings and keyboard works of all major composers
- Jazz
- 12th century to 15th century sacred music (especially 14th century Gregorian chant)
- Instrument and instrumental ensembles
- Keyboard music
- Vocal music
Some major highlights of the collections are:
- Where possible recordings of original instruments have been purchased, even if other versions were already held.
- Due to the Ron Waldington Fund there is a valuable and comprehensive collection of jazz sound recordings.
- Original collections of traditional folk music e.g. UNESCO recordings.
- Medieval and renaissance musical manuscripts in microform format.
- Colour facsimiles such as: Codex Einsiedeln 121, the earliest complete manuscript of Gregorian chant (DM 1,900); Codex Calixtinus, a source of the earliest polyphonic music; and the Squarcialup Codex, the collection of fourteenth-century Florentine music (LIT,200.000).
- A strong emphasis of 14th century music.
- A valuable donation by Mrs Jill Humble, from the Keith Humble estate, of Collected sets of musical scores: 88 J.S.Bach; 129 W.A. Mozart; 40 A. Schoenberg
- Musical scores of past lecturers of the La Trobe Music Department: Humble; Dollarhide; Whiffin, Pressing; Pollard.