NEW WEB SITE GIVES ACCESS TO SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST VALUED MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED MUSIC, INCLUDING THE MORGAN'S MUSIC COLLECTION

The Morgan Library & Museum is participating in the Library of Congress Music Treasures Consortium Web site, which gives online access to some of the world's most valued music manuscripts and printed scores. The aim of the site is to further music scholarship and research by providing access in one place to digital images of primary sources for study and performance of music. It is available at www.loc.gov/musictreasures.

The Music Treasures Consortium Web site is the creation of several renowned music libraries and archives in the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition to the Morgan, the consortium members include the British Library, the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, the Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace Library, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. The site is hosted by the Library of Congress on its Performing Arts Encyclopedia (www.loc.gov/performingarts).