This open music anthology represents the culmination of a semester of inquiry into how information systems work, how they impact musicians of today, and how we view musicians of the past.

Nine works are available here for musicians and scholars to learn about and engage. The works here cover a wide range of genres and composers. They represent works that had only existed in manuscript, works by women composers that had fallen out of copyright and print, and works by composers enrolled in the course.

In preparing this edition, students grappled with copyright status, researching reception and performance history, and, in the case of our class composers, how they might want to share their work and under what license it would be available. Projects involving living composers required digging into new methodologies like oral history and understanding not only how to bring a composers ideas to the audience effectively, but how to work with interviewees on issues surround intellectual property and sharing these oral histories.

Unfortunately, the Pressbooks format limits how we can display the resulting musical scores. Scores may be licensed differently than the overall book, and that has been noted where applicable.

Kathleen DeLaurenti
Head Librarian, Arthur Friedheim Library
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

This Open Edition is licensed by a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted.