UCLA Libraries Music Library Special Collections Archives Film and Television Music

The UCLA Music Library collects and provides primary and secondary research materials relating to the film, television and radio arts and industry. Among these materials are archival collections which contain sketches and completed manuscripts of music composed for films, TV and radio productions. Many of these collections also include cue sheets, performing parts and other related documents. A few include recordings on disc or tape. Also pertinent books, scores, periodicals and commercial recordings of film soundtracks are part of these collections.

Film and Television Music Archives

  • Jeff Alexander Television, Radio, and Motion Picture Music Collection
    The collection consists of holographs and/or ozalid copies of musical sketches for TV commercials, radio programs; television shows, and various television specials, and holographs or copies of motion picture scores. Also included are additional manuscript scores, framed tributes, awards, letters of recognition, photographs with personalities, drawings, and sound recordings.
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  • George Antheil Motion Picture and Television Music Collection
    The collection consists of holographs, ozalid and other copies of scores, short scores and parts of George Antheil's music for motion picture and television productions. Included is the music for The Plainsman, The Buccaneer, Knock on Any Door, Not as a Stranger, In a Lonely Place, and The Pride and the Passion.
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  • Polly Bergen Musical Arrangements Collection
    Television and stage show arrangements for Bergen.
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  • Ronald Bohn Collection of Film and Television Music Sound Recordings
    The collection consists of commercially issued and other sound recordings, of music for television shows and motion pictures. The collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
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  • Roger Bourland Collection of Music Manuscripts
    Manuscript scores, including the film Gauguin: the Wolf at the Door.
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  • Richard Bowden Collection of Musical Compositions and Arrangements
    Collection consists of manuscripts and/or ozalid masters and copies and printed scores for compositions and arrangements of music for orchestra, chamber groups, and jazz bands, and for television and motion picture productions.
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  • Carol Burnett Collection of Television Music and Printed Sheet Music
    The collection consists of orchestral scores and parts for musical numbers from Carol Burnett's television show, stage performances, and recordings (ca. 1790 titles). The majority of arrangements are for the Carol Burnett Show. Also included in the collection is mamusic from Once Upon a Mattress, Carol Burnett and Martha Raye LP recording, Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett at Lincoln Center, and Greek Theatre (Los Angeles) performances. Most titles include a manuscript full score and ca. 22 parts. Included are many arrangements by Peter Matz and Harry Zimmerman, as well as ca. 7,000 titles of published sheet music.
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  • R. Dale Butts Film Music Collection
    Manuscripts and sound recordings of film music by R. Dale Butts.
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  • Joseph Byrd Musical Works and Papers Collection
    Collection consists predominantly of holographs of Joseph Byrd's concert pieces, "happening" pieces, film and television music, and arrangements, with some works by other composers, papers and memorabilia. Also contains some audiotapes and videotapes.
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  • Capitol Theatre (New York, NY) Collection of Silent Film Music
    The collection consists of published scores, mostly for piano, of music to accompany the showing of silent films. Includes some manuscript parts of music arranged for chamber ensembles.
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  • CBS Inc. Film and Television Collection
    The collection consists of music manuscripts, books, printed music, sound recordings and business papers relating to CBS productions. Also included are logs, music manuscripts, books, and printed music related to four types of CBS productions: features films, television series, television specials, and television movies, The productions fall under the CBS Television Network, CBS Entertainment Division, CBS Productions Network, and, in a few cases, earlier manifestations of these divisions. The collection includes materials in the form of: manuscript scores, parts, and a few Ozalid masters of both scores and parts for film and television productions; printed sheet music and folios of popular music; publishers catalogs, brochures; published books about music; and published silent film music. The collection includes materials by composers such as Jeff Alexander, Bill "Rocky" Conti, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Lyn Murray, Alex North, Fred Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, and John Williams. Productions represented include TV series such as Gilligan's Island, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel,Hawaii 5-0, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Twilight Zone, and Wild Wild West. Also included is music for feature films such as The April Fools, Little Big Man, The Reivers, Rio Lobo, and Table For Five. A highlight of the collection are many scores for live Playhouse 90 dramas. The collection is currently being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
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  • Paul Chihara Collection of Musical Works and Papers
    Music manuscripts, published scores, sound recordings, published reviews, and photographs.
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  • Collection of Music Journals
    The collection consists of various music journal titles.
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  • Aaron Copland Collection of Motion Picture Music
    Ozalid copies of conductor's scores of original music for the motion pictures "The North Star" (1943) and "The Red pony" (1949). Includes piano score for the song "No village like mine," with music by Copland, words by Ira Gershwin, based on a Russian folk tune, composer unknown.
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  • John Davidson Musical Arrangements Collection
    Manuscripts or copies of musical arrangements for Davidson's television show, by various arrangers: scores and parts.
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  • Dennis Day Collection of Music for Radio
    Scores and manuscripts of music for radio.
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  • Jimmy Durante Papers
    The collection consists of sound and video recordings, orchestrations, stills, clippings, scrapbooks, sheet music and other papers orignally belonging to Jimmy Durante.
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  • Nat Farber Collection of Television Show Music Arrangements
    Manuscript scores of arrangements by various arrangers for the Carol Burnett Show, Danny Kaye Show, Glen Campbell Show, Rex Allen Show, Dinah Shore Show, and other productions; script and rehearsal schedules for Carol Burnett Shows.
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  • Film Music Collection
    The collection consists of manuscript scores and sketches of motion picture music scores by Mickey Bloom, Gerard Carbonara, Eddie Dunstedter, Max Dunstedter, Frederick Hollander, Miklós Rózsa, Marc Wilkinson and Victor Young. Also included are manuscript scores and parts for the uncredited television show, Let George Do It (ca. 1960).
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  • Ernest J. (Tennessee Ernie) Ford Musical Arrangements Collection
    Collection of arrangements and parts, in manuscripts or ozalid copies, of popular songs for performers on the Tennessee Ernie Ford show during the 1956-61 seasons.
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  • Frances A. Forster Collection of Silent Film Music
    Printed loose-leaf collections of film music comosed by J.S. Zamecnik and M.L. Lake.
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  • General Music Corporation Collection of Television Music
    Collection consists of manuscripts and/or ozalid copies of manuscripts (predominantly) of conductor scores and parts for television cues written by Basil Adlam, Frank DeVol, Darrell Calker, George Bruns, Malcolm Arnold, Harry Sukman, Walter Greene, Henry Mancini, William Lava, Cyril Mockridge, et al. Productions (live action and animated) include Cowboy in Africa, The Inspector, Journey to the center of the earth, Pink panther, Road runner, Daktari, and Woody Woodpecker, among others. Production companies other than General Music include Ivan Tors Music, De Pati-Freleng Enterprises, Warner Bros., Sunset Music, and Walter Lantz Productions.
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  • Herschel Burke Gilbert Collection of Motion Picture and Television Music
    The collection consists of manuscript scores (holographs or copies) and open reel tapes of music composed by Herschel Gilbert for television series and motion pictures, and includes some related materials such as parts, cues, lyrics sheets, and sketches.
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  • Earle Hagen Collection of Television Music
    The collection consits of ozalid and manuscript scores for music composed by Earle Hagen for television productions, including I Spy, and Mod Squad.
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  • Bernard Herrmann Collection of Music for Film, Television, and Radio Productions
    Manuscripts, ozalid masters and copies, scores and parts of radio, television, and film music. Includes arrangements used in CBS Crime Classics radio show and music from the following films: Battle of Neretva, Jason and the argonauts, The Kentuckian, Marnie, North by northwest, Psycho, The snows of Kilimanjaro, and The trouble with Harry. Also includes selections from Herrmann's opera, Wuthering Heights, and his Nocturne and scherzo for orchestra.
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  • Walter Jurmann Collection
    Collection consists of material related to career of the composer Walter Jurmann. The bulk of the collection was collected by Yvonne Jurmann after the composer's death in 1971 and includes songs from European and American films, other popular songs, newspaper and journal articles, holographs of songs and lyrics, correspondence, business papers, and photographs. Also includes the complete piano-vocal score for Windy city.
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  • William Kraft Collection of Musical Compositions
    Collection consists of holograph manuscripts, ozalid masters and copies, and photocopies of scores and parts of music for film and television by William Kraft. Includes scores for Avalanche, Bill, The Chisholms, The elephants : last day in Eden, Fire and ice, The Homeric hymn to Demeter, and Kirlian force. Also includes scores for musical compositions, including L'Arlesienne sweet, Da dit, Passacaglia, Theme and metric variations, Etude for two drums, English suite, Courante no. 2, Me and Mr. Stenner, Nonet for brass and percussion, Permutations, Theme and variations for percussion quartet, and Weavings.
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  • Carol Lawrence Collection
    Collection consists of scores and orchestral parts for the musical Funny Girl.
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  • Jack Leonard Collection of Popular Music Arrangements
    Scores or parts of arrangements by Jack Leonard and Deane Kincaide for the Kate Smith show.
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  • Spencer Lester Collection of Musical Arrangements for Television and Theater Shows, and Memorabilia
    Manuscript and ozalid copy sketches, scores, and/or parts of popular titles and television show music composed by Spencer; typescript lyrics; miscellaneous documents and correspondence. Twenty works by other composers, untitled works by Lester Spencer, Thirty-eight Titles (non-TV) by Lester Spencer, Fifteen Titles (for TV) by Lester Spencer.
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  • Harry Lubin Collection of Television and Motion Picture Music
    Manuscript scores, or scores and parts, of music composed by Lubin for the Loretta Young show, One step beyond, The Outer Limits, and various other television shows; music for the motion pictures Disaster, Wyoming Mail, Waterfront at Midnight, Mr. Reckless, Caged Fury, and Tibet; miscellaneous themes, cues, and songs with lyrics.
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  • Henry Mancini Collection of Motion Picture Music
    The collection consists of music manuscripts, music notes, cue sheets and timing sheets for music composed by Mancini for motion pictures: Arabesque (Universal, 1966), Charade (Universal, 1963), Days of Wine and Roses (Warner Brothers, 1962), Dear Heart (Warner Brothers, 1964), Experiment in Terror (Columbia, 1962), Gaily, Gaily (United Artists, 1969), The Great race (Warner Brothers, 1965), Me, Natalie (National General, 1969), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (20th Century-Fox, 1962), Moment to Moment (Universal, 1966), Peter Gunn (Paramount, 1967), The Pink Panther (United Artists, 1964), The Private War of Major Benson (Universal, 1955), Shot in the Dark (United Artists, 1964), Soldier in the Rain (Allied Artists, 1963), Two for the Road (20th Century-Fox, 1967), Wait Until Dark (Warner Brothers, 1967), and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (United Artists, 1966). Also included are text and music manuscripts for Mancini's book, Sounds and Scores (1962).
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  • Richard Markowitz Collection of Music Manuscripts and Recordings
    Collection consists of scores and related materials from television films (movies of the week), series pilots and series episodes. Films include: Weekend of terror (1979), Runaway (a/k/a Operation runaway, 1978) and Doctors' private lives (1978); pilots include Spanner's key (1978), Joe Forrester (1975) and Standing tall (a/k/a Legend at sundown, 1977). Series include F.B.I., Hawaii five-O, Mannix, Quincy, Barnaby Jones, Buck Rogers in the 25th century, and Dynasty. Markowitz's scores for over 65 episodes of Murder she wrote are included. Manuscripts for scores are accompanied by cue sheets, spotting/timing notes, musician lists from recording sessions and sketches. Related sound recordings and video recordings for many of the more recent works are available as well.
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  • P. A. Marquardt Collection of Music for Silent Films
    Collection consists of holographs, ozalid masters and copies, and mimeograph copies of scores and parts of music, either composed or arranged by P.A. Marquardt, mostly for silent films. Includes Concertino for violin and orchestra, Melodies of Joseph Strauss, A merry overture, Ramasan-Oriental suite, Regimenstag-Marsch, Rondeau brillant, Serenade, Sonata in C minor, and The unknown soldier. Also includes several marches, an opera and 67 pieces of silent film music (piano part only) published by the Music Buyers Corporation.
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  • Music for the 1964 Emmy Awards
    Collection consists of manuscripts and ozalid copies of scores and/or parts for the Emmy Awards, Feb. 14, 1964. Includes cues for a "Lassie" scene composed and arranged by Oliver Nelson, Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin, and John Williams, as well as other cues.
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  • Alfred Newman Collection
    Collection consists of 78 rpm and 33 rpm recordings of soundtracks composed by Newman, and other music conducted by Newman.
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  • Alex North Collection of Motion Picture Music
    Collection consists of Alex North's holograph scores, with occasional holograph music notes, for the following motion pictures: The agony and the ecstasy (1965), All fall down (1962), The bachelor party (1957), The bad seed (1956), Cheyenne autumn (1964), The children's hour (1962), Cinerama South Seas adventure (1958), Cleopatra (1963), Death of a salesman (1951), Desiree (1954), Devil's brigade (1968), A dream of kings (1969), Go man go (1954), Hard contract (1969), Hot spell (1958), I'll cry tomorrow (1955), The king & four queens (1956), The long hot summer (1958), Man with the gun (1955), A member of the wedding (1953), Les miserables (1952), The misfits (1961), The outrage (1964), Pony soldier (1952), The racers (1955), The rainmaker (1956), The rose tattoo (1955), Sanctuary (1961), Shoes of the fisherman (1968), Spartacus (1960), Stagestruck (1958), A streetcar named Desire (1955), The thirteenth letter (1951), Unchained (1955), Viva Zapata (1952), Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), The wonderful country (1959), 2001, a space odyssey (1968), Symphony to a new continent, and Somebody killed her husband (1978).
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  • Paul Sawtell Collection
    Music scores for film and television by Paul Sawtell, and other documents and photographs relating to his life and career.
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  • Edward B. Powell Collection of Motion Picture Music
    Collection consists of manuscript or ozalid copy sketches, full scores, or conductor's scores of motion picture music orchestrated by Powell and others. Includes music for the following films: The garden of evil (Bernard Herrmann), Viva Zapata (Alex North), A night with Pan (Joseph Achron), The song of Bernadette and Twelve o'clock high (Alfred Newman), The king and I (Richard Rodgers), It's a mad mad mad mad world (Ernest Gold), The torn curtain (John Addison), and Sylvia (David Raksin). Also music by John Green. Orchestrators, beside Powell, include Frank Comstock and Ray Heindorf.
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  • André Previn Collection of Musical Compositions and Arrangements
    Manuscripts (mostly autographs) of sketches and full arrangements (scores and/or parts) of a variety of popular and jazz music titles and a few film productions scored by Previn; acetate recordings, including some 15 inch transcription discs, of takes by various jazz groups, including the Andre Previn Trio, and also some Previn interviews and concert performances.
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  • Ralph Edwards Productions Production Records
    The collection consists of materials pertaining to the various Ralph Edwards Productions projects such as Truth or Consequences, This is Your Life, and Name That Tune. The finding aid will be updated as the collection is processed.
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  • Helen Reddy Musical Arrangements Collection
    Ozalid original scores and parts plus copies of arrangements used in Helen Reddy's television series and specials; mostly by Nelson Riddle.
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  • Alois Reiser Collection
    Collection predominantly consists of holographic sketches of his orchestral, operatic, chamber and film music, with miscellaneous programs, clippings, texts, and published scores.
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  • Hans J. Salter Collection
    The collection consists of music, personal papers, correspondence, photographs, production materials, business papers and periodical clippings of one of Universal Pictures' film composers, Hans J. Salter. The various kinds of music are manuscript and published music including conductor's scores, orchestral parts, sheet music, published music books, and sound recordings on 7", 10", and 12" sound discs.
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  • Louis B. Schnauber (Film Music Society) Collection
    The collection consists of 2,111 complete sets of orchestral parts for silent films, assembled by Louis B. Schnauber between 1910 and 1927 while he worked as Music Director in more than 25 Omaha theaters. The collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
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  • Bert Shefter Motion Picture and Television Collection
    Collection consists of music manuscrips and tapes of Shefter's compositions for film and television, including Maverick, Sugarfoot's theme, Cheyenne, Colt 45, Five guns to Tombstone, Harbor lights, She-devil, Miracle of the hills, Thunder Island, Six days to Hell, Police dog story, Curse of the fly, Ambush at Cimarron Pass, The tall Texan, Misty, and others.
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  • Silent Film Music Collection
    Collection consists of silent film music. Peter Mercurio donation.
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  • Smothers Brothers Collection of Musical Arrangements
    Collection consists of manuscript conductors' scores, and parts in manuscript or ozalid copy, of arrangements for the Smothers Brothers TV show, Summer Brothers Smothers show, and Return of the Smothers Brothers show; scores, parts and scripts of special material for the Smothers Brothers; arrangements for a Smothers Brothers record album.
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  • Jimmy Van Heusen Collection of Musical Works and Papers
    Collection consists of American song composer Jimmy Van Heusen’s papers and materials, both business and personal. Items include an extensive collection of unpublished music manuscripts and song lyrics, published sheet music, correspondence, personal papers, and business documents. Many materials relate to his interactions with Johnny Burke, Sammy Cahn, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and others, and to his publishing companies Burke & Van Heusen, Inc. and Van Heusen Music Corporation. Also includes sound and audiovisual materials, including his personal LP collection, unpublished home recordings, and home movies. Photographic material includes both press and personal prints, some negatives, and color slides. Other items include performance scripts, altered lyrics, biographic materials, professionally assembled scrapbooks, and other published materials from his personal collection. In addition to his musical career, the collection highlights his interests in horses and flying, and his domestic life with wife Josephine Van Heusen.
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  • Romo Vincent Collection
    The collection consists of scores and musical arrangements used in Vincent's performances, as well as several photographs of Vincent and his professional colleagues.
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  • Walter Lantz Productions Collection of Music for the Woody Woodpecker Cartoons and Other Productions
    The bulk of the collection consists of materials related to the music production process at the Lantz Studios from 1951-70. Includes the holographs of scores, parts, and detail sheets for Woody Woodpecker cartoons and various commercials. Also includes music sketches, recording routines, reports, and sorted printed classical and popular sheet music used as source material for various productions. Production scores include the work of Lantz music directors Darrell Calker, Frank Churchill, Walter Greene, James Dietrich, Frank Marsales, Eugene Poddany, and Clarence Wheeler.
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  • Edward Ward Collection
    Collection consists of conductor's scores and/or sketches, in manuscripts or copies, for The singing bandit, Cobra woman, Where were you?, Broadway serenade, Kit Carson, Climax, Men of Texas, South of Pago Pago, My son, my son, It never rains in Hollywood, and Phantom of the opera, as well as unidentified musical sketches, printed sheet music, production notes, legal documents (including contracts), cue sheets, correspondence, and photographs.
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  • Warner Brothers Studios Music Collection
    A brief initial view of the collection presents 390 boxes of music used for silent film, including printed dance band arrangements (scores and parts), sheet music, and other published and some unpublished music; 137 boxes of sheet music, choral editions, and other published and unpublished music used as a music reference library; 47 boxes of books, mostly about music, frequently stamped with “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music Library”. Many of these books are signed by the authors. Many more are signed by George Schneider, Music Librarian at MGM from 1928-1956, who founded and developed the MGM Music Library, which by the late 1940’s was one of the largest music collections in the country. This great library was sent to landfill in the ‘60’s as part of what has been called the “MGM Holocaust”, the tragedy that destroyed most of the great manuscript scores composed for MGM films, triggering a great deal of film music preservation activity, including the work that has been done here at UCLA. The materials we have just received from Warner Bros may in fact represent the last (only?) remaining portion of the MGM Library. The collection is in the midst of being processed and the finding aid will be updated periodically.
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  • Mortimer Wilson Collection of Silent Film Music Compositions and Arrangements
    Collection consists predominantly of manuscripts, with some photocopies, sketches, and scores (short and full). Includes original compositions, transcriptions and arrangements created to accompany silent films, such as Don Q., son of Zorro, The thief of Bagdad, and The black pirate. Also includes some published music, miscellaneous material, and music for piano, organ, chamber groups, and orchestra.
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  • Victor Young Collection of television music
    Manuscript sketches, scores and parts (ozalid) for the Medic television show (1954-56) and other compositions.
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  • Lee Zahler Collection of Motion Picture Music
    Collection consists of manuscript scores and parts of music by Lee Zahler and others that formed part of a rental library of film music.
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