Marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the UNC Music Library, this exhibition featured materials from the Music Library, the Southern Folklife Collection, Southern Historical Collection, and the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives of the University Library. On display were items as diverse as the first printing of Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass; a book on violin playing by Mozart’s father; libretti from the Florentine Camerata, a group in Florence that developed Western opera, and that included Vincenzo Galilei, father of astronomer Galileo Galilei; 1732 manuscript of music by Jean Baptiste Lully, leading composer of the French Baroque; historic sound recordings, rare concert posters such as the 1948 Carolina Folk Festival and the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, images made by celebrated photographer Hugh Morton, and even Andy Griffith’s guitar.
For more details, visit the Southern Folklife Collection blog or related Daily Tar Heel article.
