Exhibits curated in collaboration with Lilly Music Library. Location of exhibit is noted in parenthesis following the year.
2025 (Tisch Library)
- From A (Athanasius) to Z (Zarlino): Changes in Printing Technologies and their Impact on Music Notation (12th-19th c.)
- This exhibit brings together a selection of music materials from Tisch Library Special Collections, including scores and texts from the Frédéric Louis Ritter Collection. Items on display range from a handwritten illuminated manuscript with early neume notation to scientific music treatises to a Requiem Mass (aka Mass for the dead) - all representing changes in printing technology and music notation over several hundred years. The materials illustrate music printing practices in use in Europe from the early modern period through the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, including manuscripts written and decorated by hand, letterpress printing with woodblocks, and printing with engraved copper or metal plates.
2024 (Lilly Music Library)
- Who Gets to be Heard? Repertoire Diversity in Boston-Area University Ensembles (view in person at library or via link)
- This exhibit aims to raise awareness of the problematic nature of the Western art music canon; provide data on the current state of affairs in repertoire selection among a sample of Boston-area university ensembles; and offer suggestions for how to move forward with repertoire selection and interrogate, stretch, and reimagine the existing canon in more equitable ways.
- Curated by Jordan Good, AG24 (Department of Music) and DEIJ & Collections Resident at Lilly Music Library.
2023 (Lilly Music Library)
- Hidden Behind the Screen: Gender Representation in Video Game Music, 1980s-2022
- Women pioneers in the field of video game composition and the continuing contributions of women to the game music industry are examined.
- Curated by Jordan Good, AG24 (Department of Music) and DEIJ & Collections Resident at Lilly Music Library.
2022 (Lilly Music Library)
- Redefining Modernity: Musical Resistance to Settler Colonialism
- Artists who interweave elements of modernity and tradition, asserting Indigenous rights to land, community, and shared cultural practice from the late 20th century until the present are highlighted. Common threads emerge from these varied cultural traditions, creating connections across temporal and spatial boundaries.
- Curated by Audrey Ashbrook, A24 (Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora) and DEIJ & Collections Resident at Lilly Music Library.
2021 (Lilly Music Library)
- Diverse Voices in Music
- Featuring six composers and their works, including: Andy Akiho, T.J. Anderson, Reena Esmail, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Johanny Navarro, and Carlos Simon. A selection of these composers compositions are available in the music library collection.
- Researchers: Elayne W. Chen, Eliza R. Dickson, Phillip G. Wright (Lilly Music Library student staff).