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This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
The origins of the single are in the late 19th century, when music was distributed on phonograph cylinders that held two to four minutes' worth of audio. They were superseded by disc phonograph records, which initially also had a short duration of playing time per side. In the first two to three decades of the 20th century, almost all ...
This is a list of single–artist museums, which are museums displaying the work, or bearing the name, of a single visual artist. Jorge Oteiza - Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza Fundazio Museoa, Alzuza, Navarre, Spain; Rita Deanin Abbey – Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum, [1] Las Vegas, Nevada; Basuki Abdullah – Basoeki Abdullah Museum, Jakarta ...
The Frida Kahlo Museum, where Frido Kahlo was born, and lived and worked, was inaugurated as a single artist museum in 1958 and displays artwork by Kahlo as well as documents, books and more. It "exhibits the ambience that inspired Frida for her creation, as well as her personal belongings." [4] Munch Museum (shown right), Oslo, Norway
(The Bands had previously acquired Sousa's papers from a personal connection between Sousa and Harding, the University of Illinois' first band-master.) Since then, additional collections have been added. These include over 50 record series documenting the history of American music, and music and performing arts at the University of Illinois.
Since then the museum has organized numerous exhibitions focused more specifically on popular culture, such as Sound and Vision: Artists Tell Their Stories, which opened February 28, 2007. This brought together both music and science fiction in a single exhibit, and drew on the museum's extensive collection of oral history recordings. [44]
Art museums that are primarily devoted to a single artist. The main article for this category List of single-artist museums . Pages in category "Museums devoted to one artist"
Composers of sacred music, especially hymns and chants, are generally well documented throughout the history of Byzantine music. However, those before the reign of Justinian I are virtually unknown; the monks Anthimos, Auxentios and Timokles are said to have written troparia, but only the text to a single one by Auxentios survives. [142]