Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Ella Fitzgerald collection of sheet music
- Dates:
- 1897-1991
- Creators:
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of primarily of published sheet music collected by singer Ella Fitzgerald.
- Extent:
- 13.0 linear ft. (32 flat boxes and 1 1/2 document boxes)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ella Fitzgerald Collection of Sheet Music (Collection PASC-M 135). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists primarily of published sheet music collected by singer Ella Fitzgerald. Also present are fourteen publicity photographs of Fitzgerald, a small amount of correspondence and notes, and published songbooks.
- Biographical / historical:
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Singer Ella Fitzgerald was born April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. She sang with the Chick Webb Orchestra from 1934 to 1939 and was a recording artist for the Decca and Verve labels. Fitzgerald’s numerous recordings include the eight “Songbook” albums made from 1956 to 1964 featuring the music of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. She won many awards, including 12 Grammys. Ella Fitzgerald died June 15, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of the Estate of Ella Fitzgerald, 1996-1997.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- ©2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2016-02-19T14:07-0800 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé using Notetab Pro.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ella Fitzgerald Collection of Sheet Music (Collection PASC-M 135). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988