Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings

One of the largest and most prominent collections of historical recorded sound available to the Yale and broader research communities. and Cora Witten.

Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) at Yale was founded as an extensive archive of early opera and song literature recordings from the advent of recorded sound, thanks to the generosity of Laurence C. The collection then expanded to include all classical musical genres, jazz, music of the American musical theater, the spoken word, instructional recordings, and many other recorded sound classificatio  ...