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|| About the Collection ||
This collection consists chiefly of transcriptions of Coptic chant included by Ernest Newlandsmith and Margit Toth. Ragheb Moftah (1898-2001) was an Egyptian musicologist, scholar, and pioneer in the preservation of the coptic liturgical music heritage. From 1926 until 1936 he worked with Ernest Newlandsmith to record this repertory in musical rotation; it was previously transmitted only through oral tradition and audio tapes as well as paper documents relating to the Coptic chant repertory as well as Moftah's work.
|| Collection Details ||
General
- Span Dates
- 1926-2005
- Bulk Dates
- 1926-1936
- Major Language(s)
- Coptic, English, Arabic
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Number of Items
- 3000
- Number of Containers
- 17
- Linear Feet
- 6
- Contents
- Transcriptions of Coptic chant music correspondence writings, by Moftah and others, clippings, tickets, receipts, photographs and legal papers. Four videotapes housed in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Also part of the collection, but housed in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded and Sound Division, are audio tapes of Coptic chant music recorded by Moftah between 1940 and 1985, with the bulk recorded in 1965 and 1975-1985. The videotapes include a biographical interview of Dr. Moftah conducted by Raymond Stock for a Library of Congress oral history project as part of its World Heritage series, (1996 – 1997); a recording of Ragheb Moftah's one hundredth birthday party (December 21, 1998); the funeral of Dr. Ragheb Moftah (June 19, 2002); and an interview with Margit Toth and Dr. Martha Roy (March 13, 2002) conducted by Laurence Moftah.
- Processing History
- Processed, 2002
- Transfers
- Approximately 74 sound recordings in various formats have been transferred to the Recorded Sound section of M/B/RS
- Provenance
- Gift; Ragheb Moftah, 1991-2001, Laurence Moftah, 1999, and Marian Robertson Wilson, 2005
Access/Copyright
- Access Permissions
- Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
- Copyright Info
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Preferred Citation
- Moftah Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
