Music

Launched in the early 2000s, the IMS Music Reserve currently holds 20 archives documenting the lives and work of composers, instrumentalists, researchers, and collectors, including Chiquinha Gonzaga, Ernesto Nazareth, Pixinguinha, Baden Powell, José Ramos Tinhorão, Edinha Diniz, and João Máximo, among others. These archives are notable for their diversity of materials, which include scores, rare recordings, books, photographs, documents, and records of radio programs and interviews. This invaluable body of work is increasingly being made available through new technological tools, greatly benefiting musicological research.