A Digital Collection of Brazilian Lundus

Lundu is a typical Brazilian popular musical form at the 19th century. The distinguished musicologist Mozart de Araújo devoted himself to studying lundus and other forms of that period. He collected 48 lundus, which are nowadays stored in a private library, unavailable to public access. The present work describes the implementation of a digital collection of those lundus, using Dspace as the repository. Dspace is chosen in order to guarantee interoperability through the OAIPMH protocol. Metadata is generated using Dublin Core elements, fully compatible with Dspace. The digital collection provides access to the lundu score images, incipits and midi files, as well as metadata. It is the first time such a rare collection of 19th Brazilian popular music will be available on the web. As Dspace enables interoperation among repositories, a broad community may access the collection.