The Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library serves the diverse teaching and research needs of the UC Berkeley Department of Music, which offers a general undergraduate major and graduate programs in musicology, ethnomusicology, and composition, as well as embracing a variety of performance activities. The library's collections contain some 200,000 volumes of books and printed music, 50,000 sound and video recordings, and 30,000 microforms in addition to extensive special holdings of manuscripts, rare materials, and archives.
Physical access to the Music Library is open to all researchers and visitors without requirement of any identification, registration, pass, or prior arrangements. Certain services, collections, equipment, or rooms within this library may be available only to certain groups of UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
The Music Library has four large tables that will seat groups ranging from three to ten, six study carrels, and a selection of soft seating. Twelve computers (ten PCs and two Macs) provide audio, video, and online research access. One computer has Finale 2014 and a MIDI keyboard installed. Additional equipment includes a small TV to view videos and DVDs, two black and white printers, and one scanner.
Music Department Research Guide: This guide consists of basic information about finding items in the Music Library, selected print and online music resources, a Turabian citation guide, and recommended resources for each music major area of study (music education, therapy, business, etc.).
Using Library Catalogs & Music Databases: This guide consists of detailed walkthroughs that will show you how to use library catalogs and databases, including WestCat, I-Share, WorldCat/Interlibrary Loan, Oxford Music Online (Grove), Music Periodicals Database (ProQuest), and Naxos Music Library.
Careers in Music: This guide consists of recommended books and websites about careers in music, a list of professional organizations in music, selected resources about applying and interviewing for jobs in the field, and an extensive list of websites with job and audition postings.
ProQuest's Music Periodicals Database -- formerly International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) -- offers access to over 610 international music periodicals, of which 225 are full text. While the majority of journal articles are from 1996 onward, this database also includes journal articles from as early as 1874. Music Periodicals Database covers the full spectrum of music, including music education, musicology, music theory, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, classical music, opera, jazz, pop culture, popular music forms, and composition.
JSTOR offers access to retrospective issues of selected core scholarly journals in many disciplines, including music. It includes full-text access to about 50 music journals, and partial or citation level access to many more.
The WIU Music Library has been archiving digitized recordings of recitals from the School of Music since the fall semester of 2013. Current recitals are added as they are received, and older recitals are in the process of being digitized and then added. The digitized recordings and their programs are available to current students and faculty through this archive. Users can search for recordings by title, performer, composer, or date.
The Music Library provides access to one of the largest academic music collections in North America and is the largest and oldest major music library on the West Coast of the United States. Its over 400,000 physical items span all genres of music, from ancient times to today. The Music Library is one of the most used UCLA Library spaces and collections, with over 100,000 visitors and over 35,000 items checked out each year. It supports music study and performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music(opens in a new tab), UCLA in general and throughout Southern California.
Our growing collection of music contains more than 126,000 items, including books, bound periodicals, musical scores, records, DVD's and compact discs. Listening stations are located throughout the library.
Western Washington University's main campus is situated on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived in the Salish Sea basin, all throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed from time immemorial. We express our deepest respect and gratitude to our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Music Library houses diverse collections in a variety of formats, and Dance / Dramatic Arts books are currently shelved within Doheny Memorial Library stacks. Over half of the scores and music book collections (as well as all LPs) are housed off-campus in Grand Avenue Library and can be paged through Primo, the USC library catalog.
The Music Library is equipped with listening and viewing stations for CDs, DVDs, laserdiscs, and LPs. High quality headphones are available for in-house use at the circulation desk. There are computers in the main circulation area for research purposes and users have access to wireless Internet throughout the library.
Our collections emphasize music of the Western art traditions and diverse world cultures, particularly the vernacular and traditional music of Eastern Europe, India, the Middle East, and the United States. Formats include books, scores, sound recordings, journals, and videos.
The Library is planning a new Arts Library by bringing together the Music and Art & Architecture Collections into a modernized space in the main Library building. As part of the project, the Music Library collection, services and staff will be moved from the Music Building to the main Library.
The Music/Media Library includes open study space, reservable study rooms G1 and G2, a service desk, and over 130,000 music scores, audio recordings, video recordings, and books, plus thousands more items online. The Music/Media Library is on the ground floor of Miller Nichols Library and is designated as a quiet conversation floor.
Use Sync Library to stream your music library on any device that's signed in to the Apple Music app with the Apple ID that you use with your Apple Music subscription. Learn what you need to use Sync Library and how to turn it on.
After you turn on Sync Library on your Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPad, you can stream your music library on any device that has the Apple Music app. Just make sure that your device is signed in with the same Apple ID that you use with your Apple Music subscription. You can also stream your music library on music.apple.com.
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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.
Amos Music Library, located in Room 120, Center for Performing Arts, between Patterson Ave & Maple St, houses the principal Oxford collections of print books and journals about music, music audio recordings, sheet music, and musical theater materials, and provides comfortable seating, study tables and carrels, and capabilities for listening to various formats of audio materials as well as class-related reserves for music and some theatre courses.
The Music Library has 16 workstations encompassing both Mac and PC, some of which have music composition and other relevant software. We subscribe to a variety of online audio streaming services as well as some online sheet music databases and several music research databases and online encyclopedias and have access to many online music journals. We have a multi-function color printer/copier/scanner and are piloting the digitization of analog audio materials.
The Music Library opened in its current space in 1969, combining collections from the Dept. of Music and the University Libraries with further incorporation of the audio reference area from King Library in 1982. There have been several partial renovations of the facility in the intervening years but the basic 4400 sq ft footprint remains. The library is named in honor of William (Miami 1931) and Dorothy (Miami 1936) Amos, long associated with Ohio newspaper businesses, whose family has taken a special interest in libraries at Miami and in Sidney, Ohio.
The only library located on the historic Lawn, the Music Library at the University of Virginia supports research in musicology, theory and analysis, composition, performance, jazz, musical theater, ethnic and world music, popular music, and folk music. Located on the third floor of Old Cabell Hall, the Music Library has one of the most significant music collections in the southeastern United States. This includes more than 135,000 books, scores, and sound recordings, as well as access to extensive online collections and more than one million tracks of music. The Music Library occupies the original coal furnace area of Old Cabell Hall and features an unusual Guastavino vault as the ceiling of its main floor reading room.
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