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Instrumental music

Libraries

A student enjoys an afternoon in the Music Library's main reading room

Music Library

Support for all aspects of music scholarship; sound and video recordings; printed scores, monographs, and journals

Blogs

Topic guides

Guide Created by Last Updated Subject tag
Organ Ray Heigemeir 2012-09-26 Music, Instrumental music, Musical instruments
Piano Ray Heigemeir 2012-10-31 Music, Instrumental music, Musical instruments

Notable collections

Kronos Quartet (l-r: Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Jeffrey Zeigler, John Sherba)

Kronos Quartet Collection

The Kronos Quartet has donated part of its collection of chamber music to the Music Library.

A glimpse of The Women's Philharmonic scores, shelved in the Music Reference Room.

The Women's Philharmonic Collection

From 1981 to 2004, The Women's Philharmonic was a San Francisco-based professional orchestra dedicated to the promotion of women composers, conductors, and performers.

Ben Schmidt Collection of Music for Lute

The Schmidt Collection contains primarily photocopies of original and transcribed music for lute gathered from a variety of libraries and archival

Detail from Danza Tropical (1922)

Julio de Osma Collection

The collection includes over 100 music manuscripts by Spanish composer Julio de Osma.