300,000 sound recordings and related materials span sound recording history from its beginnings to the present day.
Libraries
Support for all aspects of music scholarship; sound and video recordings; printed scores, monographs, and journals
Blogs
- Beethoven mania! | January 11, 2013
- Christmas music for your home, office, or mobile | December 11, 2012
- Media study room now open | November 20, 2012
- Stream music on your mobile device | November 5, 2012
- Rare opera films online | October 18, 2012
Topic guides
| Guide | Created by | Last Updated | Subject tag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find printed music | Ray Heigemeir | 2012-10-22 | Music |
| Organ | Ray Heigemeir | 2012-09-26 | Music, Instrumental music, Musical instruments |
| Opera | Ray Heigemeir | 2012-11-15 | Music, Opera, Voice |
| Songs and singing | Ray Heigemeir | 2012-08-13 | Music, Voice |
| Musicals | Mimi Tashiro | 2012-12-11 | Music, Musical theater |
| Jazz | Ray Heigemeir | 2012-10-17 | Music, Jazz |
| Music business and industry | Ray Heigemeir | 2013-01-14 | Music, Economics and business |
| Piano | Ray Heigemeir | 2012-10-31 | Music, Instrumental music, Musical instruments |
Course guides
| Course number | Term | Guide | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music 147a/247a | Spring 2012 | Music ethnography of the Bay Area | Schultz, A. |
Notable collections
Recordings of live performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.
Scores of operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and choral works by major composers from the 17th to 20th centuries.
The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.
The Menuhin Collection contains many test pressings of Menuhin's performances as a violin soloist.
The Mario Ancona Collection includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings, and more related to Ancona's career.
The Bonelli Collection includes letters, programs, scores, scrapbooks, recordings, posters, and news clippings.
Tenor Mario Chamlee sang at the leading opera houses in the United States and abroad. His wife Ruth was a soprano and noted singing teacher.
This is the personal collection of Theodore Fagan, United Nations translator, author, and music collector.
Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) was known as the premier Wagnerian soprano of her time.
Open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer, and historian Richard Sterling Finnie.
Includes correspondence and research notes related to Hickling's discography of Lehmann performances.
The Kronos Quartet has donated part of its collection of chamber music to the Music Library.
This collection contains Sydney Cowell's donations of published scores and recordings of her husband's music.
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.
The Schmidt Collection contains primarily photocopies of original and transcribed music for lute gathered from a variety of libraries and archival
The collection includes over 100 music manuscripts by Spanish composer Julio de Osma.
George Antheil was born on July 8, 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey. He studied briefly with Constantin von Sternberg and Ernest Bloch.
Lucie King Harris, born in Sonoma in 1883, was an arts patron, a philanthropist, and an ardent horsewoman.
Florence Underwood studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in the 1940s.
From 1989 to 2012, Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating tradi
The Happy Jazz Band was formed in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas.
Subject Librarians
Head Librarian, Music Library, Head Librarian, Archive of Recorded Sound
(650) 725-1146 (650) 384-9817
Sound Archives Librarian
(650) 725-8862
