Blog topic: Music

The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature has now been processed and is available for research. The collection was created by Richard J. Howe, an oil company executive and mechanical engineer as well as a collector of mechanical musical instruments and associated literature. The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature, one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of its kind, documents the development of the music industry and the manufacture of pianos, organs, and mechanical musical instruments. The materials in the collection include catalogs, books, magazines, correspondence, photographs, broadsides, advertisements, and price lists. The Howe collection was originally donated to the Institute of Piano Music at the University of Maryland and later transferred to Stanford to support the Player Piano Project.

The Music Library invites you to browse our reference collection. Note the following new additions, listed in no particular order:

John Cage : a research and information guide / Sara Haefeli.

Music library and research skills / Jane Gottlieb (2nd ed.).

Alma Mahler and her contemporaries : a research and information guide / Susan M. Filler.

Modern editions

Buxtehude.  Sacred works for five voices and instruments, part 3 (Works, v. 12) ; Miscellanea: sacred works for five or six voices and instruments; occasional works; canons; dubia (Works, v. 13) in The collected works / Dieterich Buxtehude ; [Kerala J. Snyder, general editor]

Gabrielli. Concerti (v; 11, pt. 3) in Edizione nazionale delle opere di Andrea Gabrieli, (1533)-1585 / [comitato editoriale, Denis Arnold ... et al.]