Basic information about the Archive, including access, contacts, directions, and parking.
Libraries
Brief Music Library information including contacts, access, hours, transit, and parking.
Blogs
- Music librarians flock to Atlanta | March 10, 2014
- A critical guide to the music of Brian Ferneyhough | March 6, 2014
- Woodcut portrait of Adrianus Petit Coclico (1499/1500-1562) | February 14, 2014
- Please welcome Zhang Jihong | February 7, 2014
- Celebrating Peter Seeger (1919 -- 2014) | January 28, 2014
Topic guides
Course guides
| Course number | Term | Guide | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music 147a/247a | Spring 2012 | Music ethnography of the Bay Area | Schultz, A. |
| PWR 2RTA | Winter 2013 | Postmodernism and the Rhetoric of Uncertainty | Taylor, R. |
| PWR 2RT | Spring 2013 | Stepping out of the shadows: music, the bass guitar, and the rhetoric of revolution | Rod Taylor |
| ITALIC 95W | Winter 2014 | ITALIC library resources | Miller, H. |
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The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.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's 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 Lully Archive is a repository of primary sources on microfilm originally gathered in support of publication of the complete works of Jean-Bapti
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.
Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.
The Happy Jazz Band was formed in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas.
Files of the organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings.
The MARL collection consisting of nearly 60 linear feet of materials is dedicated to the study of all aspects of musical acoustics.
The William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection principally consists of commercial and unpublished recordings of the world renowned British horn player, Dennis Brain (1921-1957).
The Blanche Thebom Collection consists of scores, correspondence, publicity, production notes, and media from the mezzo-soprano's post-Met career as teacher and director.
The KSFO collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983.
The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, clippings, programs, teaching material and other papers from San Francisco philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher.
Open reel tape recordings of the “Annals of Jazz” radio program produced and hosted by historian and educator Richard Hadlock, broadcast on KCSM, San Mateo between 1982 and 1991.
The Ken Ackerman Collection consists of broadcast recordings of live jazz performances from the 1950s and 60s, captured at various clubs in San Francisco, particularly Club Hangover.
The Judith Rosen Collection consists of unpublished recordings of performances, lectures, and radio programs concerning classical music, focusing on twentieth century composition, as well as women musicians and composers.
Papers and recordings from American conductor and composer Gerhard Samuel (1924-2008), particularly from his years conducting the Oakland Symphony, Minneapolis Symphony, and University of Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra.
2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music related broadsides from the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music.
Sheet music depicting African Americans, or written by African American composers.
![Primavera [1928], manuscript detail](https://library.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/collection/image/rudhyar_ms_detail.jpg?itok=TJw4cIdm "Primavera [1928], manuscript detail - Image by Ray Heigemeir/SUL")
Includes manuscripts of musical compositions, and correspondence (1924-1973)
Letters, manuscripts and printed works by composers including Brahms, Debussy, Cimarosa, Piatti, and Franchomme.
The collection includes correspondence (1835-1897), financial papers, musical compositions, and other papers.
Includes popular sheet music, often either in manuscript or with annotations.
Subject Librarians
Public Services Librarian for Music
(650) 384-9985
Head Librarian, Music Library, Head Librarian, Archive of Recorded Sound
(650) 725-1146 (650) 384-9817
Sound Archives Librarian
(650) 725-8862
