Music Collections
Music Collection Scope
The music collection is housed on the second floor of the Arts Library (please click here to view a floorplan in pdf format). The collection emphasizes music of the Western art traditions and music of diverse world cultures, particularly the vernacular and traditional music of Eastern Europe, India, the Middle East, and the United States.
Music materials are also held elsewhere in the UCSB Libraries; when using PEGASUS, please note the location code of the item you seek.
Cataloged Collections
The cataloged collections include nearly 120,000 items, including more than 85,000 books, scores, journals, videos, and CD-ROMs, as well as over 9400 compact discs and 25,000 LP recordings and a large microform collection of manuscripts, early editions, journals, and dissertations.
Books and Scores
Books, periodicals, and scores are available on open stacks and circulate through the Arts Library Circulation Desk on the first floor, following the same rules and procedures that govern circulating materials in the Davidson Library. Reference books, composers’ collected editions, and other selected printed materials do not circulate.
Recordings
Recordings are housed in a closed-stack area and are paged for in-house listening by Music Service Desk personnel on the second floor of the Arts Library. The collection includes LPs, compact discs, open-reel and cassette tapes, and videocassettes, laserdiscs, and DVDs. Listening facilities include headphone stations, individual and group listening rooms, two seminar rooms, and two video rooms. Recordings do not circulate, but are available for in-class use under some circumstances. The taping of library recordings by patrons is not allowed. Please speak to a Music Service Desk supervisor for further information.
Locating Sound Recordings, Videorecordings, Microforms, CD-ROMs
To locate music materials in non-book formats, do an Advanced Search in PEGASUS. Limit by location to Arts Library, music materials, then limit by format.
Goethe Collection
Nearly 200 items of historical and critical materials relating to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, including first and early editions of his writings and musical settings of his poetry; composers represented include not only Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven but also Walter Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Carl Friedrich Zelter, and many others. The collection is located in closed stacks and does not circulate. For in-library consultation, please inquire at the Music Service Desk.
Uncataloged Collections
Uncataloged collections of music materials include:
Ed Kahn Collection:
Thirteen hundred original commercial releases of LPs of vernacular American music (roots, traditional, blues, folk), dating from 1955 to 1970. The collection is currently being cataloged.
Music Department Performances:
Archived tapes and CDs of selected faculty and student recitals are available for listening in the Arts Library. Inquire at the Music Service Desk.
Music Pamphlet Files:
This collection includes music flyers, bulletins, and announcements of current and historical interest, arranged in three files: composer, publisher, and general information. There is also a collection of newsletters for music organizations of all types, as well as a large collection of opera librettos, mostly from American opera houses in the first half of the twentieth century.
Performing Arts Collection, Special Collections Department (Davidson Library)
Among the holdings of the Performing Arts Collections, administered by the Davidson Library Special Collections Department, are significant music research materials, including one of the largest archives of historical sound recordings in the United States, and the papers of film composer Bernard Herrmann, singer and teacher Lotte Lehmann, and composer Peter Racine Fricker.
Locations and Call Numbers in Pegasus
The Music Collection includes materials in the following Library of Congress classifications:
| M | Music (scores) |
| ML | Music history, biography, literature, criticism, etc. |
| MT | Music theory, instruction, and study |
Within these classes, materials are arranged by genre, historical period, country, or subject. For a more detailed breakdown by call number, follow the links above or refer to the Library of Congress Classification Outline for music.
The following is a brief description of location codes you will encounter in the online catalog, PEGASUS.
- Stacks: main collection, mostly circulating materials
- Miniatures: “pocket” or “study” scores, shelved just inside the Music Library
- Oversize: larger materials shelved at the back left side of the Music Library
- Folio: very large score materials shelved at the left side of the Music Library before Reference
- Reference: non-circulating dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc., shelved at the left side of the Music Library
- Music Service Desk: sound and video recordings; for in-library use only
- Cage: special collection materials for in-library use only. Please inquire at the Music Service Desk: items must be retrieved from closed stacks.
- Microfiche and Microfilm: in the cabinets in the Reading Area
- Goethe Collection: Please inquire at the Music Service Desk; items must be retrieved from closed stacks.
- Annex: local offsite storage facility (see below for retrieval)
Music Collection materials stored offsite may be obtained by submitting electronic forms:
New Library Materials
New books and scores are displayed in the Reading Area for seven days. The latest issues of many currently received journals are also displayed in the Reading Area. Lists of recent recordings acquisitions are posted monthly and are also available as a Word document via email (please contact Temmo Korisheli to request this service). Recommendations for acquisition of new books, scores, recordings, or journals are always welcome.
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