Boston University Music Library

08/17/2022

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02/10/2021

Congratulations to BU Center for Beethoven Studies director Jeremy Yudkin. His book From Silence to Sound: Beethoven's Beginnings was named to the American Library Associations' 2021 Outstanding Reference Sources List. https://ezproxy.bu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2178019

01/14/2021

Want to build your repertoire? The subject heading is "Sea songs," and we have streaming audio, scores, and books and articles about them.

12/22/2020

Visit Back2BU for the latest updates and information on BU's response to COVID-19. Students can find additional information in the Undergraduate Student Guide and Graduate & Professional Student Guide.

12/22/2020

'JSCM Issues from The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

12/06/2020

Tuesday Dec 8, 4:30 pm, join BU's Miki Kaneda guest speaking at Cornell, we can attend by Zoom. Topic: World Graphic Scores: Between the Notes of a Trans-Pacific Avant-Garde,

Speaker: Miki Kaneda, Music, Musicology, Boston University What can graphic musical scores tell us about sounds yet to be heard, as well as the stories that may be told about their creators and their worlds? This talk examines two exhibitions of graphic scores, both held in Tokyo in 1962. Miki Kaned...

10/07/2020

Eddie Van Halen was a revolutionary guitarist. Wanna do a deep dive? For starters, check out the coverage in Creem in Music Magazine Archive (https://library.bu.edu/mma) or read Robert Walser's Running with the Devil (https://buprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/u9s3q6/ALMA_BOSU151763419470001161), the first scholarly book on heavy metal. It takes its name from a VH song title and does serious musical analysis of EVH's work.

09/29/2020

http://www.bu.edu/gmf/gmm2020/
This notable annual event happens Thursday Oct 1st, live online, and free to our community!

Visit Back2BU for the latest updates and information on BU's response to COVID-19. Students can find additional information in the Undergraduate Student Guide and Graduate & Professional Student Guide.

08/19/2020

THE BLACK MUSIC HISTORY LIBRARY. This is a living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of...

04/26/2020

let that name, Citizen DJ, draw you right in!
https://labs.loc.gov/work/experiments/citizen-dj/

04/23/2020

The Japonize Elephants, a band that includes Boston University School of Music Associate Professor Marié Abe, is a featured entrant in NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest. What are you doing to stay creative at home?

We're impressed by the ingenuity we've seen from Contest entrants making great music under less-than-ideal circumstances. If you have a song you'd like us to hear, you can enter until April 27.