Stanford Music Library

01/14/2022

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2022/01/connecting-1594-english-geneva-bible

Guest blogger : Daniel KoplitzAs I cradle the book in my hands, flecks of its leathered paper-board cover release into the free air. Carried affectionately like dandelion wisps in the summer breeze, the flecks disperse from the margins of their centuries-old home and, fearing nothing, return to the....

06/03/2021

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/special-collections-unbound/2021/06/sounds-renaissance-florence-music-inspired-burke

04/16/2021

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2021/04/22-turk-murphy-jazz-arrangements-released-worldwide-viewing

Recently several musical compositions that Turk Murphy made arrangements of entered public domain. What this means is we can now make these original Turk arrangements available for public viewing online.

04/09/2021

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2021/04/make-appointment-visit-music-library

The Music Library welcomes all eligible Stanford community members to make an appointment to visit on Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 am – 4 pm. To make an appointment:

03/24/2021

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2021/03/music-library-association-confers-theatre-library-association

Music and theatre librarians across the US and Canada gathered virtually in March to listen, learn, discuss, debate, decide, and attend to the business of our professions. The opening plenary session set the tone for many of the presentations to follow. “Anti-racist performing arts librarianship.....

02/03/2021

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2021/02/recueil-de-mazurkas-de-f-chopin

Guest blogger: Jenna PrzybyszWithin the Jenny Lind Collection, located in Stanford Libraries' Department of Special Collections, is a manuscript titled “Recueil de Mazurkas de F. Chopin” or “Collection of Mazurkas by F.

01/29/2021

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2021/01/two-new-san-francisco-bay-area-punk-collections-open-research

The Lynn Beldner Punk Music Photograph Collection and the Steve Briscoe Punk Music Collection are now open for research.

01/22/2021

The All of Bach project, which is performing all of JS Bach's works, presents this gorgeous oboe concerto for your Friday listening.

Oboists did fairly well out of Bach, as his oeuvre contains more than two hundred oboe solos. They often concern one or two oboes in opening choruses and arias in the cantatas. But the true solo repertoire is sparse. There is no music written just for oboe, analogous to the suites and partitas for v...

10/09/2020

Voice teacher Nova Jimeénez did a pop up concert outside Green Library today. Lovely!

10/06/2020

Happy birthday, Jenny! Our online exhibit is a success, with thanks to: Adriana Bianchi, Claire Bonnepart, David Brock, Doris Cheung Wu, Katharine Dimitruk, Ulla Emanuelsson, Arcadia Falcone, Micaela Go, Dinah Handel, Kevin Kishimoto, Sarah Newton, Tim Noakes, Michael Olson, John Pearson, Kenny Rapaport, Kasia Robinson, Beth Ryan, Tati Scutelnic, Astrid Smith, and Wayne Vanderkuil.

The famous Swedish soprano Jenny Lind was born 200 years ago, on October 6, 1820. In the RISM database, Lind is not only named on sources as a singer (such as in the Swedish song "Der Hirt" by Isak Berg) but also as a dedicatee, former owner, and even copyist. Anton Wallerstein's "Favorite Polka" wa...

09/16/2020

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2020/09/jerry-mcbride-retire

Our wonderful colleague, Jerry McBride, will be retiring on September 22 after more than seventeen years of service as Head of the Music Library and of the Archive of Recorded Sound. Jerry has made important contributions to the Stanford community through teaching, research and innovative collection...

07/15/2020

https://www.library.upenn.edu/blogs/libraries-news/marian-anderson-collection-newly-digitized-penn-libraries-now-accessible

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has completed the digitization of more than 2,500 items from the collection of Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century.