Sibley Music Library – Eastman School of Music

Friday, March 27, 3:30-4:30 PM

with Austin Snavely, Erin Famous, Ben Taube and Andrew Yuska Alec Wilder Reading Room, Sibley Music Library (2nd Floor)
Free Admission, Refreshments Available

"Singin' in the Stacks"

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The largest music library affiliated with any college or university in North America

3 floors dedicated entirely to music.

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A 12th century collection of early medieval theoretical music treatises, written in Germany or Austria. It was previously owned by the Benedictine Admont Abbey, near Salzburg, and was purchased by the Sibley Music Library in 1936. The last page of the manuscript features an exquisite Guidonian hand, devised by theorist Guido d’Arezzo to propagate a method of sight-singing with the six syllables ut, re, mi, fa, sol, and la.

Admont-Rochester Codex

Manuscript (ca. 1103)

This magnificent manuscript is the Sibley Music Library’s single most celebrated holding, and one of only three extant manuscript sources of this celebrated composition (1905). This is a particelle, or short score — a detailed sketch or draft, in condensed form. The composer’s painstakingly fine penmanship, and the multiplicity of colored pencils, never fail to draw admiring comment.

Claude Debussy,
1862-1918

Manuscript (1905)

La Mer: Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre

The holograph manuscript score of Hanson’s most famous composition. Serge Koussevitzky commissioned the work for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1930; the New York Philharmonic premiere was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, whose markings appear on the score.

Howard Hanson,
1896-1981

Begun April, 1928 – Completed July 6, 1930

Symphony no. 2, opus 30, “Romantic”

This copy, number 227 of the limited first edition of the piano vocal score, was signed by the composer, the librettist (DuBose Heyward), the lyricist (Ira Gershwin), and the producer (Rouben Mamoulian) of the first production (1934). From 1923 to 1926, Mamoulian was Assistant Director of Eastman’s Opera Department and Director of the Department of Dramatic Action and Dance.

George Gershwin,
1898-1937

(New York Random House, 1935)

Porgy and Bess

A rare, incomplete set of the partbooks of the Masses of Josquin des Prez — the Superius and the Bassus from the liber primus, liber secundus, and liber tertius. The Sibley partbooks are believed to date from a 1514-16 printing by Ottaviano dei Petrucci (1466-1539), the first to print polyphonic music from movable type, which initiated the dissemination of polyphonic music.

Josquin des Prez, d. 1521

Printed at Fossombrone, Italy (1514-16) by Ottaviano dei Petrucci

Missarum Josquin liber primus; liber secundus; liber tertius

Featured Resources

BrowZine

A database comprising many of the academic journals to which Sibley subscribes

ProQuest

Hosts multidisciplinary content containing scholarly journals, books, video & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more

Oxford Music Online

Access point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products

MGG Online

A general encyclopedia of music, entirely in German (although with Google translate imbedded).

RILM

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) documents and disseminates music research worldwide.

Music Index

A Subject-Author Guide to Music Periodical Literature is compiled from over 655 international music periodicals

JSTOR

A cooperative venture among 1400 international libraries and publishers to provide full-text access to older scholarly journals.

Naxos Music Library

A streamed audio service, which includes access to not only every recording on the Naxos label (even those that have gone out of print), but several other labels-both classical and jazz-have significant portions of their catalogs digitized.

Worldcat

A database of library resources from around the world, including books, movies, music, art, and artifacts.

Streamed Audio/Video

List of all streamed audio/video resources subscribed by Sibley Music Library

Interlibrary Loan

A massive network of libraries working together to share their collections.