Music Score Collection!

We have not just thousands, but tens of thousands of scores here in the library! The best part is that you can check them out of the library and take them with you where ever you go - home, practice rooms, rehearsal, recitals, etc. We have music for solo instrument (in every instrument including voice), sonatas for an instrument with piano, duets, trios, quartets, quintets (keep your part and hand out the other parts to your ensemble mates!), concertos in full score (meaning all the different instruments of the orchestra appear on the same page) and in arrangements for solo instrument and piano (meaning there's a part for the soloist in a back pocket and the entire orchestra has been reduced for piano accompaniment), not to mention orchestral works, band works, operas, ballets, musicals... you get it by now.

Finding a specific work is not as easy as you might expect, but we've got some good resources for you to help you find it. First and foremost you have the incredibly knowledgeable staff of the Music & Media Center. All three, Doug, Vicky, and BJ, have music degrees and continue to perform regularly. Your music librarian (me! lisa) is also in the Music & Media Center and we are all available to help find your elusive piece of music. If you can't make it up to the Music & Media Center you can see if i'm available online via chat; just go to the Music Research Guide and see if i'm online. If you can't get into the library at the time, can't get a hold of me on chat, or quite simply don't feel like talking to us, then you can also check out our Score Search Tips which, coincidentally, also happens to be on the Music Research Guide.

For those of you interested in browsing the stacks to see what's we have that might be good for you, you can refer to our Score Browsing Guide.

Looking forward to seeing and working with all of you again this semester!