Books and scores needed for the Christmas break? Week-loan books and music may be borrowed for the vacation from next Monday, 2nd December, and will be due back on Tuesday 21st January. Do you need something from the Short Loan Collection? We need to keep one copy of all Short Loan Collection books here for… Read More »

We are delighted to report that the essential maintenance work in the library has now been completed. Access to the CD collection and the Multimedia Resource Centre has been fully restored and we expect both PCAS printers to be returned to their homes in the photocopying room early next week. We’d like to thank our… Read More »

Last week a small flood in the Music Faculty led to the discovery of major plumbing and heating problems affecting the whole building. This has necessitated some fairly major building work throughout the Music Faculty for the next 4-5 weeks, affecting the library in the following ways: 1. The lower ground floor will be inaccessible… Read More »

It is now possible, for the first time, to browse the card catalogues for the Bodleian’s printed music collections without having to come to the Library. The cards have been scanned and the images made accessible online as a kind of ‘virtual’ card catalogue here. This is part of a project which will eventually see… Read More »

If you’re a music student graduating this year you’re most likely coming to the end of your written exams this week. We hope they went well and that you’ll be able to enjoy your last couple of weeks as undergraduates! Before you disappear for the summer please make sure you’ve returned all your books, scores… Read More »

Since submission deadlines are fast approaching, this seems like a good time to remind you that the Bodleian Music Faculty Library offers a comb binding service. A4 (£2 per copy) and A3 (£3 per copy) binding is available. It is not necessary to book an appointment and we can bind while you wait. However, when… Read More »

Over the weekend of the 28th-29th July, as a result of feedback from readers, several improvements to SOLO were implemented. The most significant of these from a musical perspective is the alteration to the way that SOLO clusters search results Before these recent developments SOLO would cluster materials that it considered to be versions of… Read More »

Today marks the 146th birthday of the little-known Anglo-German composer Percy Sherwood (1866-1939). Having languished in obscurity since the First World War, his music is now being rediscovered and two recordings have been released in the last few weeks, drawing upon sources in the Bodleian Library, which holds virtually all his surviving manuscripts. Born in… Read More »

We are pleased to announce that we now have access to the JSTOR e-journal package ‘Arts and Sciences VIII’.  This includes several key music titles, including Musica Disciplina, Music Perception, College Music Symposium and Music and the Moving Image. For a full list of the titles included in A&S VIII click here. Don’t forget that… Read More »

Next time you are heading for Duke Humfrey’s Library, do spare a moment to look at the latest display in the Proscholium exhibition case. Haydn à l’anglaise explores the way in which Haydn’s two collections of Lieder, published by Artaria in Vienna in 1781 and 1784 respectively, reached England and how London publishers sought to… Read More »