Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

The Gilmore Music Library’s special collections naturally contain an abundance of materials from Yale faculty, students, and alumni, and such items have appeared in many of our other exhibits. But in Musical Roots of the Elm City, we focus instead on local music and musicians with little or no connection to Yale. The exhibit features a wide variety of items from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including sheet music, concert programs, and sound recordings, and it encompasses classical, military, jazz, popular, and film music.

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), the renowned music encyclopedia that has long been a core resource for music researchers, is now available online. MGG offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy and visual arts. 

The Gilmore Music Library has adopted a new system, called Aeon, that enables you to request special collections directly from the catalogs where you look them up, to view at the Music Library.

The Gilmore Music Library has a new exhibition, “Tomorrow’s Overture is Always Best”: The Music of Kay Swift, curated by Emma Hathaway TD ’17, who has been writing her senior essay on Swift. The exhibition runs from April 25 - October 10, 2017. It is also available online.

Following a successful pilot in Fall 2016 of Avalon Media System, a replacement to Variations that is now being used to stream audio e-reserves at the Gilmore Music Library, the Music Library and Yale Library IT are pleased to announce the launch of a full production version of the system, which has been upgraded to the latest release and includes many new features.