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The Oral History of American Music collection has a new home in Sterling Memorial Library

The staff and collections of Oral History of American Music (OHAM) have moved from their previous location on Prospect Street to Sterling Memorial Library (SML). OHAM’s director, Libby Van Cleve, is now located in a reconstructed office in room 332 on the third floor of SML. Adjacent to her office is the work area for OHAM Assistant Maura Valenti and student workers, as well as the audio workstation and the OHAM collection. OHAM’s Research Archivist, Anne Rhodes, and Founder, Vivian Perlis, have moved to a new office located in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library.

Boundaries of Romanticism

It’s customary to describe the history of western art music as a progression of historical periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern. These periods form the basis of countless books, recordings, courses, radio programs, and so on. But they are the creation of historians and critics, not a depiction of the natural order of things. They are useful fictions that help us take the disorderly and contradictory sources that have come down to us, and turn them into a coherent story.

Swing Into Spring at the Yale Library!

All are welcome to join us for an evening of dance and fun on April 8th. The Gilmore Music Library, the Yale University Library, and Yale Swing and Blues are proud to sponsor this event to (hopefully!) swing us into spring for good!

Most of the music at the event is from the Music Library's archives (featuring the Benny Goodman archive) and has recently undergone preservation treatment using funds donated to the Yale Library from Arcadia, a charitable fund, supporting charities and scholarly institutions that preserve cultural heritage and the environment.

Plays Well with Others

Fall 2014

Since at least the invention of the bicinium, the two-part vocal or instrumental compositions of the Renaissance and early Baroque, duets have been an integral part of learning to play an instrument or sing, and have been included in most etude, method, and music theory books for at least six centuries. This exhibit is a small sampling of duets in instrumental method books.

Audio Databases

 

Try these first...

  • Music Online
    Music Online allows you to search across the many Alexander Street Press Music Online databases that Yale Music Library subscribes to including American Music, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, and Popular Music Library.
     

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