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The collections of the UCSB Music Library include over 27,000 LPs.  You can listen to them, or any of the library's 15,000 CDs, over stereo speakers in our individual listening rooms.  For online listening to thousands more albums, see the Quick Links listening databases below.

New Resource!

Opera in Video  UCSB only

Contains 290 opera performances in streaming video.  View on your computer or mobile device.  All video is supported for iPhone and Android. 

      
     

    Oxford Music Online

     

    The Library Guide for Music

    Welcome to the UCSB Music Library, located on the second floor of the Arts Library.  This guide is intended to help you find materials for the study of music and provide information about the library. To get started, try the Quick Links on the lower left or click on the tabs above. If you are off campus, don't forget to log in to use items available to UCSB faculty and students only. For interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music, you may find it helpful to check other UCSB library guides for materials relevant to your research. 

     

    New Books by UCSB Faculty Authors

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    Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer - David C. Paul
    Call Number: ML410 .I924 P38 2013
    ISBN: 0252037499
    Publication Date: 2013-04-11
    Available soon in the Music Library!

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    Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity - Ruth Hellier (Editor); Ellen Koskoff (Afterword by)
    Call Number: ML82 .W687 2013
    ISBN: 0252037243
    Publication Date: 2013-02-07

     

    New Books in the UCSB Music Library

    Check the New Book Shelf in the music library to see these and other recently added titles.  You may check out books and scores from the New Book Shelf.

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    The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop - Guthrie P. Ramsey
    Call Number: ML417 .P73 R36 2013
    ISBN: 0520243919
    Publication Date: 2013-05-28

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    The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett - Edited by Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones
    Call Number: ML410 .T467 C36 2013
    ISBN: 1107606136
    Publication Date: 2013-01-17

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    Dance in Handel's London Operas - Sarah McCleave
    Call Number: ML410 .H2 M39 2013
    ISBN: 1580464203
    Publication Date: 2013-02-15

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    Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd: The Authorized Biography - Thomas Holliday
    Call Number: ML410 .F55 H6 2013
    ISBN: 0815610033
    Publication Date: 2012-12-01

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    Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society - Edward W. Sarath
    Call Number: ML3838 .S19 2013
    ISBN: 1438447213
    Publication Date: 2013-06-01

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    The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor - Dr. Billy Taylor, with Teresa L. Reed
    Call Number: ML417 .T24 A3 2013
    ISBN: 025300909X
    Publication Date: 2013-04-18

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    Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut - Thomas Burkhalter
    Call Number: ML3917 .L43 B87 2013
    ISBN: 0415808138
    Publication Date: 2012-12-19

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    Mingus Speaks - John F. Goodman; Sy Johnson (Photographer)
    Call Number: ML418 .M45 A5 2013
    ISBN: 0520275233
    Publication Date: 2013-05-20

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    Motion, Emotion, and Love: The Nature of Artistic Performance - Thomas Carson Mark
    Call Number: ML3830 .M37 2012
    ISBN: 1579999018
    Publication Date: 2012-09-01

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    The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of The 1970s - Mitchell Morris
    Call Number: ML3477 .M68 2013
    ISBN: 0520275993
    Publication Date: 2013-04-29

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    Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music - Holly Rogers
    Call Number: ML197 .R57 2013
    ISBN: 0199861420
    Publication Date: 2013-04-10

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    Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II - Annegret Fauser
    Call Number: ML3917 .U6 F38 2013
    ISBN: 0199948038
    Publication Date: 2013-05-21

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    Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany - Matthew Head
    Call Number: ML82 .H44 2013
    ISBN: 0520273842
    Publication Date: 2013-05-09

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    Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora - Brigid Cohen
    Call Number: ML410 .W8355 C64 2012
    ISBN: 1107003008
    Publication Date: 2012-09-13

     

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    Chicago Manual of Style Online

    Click the title link below to access the full text. 

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    The Chicago Manual of Style Online - University of Chicago Staff (Editor)
    ISBN: 0226104206
    Publication Date: 2010-08-01
    Now accessible online for UCSB faculty and students.


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