Music  

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.

Opera in Video  

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

except as indicated

Listening / Viewing Databases

American Song

Classical Music Library

Contemporary World Music 

Dance in Video

Music Online 

National Jukebox (freely accessible)

Naxos Music Library 

Naxos Music Library Jazz 

Opera in Video

Smithsonian Global Sound 

UCSB Cylinder Project  (freely accessible)

Encyclopedias

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 

Grove Book of Operas

International Encyclopedia of Dance 

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India

Oxford Music Online  (includes Grove Music)

History

Oxford History of Western Music 

Article Databases

Academic Search Complete 

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

International Index to Music Periodicals 

Music Index Online 

Directory of Online Resources

Online Resources for Music Scholars (Harvard)

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. 

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.

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

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

Dance in Handel's London Operas - Sarah McCleave

Call Number: ML410 .H2 M39 2013

ISBN: 1580464203

Publication Date: 2013-02-15

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

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

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

Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut - Thomas Burkhalter

Call Number: ML3917 .L43 B87 2013

ISBN: 0415808138

Publication Date: 2012-12-19

Mingus Speaks - John F. Goodman; Sy Johnson (Photographer)

Call Number: ML418 .M45 A5 2013

ISBN: 0520275233

Publication Date: 2013-05-20

Motion, Emotion, and Love: The Nature of Artistic Performance - Thomas Carson Mark

Call Number: ML3830 .M37 2012

ISBN: 1579999018

Publication Date: 2012-09-01

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

Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music - Holly Rogers

Call Number: ML197 .R57 2013

ISBN: 0199861420

Publication Date: 2013-04-10

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

Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany - Matthew Head

Call Number: ML82 .H44 2013

ISBN: 0520273842

Publication Date: 2013-05-09

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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SPRING 2013

Apr. 1 - June 14:

Mon-Wed: 9 am - 10 pm

Thurs-Fri: 9 am - 6 pm

Sat: closed

Sun: 2 pm - 10 pm

Exceptions

Sun, May 26: 2 pm - 6 pm

Mon, May 27: Noon - 10 pm (Memorial Day)

Recess,  June 15 - 23:

Mon-Thurs: 9 am - 6 pm

Fri: 9 am - 5 pm

Sat-Sun: Closed

UCSB Music Department

CISM - Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music

Media Arts and Technology Program

CREATE

Eichheim Collection of Musical Instruments

Arts & Lectures

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

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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.