Other Stanford collections containing music

Department of Special Collections | Media-Microtext Center | Green Library | Archive of Recorded Sound

Department of Special Collections

The Department of Special Collections is located in the Bing Wing of Green Library.

The Memorial Library of Music, housed in Special Collections, is Stanford's premiere music collection, and contains over 1,500 printed and manuscript scores of operas, symphonic, chamber, and choral works by major composers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. A catalog of the collection was compiled and published by Nathan Van Patten in 1950. Copies are available in the Music Library Reference Room: ML136.S8 S8 1950. A partial guide is currently being converted to electronic form. Materials added to the collection after the publication of the catalog may be found in Socrates, Stanford’s online catalog.

Other rare/archival collections of interest to music researchers are administered by the Special Collections Department; some of these collections currently have online finding aids available.

Media-Microtext Center

The Media-Microtext Center located in the basement of Green Library East contains a large collection of videos of operas, ballets and films, in addition to sound recordings. Use Socrates to find what materials are in the MMC.

Green Library

There are also music materials in the Green Library stacks. Some duplicate Music Library holdings, but there are many books about jazz, rock, popular, ethnic, and folk music there that are unique in the Stanford Libraries. Use Socrates to find materials in the Green Library stacks.

Archive of Recorded Sound

The Archive of Recorded Sound contains an extensive reference collection which supplements the materials in the Music Library's Reference Room. Its large sound recordings collection includes all types of music, and is one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country.

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