Facilities
Located within the Van Pelt-Dietrich library complex, the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library comprises more than 103,000 volumes of books, music, journals, and a microforms. The collection is especially strong in reference sources, critical editions and literature on music history and theory. Adjacent to the Music Library, the Eugene Ormandy Listening Center--a part of the recently established memorial to the illustrious conductor--houses some 38,000 sound recordings of Western music, as well as art and traditional music of the world in LP disc, cassette, and compact disc formats. The Center offers state-of-the-art audio and video facilities as well as a computer workstation equipped with a MIDI interface and synthesizer. The most recent additin to the Music Library, the Marian Anderson Music Study Center--named for the contralto whose papers the lbrary holds--houses the Music Library's reference, current periodical, and microfilm collections, and includes a teaching seminar that supports multi-media technologies.
Extensive rare materials are found in Van Pelt's Department of Special Collections. In addition to a large body of 18th-century printed music, some of it once owned by the early Philadelphia composer and University graduate Francis Hopkinson (1737-91), the library has such diverse treasures as autographs of Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius, and Bela Barok, a manuscript of early Baroque monody, and two medieval theory treatises. Among its archival holdings are an extensive collection of Camille Saint-Saens letters and the papers ofAlma Mahler Werfel, Marian Anderson, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, the American Musicological Society, and the Philadelphia Musical Fund Society.
Our Music Librarian, Marjorie Hassen, is a graduate of the University of Chicago Library School and has done graduate work in musicology at Rutgers University. Her research interests include the activities of music guilds in central Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, and music in 19th century Philadelphia.
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries hold more than 4.5 million printed volumes, 2.4 million items in microfilm, and over 33,000 current serial subscriptions. Penn's digital library on the World Wide Web offers a wide range of networked electronic resources including Franklin, Penn's on-line catalog, RLIN/Eureka and OCLC WorldCat, and numerous journal citation databases and full text files.
The Music Department Computer Lab houses ten networked music workstations and a high quality laser printer. Each workstation consists of a Macintosh G5 computer with MIDI interface and synthesizer. In addition, the instructor's station has added graphic and sound production capabilities. Each station is equipped with software for notation, sequencing, spectral analysis, computer-assisted instruction (fundamentals, aural skills, and multimedia courseware), and numerous resources for research, as well as standard programs for word processing, graphics, and electronic mail. For full details, see the lab web pages.
Graduate students have access to all lab facilities including the ability to produce camera-ready music copy and graphics. Graduate teaching fellows are encouraged to explore the use of computer-assisted instruction in the undergraduate curriculum. Cristle Collins Judd is the faculty lab administrator. The Presser Electronic Music Studio provides facilities for graduate composition with electronic media.
The Presser Electronic Studio provides graduate students with facilties for projects utilizing MIDI, software synthesis, and digital audio. Equipment includes a Macintosh G5 computer, with MOTU Digital Performer & Digidesign Pro Tools; MIDI hardware from Yamaha, Roland, E-Mu, Akai, and Peavey; and facilities for multitrack digital audio, CD burning, and analog and digital tape duplication. A notation workstation running Finale and Sibelius is also available. James Primosch is the faculty administrator of the studio.
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