Music Department Resources

In addition to the Music Computer Lab, the department maintains 2 music-specific computing stations in Van Pelt Library (Rosengarten Reserve & Ormandy Center).

Practice rooms are available in the basements of the Music Building and Irvine Auditorium.  Additional facilities will soon be available on the fourth floor of the newly renovated Fisher-Bennett Hall.

The Otto E. Albrecht Music Library holds over 103,000 volumes of books, music, periodicals, and a large collection of microforms. At the core of the collection are musical scores in both scholarly and performing editions, literature on music history and theory, and microforms of primary sources.

The Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center is named for the long-term conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose professional papers, conducting scores, and recordings the Penn Library holds. The Center houses more than 34,000 sound recordings of Western music, as well as art and traditional musics of the world in LP disc, cassette, and compact disc formats. The Music Library's video collection is also housed here and includes DVD and laser disc recordings of opera and ballet as well as a diverse collection of video tapes, primarily related to the study of world music.

Please visit the links on the left side of this page for more information.