The University Library System
The University's libraries, with holdings of more than 4.4 million items, include both departmental and interdepartmental collections housed in a number of buildings around the campus.
The Theodore M. Finney Music Library
Founded in 1966, the Theodore
M. Finney Music Library, located in the Music Building, houses
a research-level collection that supports the graduate programs
in composition
and theory, ethnomusicology,
and historical musicology.
The Music Library owns approximately 65,000 music scores and books,
25,000 sound recordings in various formats, 1,500 microforms,
and 500 video recordings, and subscribes to more than 150 journal
titles. It also holds several important collections. These include
microfilms of plainchant and liturgical manuscripts and of 16th-century
printed music, Gregorian chant leaves, early American hymnals
and tunebooks, 17th- and 18th-century prints of English sacred
and secular works, music belonging to the late William Steinberg
and Fidelis Zitterbart, and the archives of the Polish Singers
Alliance of America. An unusually large number of music facsimile
publications of manuscripts ranging from early plainchant to Stravinsky,
as well as a growing collection of rare musical scores and of
important American musical imprints, broaden the scope of this
research facility.
The Center for American Music
The Center
for American Music is a library, museum, and research center
for music of the United States, with particular emphasis on popular
music and culture of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The original
holdings, given to the University in 1937 as the Foster Hall Collection,
document the works and influence of "America's first professional
composer," Stephen Collins Foster. Additional holdings extend
the scope to other significant composers, performers, organizations,
and musical practices.
Sonny Rollins International Jazz Archive
The University of Pittsburgh Sonny Rollins International Jazz
Archive contains video and audio tapes of more than 30 years of
the department's annual Jazz
Seminar and Concert, including performances by such artists
and guest lecturers as Kenny Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins,
and James Moody. The archive also includes original scores, musical
instruments, letters, and artifacts related to the history of
jazz.
Hillman Library
The main library on the Pittsburgh campus, Hillman Library holds a small collection of music literature, the department of Special Collections, the African American Collection, and the Stark Listening Center, among many other collections of particular interest to music students. The Stark Listening Center contains more than 35,000 sound recordings.
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Located two blocks from the Music Building, the main library
of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
has extensive holdings in music, including more than 30,000 sound
recordings and over 100,000 books and scores. Visit Carnegie Library's
Music
& Art Department for more information.
