Music at the Library

The Penn Library has a lot to offer students who are interested in music...

If you like playing it as a hobby, reading about it for study or for pleasure, listening to it to unwind, or even composing it, the fourth floor of the Van Pelt Library should be your destination.

		The Otto E. Albrecht Music Library on the west end of the fourth floor has classical sheet music for all kinds of instrumental and vocal combinations - solo piano, string quartets, madrigals, and more - as well as vocal selections from musicals and films and scores to complete operas. The music is listed in Franklin, but if you can't find what you need, library staff will help you with your search.
		Interested in reading about Vivaldi or the Velvet Underground or the music of Vietnam? The library also collects books on composers and performers of all types of music - classical, popular, and jazz - and studies of music of countries across the globe.
		The Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center in the Music Library houses a collection of over 20,000 CDs that you can either listen to on CD players in the library or borrow for one week. Practically any piece of classical music is available on CD, and the library's considerable collection of jazz and popular music is growing. The CDs are listed in Franklin, and library staff can help you find what you need.
		The Ormandy Center also offers a small computer-music studio complete with a workstation with attached piano keyboard that runs Sibelius, a popular music-processing program. The studio also contains a Yamaha electronic piano with headphones.

For more information on the facilities and services of the Music Library, please contact Richard Griscom, head of the Music Library.

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