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As a branch of the Vassar College Libraries, the Dickinson Music Library serves as a resource for the entire Vassar community providing books and periodicals on music, printed musical scores, sound and visual recordings and music-related research help.

Winter Break

Music Library hours 12/19/23-1/17/24:

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Tuesday, 12/18: 1:00pm-4:00pm

Wednesday, 12/19: EARLY CLOSE 1:00pm-2:00pm

Thursday, 12/20: 1:00pm-4:00pm

Friday, 12/21: 1:00pm-4:00pm

CLOSED 12-23-1/2/24

 

January 2-17, 2024: 

REOPEN Tuesday, January 2, 1:00pm-4:00pm--

Open daily 1:00pm-4:00pm

CLOSED weekends 

RESUME REGULAR HOURS Wednesday 1/17/24.

 

MUSIC RESOURCES

MUSIC RESEARCH HELP

ALL MUSIC DATABASES

MUSIC INDEXES

MUSIC REFERENCE WORKS: *Grove Music Online

MUSIC RESEARCH GUIDES

eBOOKS

SCORES (ALL DIGITAL SCORES): *Music Online: Classical Scores Library

STREAMING A-V DATABASES Worldcat

MAKING SOUND VISIBLE

Check out cymatics, the power of sound vibrations!   

Download the Public Domain Song AnthologyWith Modern and Traditional Harmonization.  Edited by David Berger and Chuck Israels. Charlotteville, VA: Aperio Press, 2020.  Or link to the PDF below:

Vassar Primo Collections

VASSAR COLLEGE COMPLETES GRANT-FUNDED ARCHIVAL AUDIO DIGITIZATION PROJECT COMPLETED

Vassar College. Class of 1949. Vassar's Soph Party [sound recording] : the spiral weekend. New Haven, Conn. : D.D. Smith, [1947?] Vassar Archival Recordings Project: "Music as Document and Indicator of Social Change"

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MUSIC RESEARCH HELP

Sounds to RECHARGE!

SKINNER HALL OF MUSIC (CAMPUS SIDE)

SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SKINNER HALL OF MUSIC (CAMPUS SIDE)

MUSIC LIBRARY LISTENING CLASSROOM (MLLC)

GEORGE SHERMAN DICKINSON

AV ALCOVE

CHARGING STATION

MUSIC LIBRARY READING ROOM