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MUSIC RESEARCH: SEARCH, QUICK-LINKS, RESEARCH HELP

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.

 

 

 

 

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!   

Vassar Primo Collections

Music Library News for Fall 2025

This year, we said farewell to two of our beloved colleagues and wished them well on their retirement. Sarah Canino, Music Librarian, retired after almost 40 years of service to Vassar. She was the longest-serving Music Librarian since the Music Library's namesake, George Sherman Dickinson! Ann Churukian, Assistant Music Librarian, retired after over 30 years. Ann was not just an expert music cataloger; she was also a cataloging resource par excellence for her Vassar Library colleagues. Thank you, Sarah and Ann, for transforming the Music Library and for all that you've done for the Vassar community and the field of music librarianship!

Get Music Research Help

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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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