Facilities
Located within the Van Pelt-Dietrich library complex, the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library comprises more than 103,000 volumes of books, music, journals, and a microforms. The collection is especially strong in reference sources, critical editions and literature on music history and theory. Adjacent to the Music Library, the Eugene Ormandy Listening Center--a part of the recently established memorial to the illustrious conductor--houses some 38,000 sound recordings of Western music, as well as art and traditional music of the world in LP disc, cassette, and compact disc formats. The Center offers state-of-the-art audio and video facilities as well as a computer workstation equipped with a MIDI interface and synthesizer. The most recent additin to the Music Library, the Marian Anderson Music Study Center--named for the contralto whose papers the lbrary holds--houses the Music Library's reference, current periodical, and microfilm collections, and includes a teaching seminar that supports multi-media technologies.
Extensive rare materials are found in Van Pelt's Department of Special Collections. In addition to a large body of 18th-century printed music, some of it once owned by the early Philadelphia composer and University graduate Francis Hopkinson (1737-91), the library has such diverse treasures as autographs of Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius, and Bela Barok, a manuscript of early Baroque monody, and two medieval theory treatises. Among its archival holdings are an extensive collection of Camille Saint-Saens letters and the papers ofAlma Mahler Werfel, Marian Anderson, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, the American Musicological Society, and the Philadelphia Musical Fund Society.
Our Music Librarian, Marjorie Hassen, is a graduate of the University of Chicago Library School and has done graduate work in musicology at Rutgers University. Her research interests include the activities of music guilds in central Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, and music in 19th century Philadelphia.
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries hold more than 4.5 million printed volumes, 2.4 million items in microfilm, and over 33,000 current serial subscriptions. Penn's digital library on the World Wide Web offers a wide range of networked electronic resources including Franklin, Penn's on-line catalog, RLIN/Eureka and OCLC WorldCat, and numerous journal citation databases and full text files.
The University of Pennsylvania Music Computer Lab installation was completed in January 1996. This facility was funded by SAS Computing, grants from the Instructional Computing Development Fund, a Pew grant from the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Music Department. The lab, located on the third floor of the music building, has ten networked workstations consisting of a Macintosh computer, MIDI interface, synthesizer, and audio interface. The instructor's station has additional sound resources, and audio transfer and editing equipment. All stations are equipped for audio synthesis, editing, sequencing, notation, and basic video editing.
Hours: please visit the MMS site for hours
Location: David Rittenhouse Laboratory Basement (Multi-Media Services, 209 South 33rd Street, between Spruce and Walnut Street)
The lab is designed primarily to serve undergraduates registered in music classes.
Priority users are students in classes requiring or recommending lab work; at times of heavy usage students will be limited to one hour per session to accommodate other users.
Students should attend an orientation session before using the lab. Times will be announced in classes and posted in the lab.
An additional Practica Musica stations is located in Van Pelt Library's Ormandy Listening Center
• headphones are provided for use in the lab.
• Under no circumstances are food, drink, or smoking permitted in the lab.
• The desktop configurations of the computers should not be altered.
• No student work is to be left on the hard drives- DVD/CD-R burners are available for saving your work.
• Access to the instructor's station is limited to music department intructors.
• Copying and installing software is prohibited.
• Software documentation is not to be removed from the lab; CD-ROMs and other peripherals may not be taken out of the music building.
• Any student who abuses lab privileges will lose the right of access to the lab.
• Teaching Assistants will hold office hours in the lab; times will be posted in the lab.
Please report any problems with equipment or software to one of the lab/teaching assistants or email music-lab@sas.upenn.edu.
The Presser Electronic Studio provides graduate students with facilties for projects utilizing MIDI, software synthesis, and digital audio. Equipment includes a Macintosh G5 computer, with MOTU Digital Performer & Digidesign Pro Tools; MIDI hardware from Yamaha, Roland, E-Mu, Akai, and Peavey; and facilities for multitrack digital audio, CD burning, and analog and digital tape duplication. A notation workstation running Finale and Sibelius is also available. James Primosch is the faculty administrator of the studio.
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