Gilmore Music Library

The scholarly study of music history is a surprisingly recent innovation, one that is explored in Histories of Music, a new exhibit curated by Richard Boursy at the Gilmore Music Library. It features general histories of music from Printz in the 17th century through Hawkins and Burney in the 18th to Kiesewetter, Fétis, and Ambros in the 19th. The exhibit also includes Glarean's Dodekachordon of 1547, and Donald Jay Grout's A History of Western Music, revised by Yale's own Claude V. Palisca. Visit our exbhiti at: http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/exhibits/histories/index.html

The Classical Music Library, an Alexander Street Press database to which the Library subscribes, recently released access to selective EMI, Virgin Classics, and Angel Records. That is over 1,500 records, many of which of historic interest. Click here to get more details...

Highlights include recordings by Thomas Hampson, the Eroica Trio, Natalie Dessay, Sarah Chang, Les Arts Florissants, Maria Callas, Julian Bream, English Consort, Dinu Lipatti, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christa Ludwig, Berlin Philharmonic, Sviatoslav Richter, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Taverner Choir, Kiri Te Kanawa, Maxim Vengerov, Vienna Philharmonic, and many more.