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| Collections |
The Heilbrun Library holds the General Libraries' collections of music materials and of audiovisual media. The media collections support not only the Film Studies Program, but instruction and research across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines, with primary focus on the curricula of Emory College, Goizueta School of Business, and the Graduate School.
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| Visual Media |
The library's film collection includes documentaries, foreign-language films, opera and other musical performances, dance, theater, and feature films. Most of the film holdings are in video formats, comprising over 7,000 VHS videotapes, over 1500 DVDs, 2300 laserdiscs, , and 330 U-matic (3/4 in.) videotapes. There are about 500 16mm films. Visual media also include over 100 sets of slides and mixed-media kits.
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| Sound Recordings |
| The sound recordings collection consists of 10,000 titles on compact discs, about 18,000 on LP phonodisc, and 300 on cassette tape. (Many of the LPs are not yet represented in EUCLID: a card catalog is available for consultation upon request.) In addition to the cassette tapes in the permanent collection, the library has on reserve a selection of language-instruction tapes applicable to specific courses.
Music recordings include jazz, folk, popular, and world music, with the largest concentration in western art (classical) music. Among spoken-word recordings are plays, a few novels, and self-instruction materials for selected foreign languages, principally African.
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| Print Collections in Music |
| The library's print collections consist of 23,000 scores, 30,000 books on music, and about 100 current journal subscriptions. The focus is on western art (classical) music, with growing collections in ethnomusicology, jazz, and popular music.
Significant among the scores are research-oriented editions such as collected works of individual composers, historical sets ("monumenta"), and facsimiles of music manuscripts and early editions. Scores for study or performance comprise full or miniature scores as well as sets of parts, the latter for chamber music only. Performance materials for large instrumental ensembles and choruses are held by the Department of Music.
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| Electronic Resources |
The Emory General Libraries-Woodruff
Library, Heilbrun Library, and the J. S. Guy Chemistry
Library-provide the Emory community access to a wide
array of electronic materials. Books and journals available
in electronic form appear in the EUCLID
catalog with the web address, and the user can link
to them from the EUCLID
screen. Literature indexes appear in EUCLID
and can also be identified through the Database
Locator.
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| Related Music Collections at Emory |
| Microforms related to music, including back issues of some journals, are located in the microforms area on level 1 of Woodruff Library.
The Manuscript,
Archives, and Rare Book Library of Woodruff Library
has several collections containing specialized musical
resources, including a collection of Confederate sheet-music
imprints and music materials in the African-American
history collection.
Pitts Theology Library maintains an outstanding collection of hymnals and books on hymnody, as well as other sacred-music resources.
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August 7, 2006
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