New microform reader/scanner
You might have noticed that MPAL got a new microform reader/scanner this semester. If you need help using it, feel free to ask a staff member, or check out these short YouTube tutorial videos from...
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Updates from the Music & Performing Arts Library
We’ve a got a few new things happening at MPAL this semester: Listening rooms 3, 4, and 5 now have upgraded equipment with new speakers, turntables, cassette decks, and CD players. Check it out in the...
View ArticleVote on a New MPAL Website!
We’re currently working on a redesign for our library website and we want your feedback! Even though we really want to give the website a visual facelift, we also want it to function and serve the...
View ArticleAudio holdings in the British Library Endangered Archives Programme
The British Library Endangered Archives Programme “[aims] to contribute to the preservation of archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide.” A quick...
View ArticleWelcome to our New Blog!
Welcome to the Music & Performing Arts Library’s new blog! Here we’ll share information about news and tools relevant to music, dance, and theatre researchers and performers, as well as information...
View ArticleFrom “Blurred Lines” to “Fair Trade” Music: Developments in Music Copyright...
Whether you actively compose music, perform it, or just simply enjoy listening to it, the recent developments surrounding music copyright and the music industry may be of interest to you. “Blurred...
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Remembering Wars Through Music
The Music and Performing Arts Library has a large collection of historic American sheet music, including some digitized Civil War materials and digitized World War I materials. While we do not have...
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Klavarskribo
I had never heard about this alternate form of piano notation before coming across a score using it today. Klavarskribo was developed around 1930. You can read more about it in Grove (in Oxford Music...
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Printing from WorldCat
To print out an individual record for an item with the full description from WorldCat, follow these steps. Click on the pictures below to enlarge them. 1. To the right of the title of the individual...
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New U of I concert programs and historic sheet music databases
The Music and Performing Arts Library has two great new online resources, the University of Illinois Historic US Sheet Music Collection and the School of Music Concert and Recital Programs Database....
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