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Music Resource Center

Overview of Music holdings at URI Libraries and the Fine Arts Resource Center

The following links are to pages that give a sense of the resources we have in support of Music students and faculty :

Ensemble Library Holdings

Ensemble Library Holdings

Fine Arts room A109 

Full Orchestra – individual pieces and collections: 1905

String Orchestra: 289

Fine Arts room C100 

Youth Orchestra: 169

Tyler Hall rooms 001A, 001B 

Concert Choir – mixed voices, women’s voices, and men’s voices: 1123

Jazz Choir: 32

Children’s Choir: 65

Jazz Band, Jazz Orchestra and Combo: 742

Marching Band – show pieces and classic marches: 1302

Concert Band – individual pieces and collections: 1483

Total Ensemble Library

7110

Expenditures: Carothers and Music Resource Center

Dollar amounts spent on Music Resources for Carothers Library and Music Resource Center

Dollar amounts spent on resources in Music

Carothers Library (main library URI Kingston campus):

Printed monographs in music:

2019/20 $3000 (projected)

2018/19 $3200

2017/18 $3,000

2016/17 $2,473

2015/16 $2,518

 
Standing orders  for printed music collections (continuing titles that get filled over time as new volumes come out).  See spreadsheet for continuing titles – no new titles added in the past three years.
 
 
     
Collected Works / Dietrich Buxtehude Theodore Front  
Complete Works – Samtliche Werke Jean Sibelius EBC  
Monumenti musicali italiani Casalini Libri OV  M3 .F89
Neue Ausgabe Samtliche Werke Franz Liszt Theodore Front Oversize M3 .L772 1970b Ser. 2 v. 19 no. 8-9 {Note: not published in numerical sequence.}
New Edition of the complete works of Hector Berlioz Theodore Front OV M3 .B52
Oeuvres completes de Claude Debussy Theodore Front OV M3 .D35 1985
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era AR editions  
Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era AR editions  
Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages AR editions  
Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance AR editions  
RISM Repertoire International Des Sources Musicales / International Inventory of Musical Sources A & B Harrassowitz Ref. ML113 .I6 ser. A v. XVI
Samtliche Werke – Richard Wagner Theodore Front  
Samtliche Werke Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy Theodore Front Oversize M3 .M54 1961 Ser. # v. #
Samtliche Werke Orlando di Lasso    
Samtliche Werke Paul Hindemith Theodore Front  
Samtliche Werke Richard Wagner Theodore Front  
Samtliche Werke Schoenberg, Arnold JW Pepper  
Szymanowski, Karol (Gesamtausgabe complete ed) Series A, B, C, and D Theodore Front Oversize M3 .S992 1973 C:12
Works of Giuseppe Verdi GOBI Oversize M3 .V48 1983
     

 

Video media:
2019/2020 $500  (projected)
 21 music related DVDs were acquired over the past three years (no information as to purchase or donation status) only two of those videos were requested by Music faculty.
 
     
 
 
Audio media: N/A (not acquiring new audio discs, holdings deleted – 200 CDs transferred to Music Resource Center in 2016)
 
     

 

Online reference databases:

2019/20 $70,000 (projected)

2018 – New  subscription to RILM online  (bundled with Music Index) $9,985

2018/19   $70,000

2017/18  $57,820

2016/17  $93,400
 
2015/16  $83,300
 
     
 
e-Book and journal packages that have music content:
2019/20 $800,000 (projected)
2018/19 $800,000
2017/18 $732,491
2016/17 $1,099,455
2015/16 $2,880,118
 
 
     
 
 
Music Resource Center (library in Fine Arts Center serving the Music Department)
 
     
 
Printed monographs in music (study scores and reference texts):
2019/20 $200 (projected)
2018/19 $400
 2017/18 $300
 2016/17 $295
 2015/16 $159
 
     
 
Sheet music (solo and ensemble scores and parts):
2019/20 $500 (projected)
2018/19 $500
2017/18 $300
2016/17 $296
2015/16 $908
 
     
 
Video media:
2019/20 $500 (projected)
2018/19 $500
 2017/18 $200
 2016/17 $100
2015/16 $159
 
     
 
Audio media:
2019/20 $200 (projected)
2018/19 $300
 2017/18 $300
2016/17 $0.00
2015/16 $300
 
     
 
Music software and licenses:
2017/18 $40 (SmartMusic)
2016/17 $40 (SmartMusic)
2015/16 $40 (SmartMusic)
 
 
     
 
Ensemble Library (housed in Fine Arts A109 and Tyler Hall rooms 001 A & B)
2017/18 $1731 (as of 10/17/17)
2016/17  Total $2041
2015/16  Total $3,400
 
     
 
Concert Band/Wind Ensemble
 2017/18 $250 (as of 10/17/17)
2016/17 $375
2015/16 $1,238
 
     

 

Chorus
2019/20 $70,000 (projected)
2017/18 $92 (as of 10/17/17)
2016/17 $130
2015/16 $344
 
     
 
Jazz Band
2017/18 $579 (as of 10/17/17)
2016/17 $869
2015/16 $1059
 
     
 
Marching Band
 2017/18 $537 (as of 10/17/17)
 2017/18 $517
2015/16 $355
 
     
 
Orchestra
2017/18 $273 ($150 projected rentals – Student Soloist Competition)
2016/17 $250 (rentals – Student Soloist Competition)
2015/16 $404 (rentals – Student Soloist Competition)

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