Music
| Department: | School of Music |
| Library: | W.D. Jordan Special Collections & Music Library |
| Faculty Representative: | Clara Marvin ckm1@queensu.ca 74205 |
Liaison Librarian: | Lucinda Walls |
Recommend a New Collection Acquisition
Collection Policy Outline
General Purpose:
- To support teaching to the B Mus. and the B.A. (Honours) level as well as the creative and research activities of faculty and students.
Languages:
- Materials in Western languages, primarily English, French, German and Italian, are widely collected. Music scores are collected regardless of the language of their text or notes.
Geographical Areas:
- Emphasis is on European and North American materials; other geographic areas are collected less systematically.
Chronological limits:
- In the field of art music of the European tradition, materials representing the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th-21st century periods are collected.
Type of Material Collected:
- scores for study and performance (scores and parts for School of Music ensembles are purchased by the School)
- books: monographs and sets, bibliographic and reference sources, etc.
- sound recordings (CDs, LPs, etc.)
- multimedia (DVDs, VHS tapes, etc.)
- indexing, abstracting and full-text services
- serial publications: series and periodicals
Note: any of the above may be in print, microform, or electronic format
Current Areas of Concentration or Fields of Faculty Research:
Beethoven; Beethoven in literature and film; Music in Enlightenment Europe; Palestrina; Music in Renaissance Rome; popular music; music and gender; music and national identity; North Indian dance; hereditary performers of North India; Indigenous and traditional music in North American; Musical Historiography; Canadian Music; general music curriculum; critical thinking in music education.Subjects and Collecting Levels:
(Explanation of Collection Policy Levels)
Areas to be collected at level C:
- musicology (including music theory and analysis and
performance)
- theoretical works
- musicological studies: history, biography, style studies, music appreciation, and modern editions of historical works, contemporary popular music (social history of popular music and jazz)
- composition (emphasis on 20th-21st century music)
- music and women/gender studies
- electroacoustic music composition, technology of computer music
- music education:
- research studies
- learning theory
- pedagogical materials
- ethnomusicology
- history, theory, and methodology of ethnomusicology
- North Americantraditional music including aboriginal musics and folk musics
- world music with a focus on India, diaspora, and globalization
Areas to be collected at level E:
- music therapy
- physics and acoustics of music
Policy last revised: July 2008