The following policies apply to both College and Precollege students during the regular School year.
Alumni should visit the Alumni Benefits page of the School's site for information about using the Library.
Your Manhattan School of Music ID acts as your library card. You must have it with you to check materials out.
Basic circulation policies are laid out in the Circulation Notices section below.
Please note: Everything is subject to recall after four weeks. If somebody places a hold on an item you've had more than 28 days, you will receive a recall notice indicating that the item has a new due date a week hence.
Starting three weeks before the due date, your checked out items are eligible for self-renewal from your Library account. Simply log in, click "Items currently checked out", select the items you wish to renew, and click "Renew Marked" (or "Renew All"). You can also renew your items by bringing them to the circulation desk, before they are due.
Telephone renewals are not available.
You can renew for an additional period unless someone else has placed a hold on the item, in which case you must return it. Overdue items are not eligible to be renewed. You are permitted one renewal per item (total of two semesters) before you must bring the item back to the Library.
Course reserve materials may not be renewed.
You can place a hold on any item that is listed in the catalog but is not currently on the shelf by clicking on the "Hold This Item for Me" button and filling out the required information. When the item is ready, you will receive an e-mail notice that it is being held for you.
Please note: Regardless of due date, most items are eligible for recall after four weeks.
You will find many listings in the catalog for items that are on order or "in process." While those items are not yet ready to go out on the shelf, they are available for you to use. Please use the "Hold This Item for Me" button. We'll automatically make it a "rush" item and try to get it to you as soon as possible.
Note: Please do not write in/markup the Library's scores!
Light markings made for rehearsal purposes must be completely erased before returning, or you will be billed for a replacement.
If you are working extensively on a piece with your teacher, you should probably buy it!
The person who signs out a library item is responsible for its return, complete and in the same condition in which it was borrowed, on or before the due date stamped in the item. For chamber music, the person who signs out a set of parts is responsible for the return of all of the parts, together and complete as a set.
The Library does not charge overdue fines for our circulating materials. We will, however, bill you for their replacement if you don't bring them back by the due date. At that time, you may be blocked in the Registrar's Office.
Default charges include both a replacement charge ($105 per item) and a processing fee ($80 per item). These are non-negotiable charges based on the costs, time, and labor (e.g., purchasing, shipping, binding, labeling, cataloging, etc.) required to replace Library items.
If we have not yet ordered a replacement, there may still be time for you to return the item and have the charge removed from your account. However, do not delay: as soon as a new copy is ordered, the bill becomes irrevocable.
College students can pay their bills through the Student Portal.
Precollege students can pay their bill by visiting the Precollege Office on Saturdays (card, check, cash), or by calling Student Accounts during business hours Monday-Friday (card): 917-493-4467 or 917-493-4785.
Course reserve materials are items assigned by teachers for the general use of their class or studio. Most physical items may be taken off the Library premises, as long as they are returned within the stipulated two-hour loan period.
You can find information about physical and digital course reserve materials on the Library's E-Reserves page, listed by your teacher's name or the course name, and in the Library Materials tab of each Canvas course.
Request physical course reserves by call number at the front circulation desk.
We send all notices to your student email account. These notices are a courtesy; you are responsible for keeping track of the materials you have checked out. The due date is stamped in each item, and you can also check your current circulation record through our catalog.
The default due date is the last day of the semester. But any item is eligible for recall by another patron after four weeks, so you are guaranteed a minimum use of four weeks.
We do not charge overdue fines. But when any item is overdue, you will be blocked from borrowing and using our online resources, and also blocked in the Registrar's Office from getting your grades and transcripts and from registering for future classes. After several weeks, you will be billed for the replacement (default price: $150 per item).
End of semester--but is eligible for recall by another patron after four weeks.
We do not charge overdue fines, but after several weeks you will be billed for the replacement (default price: $150 per item).
The default due date is the last day of the College semester. But any item is eligible for recall by another patron after four weeks, so you are guaranteed a minimum use of four weeks.
2 hours
2 at a time
No renewals
Overdue fine of $1/hour + library block
Overnight--but only if you are the (sole) faculty member for whom it was put on reserve.
Unlimited items
No renewals
No overdue fines, but you may have a block on your library account
2 hours
2 at a time
No renewals
Overdue fine of $1/hour + library block
On the way to the sky : remembering Bob Brookmeyer / Michael Stephans. University of North Texas Press, 2025.
Change : the new thing and modern jazz / Kwami Coleman. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Bach : the cello suites / Edward Klorman. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Broadway nation : how immigrant, Jewish, queer, and Black artists invented the Broadway musical / David Armstrong. Methuen Drama, 2025.
Fear of music why people get Rothko but don't get Stockhausen / David Stubbs. Zer0 Books, 2024.
Alive in the sound : Black music as counterhistory / Ronald Radano. Duke University Press, 2025.
A perfect harmony : music, mathematics and science / David Darling. Oneworld, 2025.
Dead and alive : essays / Zadie Smith. Penguin Press, 2025.
Elements of the philosophy of right / G.W.F. Hegel ; edited by Allen W. Wood ; translated by H.B. Nisbet.Cambridge University Press, 1991.
The phenomenology of spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ; translated and edited by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
The music of baseball : a history and catalog of selected works / George Boziwick. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2025.
The complete plays of Charles Ludlam. Perennial Library, 1989.
Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd : behind the bloody musical masterpiece / Rick Pender. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Alien / Jerry Goldsmith. Chris Siddall Music Publishing, 2022.
Edward Scissorhands : original score / composed by Danny Elfman. Omni Music Publishing, 2023.
Ghosts & gargoyles : spatial soliloquies : for solo flute with flute octet & jazz drummer / Henry Brant. Carl Fischer, 2001.
L'enfant et les sortilèges [vocal score] / Maurice Ravel ; edited by: François Dru ; reading comitee: Gerge Benjamin, Kenneth Hesheth, Adrien Perruchon. XXI Music Publishing, 2024.
Music copyright, creativity, and culture / Jennifer Jenkins ; comic book illustrations designed by James Boyle and Jenifer Jenkins and drawn by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey. Oxford University Press, 2025.
The December issue of Opera; with Opera News is now available to read online in a browser or download using the Exactly app.
Richard Wagner in Paris : translation, identity, modernity / Jeremy Coleman. The Boydell Press, 2019
The new winds of change : the evolution of the contemporary American wind band/ensemble and its music / Frank L. Battisti. Meredith Music Publications, 2018.
Swing along : the musical life of Will Marion Cook / Marva Griffin Carter. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Historia di Jephte : Oratorium, soli e coro SSSATB, basso continuo / Giacomo Carissimi ; edited by Wolfgang Hochstein ; basso continuo realization, Wolfgang Hochstein. Carus, 2023.
Social media in musical theatre / Trevor Boffone. Methuen Drama, 2023.
Being Prez : the life and music of Lester Young. Equinox Pub., 2007.
Tyranny and music / edited by Joseph E. Morgan and Gregory N. Reish. Lexington Books, 2017.
The Telemann compendium / Steven Zohn. The Boydell Press, 2020.
Segregating sound : inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow / Karl Hagstrom Miller. Duke University Press, 2010.
The closing of the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students / Allan Bloom. Simon and Schuster, 1987. Ebook edition (we also have it in paper).
Spinner : for solo cello / George Lewis. Edition Peters, 2025.
Antipodean riffs : essays on Australasian jazz / edited by Bruce Johnson. Equinox Publishing, 2016.
Complete works for harp solo / Sergej Prokofjew ; edited by Sophie Gneissl ; preface by Simon Morrison ; pedal markings by Sarah O'Brien. G. Henle Verlag, 2025.
Kansas City jazz : a little evil will do you good / Con Chapman. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2023.
Keep your singing voice healthy! : the doctor's guide to vocal vitality and longevity / Anthony F. Jahn, Youngnan Jenny Cho. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Homage to Barrios : solo guitar / John Williams. Doberman-Yppan, 2024.
Cardamom : for retuned solo violin (2024) / Liza Lim. G. Ricordi, 2025.
Ständchen ("Leise flehen meine Lieder") : arrangement for piano / Franz Schubert ; edited by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl ; fingering by Evgeny Kissin. G. Henle Verlag, 2024./
Cello concerto : for cello & orchestra / Unsuk Chin ; solo cello part edited by Alban Gerhardt ; piano reduction by Randa Kirshbaum. Boosey & Hawkes, 2024.
Arabesques pour le piano / Claude Debussy. Centre de documentation Claude Debussy, 2017. Facsimile of the composer's manuscript.
The birthplace of Off Broadway : 100 years of Cherry Lane Theatre. A24 Films, 2025.
Therefore I was : for violoncello, percussion, and piano / Ashley Fure. Peters Edition, 2019. Score + 3 parts.
A ship without a sail : the life of Lorenz Hart / Gary Marmorstein. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Matching minds with Sondheim : the puzzles and games of the Broadway legend / Barry Joseph. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
Piano concerto no. 26 in D major K. 537 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; edited by Andreas Friesenhagen ; fingering, cadenzas, lead-ins and embellishments by Andreas Staier. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
Années de pèlerinage. Troisième année : Italie / Franz Liszt ; edited by Leslie Howard. Edition Peters, 2022.
The periodic table of Broadway musicals : an illustrated guide to 118 essential shows / Andrew Gerle. Union Square Publishing, 2025.
Shadow ticket / Thomas Pynchon. Penguin Publishing Group, 2025.
The October issue of International Musician, the official journal of the American Federation of Musicians, is now available on our magazine rack.
The October issue of Jazzwise magazine is available read in the Libby app.
Anton Webern at the dawn of modernism / Sebastian Wedler. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Global groove : a complete guide to odd meters for all instruments / Rolf Zielke ; translation: Julia Rushworth. Advance Music, 2019.
The November issue of The Strad is now available to read using the Exactly app (or read it in a browser).
Anthony Braxton : 50+ years of creative music / edited by Timo Hoyer and Kobe Van Cauwenberghe. Schott, 2025.
The concert composer's business handbook / Steven Rosenhaus. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.
Music and leadership : the nature and role of aesthetics in orchestrating successful organizations / David M. Toledo.
Routledge, 2026.
A music transcription method : notating recorded music by ear / Andreas Häberlin. Routledge, 2026.
Oz and the musical : performing the American fairy tale / Ryan Bunch. Oxford University Press, 2023.
A Beethoven tapestry : networks and cultures of memory / herausgegeben von Birgit Lodes und Melanie Unseld. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024.
Musical exoticism : the Mediterranean and beyond in the long nineteenth century / edited by Michael Christoforidis and Ramón Sobrino. Brepols, 2024.
George Gershwin and modern art : a rhapsody in blue / Olivia Mattis ; with contributions by Kathleen van Bergen, Alexander Shelley, and Courtney A. McNeil. Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2024.
Schoenberg in context / edited by Alexander Carpenter. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Salome / Richard Strauss. Live webcast, May 2025. Met Opera on Demand, free to the MSM community through the Library.
My fair lady / Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. First complete recording: John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London. Chandos, 2025. The booklet is included.
Carl Nielsen : a cultural biography. Aarhus University Press, 2025.
Boundaries, space and register in Beethoven's piano music / Malcolm Miller. Boydell and Brewer 2025.
What we can know : a novel / Ian McEwan. Knopf, 2025.
Balanchine finds his America : a tale of love, loss and ballet reborn / Elizabeth Kendall. Oxford University Press, 2025.
The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : a novel / Kiran Desai. Hogarth, 2025.
Celebration : for solo piccolo / George Lewis. Edition Peters, 2024.
My name Is Barbra / Barbra Streisand. Books on Tape, 2023. Audiobook.
Stomp off, let's go : the early years of Louis Armstrong / Ricky Riccardi. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Daphnis et Chloé : symphonic fragments 2nd suite, for orchestra and choir / Maurice Ravel ; edited by Jean-François Monnard. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2023. Full score.
The November issue of Opera; with Opera news is out. Download it using the Exactly app, or read it online in a browser.
Innocence : an opera in five acts / Kaija Saariaho ; original Finnish libretto by Sofi Oksanen ; multilingual libretto by Aleksi Barrière ; piano reduction by Raimonds Zelmenis. Chester Music 2025. Vocal score.
Star trek II : the wrath of Khan / James Horner. Omni Music Publishing, 2022. Full score.
The Matrix / Don Davis. Omni Music Publishing, 2023. Full score.
Frederick Douglass : an opera in three acts / by Dorothy Rudd Moore. ACA, American Composers Alliance, 2024. Vocal score.
Conquest of the war demons (for string quartet) : the 2nd quartet of Salome dances for peace / Terry Riley. Associated Music Publishers, between 2001 and 2009. Score + 4 parts.
Il Teuzzone : RV 736 / Antonio Vivaldi ; reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition of the orchestral score by Alessandro Borin, Antonio Moccia. Ricordi, 2021.
Taboo danzas : for bass clarinet and guitar / Terry Riley. Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 2013. Score + 2 parts.
Celebration : for solo piccolo / George Lewis. Edition Peters, 2024.
The October issue of The Strad is available. Read it online in a browser, or download it using the Exactly app.
Practice in context : historically informed practices in nineteenth-century instrumental music / edited by Claire Holden, Eric F. Clarke, Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Vivaldi album. Tenore: selected arias / edited by Alessandro Borin ; reduction for voice and piano by Antonio Frigé ; translation by Michael Talbot. Ricordi, 2023.
The headless horseman : an operetta in one act based upon A legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving / libretto by Stephen Vincent Benét ; music by Douglas Moore. E.C. Schirmer Music Company, 2019. Vocal score.
Der Freischütz / Carl Maria von Weber ; edited by Frank Reinisch. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2025. Vocal score.
Pulitzer Prize winning musicals : Of thee I sing to A strange loop / Kristin Stultz Pressley. Methuen Drama, 2025.
Jukebox musicals : Crazy for you to MJ the musical / Kristin Stultz Pressley. Methuen Drama, 2025.
Der Silbersee : Ein Wintermärchen in drei Akten von Georg Kaiser / Musik von Kurt Weill ; edited by Elmar Juchem. Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., 2024.
Lin-Manuel Miranda : the education of an artist / Daniel Pollack-Pelzner. Atlantic Books, 2025.
Metaphysics and music in Adorno and Heidegger / Wesley Phillips. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Ornette Coleman, psychoanalysis, discourse : movements in harmolodic space / A. L. James. Routledge, 2025.
Singing utopia : voice in musical theatre / Ben Macpherson. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Waltz in F minor for piano : based on a piano roll (1928) / Vladimir Horowitz. Schott Music, 2025.
Interpretive labor : experimental music at work / Kirsten L. Speyer Carithers. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Song for someone : the musical life of Kenny Wheeler / Brian Shaw and Nick Smart ; foreword by Dave Holland. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2025.
The inner nature of music and the experience of tone : eight lectures, two question-and-answer sessions and two closing addresses, held in Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig, Dornach, and Stuttgart in 1906 and 1920 to 1923 / Rudolf Steiner ; translation by Maria St. Goar, Alice Wulsin, Frederick Amrine, and Clifford Venho ; introduction by Dorothea Mier. SteinerBooks/Anthroposophic Press, 2024.
Notes for oboists : a guide to the repertoire / Nora Anderson Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Sonatina seconda / Ferruccio Busoni ; edited by Christian Schaper, Ullrich Scheideler ; fingering by Wolf Harden.G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
Mindfulness for musicians : upbeat! / Birte Dalbauer-Stokkebæk ; translated by Dennis Johnson ; illustrations by Luise Hofer. Routledge, 2025.
