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
A companion to Mozart's piano concertos / by Arthur Hutchings. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Lise Davidsen: Christmas from Norway. Stream through Medici TV.
Brewer's dictionary of phrase & fable / edited by Susie Dent. Brewer's, 2013.
Catullus. Selected poems ; translated by Stephen Mitchell. Yale University Press, 2024.
Musica enchiriadis ; and, Scolica enchiriadis / translated, with introduction and notes, by Raymond Erickson ; edited by Claude V. Palisca. Yale University Press, ©1995.
That divine and most excellent gift : Martin Luther, music, and the arts / Mark P. Bangert, edited by Martin A. Seltz. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2025.
New subscription: Jazz & culture. Bi-annual. Read it online in a browser.
Passport to Paris ; and, Los Angeles poems / Vernon Duke ; poems translated and introduction by Boris Dralyuk. Paul Dry Books, 2025.
Arthur Nikisch : connecting cultures in a fragmenting world. The Boydell Press, 2025.
The butcher's daughter : the hitherto untold story of Mrs. Lovett / David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark. Hell's Hundred, 2025.
The December issue of Rolling Stone magazine is available.
Grażyna Bacewicz / Joanna Sendłak ; translated by Halina Maria Boniszewska. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2024.
Maggie O’Farrell. Hamnet : a novel of the plague. Knopf, 2020.
Listen to movie musicals! : exploring a musical genre / James E. Perone. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Cantos desiertos : violin and guitar / Terry Riley. Associated Music Publishers, 2012.
Nocturne for brass quintet / John Harbison. Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 2016. Score + 5 parts.
The Cambridge companion to Caribbean music / edited by Nanette De Jong. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
John Cage and Peter Yates : correspondence on music criticism and aesthetics / Martin Iddon. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Monuments : for solo trombone and string quartet, quintet, or string orchestra / Adolphus Hailstork. Presser, 2023.
The piano in Beethoven's chamber music / Misha Donat. The Boydell Press, 2025.
Music and urban life in baroque Germany / Tanya Kevorkian. University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Hollywood : the oral history / Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson. Harper, 2022.
A mountain to the North, a lake to the South, paths to the West, a river to the East / László Krasznahorkai. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022
Sounds like helicopters : classical music in modernist cinema / Matthew Lau. State University of New York Press, 2019.
Sonata for trumpet and piano / Jean Hubeau. Durand Editions Musicales, 2015.
Il canto sospeso / Luigi Nono ; edited with a preface by Christoph Flamm. Schott, 2022. Facsimile of the autograph score.
Some times of day : three songs for mezzo-soprano and piano trio / music by Jake Heggie ; poetry by Raymond Carver. Bent Pen Music, c2005.
The Cambridge history of music criticism / edited by Christopher Dingle. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
The digital score : musicianship, creativity and innovation / Craig Vear. Routledge, 2019.
Music for piano no. 2 / Ichiyanagi. C.F. Peters, 1964.
Ariane et Barbe-Bleue / Paul Dukas ; arranged for piano trio (with optional clarinet and double bass) by H. Mouton. Lauren Publications, 2007.
Soundtrack to the revolution : free jazz and leftist nationalism in Quebec, 1967-1975 / Eric Fillion ; translated by David Homel. Véhicule Press, 2025.
Peculiar attunements : how affect theory turned musical / Roger Mathew Grant. Fordham University Press, 2020.
Practical musicology / Simon Zagorski-Thomas. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Musicals at the margins : genre, boundaries, canons / edited by Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Why sound matters / Damon Krukowski. Yale University Press, 2025.
All I want is loving you : popular female singers of the 1950s / Steve Bergsman ; foreword by Carol Connors. University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
11. Streichquartett : 2019 / Georg Friedrich Haas. G. Ricordi & Co., 2021. Set of four performance scores.
Hands, wrists, fingers : creative health for musicians / Pedro de Alcantara. Anthem Press, 2026.
Every brilliant thing / Duncan Macmillan ; with Jonny Donahoe. Methuen Drama, 2025.
Scritch : for oboe and string quartet / Melinda Wagner. Theodore Presser, c2011.
Carmen fantasie : for violin and orchestra : based on themes from the opera of Georges Bizet / Franz Waxman ; edited by Jascha Heifetz. Fidelio Music Pub., 1975. Score and part.
An illustrated dictionary for the trombone, tuba, and euphonium player / Douglas Yeo ; illustrated by Lennie Peterson. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Lou Reed : the king of New York / Will Hermes. Picador, 2024.
Dante - the essential commedia / Dante Alighieri ; translated by Prue Shaw. Liverlight Publishing Corporation, 2025.
(Reviewed in this week's The New Yorker.)
Trait d'union : pour violon et violoncelle / Philippe Hurel. Editions Henry Lemoine, 2013.
The January issue of Opera; with Opera News is now available to read online or download through the Exactly app.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor : Anglo-Black composer, 1875-1912 / William Tortolano. Scarecrow Press, 2002.
Hitchcock and Herrmann : the friendship and film scores that changed cinema / Steven C. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2025.
The perfect tuba : forging fulfillment from the bass horn, band, and hard work / Sam Quinones. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2025.
The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother) / Rabih Alameddine. Grove Press, 2025.
Winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.
From ear to ear : a pianist's love affair with song / Steven Blier. W.W. Norton and Company, 2025.
Blue Electra : for solo violin and orchestra / Michael Daugherty. Michael Daugherty Music, 2025.
An American in Paris : tone poem for orchestra : 1928 / composed and orchestrated by George Gershwin ; edited by Mark Clague. Gershwin Initiative, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, University of Michigan, 2025. Large score.
Piano sonata in A minor, op. 42, D 845 / Franz Schubert ; edited by Diminik Rahmer ; preface by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl ; fingering by Martin Helmchen. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
A final encore : the life, music, and tragedy of Alexei Sultanov / J.W. Wilson. TCU Press, 2025.
3 pièces pour piano, op. 38 / Ivan Wyschnegradsky ; révision Martine Joste, Bruce Mather. Jobert Editions, 2019.
Keith Jarrett : a biography / Wolfgang Sandner ; translated by Chris Jarrett. Equinox, 2020. DRM-free ebook.
Chant du rossignol : poème symphonique pour orchestre / Igor Stravinsky ; edited by Clovis Lark ; engraved by Nicholas Greer. Bill Holab Music, 2025.
Wood works : Nordic folk tunes : the complete collection / arranged by the Danish String Quartet. Edition S music-sound art, 2015.
The brightness of light : for soprano, baritone & orchestra / Kevin Puts ; text selected from the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe. Ricordi, 2024.
Seventeen art songs and spirituals : for medium-high voice / by Florence B. Price ; edited by John Michael Cooper. ClarNan Editions, 2025.
The Grand Hotel Tartarus : opera in two acts (2022) / Richard Danielpour ; libretto by Richard Danielpour. Lean Kat Music, 2025.
The first two volumes of the new Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (critical edition of the complete works) are now available in the Library.
The vanishing piano tuner : the first published history of piano tuning, including an overview of the history of the piano / Steven Harris. Lewarne Publishing, 2025.
The private voice studio handbook : a practical guide to all aspects of teaching / by Joan Frey Boytim. Hal Leonard, 2014.
Practical vocal acoustics : pedagogic applications for teachers and singers / Kenneth Bozeman. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
The December issue of The Strad is now available to read online in a browser, or to download using the Exactly app.
Flesh : a novel / David Szalay. Scribner, 2025.
Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize.
The November issue of Das Orchester has arrived. Find it on our magazine rack.
Lyrical diary : Lieder from Franz Schubert to Wolfgang Rihm / Christian Gerhaher. Faber & Faber, 2025.
The Oxford handbook of spectral music / edited by Amy Bauer, Liam Cagney, and William Mason. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Dora Bright : her life and works in the public eye / Anthony Bilton. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2023.
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.
