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.
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
Daphnis et Chloé : symphonic fragments 2nd suite, for orchestra and choir / Maurice Ravel ; edited by Jean-François Monnard. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2023. Full score.
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.
Edward Scissorhands : original score / composed by Danny Elfman. Omni Music Publishing, 2023.
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.
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.
The September issue of Gramophone magazine is available read using the Libby app.
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.
Queer musicals : Boy meets boy to Jagged little pill / Robert W. Schneider. Methuen Drama, 2025.
Ira Gershwin : a life in words / Michael Owen. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2025.
A revolution in music : the history of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales / Évelyne Gayou ; translated by David Vaughn. University of California Press, 2025.
Early music in the 21st century / edited by Mimi Mitchell. Oxford University Press, 2024.
The music room : a story of art, friendship, and gathering in Betty Freeman's Beverly Hills home / Jake Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Twelve angry men : a musical / music and lyrics by Michael Holland ; book by David Simpatico ; adapted from the play by Reginald Rose. Concord Theatricals, 2024.
Shostakovich's ballets and the search for Soviet dance / Laura E. Kennedy. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Aus Holbergs Zeit : Suite im alten Stil : Fassung für Streichorchester : Opus 40 / Edvard Grieg ; herausgegeben von Ernst-Günter Heinemann. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
Unstaged grief : musicals and mourning in midcentury America / Jake Johnson. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
SamBop NYC : Brazilian jazz in New York City during the new millennium / Marc Gidal. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Fach(v)erkennung : Stimmfachdiagnose im Gesangsunterricht : mit einer Auswertung der Typenlehre nach C.G. Jung für die Gesangspädagogik / Jan Tamaru. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2023.
Modeling musical analysis / edited by Kimberly Goddard Loeffert and John Peterson. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Music at world's end : three exiled musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and their contribution to music in Iceland / Árni Heimir Ingólfsson. State University of New York Press, 2025.
Hungarian rhapsody no. 5 : Héroïde élégiaque / Franz Liszt ; edited by Peter Jost ; preface by Mária Eckhardt ; fingering by Vincenzo Maltempo. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
Silver rain : op. 11 : song cycle for tenor and piano / by Robert Owens ; poems by Langston Hughes.Classical Vocal Reprints, 2018.
Fourteen : for piano solo with flute/piccolo, bass flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, two percussion, two violins, viola, 'cello, and contrabass / John Cage. Henmar Press, 1990. Score and parts.
Ghost light : a memoir / Frank Rich. Random House, 2000.
Sonate h-Moll für obligates Cembalo und Traversflöte BWV 1030 / Johann Sebastian Bach. G. Henle Verlag, 2024. Manuscript facsimile.
Theme and variations on Mendelssohn's Wedding march, based on motifs by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and inspired by Franz Liszt as played and recorded in 1947 for RCA Victor / transcribed by Vladimir Horowitz. Schott Music, 2025.
Hirschfeld's Sondheim : a poster book / David Leopold. Harry N. Abrams, 2025.
The language archive and other plays / by Julia Cho. Theatre Communications Group, 2019. Available as two different kinds of ebooks.
The September issue of Das Orchester is now available on our magazine rack.
Così fan tutte, an opera of mimetic revelation / Isabel Díaz-Morlán. Michigan State University Press, 2025.
I knew a man who knew Brahms Nancy Shear. Regalo Press, 2025.
Succeeding Puccini : the operatic career of Italo Montemezzi, 1875-1952 / David Chandler and Raffaele Mellace. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Mozart : a tale of two keys / Tim Carter. Oxford University Press, 2025.
The September issue of International Musician, the official journal of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, is now on the Library's magazine rack.
Maurice Ravel / Emily Kilpatrick. Reaktion Books, 2025.
Brahms : symphonist / Robert Pascall. The Boydell Press, 2025.
The musical theater of Stephen Schwartz : from Godspell to Wicked and beyond / Paul R. Laird. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Now available as a DRM-free ebook as well as a paperback.
Martinů and his world. Edited by Aleš Brezina and Michael Beckerman. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
The October issue of Opera; with Opera News is available. Download it using the Exactly app, or open it in a browser.
Follies / Stephen Sondheim ; orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick ; edited by Jon Alan Conrad. A-R Editions, Inc., [2025]. Full score.
Klaviersonate Nr. 24 Fis-Dur Opus 78 / Ludwig van Beethoven ; edited by Norbert Gertsch, Murray Perahia ; fingering by Murray Perahia. Henle, 2025. Free to download in the Henle Library app.
Optimizing pianism : evidence-based perspectives / Cameron Roberts. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.
Ray Brown : his life and music / Jay Sweet. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2025.
Britten, opera and film : Henry James's The turn of the screw from stage to screen / Peter Auker. The Boydell Press, 2025.
Piano sonata / Philip Glass.Dunvagen, 2024.
Toward a materialist conception of music history / by Stephan Hammel. Brill, 2024. DRM-free ebook.
The battle for control of the brass and instruments business in the French Industrial Revolution / José-Modesto Diago Ortega. Oxford University Press, 2024. DRM-free ebook.
Making sense of music / Susan McClary. Oxford University Press, 2025.
If the song doesn't work, change the dress : the illustrated memoirs of Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt / Patricia Zipprodt with Arnold Wengrove. Methuen/Drama, 2024. DRM-free ebook.
Berlioz's Requiem / Jennifer Walker. Oxford University Press, 2025.
The shortest history of music : from bone flutes to synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé - 5,000 years of instrument and song / Andrew Ford. The Experiment, 2025.
Resonant minds : the transformative power of music, one note at a time / Sara Leila Sherman, Morton Sherman. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.
Afrikaans art song literature : a translation and pronunciation guide / Christian Bester and Bronwen Forbay. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Cultural history of the guitar in Latin America : news from Argentina, Guatemala, México, and Perú / edited by Luis Díaz-Santana Garza. Vernon Press, 2025.
The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America / Larry Tye. Mariner Books, 2025
Straight up, without wings : the musical flight of Joe McPhee / by Joe McPhee as told to Mike Faloon ; foreword by Fred Moten ; afterword by Moor Mother. Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2024.
Wholehearted voice pedagogy : an integrative approach to training vocal artists / David Sisco. Routledge, 2026.
In the brewing luminous : the life & music of Cecil Taylor / Philip Freeman ; with a contribution by Markus Müller. Wolke, 2024.
Errand into the maze : the life and works of Martha Graham / Deborah Jowitt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Tooth and nail : for amplified viola and electronics / Missy Mazzoli. G. Schirmer, 2010.
Fundamentals of instrumental and choral conducting / Selim Giray and Michael Hanawalt. Routledge, 2025.
A tone parallel to Duke Ellington : the man in the music / Jack Chambers. University Press of Mississippi, 2025.
Circular breathing : the cultural politics of jazz in Britain / George McKay. Duke University Press, 2005.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha / Benedict Taylor. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Polish pronunciation guide for singers : Karol Szymanowski, Rymy dziecięce, op. 49, for voice and piano / Laura Kafka-Price, Maksymilian Krzak. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Korngold in America : music, myth, and Hollywood / Ben Winters. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Yellow music : media culture and colonial modernity in the Chinese jazz age / Andrew F. Jones. Duke University Press, 2001.
Re-reading the Beethoven violin sonatas / Daniel Tong. Boydell Press, 2025. Ebook.
Of all the moons : for mezzo-soprano & piano / Kevin Puts. Ricordi, 2015.
New directions in musical collaborative creativity : the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the theater of home / Raymond MacDonald, Tia DeNora, Maria Sappho, Robert Burke, and Ross Birrell. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Birds, beasts and a world made new / Guillaume Apollinaire, Velimir Khlebnikov ; translated by Robert Chandler. Pushkin Press, 2024. Libby ebook.
How the mind works / Steven Pinker. W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.
The art of collaboration : chamber music rehearsal techniques and teambuilding / Annie Fullard and Dorianne Cotter-Lockard. Oxford University Press, 2025. Ebook.
Performing racial uplift : E. Azalia Hackley and African American activism in the postbellum to pre-Harlem era / Juanita Karpf. University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Facing the music : a Broadway memoir / David Loud. David Loud, 2023. Libby audiobook.
The avant-gardists : artists in revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935 / Sjeng Scheijen ; translated by Brent Annable. Thames & Hudson, 2024.
Jacob's ladder : for voices and chamber ensemble (2023) / Steve Reich. Boosey & Hawkes, 2025.
Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult / Nigel Simeone. The Boydell Press, 2025. Ebook.
