Summer loans are now available to faculty and College students:
If your Library account is clear and you're registered for the Fall 2024 semester, books and scores you check out will now be due Friday, September 6, 2024.
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 it 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 a maximum of two renewals per item.
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.
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College Students
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College Faculty and Precollege Faculty
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Precollege Students
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| Scores, books, CDs, DVDs |
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. |
| Course reserves |
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 |
| Periodicals | Non-circulating | Ask the library director | Non-circulating |
| MSM recordings | Two hours. | Overnight. | Two hours. |
The rite of spring : woodwind quintet / Igor Stravinsky ; arr. Russell. Potenza Music Publishing, 2011. Score and parts.
Nasenflügeltanz : für einen Schlauzeuger und einen Synthesizer-Spieler oder als Schlauzeug-Solo, vom Samstag aus Licht, 1983, Werk Nr.: 7. ex 53 / Karlheinz Stockhausen. Stockhausen-Verlag, 1995.
Televisioniist : [music for television] season 1 episode 1 : for trumpet and percussion / Nicole Lizee. Centre de musique canadienne, 2023. Score + 2 parts.
New in the Library: Lulu / Alban Berg ; vorgelegt von Jonas Pfohl und Manuel Strauss. Full score. Alban Berg Stiftung in der Universal Edition A.G., 2024.
Book of chords / Lisa Streich. Kleinheinrich, 2024.
Pression / Helmut Lachenmann ; version for double bass by Caleb Salgado. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2018.
Fünf Klavierstücke Opus 23 = Five piano pieces op. 23 / Arnold Schönberg ; herausgegeben von Ulrich Krämer ; Fingersatz von Shai Wosner. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
The Songmakers' Almanac : twenty years of song recitals in London : reflections and commentaries / Graham Johnson ; with a prologue by Bernard Palmer. Thames Pub., 1996.
Er huang : for piano & orchestra / Qigang Chen. Boosey & Hawkes, 2022.
Piano sonata no. 7, op. 83 / Sergej Prokofjew ; fingering by Alexander Melnikov. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
Fantasia-Sonata : op. A = 22 : para guitarra / Joan Manén. Bèrben, 2011.
Serenade für Streichorchester, Opus 20 : E-Moll / Edward Elgar ; edited by Rupert Marshall-Luck. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
Sonatas for piano and violin / Johannes Brahms ; with supplementary violin part marked by Frank Peter Zimmermann. G. Henle Verlag, 2022.
Epigraphs in the time of AIDS : for Deep Listening Band and Long String Instrument / Pauline Oliveros. Deep Listening Publications, 1994.
Centenary songbook : 15 songs for voice and piano / Gabriel Fauré ; edited by Roy Howat & Emily Kilpatrick. Faber Music, 2024.
Europeras 1 & 2 / Cage. Henmar Press, 1988.
Survival guide for the modern drummer : a crash course in all musical styles for drumset / by Jim Riley. Alfred Music, 2015.
Visions fugitives : Opus 22 / Sergej Prokofjew ; edited by Norbert Gertsch ; preface by Simon Morrison ; fingering by Boris Giltburg. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
Collected choral works / Arvo Pärt ; edited by Mike Breneis and Josef S. Durek. Universal Edition, 2008.
7 arie con tromba sola (ca 1700) : D trumpet, soprano & basso continuo / Alessandro Scarlatti ; edited by Henry Meredith. The Brass Press, 2023.
Sonata, op. 89 : for piano four hands / Anton Rubinstein ; edited by A. Bakhchiev and E. Sorokina. Moscow State Tchaikovsky-Conservatory, 2010.
Stelæ for failed time : 12 solo voices and electronics / Brian Ferneyhough ; text by Charles Bernstein. Edition Peters, 2012.
Contemporary Broadway audition : 15 songs in full, authentic editions, plus "16-bar" audition versions. Hal Leonard, 2018.
Interlude pour violoncelle seul = for cello solo / Marc-Andre Dalbavie. Billaudot, 2011.
Elijah : an oratorio : the Robert Shaw editings / by Felix Mendelssohn. Vocal score. Robert Shaw, 1997.
Symphony in G major, Hob.I:92 : "Oxford" / J. Haydn ; edited by Andreas Friesenhagen. Bärenreiter, 2016.
Six études pour piano, premier livre, op. 52 (R35) / Saint-Saens ; edited by Catherine Massip. Bärenreiter, 2023.
Waltz in a minor (discovered in 2024) / Frédéric Chopin ; edited by Jeffrey Kallberg. Henle, 2025. Available instantly through the Henle Library App.
Heart lamp : selected stories / Banu Mushtaq ; translated by Deepa Bhasthi. London : And Other Stories, 2025.
Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize.
Claude Bolling's suite for cello & jazz piano trio. Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, 1984. Score + 3 parts.
Préludes pour piano / Olivier Messiaen ; historical introduction, Edmond Lemaître ; notes on interpretation, Florence Ribot. Durand, 2024. New edition.
Corona morphs : for flute, clarinet in A, percussion, violin, violoncello and piano / Vivian Fung. Vivian Fung Music, 2022. Score + 6 parts.
Ostersonate : for piano / Hensel ; edited by Marie Rolf ; with a preface by R. Larry Todd. Bärenreiter, 2024.
Arvo Pärt Centre & Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos : A common denominator. Michael Pärt, editor. ArchiTangle, 2020.
Hymn : from an ancient Hurrian cult song from ancient Ugarit : for countertenor and ensemble / Nico Muhly. St Rose Music Publishing Co., 2018. Score + 5 parts.
The singer's musical theatre anthology. Mezzo-soprano/alto/belter teen's edition with recorded accompaniments / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2010.
Sonate Es-Dur für Violine und Klavier op. 18 : nach dem Text der Kritischen Ausgabe (Richard Strauss Werke, Serie VI, Band 4) / Richard Struass ; hrsg. von Florence Eller, Andreas Pernpeintner und Stefan Schenk. Universal Edition, 2024. Score and part.
Sonata in B minor for piano, op. 58 / Chopin ; edited by Paul Badura-Skoda and Britta Schilling-Wang ; fingering by Hardy Rittner ; notes on performance practice by Paul Badura-Skoda and Hardy Rittner. Bärenreiter, 2024.
Piano concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11 / Fryderyk Chopin ; transcription for piano and string quintet, Kevin Kenner, Krzysztof Dombek. PWM Edition, 2015. Score + 5 parts.
Piano concerto no. 2 in F minor op. 21 / Fryderyk Chopin ; transcription for piano and string quintet, Kevin Kenner, Krzysztof Dombek. PWM Edition, 2015. Score + 5 parts.
Roberto Devereux / Gaetano Donizetti. Fondazione Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, 2024. Vocal score.
Don Quixote, op. 35 / Richard Strauss ; edited by Nick Pfefferkorn. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2023.
Clarinet trio / Magnus Lindberg. Boosey & Hawkes, 2015. Score + 2 parts.
Symphony no. 5 for orchestra / Gustav Mahler ; edited by Christian Rudolf Riedel, Nick Pfefferkorn. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2025. Large score.
Concerto for double bass and orchestra / Behzad Ranjbaran. Theodore Presser Company, 2021. Piano reduction + 1 part.
By the rivers of Babylon / Saint-Saëns ; edited by Christina M. Stahl. Bärenreiter, 2023. Vocal score.
"Kenner und Liebhaber" collections / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; edited by Christopher Hogwood. Packard Humanities Institute, 2017.
Caterina Cornaro : tragedia lirica in un prologo e due atti / Gaetano Donizetti ; edited by Eleonora di Cintio. Fondazione Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, 2024. Full score.
A certain slant of light : for brass quintet, percussion and organ / Douglas Hedwig. Carl Fischer, 2016. Score + 7 parts.
For Robin : for solo flute (with B-foot), 2023 / Liza Lim. Ricordi, 2023.
Adam's lament : für Chor (SATB) und Streichorchester / Arvo Pärt. Universal Edition, 2012.
Phoenix : for orchestra / Osvaldo Golijov. Boosey and Hawkes, 2024.
Poets' cabaret : for high voice and piano / Jack Perla. Music Without Walls, 2024.
Airs d'opéras pour baryton ou basse / Antonio Vivaldi. Les Éditions Buissonnières, 2021.
Brilliant pedalling : the pedalling of the style brillant and its influence upon the early works of Chopin / Martin Sehested Hansen. Electronic Publishing Osnabrück, 2016.
Music information literacy : inclusion and advocacy / edited by Kathleen A. Abromeit and Dyani Sabin. Library Juice Press, 2024.
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James : a novel / Percival Everett. Doubleday, 2024.
Trios for pianoforte, violin, violoncello, op. 70 / Beethoven ; edited by Jonathan Del Mar. Bärenreiter, 2024.
Sonata for violoncello and piano op. 69. 1. movement : facsimile of autograph NE 179 in the Beethoven-Haus Bonn / Ludwig van Beethoven ; edited and with commentary by Jens Dufner and Lewis Lockwood. Verlag Beethoven-Haus, 2015.
Rhapsody in blue : for woodwind quintet / George Gershwin ; arranged by Joachim Linckelmann. Bärenreiter, 2013.
Sulla ciacona : pour trio à cordes / Philippe Manoury. Durand, 2024.
Méphisto masqué : polka fantastique : euphonium and piano / Edmond Dédé ; arranged by David Werden. Cimarron Music Press, 2015.
One for the archangel : for mezzo-soprano, chorus (TB) and chamber orchestra / Jack Perla. Music Without Walls, 2024. Vocal score.
Elegy for contrabass and piano : mvt. 2 from Concerto for cello and orchestra / Behzad Ranjbaran ; contrabass part fingered by Eugene Levinson. Theodore Presser Company, 2010.
Musings : for two violins / Jessie Montgomery. Jessie Montgomery Music, 2023
Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra / Paul Ben-Haim. Israel Music Institute, 2001. Violin part + piano reduction.
El gato con botas : ópera en dos actos / Xavier Montsalvatge. Tritó, 2009.
Septet in E-flat major for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass / Beethoven ; edited by Jonathan Del Mar. Bärenreiter, 2023.
The Van Cliburn legend / by Abram Chasins ; with Villa Stiles. Barakaldo Books, 2020.
Speaking of pianists / by Abram Chasins. Burtyrki Books, 2020.
Concerto for piano, C major, op. 15, and strings / Ludwig v. Beethoven ; Orchesterbegleitung für Streicher übertragen von Vinzenz Lachner. W. Wollenweber, 1995. Score and 5 parts.
Sonata no. 1 in E minor, opus 38 for string bass and piano / Brahms ; transcribed and edited by Thomas Martin. International Music, 2012.
Tribute to Pierre Boulez: What Would Life Be Without Uncertainty?: a film by Jean-Claude Piroué, with Daniel Barenboim. Metropolitan, 1995.
Yentl : original motion picture soundtrack / music by Michel Legrand ; lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman.
Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc., 2005.
Concierto del Albayzín : per a clavicèmbal (o piano) i orquestra / Xavier Montsalvatge ; reducció per a solista i piano, Amaia Zipitria. Barcelona : Tritó, 2009.
Trois études de concert / Franz Liszt ; edited by Peter Jost ; fingering by Michael Schneidt. G. Henle Verlag, 2022.
Salut für Caudwell : music for two guitarists / Helmut Lachenmann. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2020. New engraved edition.
Konzert für Violine und Orchester, Op. 52 / Felix Weingartner. Musikproduktion Höflich, 2016. Violin part and piano reduction.
Nova/Minraud : für Sopran und elektronische Zuspielung / Olga Neuwirth. Ricordi, 2012.
Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) : for alto saxophone and orchestra / Tyshawn Sorey. Edition Peters, 2024.
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Alice Coltrane, monument eternal / edited by Erin Christovale. Delmonico Books, 2025.
The picture of Dorian Gray / adapted by Kip Williams ; from the novel by Oscar Wilde. Samuel French, 2024.
Allégresse / Maria Schneider. MSF Music, 1997.
My life in music / Sir Antonio Pappano. Faber & Faber, 2024.
Air with variations for solo guitar / Mark-Anthony Turnage ; edited by Michael McCartney. Boosey & Hawkes, 2019.
Suite à l'ancienne = (Suite in the old style) : for piano / Marc-André Hamelin. Edition Peters, 2024.
Arvo Pärt, Tabula rasa : Materials for communicating music / Sven Daigger & Axel Petri-Preis. Universal Edition, 2019.
For Fred Lerdahl : for viola, piano and two vibraphones / Tyshawn Sorey. Edition Peters, [2022]
Extracts : for percussion ensemble : from five pieces by Luigi Nono ; edited by Bernhard Wulff. Schott, 2021.
Farinelli and the king / Claire van Kampen. Oberon Books Ltd, 2018.
...just as the sun is always... : for piano / Christian Mason. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2017.
Now! : writings 1982-2021 / Peter Ablinger. MusikTexte, 2022.
Piano concerto no. 2, op. 102 / arranged for two pianos by the author. Concertino for two pianos, op. 94 / [Dmitri Shostakovich] ; edited by Manashir Iakubov. Izdatelʹstvo "DSCH," 2010.
Fantasia in C minor for harp / Spohr ; edited by Masumi Nagasawa. Bärenreiter, 2024.
Twelve easy songs : for high voice and piano / Charles E. Ives ; edited by Neely Bruce and James B. Sinclair. Peermusic Classical, 2019.
Trois poèmes de Jacques Prévert : for violin and actor / Kaija Saariaho ; texts by Jacques Prévert ; dramaturgy by Aleksi Barrière. Chester Music, 2024.
Pavane pour une infante défunte / Maurice Ravel ; historical introduction and critical notes Edmond Lemaître ; notes on interpretation Florence Ribot. Durand, 2022.
Subito : prepared for clarinet and piano / Witold Lutoslawski ; ed. Julian Paprocki. PWM, Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 2021.
Dialogues II : for piano and chamber orchestra / Elliott Carter. Boosey & Hawkes, 2021.
Complete piano works / Arnold Schönberg. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.
