Hargrove Music Library

History

Home of the No. 1 academic music library in the United States, this high-tech building is located in the campus's southeast "arts quadrangle." Hargrove Music Library houses some 200,000 volumes of printed music, books and periodicals; more than 50,000 sound and video recordings; and extensive holdings of manuscripts and other rare materials. The collection serves the diverse teaching and research needs of the music department, which offers a general undergraduate major; graduate programs in musicology, ethnomusicology and composition; and a variety of performance activities.