Music Resources in the Penn Libraries: Music primary sources

The Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center house scores, books on music history and theory, ethnomusicology, jazz, popular music, sound and video recordings.

The Kislak Center for Special Collections houses rare music and collections.

• Special Collections: Music
• Request to View Special Collections Materials (in Kislak Reading Room)

Learn more about the Kislak Reading Room and requesting access to special collections:

• John Szwed Collection of Sun Ra Research Material
• James G. Spady Papers

• American Musicological Society Records
• Robert Capanna Scores
• James DePreist Papers
• F. Antonio Di Cecco
• Ray Evans Papers
• Francis Hopkinson Collection
• Francis Johnson Sheet Music holdings
• Marlboro Music School and Festival Records
• Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia Records
• Mahler-Werfel Papers
• Philadelphia Orchestra Association Records
• John Rowe Parker Correspondence
• Savoy Company Records
• Rudolf Serkin Papers
• Richard Wernick Papers
• Allen J. Winigrad Photographs of Performing Artists
• Further Music Collections.....Click Related Collections dropdown (scroll down)

Marian Anderson

• Marian Anderson Papers
• Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs:
  • Shared Shelf Photo Collection
• Discovering Marian Anderson through the Collections at U Penn 
  • Digitized concert programs, journals, scrapbooks, and non-commercial recordings
• Marian Anderson Library Resources Page
• Virtual Exhibit (Archived, with YouTube media): Marian Anderson, A Life in Song

Keffer Collection

• Keffer Collection of Sheet Music

Otto E. Albrecht Papers

• Otto Albrecht Papers

Philadelphia Orchestra

• Philadelphia Orchestra Association Records

Eugene Ormandy

• Eugene Ormandy Papers
• Virtual Exhibit: Eugene Ormandy: A Centennial Celebration

Leopold Stokowski

• Leopold Stokowski Papers
• Virtual Exhibit: Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter