Introduction: The music program offers studio work in the performing arts, courses in appreciation, history and criticism, technical and theoretical training, and teacher preparation, at the bachelor’s and master’s degree levels. Faculty research interests are principally in performance and recording. The Holland and Terrell Libraries collections in music and theatre support student coursework and research at the bachelor's and master's levels. Students, professionals and critics of the performing disciplines need information resources beyond traditional textual materials. Musical scores, sound recordings and media materials are of equal value to the printed word. The interrelationships among these media cannot be overemphasized in a discussion of this subject.
Other disciplines in the humanities and world civilizations also rely heavily on the music collections.
Purpose: To support teaching and research at the Bachelor's and Master's levels in the fields of applied music, music education, musicology, ethnomusicology, composition and music theory, primarily on the Pullman campus. To support faculty course preparation and performance.
General Collection Guidelines:General:
Collected and/or complete works of selected composers. Miniature and study scores for all major works.
Performing editions of traditional standard chamber works, and less-known chamber works at the discretion of the selector and/or per faculty request.
Important selected folk music collections and scores of non-Western music..
Anthologies and "monument" editions of early music.
Reputable performing editions and arrangements of early music..
Oratorios, operas, operettas, and important musicals; piano-vocal scores are acquired as a priority; full or miniature scores are also acquired when possible, particularly for major works.
NOTE: Selected different editions of works in the above categories are often desirable and necessary.