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School of Music: Conservatorium1. The SchoolThe School of Music - Conservatorium offers subjects in the areas of performance, composition, musicology and ethnomusicology, including professional practice/pedagogy. The School's research in ethnomusicology and musicology is especially distinguished, as are its concert and composition activity. The School of Music Conservatorium offers sequences in the Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of Performing Arts degrees. It also offers a number of double degrees, the Bachelor of Music/Commerce, the Bachelor of Music/Law, the Bachelor of Music/Education, and the Diploma of Music for concurrent study with degree programs in other disciplines and Faculties. The School also offers the Masters degree in musicology, performance and composition and the PhD in musicology. There is also a Graduate Diploma of Arts in Music. The School can offer supervision of research and practical work in most areas of music. The School fosters the cultivation of music on campus and presents many concerts, lecture-recitals and other performances. Research interests in the School include historical and systematic musicology and ethnomusicology, music education, music performance and music composition, with concentration on European (Western), Asian and Australian music, including medieval and renaissance music, 19th and 20th century music, contemporary music, popular and folk music, church music, organology, dance studies, music-dance relationships, and music of South, East and Southeast Asia and Africa. The School has a student load of 63 EFTSU, of which approximately 9 are postgraduate, 23 (FTE) teaching staff and more than 50 regular part-time studio teachers. 2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The Library's collection a. Location Material acquired for the School of Music - Conservatorium is located in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. Other Schools of the Faculty of Arts also teach and collect material in related areas eg the Schools of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, and this material is located predominantly in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. The Faculty of Education teaches and researches in related areas and the materials are located in the Matheson, Peninsula and Gippsland libraries. b. Language Much of the material acquired for the School of Music - Conservatorium is in the English language. However, scores and sound recordings are also acquired in European languages. A research focus on Japan, and Southeast Asia (more specifically Indonesian music) has encouraged the purchase of books and scores in Japanese and Indonesian. c. Classification used and access Monographs and serials acquired for the School of Music - Conservatorium are classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. The sound recordings and music scores acquired for the School of Music – Conservatorium are housed in the Music and Multimedia Section of the Matheson Library. Their classification and access are an exception to most of the Matheson collections. Sound recordings. Sound recordings are classified by format eg Long playing vinyl single records; Long playing vinyl albums; Cassettes; Compact discs. They are given a numerical number according to order of receipt. Long playing vinyl recordings are indexed in a card catalogue. Compact disc recordings are accessed through the Voyager catalogue. Music scores. The collection utilises a modified Dewey Decimal Classification which classes works by one composer together. Within the composer, works are arranged by instrument or form. For scores by two composers or more, an extended Dewey classification is used. The score collection has undergone a retrospective conversion in the past 5 years and is accessed in the Voyager catalogue. d. Formats. No format is excluded, and a large number of scores, sound recordings, videocassettes, DVDs, CD-ROMs and other media are purchased. These are all housed in the Music and Multimedia Services, part of the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. Adequate equipment is provided for students to play these formats in the library. An active Music and Multimedia Reserve Collection of items as listed as Essential Reading/Listening/Viewing on reading lists is available for high use materials e. Size of the collection. Estimated number of monograph titles purchased in 2004: 354 Estimated number of score and sound recordings purchased in 2004: 600 Estimated current size of music score collection : 30,000 volumes of music scores Estimated current size of music sound recordings: 12,000 recordings (vinyl, cassette and CD) Number of print serial titles received : approximately 100 titles. f. Significant electronic resources The Library continues to purchase resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, and full text resources, including suites of electronic journals. Relevant databases are listed. These include Indexing and abstracting services :
Fulltext databases / electronic journal suites :
Reference sources: The library currently subscribes to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online (including Grove Dictionary of Opera and Grove Dictionary of Jazz), providing a major resource for undergraduate students. Online subject guides: 20% of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Arts is spent on serials and more than 15% on electronic resources g. Coverage of the collection The library resources acquired for the School cover in general those areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification related to music, the 780s. The main areas of collecting for Music are detailed below
The Library collects extensively in teaching and research areas of music as listed in the table above. The teaching and research programs have changed significantly in the School of Music over the past ten years. Once a pure musicology/ethnomusicology based program which was strongly supported with texts, serials and supporting scores and sound recordings, the focus is now on music performance with an emphasis on music technology and popular music with a continuing interest in musicology and ethnomusicology. The collections have had to respond to this change of emphasis. The increase in budget for scores and sound recordings when the old Department of Music library was integrated into the Matheson Library in 1993 has assisted this change. A serials review in 1999-2000 has redressed the balance from a pure musicology related serial collection to a mix of musicology and music performance journals. The Peninsula Library has a strong emphasis on music education, while the Hargrave-Andrew and Caulfield libraries have some material on the science of music (Acoustics etc.) 4. Other significant Monash collections or resources Reference collection : The Matheson Library has a scholarly reference collection which provides support to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Music component includes the major reference works – the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, 2000, and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart : allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Begründet von Friedrich Blume. Kassel ; New York : Bärenreiter, 2000. Other major areas of interest are covered in The Garland encyclopedia of world music. New York : Garland Pub., 1998 and The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music / edited by Colin Larkin. 2nd ed. Enfield, England : Guinness Pub. ; New York : Stockton Press, 1995. The collection is regularly assessed for obsolete titles and updated according to need. Japanese Music Archive : This consists of over 500 music scores, sound recordings, books, videos, laser discs and instruments. It is housed in closed access in the Music and Multimedia Services and the Asian Studies Research Library, both in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. A published index is available and music scores are indexed into the Voyager catalogue. Australian Music Archive : This was established in 1991 and consists of over 400 items of vocal, keyboard, instrumental and choral music. It is housed in closed access in the Music and Multimedia Services Section of the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. A printed index is available. VeraBradford Collection : This collection is formed around items from the collection of Vera Bradford, an internationally famous pianist and pupil of Percy Grainger. More items have been donated from many music groups of the Mornington Peninsula. The collection consists of books on the history of music, music scores and librettos, sheet music and orchestral sets of sheet music. The items in the collection are accessible via the Voyager catalogue. Items in the collection are available to local music groups who have obtained a borrowers card from Monash University Library. Rare Books collection : This collection includes Australian popular culture, nineteenth century accounts by visitors to Australia and Australian urban history. Music related items in this collection include rare journals, music by Australians or published in Australia, limited editions eg Polyphonies du XIIIe siécle [music] : le manuscrit H196 de la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier. Paris : Éditions de l'Oiseau lyre, Louise B.M. Dyer, 1935-1939. Many of the items despite being published in the 20th century are housed in the Rare Books Collection due to their fragility and ephemeral nature. Some serials and series in the Rare Books collection include : (The following items are rare or a limited edition.)
Also available is an extensive collection of Australian sheet music and the Manuscript Collections of Australian Composers – As a result of close links between the Music and Multimedia Section and the School of Music, a number of Australian composers have donated collections of materials to the Library. They include the collections of John Tallis, Phyllis Batchelor, Esther Rofe and Linda Phillips. These collections with full inventories are available in the Rare Books collection. Collected Editions and Monuments of Music: The library subscribes to (or has subscribed to in the past) a number of collected editions and monuments of music. These are essential to the development of a scholarly music collection. The scholarly nature of these publications which is indicated in the expensive production costs and the standing order arrangements provides an unpredictable scenario each year. It is difficult to predict what is going to be published each year and what costs will be incurred from year to year against the music score budget. These collections include:
Microform collection : A significant resource in Australian music held in the library is the complete microform set of the Australian Musical News 1911-1963. No library in Australia holds a complete set of this important journal. In 1991, Monash University Library with the assistance of an Australian Research Council Grant, gathered together a complete set of the journal and a master copy was made. This project made a complete microfilm or fiche set available for sale to the public. Monash holds the rights to sell this set. A microfiche set with supporting Index by Lina Marsi is held in the Music and Multimedia Section, Matheson Library. Theses: All Monash University Masters and Ph.D. theses by research are available on microfiche in the Matheson Library. In addition a large number of music related theses from other institutions are available. These continue to be purchased as required for research purposes. Early music manuscripts : A number of microfilms of early music manuscripts are held in the collection including the music manuscripts collection in the British Library and the Eton Choirbook. Early English books, 1475-1640 microfilm collection. This includes a large number of music related titles including treatises, tutors and song books. Eighteenth Century microform collection (2870 reels) : Monash
University Library is part of a consortium of libraries which acquires
two major research collections, the Eighteenth Century and the Nineteenth
Century. The School of Music Ensemble Collection : The Music and Multimedia Section provides an essential service to the School of Music in the form of the provision and staff support for the five ensembles of the School – New Monash Orchestra, Sinfonia, Wind Symphony, Monash Choral Ensemble, Women's Choir and Stage Band. This involves the purchase hire and loan of music performing sets, the processing and loan procedures. This service is partially funded by the School, with additional staff support provided by the library including advanced searching/sourcing expertise and clerical processing. The collection consists of over 300 sets and is housed in the Music and Multimedia Section. In 2000 approximately 7,000 loans were made through this service to members of the School of Music Ensembles. This service forms an essential part of the performance program of the School. Monash Music Archive : The School of Music has an extensive collection of musical instruments and ensembles including an early music collection comprising a complete consort of Renaissance shawms, crumhorns, recorders, and various keyboard instruments; a complete Javanese gamelan orchestra, Sundanese bamboo calung and angklung ensembles, a Ghanaian African drum ensemble, a Chinese orchestra, a piphat/mahori orchestra from Thailand, a large collection of Indian instruments, and a set of Japanese instruments. It also contains an extensive music archive, comprising annotated field recordings, rare theses, sheet music and publications and artifacts, and including the Sumatra research archive, Japanese music archive, the Australian music collection, the Australian Archive of Jewish Music and the Louise Lightfoot Collection of dance in South Asia. Collections Table (T = teaching level, R = research level)
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