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The Warren D. Allen Music Library offers extensive holdings of books, music, recordings, facsimiles, a complete microfilm collection of German treatises, and one of the largest collections of first edition music treatises of any library in the country.
Through the Orpheus Endowed Chair in Musicology, students have the opportunity to work with visiting scholars or performers from throughout the world, including such luminaries as Joshua Rifkin, Anthony Rooley, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Daniel Heartz, Bruce Dickey, Laurence Dreyfus, Wendy Allanbrook, Ruth Solie, Scott Burnham, Elizabeth Aubrey, Hendrik van der Werf, Jan Viar, Eva Badura-Skoda, Allen Forte, Malcolm Brown, among many others.
The Society for Musicology is a student-run organization of all musicology students, both historical and ethno, that sponsors events throughout the academic year to address the interests and concerns of the members. Activities in recent years include:
- trial paper presentations for students whose papers will be presented at professional conferences; this enables the students to test their papers on a “friendly” audience.
- mock job interviews
- workshops on writing CVs and cover letters
- special session on how to teach listening in music lit. and history classes
- how to make up exams