Tag Archives: sheet music

Lots of New Acquisitions at the Pendlebury Library of Music

Posted on 28 May 2021 by jamesluff

Here at the Pendlebury we’ve been busy adding heaps of fascinating new scores and recordings by composers who have historically been underrepresented in the world of classical music. This large influx of new material has been the exciting first step … Continue reading →

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Online notated music collections

Posted on 6 November 2020 by AP

Welcoming our new students in a predominantly online environment in October was quite an unusual and for many also an unsettling experience. Now that we are entering a new stage of COVID-19 lockdown MusiCB3 will briefly reflect on how our … Continue reading →

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Musical time capsules : back to the 50s

Posted on 31 May 2019 by Kate

Over the last couple of weeks we have been doing one of our regular ‘inspections’ at the University Library side of MusiCB3. This is pretty much what it says on the tin – we take a section of the music … Continue reading →

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Vesta Tilley at the UL

Posted on 25 August 2017 by Kate

When I’m not in Cambridge lurking behind the scenes of MusiCB3, another of my haunts is Worcester. Back there last week for the longest time in a while, I noticed quite a few changes around the town that had sprung … Continue reading →

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Waterloo 2015

Posted on 19 June 2015 by AP

The bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 2015 is commemorated through a myriad of events and exhibitions in the UK. It was indeed a damned serious business, as is so aptly demonstrated in the University Library exhibition and certainly … Continue reading →

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Meet… Helen Snelling

Posted on 6 September 2013 by hrs38

MusiCB3: What has your road to librarianship been? HS: My journey to librarianship has taken me to places from Essex  to Zimbabwe! I used to be in and out of our public library in Upminster, Essex all the time as … Continue reading →

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It’s not just about the music : The warlike Victorian – heroes and heroines

Posted on 5 July 2013 by mj263

In the last post on Victorian songs I wrote about the attractive cover artwork found on many of the songs. Sometimes the artwork can be the only way in which you can date a piece of music. Music is notorious for … Continue reading →

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If it’s ever Spring again

Posted on 26 April 2013 by hb281

My desk by the window at the Pendlebury enables me to enjoy an abundance of natural daylight.  It also exposes me to the chilly force of the endless Cambridge winter, so I have spent the last few months swaddled in … Continue reading →

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A slightly different procedure to last year

Posted on 4 January 2013 by Clemens Gresser

Last December I wrote “The same procedure as every year…”; this is not its follow-up – rather it’s a slightly different angle. Whereas last year I was looking ahead at which composer’s music would be out of copyright from 1st … Continue reading →

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A star is born

Posted on 14 December 2012 by mj263

It’s all in the best Broadway tradition – the actor / actress who “overnight” becomes a star. I unexpectedly came across a real-life example of this when I found the story that lay behind a short piano piece in the UL’s music … Continue reading →

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