New Digital Collection

The Music Library is proud to announce a new digital collection: The Hemrick Nathan Salley Family Sheet Music collection: http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/salleysheet.html. In collaboration with the Digital Collections department, two bound volumes of 19th- and early 20th-Century sheet music were digitized using the Zeutschel overhead scanner.

These volumes are focused on two areas: popular piano music from the mid 1800s, and songs for piano and voice related to blackface minstrelsy from 1899 to 1902. The mid 1800s volume contains some of the oldest popular sheet music found in the Music Library, while the minstrelsy volume contains songs that closely relate to works found in the Center for Southern African American Music's (CSAM) collection.

In addition to hundreds of pieces of popular sheet music, the Hemrick Nathan Salley Family Collection contains phonodisc and cylinder recordings, memorabilia, photographs, books, magazines, and musical instruments from the 1800s to the 1980s.

Music Author Recognition

From December 8, 2011 through January 27, 2012, the Music Library hosted the inaugural Music Authors Recognition event, celebrating recent publications and recordings by School of Music faculty. This will be a yearly recurring event. Items on display included books, articles, compositions, arrangements, recordings, and educational materials.

Featured authors: James Ackley, Jennifer Adam, Reginald Bain, Gail Barnes, Craig Butterfield, Neil Casey, Brad Edwards, Charles Fugo, Michael Harley, Julie Hubbert, J. Daniel Jenkins, Peter Kolkay, Bert Ligon, Scott Price, Joseph Rackers, John Fitz Rogers, Greg Stuart, Wendy Valerio, Scott Weiss, and Sarah Williams.