2. NOLA (Nordic Orchestra Librarians Association). Formed 2000 (35 institutions, with annual meeting every autumn. 2003 in Helsinki)

A Nordic network of orchestral librarians, focussing on education and network building, and divided into smaller groups:

Opera institutions,

Broadcasting music libraries,

Concert house libraries,

Music teaching institution libraries.

Contact Marco Feklistoff (Musikbiblioteket, Sveriges Radio, Stockholm).

3. ABO librarians (Association of British Orchestras)

Informal network of UK orchestral librarians which meets annually with publishers hire librarians.

GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE

1. MPA, UK (Music Publishers’ Association) and ABO (Association of British Orchestras) Librarians. Guidelines for good practice, in the hire of music

2. MPA, UK and IAML, UK. Guidelines for amateur users.

3. MOLA Guidelines for producing sets of parts of new compositions

MUSIC PUBLISHERS’ WEB SITES AND CATALOGUES

Bärenreiter

for urtext editions of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven (new edition), Berlioz, Mendelssohn Overtures (new edition), some Haydn

Edition Wilhelm Hansen

(Orchestral Department - Nicolai Engstrom )

For Nielsen, Sibelius, some Stravinsky, Lutoslawski, Sven-Erik Bäck. Represents Salabert in Denmark

Boosey and Hawkes

for Russian composers, Bartok, Britten, Richard Strauss

Fennica Gehrman (Boosey and Hawkes’ agent in Scandinavia)

Fennica Gehrman Oy Ab is a new Finnish music publisher and a subsidiary of Gehrmans Musikföörlag Ab of Sweden. They administer the serious music catalogue of Warner/Chappell Music Finland (including Boosey and Hawkes) and publish music by Finnish and Estonian composers.

Represents also French publishers Durand and Eschig

Sweden

Peters Edition

LM Edition, Isgrand 13 NB,SE 129 46 Hagesten

Denmark and Finland LM Edition (as for Sweden)

for Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Grieg, Dvorak, Liszt, Valen

Oxford University Press

for twentieth century British music, opera choruses and authoritative editions of choral works

Casa Ricordi

Italian opera

BAND LIBRARIAN (MILITARY, BIG, BRASS)

ROYAL MARINES, PORTSMOUTH, UK

1. 'Heritage Encyclopaedia of Band Music' by William H. Rehrig, edited by Paul E. Bierley. Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991 (3 Volumes).

2. Original compositions or arrangements for wind band listed by composer/arranger, with publishers and date of publication.

3. The website of WASBWE (Worldwide Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles) http://www.wasbe.org/en/index.html

has a link to the e-list Bandchat.org from which one can subscribe. Useful - until problems. May be back online).

4. Web site:

links to individual tracks on recordings as well as a sheet music collection. This can be useful for tracing possible sources of arrangements.

5. Network of other (military/royal) Service bands here and abroad.

See British Music Yearbook (Rhinegold Publishing) for details

6. Mainly Big Bands

7. Studio Music Company

P.O. Box 19292
London NW10 9WP Orders tel: 020 8830 0110
fax: 020 8451 6470

8. Windmail Associates, UK

01322 862455 ( - out of order at the moment)

OPERA AND BALLET LIBRARIAN

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN

1. Ricordi Catalogue of Arias (di arie e pezzi di opere teatrali)

2. Boosey and Hawkes opera Catalogue

3. BBC Music Library, Orchestral Catalogue (4 vols), 1982

4. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet (Oxford University Press)

for choreographers, composers and ballet titles. Information on where a ballet was first choreographed, and which company.

5. In-house ballet catalogue -

Ballet name, composer, music’s name, publisher, choreographer, duration, orchestration

6. Kobbé's Complete opera book / edited and revised by the Earl of Harewood (London : Putnam, 1976)

- for the location of arias

7. Parts to arias in different transpositions:

8. Edwin Kalmus Source Guide (1990)

For publisher sources of Kalmus reprint orchestral sets. Some parts are copies of manuscripts- year of publication not always given.

9. EMS - for purchase of Edwin Kalmus orchestral sets, directly from USA (2 days’ delivery)

10. Telephone contact with other opera librarians and publishers

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA LIBRARIAN

1. CDRom ‘Orchestral Music in Print’ published by emusicquest

The Music-In-Print Series is published by emusicquest in a searchable online database of published music in print! Access to the emusicquest website is by subscription.

P.O. Box 1064

Roslyn, PA 19001, U.S.A.

2. David Daniels ‘Orchestral Music: a handbook’ (The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996)

3. RED Classical Guide (A CD catalogue)

4. Reprint Catalogues (USA)

EMS (see above)

Edwin Kalmus,

Luck’s Music Library

PUBLISHER’S HIRE LIBRARIAN

BOOSEY AND HAWKES, LONDON

1. Hire database

any information about their own works and customers.

2. Promotion database

Performance history database of Boosey and Hawkes works

3. Finnica Gehrman (Boosey and Hawkes agent in Scandinavia)

4. Music Publishers Association, UK. Directory of Members

5. Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF) Publishers’ list

6. Music Publishers Association, Finland. Directory of Members:

7. Subito USA (contact Boosey and Hawkes Inc. New York)

Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of brass band music

8. Schauer (contact Boosey and Hawkes, Berlin)

Offenbach - new edition. Max Bruch, Brahms, Stamitz.

9. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, (GroveMusic Online)

BROADCASTING LIBRARIAN (British Broadcasting Corporation - RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL BBC ORCHESTRAS)

1. KING’S MUSIC (Reprint publishers - mostly facsimile copies - Baroque and early classical period.)

1. CARUS-VERLAG

for Mozart and Schütz particularly. Also Bach family, Brahms, Mendelssohn

2. SCHOTT MUSIK INTERATIONAL

3. EDWIN KALMUS

European distributor

Music Forte Ltd. Telephone number: 01202 686368

eg. for Schumann.

For timings and orchestrations of standard orchestral works

4. Microfilm of manuscripts from national libraries

eg. Anton Reicha from Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

British Library online manuscript catalogue -

5. Writers of articles in dictionaries of music - specialist scholars. (Eg. in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians/ GroveOnline.)

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Made available to IAML members of Broadcasting and Orchestral Librarians’ Branch, Berkeley, 2002, by Librarian of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (from ‘Hunting and Gathering Orchestral Music’ - prepared for the 2001 MOLA conference by Greg Vaught, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra.)

1. ‘The ultimate resource: the librarian’s memory bank’

2. In-house databases eg. OPAS/OLIS

3. Contemporary composer leaflets from publishers

4. Composer web sites

5. Publisher web sites

6. Indiana University

7. International Alliance for Women in Music

8. International Performing rights societies, music information centres and publishers

9. Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (STIM) Swedish Performing Rights Society

10. For film music:

Jo Ann Kane music services (which site the London Symphony Orchestra also uses)

11. Scores and recordings at the Indiana University LAMC (Indiana University Press)

Journal of the Conductors Guild

MLA [Music Library Association] Notes

12. POPS SOURCES – (selection from MOLA web site - see separate handout)

CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA (LONDON SINFONIETTA)

1. Publishers’ catalogues

2. Composer leaflets

3. Contemporary Composers ed. Brian Morton and Pamela Collins (London: St. James Press, 1992)

4. Publishers’ Promotion Departments

5. British Music Information Centre

6. Direct contact with composers

MUSIC COLLEGE ORCHESTRAL LIBRARIAN

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON

2. David Daniels ‘Orchestral Music: a handbook’ (The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996)

6. ENCORE database - Online Union Catalogue of sets of Performance Music in UK libraries.