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The Thomas Gorton Music and Dance Library contains about 80,000 books and scores, 25,000 sound recordings,  500 videocassettes, 8,250 microforms, and 400 current subscriptions to periodicals and other serials. The library also offers access to sophisticated research sources, including CD-ROM periodical indexes and dissertation abstracts. Materials support research and performance for master’s and doctoral programs offered at the University, as well as the undergraduate programs in all performance areas (including theater voice), dance, music history, music theory, composition, music education, and music therapy.

The music portion of the library is especially strong in composers’ complete and collected editions and monumental sets, and is the leading music collection in the Great Plains region. The library has an extensive collection of performance and study scores for voice, solo instruments, and large and chamber ensembles.

Library of Congress Classification Outlines 

Music  (M, ML, MT)

Dance  (GV)

Subject-Related Collections in the KU Libraries 

The Department of Special Collections in Spencer Research Library houses many rare books, scores, and manuscripts pertaining to music. J. Bunker Clark, Professor Emeritus, has made available a selected listing of these, as well as a bibliography of rare Music in the United States before the Civil War.