As a graduate student, you will have access to the University's wide range of resources including libraries, museums, galleries, digital resources and IT services.
The Bodleian Libraries is the largest library system in the UK. It includes the main Bodleian Library and libraries across Oxford, including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. Together, the Libraries hold more than 13 million printed items, provide access to e-journals, and contain outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera.
The University's IT Services is available to all students to support with core university IT systems and tools, as well as many other services and facilities. IT Services also offers a range of IT learning courses for students to support with learning and research, as well as guidance on what technology to bring with you as a new student at Oxford.
The Faculty of Music is located in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. This new state-of-the-art building includes a concert hall, lecture spaces, film screening theatre, black box experimental performance space, practice rooms and a multimedia digital TV broadcasting and sound studio. The facilities are used as part of the building’s cultural programme and students may get the opportunity to use them if studying relevant modules and courses. The world-famous Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, which lends historical instruments to students is also at the new centre, along with the faculty's gamelan orchestra.
Libraries
The University’s Bodleian Library, receives every important British musicological study, in addition to acquiring most major books and editions published elsewhere; it has particularly important collections of printed sources for early music theory and nineteenth-century sheet music. Its manuscript collection contains many important sources for early English and European music, as do several college libraries.
Other significant research collections are held at the Taylorian Library (modern languages), the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library and the Maison Française.
Oxford’s three important collections of musical instruments are the faculty’s Bate Collection, the Ashmolean Museum’s Hill Collection of old stringed and keyboard instruments, and the Pitt Rivers Museum’s extensive collection of ethnographic materials.
Library resources for Music are in the new Humanities Library in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The library brings together seven libraries and collections: English language and literature, film studies, history of medicine, music, philosophy, theology and religion, and internet studies.
Schwarzman Studio facilities
The new Schwarzman studios are available to use by Music Faculty students for their portfolio work.
Music Studio 1
This is a professional, acoustically designed music composition, production and mixing room, able to accommodate both stereo and the immersive broadcast and recording standard - Dolby Atmos 9.1.4. It digitally connects to almost all the performance spaces in the Schwarzman building and simultaneously records up sixty musicians directly in the new Concert Hall.
Music Studio 2
This professionally designed experimental music and acoustics research space is able to accommodate many different listening formats, from stereo to Ambisonics, Dolby Atmos, D&B Soundscape and others. It has a permanent but adjustable ‘3D’ 22.2 loudspeaker array. The studio contains a range of experimental electronic music instruments and is inherently flexible by design, with connections to all performance spaces, but a design bias to working symbiotically with the Black Box.
Music Studio 3
A ‘trad’ recording studio directly connected and adjacent to the ‘Ensemble Room’ and practice rooms on the ground floor. It houses a 32 channel all analogue vintage aesthetic Harrison recording console, with an array of choice microphones for recording small- to medium-sized ensemble performance: from soloist to quartet, Jazz, Rock and Pop.
