The Library is a specialized musicological library.

 

It consists of volumes of bibliographical and historiographical musicological and literary materials useful for research activities inherent in the fields of musicology. It collects a library holdings of about 3500 volumes including books, journals, encyclopedias and repertories, musical sources and documents. The library is divided into an ancient collection (with volumes on history, aesthetics, philosophy and music theory, as well as bibliographical repertories, dictionaries and encyclopedias) and a modern collection, which ranges from fin de siècle musicological volumes to the most recent publications on the subject, including the latest repertories and encyclopedias.

 

Alongside the library, the Centro Studi has an interesting Historical Archive. This can essentially be divided into a section related to musical sources between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and a more modern one relating to sources from the 20^th Century, with a large collection dedicated to Luigi Dallapiccola.

 

The Centro Studi is glad to acquiring donations of private funds as well as musicological publications (monographs, miscellaneous volumes, journals, editions, etc.) which are gradually being published by universities, musicological societies and private institutions, so as to gradually enrich the bibliographic corpus of what can currently be considered an important reality for the dissemination of musicological heritage in Northern Italy.