Library of Music Studies at the Institute of Art Studies

ADDRESS:
1504 Sofia, Krakra St. 21, Fl. 1
Telephone: (+359 2) 943 19 01

E-mail: margi@iinf.bas.bg
Open hours: Monday - Friday 9.00-17:00  

Librarian:

Raina Mihailova

Founded: 1949

COLLECTIONS

Subjects Covered: theory and history of music, musical pedagogy, musical genres, instruments and works, aesthetics, cultural studies, history, ethnography, folklore

Collections: 22653

Books: 10396

Periodical Publications: 2040

Current Periodical Titles: 29 

Printed Music: 10217

Special Collections: editions with church music of old note script 

Private Collections: Nikola Abadzhiev, musical pedagogue; Prof. Dobri Hristov;  Raina Katsarova, ethnomusicologist; Kamen Lukov, bandmaster and composer; Stefan Makedonski, opera singer; Petko Naumov, composer; Dimitar Nenov, composer; Boris Pilatov, choir conductor; Mihail Shekerdzhiev, conductor and composer; Hristo Tsoev, musical pedagogue. Books, notes, periodicals from the library of the tsar family: Prince Alexander Battenberg, Tsar Ferdinand I Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha,
Tsar Boris III, Tsaritsa Ioanna, Princess Eudokia, Princess Nadezhda

SERVICES

Catalogues: books (alphabetic and systematic UDC), printed music (alphabetic), books and printed music (systematic UDC)

Card-indexes: periodical (alphabetic), Dobri Hristov, Raina Katsarova, editions from the library of the tsar family: Prince Alexander Battenberg, Tsar Ferdinand I Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, Tsar Boris III, Tsaritsa Ioanna, Princess Eudokia, Princess Nadezhda; Anthology of Folklore  

Reading-Room: 2

Individual Loans; Interlibrary Loans; International Interlibrary Loans

Reproduction of Documents

Other Services: references