UH Music Library

06/18/2026

Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Friday, June 19, University of Houston Music Library (and the University) will be closed in commemoration of Emancipation Day. Have a great weekend Coogs!

Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Friday, June 19, University of Houston Libraries (and the University) will be closed in commemoration of Emancipation Day. Check all Libraries hours at https://uh.libcal.com/hours/

06/18/2026

Who is the monster in this tale?

Confined to a bell tower in Paris, the hunchback Quasimodo lives his life on the sufferance of his uncle Frollo, performing his daily duties of ringing

06/17/2026

Congratulations to bassoonist Graydon Harrison for winning first place in this year’s Concerto Competition at the Texas Music Festival!

06/16/2026

"“Flower of Scotland,” first performed by Scotland’s national soccer team in 1993 and fully adopted in 1997, centers on the Battle of Bannockburn, fought in June 1314 during the First War of Scottish Independence.

The song repeatedly references “Proud Edward’s Army,” the English force led by King Edward II, believed to have been the largest ever to invade Scotland, with around 25,000 men. Despite commanding only about 6,000 soldiers, Robert the Bruce defeated Edward, defending “your wee bit hill and glen”—a nod to Scotland’s rugged landscape. As the lyrics declare, the Scots “sent them homeward.”"

Adopted in 1997, “Flower of Scotland” is Scotland’s unofficial national anthem.

06/15/2026

"The math that drove their decision flips everything assumed about modern versus outdated storage."

The math that drove their decision flips everything assumed about modern versus outdated storage.

06/12/2026

Heads up Coogs! The Music Library will close be open from 8 AM to 1 PM today for the staff to attend the MD Anderson Library 75th Anniversary Libraries Employee Celebration.

We will resume our normal hours, 8 AM to 5 PM, on Monday June 15.

Heads up, Coogs and visitors!📣UH Libraries service points (including MD Anderson Library, the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library, the Music Library, the Health Sciences Library, and the Medical Library) will have special operating hours tomorrow, June 12, during and after the MD Anderson Library 75th Anniversary Libraries Employee Celebration. Check open hours at https://uh.libcal.com/hours/

Note that the MD Anderson Library building will remain open and operating under regular hours on June 12. UH Libraries service points will resume regular operating hours on Saturday, June 13.

06/12/2026

"When the BBC used Puccini’s aria for their Italia 90 coverage — and the Three Tenors performed it at their debut in Rome — it became a global anthem."

When the BBC used Puccini’s aria for their Italia 90 coverage — and the Three Tenors performed it at their debut in Rome — it became a global anthem. So who sang it best?

06/11/2026

From Shakira to Los Ramblers, here are the top World Cup anthems, including a few gems that have gotten lost to time

From Shakira to Los Ramblers, here are the top World Cup anthems, including a few gems that have gotten lost to time.

06/10/2026

"His ardent fans call him "the Maestro". Five decades after his debut, Ilaiyaraaja's music still echoes through homes, concert halls and cinema screens across India.

The 83-year-old composer from Tamil Nadu has scored more than 1,000 films in nine languages, a record unmatched in Indian cinema."

Fifty years after his debut, Ilaiyaraaja remains one of the most celebrated composers in Indian cinema.

06/09/2026

"Fearlessness was fundamental in Ulmer's music, which came firmly rooted in the blues but could often sound heat-warped, hallucinatory and feral. These qualities, along with an openness to possibility, endeared him to the free-jazz forefather Ornette Coleman, with whom he started collaborating in the early 1970s. Ulmer became the most devoted acolyte of Coleman's concept of Harmolodics, which frees musicians from strict adherence to a key. The system, which perplexed many musicians and critics, made instinctual sense to Ulmer, who tuned each of his six strings to the same note."

The fearless free-funk and jazz artist, a student of Ornette Coleman's Harmolodics concept, followed his unorthodox path to a singular five-decade career.