Mahoney Music Collection

A comprehensive collection of music-related books, periodicals, ephemera, and more

- largely pertaining to the violin family - 

housed at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

D'Alembert Diderot: Encyclopedie Raisonne Metiers, 1767

Treatises, such as the first edition of Leopold Mozart's 1756 treatise, as well as treatises by Francesco Geminiani, Carl Flesch, Ivan Galamian

History of music and a wide range of musical instruments

American, Austrian, Belgian, Bohemian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Scottish, South American, Spanish, and Swiss stringed instruments

Instrument makers such as Amati, da Salo, del Gesu, Maggini, Stradivari, Stainer, and Vuillaume

Stringed instrument players such as Ole Bull, Pablo Casals, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, and Eugene Ysaye

Construction of stringed instruments and bows

Varnish dictionaries and encyclopedias

Acoustics

Adult and children's fiction and poetry concerning stringed instruments

Dealers' catalogs

• Complete collection of The Strad magazine
• First edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• 1616 map of Cremona, Italy
• First edition of Charles Burney's "A General History of Music"
• First edition of John Hawkins's "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music"