Music

CDs

About 17 CDs of music are available to you. Children's music is placed in the children's section. The normal loan period for CDs is four weeks. The loan period for new items is two weeks. Remember to check the loan term on the due date receipt! Records are also stored in the library's open storage downstairs.

DVD and Blu-ray discs

Concert recordings, opera, musicals, karaoke and documentaries are available as image recordings.

Sheet music publications

There are approximately 8 titles of sheet music and scores for various music genres, instruments, voices and ensembles. Sheet music is also stored in the library's open storage downstairs.

Playing and singing dice

There are guides for all the most used instruments.

Non-fiction from the Music section

Information books, memoirs and reference works dealing with music culture in various ways are available for borrowing. There are also many music books in the open warehouse downstairs.

Music magazines

The library has ordered the following music magazines:

• Guitar World
• Folk music
• Complain
• Mojo
• Music maker
• The riff
• Sound

You can find the current year's music magazines in the library's magazine room, you can find older magazines in the open storage room downstairs. The normal loan period for magazines is 28 days, for news magazines 14 days. The latest issue cannot be borrowed. With a few exceptions, music magazines are kept for two years.

You will find plenty of digital music magazines that can be read remotely From the e-library. (Kansalliskirjasto.fi.) ja From PressReader. (Pressreader.com.)
Read more about the library's digital magazines.

LP records

The library's collections include more than a thousand LP records, which you can find downstairs in a warehouse open to customers. The LPs mainly contain art and folk music.

You can always ask the staff for help if you have problems finding material or information. For larger information searches, you have to be prepared for the delivery time. If the material you want is not in our library, you can order it from other Ratamo libraries or borrow it through us from elsewhere.

You can search for materials, make new loans and reserve materials in the Ratamo libraries database. (Ratamo.finna.fi.)

Vocabularies used in describing music material:

• Topics and contents: Ontology of the Universal Finnish Language – YSO. (Finto.fi.)
• Music genres and types of works: Finnish Genre and Form Dictionary – SLM. (Finto.fi.)
• Personal and group names: National operator information list – KANTO. (Finto.fi.)
• Instrument names and performance lineups: Finnish performance composition dictionary – SEKO. (Finto.fi.)
• Geographical locations: YSO places. (Finto.fi.)
• Decades and centuries: YSO time. (Finto.fi.)

The classification is based on to the classification system of public libraries – YKL. (Finto.fi.)

The description of art music has utilized the catalogues of composers' works. (Musiikkikirjastot.fi.)

Discover the online services and tips offered by Finnish music libraries. (Musiikkikirjastot.fi.)

Ratamo libraries have a common warehouse, where old and rarely borrowed CDs, which have not been permanently deleted, have been selectively moved. In the availability information of the online library, the discs in the Ratamo warehouse are displayed at the Nurmijärvi main library under the location Ratamo warehouse.

You can order the discs from the library for free at all Ratamo libraries. If you want to order a disc, make a reservation in the online library or request an order from your library's customer service. When you pick up the disc, ask the customer service representative to remove the two-euro Ratamo fee that the system automatically assigns from your information.