ORONO — The School of Performing Arts at the Univeristy of Maine has received a 42-volume set of music for oboe from the Robert Bloom Collection.

Bloom was the solo English hornist and assistant principal oboist in the Philadelphia Orchestra and principal oboist of the Rochester Philharmonic and NBC Symphony. He also taught music at the Yale University School of Music and the Juilliard School.

The collection, valued at $585, includes selected 18th century works, transcriptions, original compositions and concerted cadenzas from Bloom’s personal library. Many of the works have performance notes by Bloom and the set includes preface notes from his wife, oboist Sara Lambert Bloom.

The gift is a donation from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rossi of Northeast Harbor and New Haven, Conn. The couple were friends and neighbors of the Blooms, who owned a home on Cranberry Island.

The donation will be stored in the music collection at Fogler Library.

The collection is organized into three parts: Part one is works for solo oboe and piano, part two is works for solo oboe and strings and part three is chamber works and three concerted cadenzas. The volumes include Bloom’s own compositions, as well as works by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart, among others.