CoTA News at USF Libraries

ARTstor Collection Updates

ARTstor is collaborating with The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to share more than 1,400 images of works from its permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images have been selected from the museum's unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. The works in the Department of Painting and Sculpture represent a comprehensive overview of major artists and artistic movements from the late 19th century to the present, including masterworks by Umberto Boccioni, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Gauguin, Natalia Goncharova, Frida Kahlo, Vasily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Fernand Léger, Rene Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Auguste Rodin, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vincent van Gogh, and Andy Warhol, among others.* These selections will join two other collections that MoMA has shared through ARTstor for scholarly and educational use: the Architecture and Design and the Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection from The Museum of Modern Art Archives.

Now available: Medieval stained glass images from Madeline Caviness
ARTstor has collaborated with Madeline Caviness to digitize approximately 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries, now available in the Digital Library.
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Now available: South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel
Approximately 7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel are now available in the Digital Library.
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Now available: Additional images from Magnum Photos
The final images of the Magnum Photos collection are now available in ARTstor. This second release brings the collection total to approximately 80,000 high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities by this world-renowned group of documentary photographers.
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New collection agreement: Additional Mark Rothko images to be made available in ARTstor
ARTstor is collaborating with the Rothko Family Collections to share approximately 1,000 images of works on paper by Mark Rothko in the Digital Library.
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New collection agreement: Japanese art, architecture, and rituals photographed by David Boggett
ARTstor is partnering with Smith College to share approximately 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett in the Digital Library. David Boggett is a Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at Kyoto Seika University, where he has taught Japanese and Asian history of over 30 years.
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Collection agreement: Social documentary photographs by Milton Rogovin
ARTstor is collaborating with The Rogovin Collection to share approximately 300 images of Milton Rogovin's social documentary photography in the Digital Library.
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Collection agreement: Architecture by Le Corbusier from Dalhousie University
ARTstor is collaborating with the School of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie University to share approximately 250 images of architecture by Le Corbusier in the Digital Library.
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Collection agreement: Robert Winter's archives of the architecture of California
ARTstor is partnering with Occidental College to share approximately 2,500 images of California architecture from the archives of Robert Winter in the Digital Library.
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Now available: Photographs of American Architecture by Dov Friedman
Approximately 560 new photographs depicting historic and contemporary architecture in the United States are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.
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Additional art and architecture images from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Slide Library now available
An additional 695 images selected from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Visual Resources Collection and depicting works of art and architecture are now available in ARTstor.
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Additional Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites from Bryn Mawr College now in ARTstor
An additional 1,569 images of archaeological sites and architectural monuments from Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library.
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Scholarly and Textbook Publishing in the Digital Age

Open access is a new approach to the distribution and publishing of books. Authors retain their copyright through a Creative Commons copyright license, yet make their books freely available with nonrestrictive licenses that enable faculty to customize a textbook for their course. Students can download a textbook at no cost or order a low cost, print-on-demand (POD) textbook.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
2:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
TECO Conference Hall, Anchin Center, Tampa Campus

More than $1.7 Million Awarded to Support Training and Development for Museum Professionals

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)announced today the seven recipients of $1,780,000 in 21st Century Museum Professionals grants. With their grants, these awardees will implement projects to strengthen leadership, management, interpretation, and other important skills for thousands of museum professionals nationwide.

"The challenges facing the museum field continually evolve with the advent of new technologies, research, and community needs.  These grants

will help museum professionals develop the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to navigate and succeed in this ever-changing field," said Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director.

Many of this year's 21MP projects will have long-lasting impacts.  For example:

* The California Indian Museum and Cultural Center will partner with the National Indian Justice Center to create and pilot an online training program, "Protecting Our Legacies: Liaison Skills for Tribal Museum Personnel," which will bolster skills in government-to-government communications for museum employees.

* At the UC Davis Arboretum, collaborators will develop, test, implement, and evaluate a multifaceted geographic information system

(GIS) training program for museum professionals. The program will facilitate curation, conservation, facilities management, education, and research by allowing easy access, manipulation, and flexible display of information about living collections, exhibits, and site features.

* The Utah Humanities Council will partner with the Utah Museums Association to transform the state's small and remote museums from isolated repositories of objects on display to venues that tell the story of their unique collections. "Museum Interpretation Initiative:Telling Our Stories" will improve the curatorial, interpretive, and educational abilities of museum professionals through training opportunities focused on historical research, exhibit development, and docent practices.

To learn more about the 2009 21 grant recipients and their innovative projects, click here http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/092409_list.shtm

The next deadline for the 21st Century Museum Professionals program is March 15, 2010. Click here for more information.

http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/21centuryMuseums.shtm

About the Institute of Museum and Library Services:

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.  The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development. To learn more about the Institute, please visit www.imls.gov.

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Music Online - September Updates

First, a major feature of this release is that we have begun offering higher bitrate streams for audio.  Newly released audio will be delivered at 128kbps and 192kbps. We are investigating the option to upgrade all of our existing audio to the higher bitrates. For now, thought, patrons can enjoy newly released audio at these higher rates.  There is no change required on the customer end to stream at the higher bitrates.

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC REFERENCE

Eight new titles (2,941 pages) from University Press of Mississippi, Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press, and Northeastern University Press. New titles include:

* Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell

* Know What I Mean: Reflections on Hip-Hop by Michael Eric Dyson

* The New Blue Music: Changes In Rhythm and Blue by Richard J. Ripani

* Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen

* Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America by Karen Sotiropolos

African American Music Reference now has 28,608 pages of material.

AMERICAN SONG

114 albums (1,372 tracks) from Original Blues Classics, Biograph Records, Folk Era Records, Rebel Records, Colonial Music Institute, and Starday Records.

New material includes blues, folk song, country, and historical song from artists such as Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis, Mac Wiseman, Minnie Pearl, Odetta, and more. Also included in this release is a 1924 recording of George Gershwin himself playing `Rhapsody in Blue' and many other of his famous compositions on rare piano rolls, released on Biograph Records.

Example albums include:

* Over the Hills and Far Away, Being a Collection of Music from 18th-Century Annapolis

* Lone Cat Sings and Plays Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues

* Odetta and the Blues; Lightnin' Hopkins: Swarthmore Concert

* Music of the Charles Carroll Family

American Song now has 58,837 tracks.

CLASSICAL MUSIC REFERENCE LIBRARY

One new title (433 pages) from Northeastern University Press: Deems Taylor: A Biography, by James Pegolotti

Classical Music Reference Library now has 17,580 pages of material.

DANCE IN VIDEO

47 videos released from the Alive & Kicking Series, George Balanchine Foundation, and Dance On Series. New material includes:

* Interviews with Lavinia Williams, Vernon Fuquay, Shalom Hermon, Hikari Baba, Dai Ailian, Ayala Goren

* Documentaries on the Boston Dance Alliance, Prometheus Dance

* Performances of La Bayadère by the Ballet of the Teatro Alla Scala, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Sleeping Beauty by the Royal Ballet

* Coaching excerpts from the Balanchine Foundation's Interpreters Archive and the Archive of Lost Choreography, including Maria Tallchief coaching excerpts from George Balanchine's `The Nutcracker', Allegra Kent coaching excerpts from `La Sonnambula', and Frederic Franklin recreating five female solos from `Raymonda,' Act III.

Dance In Video now has 166 videos.

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY

138 albums (1,712 tracks) from Good Time Jazz, Jazzology Records, Prestige, Peak Records, Concord Jazz, and Audiophile Records.

New material includes New Orleans Jazz, vocal jazz, bop, be-bop, hard bop, latin jazz, and cool jazz from artists/ensembles such as Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, Cassandra Reed, Charlie Byrd, Eric Dolphy, Arnett Cobb, The Banjo Kings, Firehouse Five Plus Two, Hiram Bullock, Miles Davis, Shirley Horn, and more.

Example albums include:

* Sonny Rollins: Global Warming

* John Coltrane and the Jazz Giants

* Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band: 1944 - 1945 The Legendary Crescent Recording Sessions

* Arnett Cobb, Dizzy Gillispie, Jewel Brown: Showtime

* Charlie Byrd: The Concord Jazz Heritage Series

Jazz Music Library now has 28,301 tracks.

OPERA IN VIDEO

24 videos released from Opus Arte.  New operas include:

* Doctor Atomic by John Adams (2007 Netherlands Opera)

* Don Carlo by Verdi (2004 Netherlands Opera)

* La Fille du Régiment by Donizetti (Royal Opera House)

* Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich (2006 Netherlands Opera)

* Marco Polo by Tan Dun (2008 Netherlands Opera)

* Saint François d'Assise by Messiaen (2008 Netherlands Opera)

* Tosca by Puccini (2004 Teatro Real)

* Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini (2005 Kirov Opera)

Opera in Video now has 132 videos (280 hours).

CLASSICAL SCORES LIBRARY

556 scores (15,795 pages) from Universal Edition. New scores released by composers such as Luke Bedford, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Friedrich Cerha, Barry Conyngham, Luigi dallapiccola, Morton Feldman, Beat Furrer, Enrique Granados,  Leos Janacek, Modest Mussorgsky, Erik Satie, Antonio Vivaldi, Ian Wilson, and more.

Classical Scores Library now has 13,956 scores.

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC

114 albums (2,081 tracks) released from Black Sun, Blue Flame Records, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, Fortuna, Kuckuck, Piranha, and Tropical Music.  Material released includes klezmer, ska, gypsy music, ambient, trance, ritual music, worldbeat, and lounge.

Example albums include:

* David Hudson: Art of the Didjeridu, selected Pieces 1987 - 1997

* Burkina Faso: Farafina Djembe

* Michael Askill with Omar Faruk Tekbilek: Fata Morgana

* Rituales: The Afroamerindian Suite

* Pantastic World of Steel Music: Calypsoes & Soca

Contemporary World Music now has 25,322 tracks.

As of this release the Music Online package contains:

207,509 music tracks

13,602 albums

55,396 pages reference

13,956 scores

298 videos

 

The Roles of the Humanities and the NEH

In an interview with James A. Leach, the endowment's new chair, he discusses his priorities, including attention to understanding world cultures:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/02/leach

Sheet music on Kindle

A music librarian's impression of viewing sheet music on the Kindle. 

http://tinyurl.com/lwyt73

Meet your Faculty Representative and Collection Development Librarian

In an effort to sustain continuous development of the Tampa Library collection, the librarians welcome collection recommendations.  We try to be responsive to your collection needs and periodically ask faculty to assist us with making discipline-specific collection decisions that impact your teaching and research.  Listed below are the Faculty Representatives and Collection Development Librarians for The College of the Arts.

Architecture & Community Design
Faculty Representative	Stan Russell
CD Librarian	Audrey Powers
Art
Faculty Representative	Elizabeth Condon
CD Librarian	Audrey Powers
Art History
Faculty Representative	Heather Vinson
CD Librarian	Audrey Powers
Museum Studies
Faculty Representative	Noel Smith
CD Librarian	Audrey Powers
Music
Faculty Representative	John Robison
CD Librarian	Lorel Reinstrom
Theatre
Faculty Representative	Pat Finelli
CD Librarian	Audrey Powers
Dance
Faculty Representative	Michael Foley
CD Librarian	Audrey Powers

Noteworthy

C, E-flat and G go into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished and G is out flat. F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough. D comes in and heads for the bath­room, saying, "Excuse me. I'll just be a second."

Then A comes in, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor.

Then the bartender notices B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and says, "Get out! You're the seventh mi­nor I've found in this bar tonight." E-Flat comes back the next night in a three-piece suit with nicely shined shoes.

The bartender says, "You're looking sharp to­night. Come on in, this could be a major development."

Sure enough, E-flat soon takes off his suit and ev­erything else, and is au naturel. Eventually, C sobers up and realizes in horror that he's under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of D.S. without Coda at an upscale correctional facility.

 

From a compilation by Phil Proctor, sent by William Shank, CUNY Grad Scl(ret.) and sent to the Music Library Association listserv.

Music Online updates

The following databases have been updated:
Opera in Video
Dance in Video
Jazz Music Library
Contemporary World Music
African American Music Reference
Classical Scores Library
OPERA IN VIDEO has grown significantly and now comprise 108 videos/328 hours. This release includes 45 new operas from Opus Arte and Bel Canto Society including:

*Albeniz (Merlin, 2003 Madrid)*Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti, 2001, London) *Bizet(Carmen, 2007 Covent Garden) *Gounod (Romeo et Juliette, 1994 Covent Garden)*Monteverdi (L'Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, IlCombattimento diTancredi e Clorinda) *Mussorgsky (Khovanshchina, 2007 Liceu) *Rameau(LesBoréades, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux) *Wagner (DasRheingold,Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung *1946 and 1954 films of Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore *1955 film of Giordano's Andrea Chenier with Mario Del Monaco

DANCE IN VIDEO now has 189 videos, including 25 new titles from the Alive & Kicking Series, from the Dance On with Billie Mahoney Series, a documentary on dance art of Thailand, interviews with Honi Coles, Ethel Butler, Molissa Fenley and members of the Exit Dance Theatre, plus performances by the American Dance Festival Repertory Company, National Ballet of Canada, Kaeja d'Dance Company, Cullberg Ballet, Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, and the Dutch National Ballet.

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY has also grown significantly and now has 26,599 tracks. New material includes 583 albums/7,577 tracks released from Audiophile, Concord Records, Contemporary Records, Jazzology Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo and Prestige Records. Examples of new albums include:
*Basquiat Salutes Jazz
*Celebration of Duke
*Laurie Chescoe's Good Time Jazz
*Ben Pollack and His Pick-A-Rib Boys
*Mucho Macho: Machito & His Afro-Cuban Salseros.

There are also new recordings from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Tatum, Karrin Allyson, Benny Carter, Eric Dolphy, Etta Jones, Louie Bellson, Milt Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, and Zoot Sims.
CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC now has 23,235 tracks.New materials include 112 albums/1,207 tracks from Black Sun, Celestial Harmonies, Fortuna, Kuckuck, and Piranha records.
*New music styles include klezmer, rumba, belly dance, traditional folk, afro-pop, chant, new age, and gamelan music.

*Examples of new albums include Music of Islam, Vol. 1: Al Qahirah Music of Cairo; Brazilian Contemporary Instrumental Music; Krishna Chakravarty: Circular Dance; Many Lessons: Hiphop - Islam - West Africa; Emil Zrihan: Ashkelon, Moroccan Mawal; Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars: Di Shikere Kapelye, Jewish-Oriental Village Brass from NYC's Lower East Side
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC REFERENCE Now has 26,764 pages and includes the following 2 new titles/628 pages from Harvard University Press: *Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit by Suzanne E. Smith *A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song by Jeffrey Melnick   CLASSICAL SCORES LIBRARY now has 277,028 pages, including an additional 276 scores/7,038 pages of in-copyright scores from Faber Music and Universal Edition.  Materials released includes scores from composers Anne Boyd, Alban Berg, Morton Feldman, Zoltán Kodály, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Claudio Monteverdi, Steve Reich, Jean Sibelius, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, and Anton Webern. With this latest release the Music Online package now comprises:
*13,876 CDs
*202,738 recordings
*14,824 scores
*53,119 pages of full-text reference
*297 videos totaling 468 hours

Electronic Course Packets

Are you aware that the USF Tampa Library can create complete electronic course packets, eliminating the time and money spent working with copy shops and publishers?

The USF Tampa Library respectfully requests your opinions and experiences for an analysis of Electronic Reserves and course material services for faculty. This short survey will be used to improve our services to faculty.

We would greatly appreciate if you could take the time to fill out this survey by Friday, September 25, 2009. Thank you for your participation.

 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=8DtptTYzQNjwRBGLmtAFcg_3d_3d

 Academic Services, USF Tampa Library

Louvre Launches English Online Collections Database

Visit the Louvre collections online<
The Louvre launched an English version of its online collections database, Atlas, on July 30. This interactive research tool allows visitors to access information on 22,000 works of art, view high-resolution images of masterpieces, and locate exhibited works and galleries throughout the museum. The launch of the English version was initiated by and funded with a €300,000 ($380,000 U.S.) grant in 2004 from American Friends of the Louvre.

The Guggenheim At 50: A Legacy Spirals On Fifth

"Fifty years ago, an object landed on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It looked like it had dropped from outer space, and was treated as such."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111434035

"It is a mistake to view the arts as a trivial expense"

" . . . a comprehensive economic impact study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry should help elected officials and citizens alike understand. . . . " 
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/07/na-arts-payoff-a-better-community

Database News from Alexander Street Press

There is another content upload to our Music Online collection with new titles in *African American Music Reference *American Song (which now also includes the content from the former African American Song) *Contemporary World Music *Classical Scores Library and *Dance in Video

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC

136 albums (1,231 tracks) from Piranha Records, Celestial Harmonies, Fortuna Records, and Black Sun Records. New music includes jazz fusion, afro-pop, electronic, ambient, chant, new age, and ska. Highlights include:
*R. Carlos Nakai: Desert Dance
*Walk Like a Nubian
*Hiphop Khasene
*Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions
*Sevdalinka: Sarajevo Love Songs
*M 99.00 Dub Manifest

AMERICAN SONG

231 albums (4,294 tracks) from Archeophone Records, Folk Era, Mark Custom, and Wind River Records. Highlights:

*Rare and early recordings from the turn of the 20th century from Archeophone Records, including the complete Bert Williams recordings, vaudville and minstrel recordings, 1917 ragtime recordings, early phonograph recordings, Edith Wilson, Guido Deiro, Marion Harris' complete Victor releases, and more.

*University marching band music from Mark Custom Records, featuring marching band concerts from Florida State University, the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band, the Marching Illini, JMU's Marching Dukes, and others.

*Historic and contemporary folk music from Folk Era/Wind River. Folk Era artists include The Kingston Trio, The Brandywine Singers, Glenn and Holly Yarbrough, plus Paul Robeson's Peace Arch Concerts and the Welsh Transatlantic Concert.

 DANCE IN VIDEO

14 videos released.  Highlights include:

*Performances and interviews from the Alive & Kicking Series
*Performances by the Cullberg Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, Li Chiao-Ping, the American Dance Festival Repertory Company
*Interviews with Trisha Brown and Wu Jing Shu
*Documentaries on ballroom dancing and on the Royal Academy of Dancing
*Restaging of "State of Darkness" with Molissa Fenley and Peter Boal.

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC REFERENCE

Seven new titles (4,009 pages) from Beacon Press and Columbia University Press. Highlights include:

*Ella Fitzgerald: The complete Biography, by Stuart Nicholson
*Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement, by S. Craig Watkins
*One O'Clock Jump: The Unforgettable Story of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils, by Douglas Henry Daniels
*The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, by Gerald Majer

CLASSICAL SCORES LIBRARY

642 scores (40,450 pages) from contemporary music publisher Universal Edition. Highlights:

*Richard Rodney Bennett
*Alban Berg
*Luciano Berio
*Pierre Boulez
*Anton Bruckner
*Frederick Delius
*Leos Janacek
*Gustav Mahler
*Frank Martin
*Arvo Pärt
*Max Reger
*Wolfgang Rihm
*Richard Strauss
*Anton Webern
*Alexander von Zemlinsky

Enjoy all the great new materials. 

Classical Music Library Enhancements

Highlights of the new functionality are:

* Browse Composer Now Links Directly into the Works List

Example: Go to http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/Browse/Composer. 

Clicking on the Works List column will take you to the Works browse where you can see all performances of that work.

Example: Paganini:  http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/Browse/Work//filterByID/12587

Clicking on Recordings will take you to the results screen for the recordings. This replicates the Composer browse from the old Classical platform.

 

* Composer Works Browse Now Shows the Performances Within the Browse (like the works browse from the old platform)

Example: Go to http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/Browse/Work

You'll notice a + icon next to the work name.  Clicking on that will expand to show all performances we have of that work.  From there you can either play the track or add it to a playlist, without having to go to the results page.  Users can still search for a particular composer using the Find box at the top of the browse, or go through the Composer browse, as described above.

 

* Biographies Now Include Full Author Citations and are Searchable

Example - Murray Adaskin:  http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/Person/202369

Notice that each composer page links to the works list as well, and to the full list of related recordings for that composer.  Both links appear above the biography section of the person page. 

Sheet music on Kindle

Amazon announces sheet music for the Kindle

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK9SSK95T0K7YF

 

Ignaz Pleyel digital collection

University of Iowa Libraries digitizes collection of historic scores:

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/pleyel

More than 250 years after his birth, a notable collection of musical scores by French composer and music publisher Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) can now be found online.

This collection of nearly 250 early printed and manuscript scores represents in entirety the Rita Benton Music Library's holdings of the work of this single composer. It consists primarily of keyboard and chamber music, including arrangements of large orchestral works. Also included in the collection are songs with keyboard accompaniment and method books providing instruction in certain instruments. Pleyel was a contemporary of more famous composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827); he also apprenticed with Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) early in his career.

Most of the scores were published between 1780 and 1810, and many were issued by Pleyel's own publishing house. These materials provide insight into publishing practices common in late 18th- and early 19th-century Europe, when engraving began replacing both letterpress printing and manuscript copying. Also, increase in travel across borders caused musical styles to become more international and publishers began to print music outside of its country of origin.

The physical collection was assembled by the late Dr. Rita Benton, noted Pleyel scholar and former Head of the Music Library at the University of Iowa. The Music Library was named in her honor in 1980. "The Rita Benton Music Library has provided access to the Pleyel materials to scholars and performers around the world for a number of years," says Ruthann McTyre, Head of the Music Library. "We are proud to offer digital access to the collection. Allowing individuals to have these materials virtually at their fingertips is a fitting way to honor Dr. Benton's devotion to musical scholarship and preservation of this composer's work."

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

          

The Library has added The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online to our collection of music databases. 

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music has been the pre-eminent reference work for research in ethnomusicology. It has won numerous awards, including the Dartmouth Medal, the New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book award, and Library Journal's award as one of the 50 Reference Sources for the Millennium. Now the entire set of 10 print volumes is available as a single, integrated online database.

The second release includes the entire set of 10 print volumes (over 9,200 pages) as well as complete indexing for genre, subject, instrument, place, person, ensemble, and cultural group, as well as links to the associated audio examples for each volume.

You can access The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online by going to the USF Libraries Catalog and typing Encyclopedia of World Music.

Music Database Updates

 

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC

Added:  3 new titles from Indiana University Press & Northeastern University Press:
            Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life
            Purcell: A Biography
            Schumann: The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC

Added:  448 albums (6,447 tracks) from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Intersound, Karuna, Triloka,                 Rounder Records, Sheridan Square Records, and Six Degrees Records.
            New albums include Afrobeat, electronic lounge music, rembetika, belly dance, reggae, and dub.

Albums released include:
        Bobi Céspedes: Rezos
        Cinematic: Classic Film Music Remixed
        Cutting Razor - Rare Cuts From The Black Ark Emad Sayyah: Ma Ajmal Beirut-Modern Bellydance               from Lebanon: Hugh Masekela: Hope

Free Trial to Aesthetica Magazine

Keep up to date with the global community of creative arts through Aesthetica Magazine.  All aspects of arts and culture including visual arts, literature, music, theatre and film are covered. Aesthetica is used widely in colleges and universities throughout the UK and Europe as a study aid for students studying arts and humanities.

Click here and enter password aesthetica_issue28_2009

Opera in Video

The Library has a trial to the database Opera in Video.  Check it out and let us know what you think. 

The database contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.

Music Online

Get updates on Alexander Street's music and performing arts collections by signing up for their blog,
Music Online, or bookmarking it.  Databases the Library receives from Alexander Street Press include the following:
    African American Song
    American Film Scripts Online
    American Song
    Black Drama: 1850 to Present
    Classical Music Library
    Contemporary World Music
    Dance in Video
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Weber's Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat major, Op. 39

Weber composed his second piano sonata in Berlin in 1816, shortly before his appointment as Kapellmeister at Dresden was confirmed.

This recording is performed Alexis Golovin, pianist, and Benoit Fromanger, flutist.

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Jazz Professor, Composer Named Guggenheim Fellow

Chuck Owen, professor of Jazz Studies was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor considered one of the most prestigious academic recognitions in the world. Owen is the only Guggenheim Fellow in 2009 from a Florida university.

 

Owen is a Distinguished University Professor at USF and founding director of the USF Center for Jazz Composition. He is recognized inside and outside of academia for his unique compositional voice. Grounded in the jazz tradition, Owen does not hesitate to mask a diverse array of musical influences – ranging from classical and world musics to hip-hop/funk, folk, and even country.  The result is a thoughtful and frequently playful, body of work that seems to celebrate the American spirit.

 

The Guggenheim Fellowship will support Owen’s work to compose a "Double Concerto for Saxophone, Guitar, & Orchestra." This large-scale work (presently envisioned as 5 movements) will seek, in part, to continue to blur the boundaries between jazz traditions and the contemporary symphony orchestra.  Following completion of the composition, Owen plan to record the work as part of a CD that will include other compositions and arrangements for orchestra.

 

"I am delighted to have been accorded this tremendous honor and relish the opportunity to dedicate my efforts to the realization of a work that I have long wanted to pursue,” said Owen. “Through this fellowship, I have a unique opportunity not only to explore new musical territory, but to reach out to new audiences as well."