New e-resource : Classical Scores Library

Cambridge University members now have online access to the Classical Scores Library, complete volumes 1 through 5 on the ProQuest/Alexander Street Press Music Online platform.

HOW TO ACCESS

Access is available now via this link

Also available via the Cambridge E-resources A-Z

Records for each score are findable in iDiscover –  e.g. Boulevard waltz : piano solo

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

Classical Scores Library is a series of five volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars.

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The scordatura used for the violin and viola in the orchestra of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ligeti_scordatura.png

RELATED RESOURCES

You may also be interested in these online collections of historical music periodicals and more resources in the Cambridge Music LibGuide:

RIPM Jazz periodicals

RIPM North American and European Music Periodicals (Preservation Series)

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text

British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (Nineteenth century collections online)

THIS RESOURCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU WITH FUNDING FROM UKRI             

This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities. 

In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.

 

New e-resource : African American Music Reference

Cambridge University members now have online access to the African American Music Reference resource published by Alexander Street Press.

HOW TO ACCESS

Access is available now via this link

Also available via the Cambridge E-resources A-Z

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

African-American Music Reference is a comprehensive reference database that chronicles the rich history of African-American music through 1970. This database brings together the most important reference texts in this subject area, including discographies and bibliographies combined with song sheets, images and other print resources.

The database offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression – and the only electronic access to this coverage. Resources include biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), song sheets, chronologies, critical textbooks, a comprehensive discography of the top African-American artists, and links to editorially selected Web resources. It contains more than 50,000 pages of reference materials that include rare and previously unpublished items.

https://youtu.be/Xv8FBjo1Y8I

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“Go-go is not only non-stop, but also largely improvisatory, with only the hint of a play list established at the beginning of any performance. A go-go proceeds largely on gut instinct as the band reacts to and interacts with the crowd. Make no mistake about it–at a go-go the distinction between the audience and the band is very narrow indeed. There is an ongoing dialogue (much like in a good marriage or any other close, cooperative venture) with give and take and call and response helping to establish the communication necessary for an intimate and satisfying experience. In strong contrast to a performance by a folk-pop artist like Jackson Browne or Tracey Chapman, where the audience is warmly appreciative and enthusiastic but rarely overbearing, go-go crowds are always “in your face” while interacting with the band. Because the go-go community is largely racially segregated and most of its adherents reside in close proximity, the members often know one another well, so go-gos tend to be social as well as musical events. The fans let you know what they want to hear and how good a job the band is doing; they express themselves vigorously and loudly, in no uncertain terms. Go-go fans, in short, are demonstrative, not at all shy, and overwhelmingly black.”–

Going to a Go-Go written by Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr.; in The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009), 63-90 

RELATED RESOURCES

Have you seen Cambridge also has access to RIPM Jazz periodicals? And other resources available from the Music LibGuide.

THIS RESOURCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU WITH FUNDING FROM UKRI

This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities. 

In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.

New e-resource : Music periodicals of the 19th century

Cambridge University members now have online access to all the archival collection Music periodicals of the 19th century published by Alexander Street Press.

HOW TO ACCESS

Access is available now via this link

Also available via the Cambridge E-Resources A-Z

Records for each periodical are findable in iDiscover – note each volume is retrievable in a book record – e.g., Henry de Marsan’s New Comic and Sentimental Singer’s journal

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century is a collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s through local and international news, reviews, editorials, sheet music, and advertisements.

Over 200,000 pages of material will be available for research on the Alexander Street multimedia platform – the only resource that allows users to cross-search the full text of all articles with videos, audio recordings, photographs, scores, and reference texts.

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 “A recent cursory description of the well-known Mozarteum, from the pen of an intelligent correspondent in a daily paper, mentons the fact that amongst the interesting relics of the divine composer exhibited to the public gaze at Salzburg, is a drawing of his ear, showing an abnormally large bell, as though nature intended him to be a gifted listener. … Anything will do for an ear, and a daub or two that would with equal propriety represent a dried fig or an oyster, would do duty for the above organ. … Small ears are invariably under greater disadvantage. Large ears are usually indicative of a more comprehensive taste. A narrow harp or harp-like opening always denotes a good ear for music. If the harp is very regular you may safely prognosticate a correct intonation. For a singer, the rim must be very even and the circle unbroken. Any protuberance on the rim of the ear will occasion a slight discrepancy of intonation – the singer will not be at all times alike. A perfect double rim is, on the other hand, highly advantageous. This is however, open to the weakness of easily being satisfied with sweet sounds of any kind.”– American Art Journal, v. 26, no. 12, December 16, 1876, p. 3

RELATED RESOURCES

You may also be interested in these online collections of historical music periodicals and more resources in the Cambridge Music LibGuide:

RIPM Jazz periodicals

RIPM North American and European Music Periodicals (Preservation Series)

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text

British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (Nineteenth century collections online)

THIS RESOURCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU WITH FUNDING FROM UKRI             

This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities. 

In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.

 

 

 

E-resources Advent Calendar Window 13 : The 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Don’t miss the Live Stream of the The 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker in their Christmas Concert “Cello Christmas” on Sunday 18 December. Available to University of Cambridge members via our access to the Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall.

Christmas spirit as far as the eye can see! Presenter Sarah Willis and the 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker send magical wintry sounds through the auditorium and set the mood together for the upcoming festivities. A concert full of fun, wonder, participation and seasonal cheer. For the 12 Cellists, there is only one wish in their hearts for Christmas: sparkling eyes from young and old.

The Christmas song Stille Nacht, autograph (ca. 1860) by Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863). Photographed by de:Benutzer:Mezzofortist.

Visit the Music LibGuide for access to resources available to you in Music.

E-resources Advent Calendar 2022, Window 1: Off to the ballet

Welcome to our Advent Calendar this Christmas where each day we’ll invite you to open a window into our wonderful world of services and online content from Cambridge University Libraries’ e-journals & e-resources team.

Introducing the seasonal celebration, we invite you to dance away with the Sugar Plum Fairy and escape, after quite some year, to the Land of Sweets with Clara and the Prince –

Can’t make it to the Royal Opera House Nutcracker this Christmas? Disappear into Digital Theatre+’s version via Cambridge’s subscription to Digital Theatre+

Digital Theatre+ has a mission “We believe the arts are for everyone”, and “provides powerful ways to connect English and Drama students with dramatic texts, poetry, and performance”.  The resource contains exclusive video resources and interviews, detailed study guides, essays and lesson plans. Digital Theatre+ works with educators worldwide to bring together “unique perspectives to advise and aid us in content creation and acquisition, site development, partnerships, projects, ethics and aesthetics, ensuring that schools and universities receive the best quality resources.”

E-resources update : RIPM Jazz Periodicals New Journals – New Search Features

  RIPM Jazz Periodicals Now containss 119 full-text jazz journals and magazines with the addition of six new titles and one with expanded coverage: Bright Moments (Newark, NJ, 1985) Different Drummer (Rochester, NY, 1973-1975) Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing (Chicago, IL, 1939) Expansions (New York, NY, 1971-1975) Radio Free Jazz (Washington, DC, 1975-1980) Sabin’s Radio Free Jazz! USA (Washington, DC, 1972-1975) The Second Line (New Orleans, LA, additional years 1964-2009 added)   [The new titles will be made available via iDiscover in future updates] Two new search features have also been added to the RIPM Jazz database:

• Citation Search searches author and article title records. RIPM has created more than 138,000 citation records for titled journal content, including articles, news items, columns, sheet music, and record reviews.
• Browse Tables of Contents permits users to view each journal issue’s author-title records. Each citation record is linked to the corresponding full-text journal page.

text provided by RIPM

First live jazz broadcast on medici.tv

University of Cambridge members and musicians enjoy access to Medici.tv, subscribed by Cambridge University Libraries for the Music Faculty.

We’re thrilled to hear that medici.tv, a few days ago, live from the Philharmonie de Paris, spent a jazzy moment in the company of the extraordinary Chucho Valdés—renowned composer, dynamite pianist, expert arranger, and legendary pioneer of Afro-Cuban jazz.

Valdés opened the festivities with an incredible solo recital, before moving on to one of his own compositions, La Creación, through which he recounts the emergence of Yoruba culture, of West African origin, in the Caribbean. 

Medici.tv has added this to Cambridge’s subscription, though it is normally only available as part of the jazz collection (which is an as-yet unsubscribed part of medici.tv).

To access the Val recording scroll down on the medici.tv home page to “must see replays” or go directly to https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://edu.medici.tv/en/jazz/chucho-valdes-plays-la-creacion/

Trial access – Qwest TV

Trial access to Qwest TV is now active and will run until 31 December 2021.

Access is provided to you via

Direct IP access on the University Data Network (“on campus”)

Via VPN off campus

Via EZproxy off campus

(Please click ‘Sign in’ on the Qwest TV home page to gain access.)

Qwest TV is a video streaming service dedicated to jazz, soul, funk, blues, hip-hop, electronic and classical music, with access to over 1,300 concerts, interviews and documentaries. Featuring personal selections from guest curators such as Quincy Jones, Van Morrison, Chick Corea and Youssou NDour.

Please tell us what you think of this resource by completing the feedback form here. Thank you.

E-resources update : Bloomsbury Popular Music has moved!

Bloomsbury Popular Music has migrated on to the new Bloomsbury Music and Sound platform. The previous URL for Bloomsbury Popular Music will be redirected to the new URL:

https://bloomsburymusicandsound.com (on-campus access)

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://bloomsburymusicandsound.com/home (off-campus access)

You can also access this digital library from the Databases A-Z or via individual title records for the 260+ e-books included in iDiscover.

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This digital library for global popular music brings together leading scholarship and interactive tools to hit the right note for research and learning. It is a resource for students across disciplines including music, ethnomusicology, the performing arts, media and communication, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology.

• Multiple volumes from the landmark reference work, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, with new volumes from top international contributors added regularly.
• More than 150 volumes of the widely acclaimed 33 1/3 and 33 1/3 Global book series, providing in-depth analysis of influential albums across diverse musical eras, by artists ranging from Caetano Veloso to Public Enemy 
• An expanding range of scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s popular music studies list, comprising edited volumes, biographies, and historical overviews 
• An illustrated Timeline of Popular Music back to 1900, including dates of 33 1/3 series albums, plus an overview of contextual events in musical and political history, with links to relevant articles
• An interactive World Map enables users to navigate to books and articles covering a particular country or region that is most relevant to their work
• Artist pages including curated related content, and biographical information on hundreds of artists and musicians. The artist page biographies are written by André Diehl and Robrecht Herfkens, and will be added to the complete set of artist pages over the forthcoming content updates.

A list of the titles included in the library can be downloaded from the Bloomsbury website.

New e-resource: RIPM North American and European Music Periodicals (Preservation Series)

The RIPM North American and European Music Periodicals Preservation series collection is available to access until 30 April 2021.

Access to content in RIPM Preservation Series is based upon optical character recognition (OCR) technology. This technology transforms pictures of letters into text and consequently provides access to all words, but it does not provide information concerning the context in which the search term(s) appears.

However, the Preservation Series is quite different from the other systems of access based on OCR, because it was planned with journals rather than monographs in mind. Thus, while the Google Books and HathiTrust offer access to journals on a volume to volume basis, reflecting the holdings of contributing libraries only with little or no effort to supply complete runs, the Preservation Series simultaneously provides access to all the issues of a journal (an extensive effort in itself) and equally to all journals. Like Google Books and HathiTrust, the RIPM Preservation Series does not offer titling information or the identification of specific types of content (reviews, illustrations, poem, analysis etc.). But unlike the others, the Preservation Series:

• allows searching of complete journal runs and cross-journal searches;
• offers a simple downloading process for saving and printing;
• automatically downloading of full-text pages with supplies fundamental bibliographical information (journal tile, date of publication, volume, issue, page number);
• permits the user to make personal observations in a Notes field;
• offers three types of sorts (chronological, density—the number of times a search term appears in an issue/ page— and journal title);
• bibliogaphical information is supplied on each journal page viewed;
• each journal page viewed directly from index supplies the number of “hits” and the hit currently being viewed.

Finally, when downloading a single page, the page number is automatically included. When downloading multiple pages, the user must select the page numbers, and, if desired, add further bibliographic information, such as article title and author’s name.

Text taken from the RIPM information page.