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Music Library News
News for February 3, 2010
Library offers a new tool for viewing lists of new acquisitions in the Music Library
Users can now dynamically generate a list of new items that have been purchased and cataloged for the Music Library. Lists can be created by library type (Music) and time period when the materials were added to ACORN (past 24 hours, past 3 days, past week, past 2 weeks or past month). To see all materials in all formats, select “All Call Number Ranges ” (be sure to limit to the Music Library). To view just CDs, select call number range “C”. To view just DVDs, select call number range “DS-DX”. To view print materials (books and scores), select call number range “M”. Let us know what you think about this new feature. To link to the new titles lists, go to http://acorn.library.vanderbilt.edu/newtitles/index.phtml.
News for February 1, 2010
Faculty Tune-Up Session – An ACORN Refresher
Need help finding scores, CDs, DVDs, and books in the library catalog? Drop by the Music Library Seminar Room on Wednesday, February 3, at 12:10 pm for a refresher on ACORN. Sara Manus will cover basic and advanced search strategies, share searching tips and tricks, and offer solutions to common problems with finding music materials in ACORN. A demo of DiscoverLibrary (a new search and discovery tool for the library’s collection of resources) will also be included. If you are unable to attend this session but are interested in learning more about using ACORN, contact Sara Manus to schedule a consultation (sara.manus@vanderbilt.edu; 2-8686).
Find your parts at the Circulation Desk...we've GOT PARTS!!!
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| REPERTOIRE — Complete sets of original orchestral parts from the great symphonic repertoire – over 600 masterworks from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods – are readily available on individual CD-ROMs by instrument. Each volume includes all the parts for up to 90 works available separately by instrument. These are standard parts used by orchestras around the world for many years. All editions used are in the public domain in the United States. | | FORMAT — Sheet music pages are formatted for easy viewing, searching, and printing, transforming any computer (PC or MAC) into a virtual music library. The CDs use the Adobe Acrobat Reader which is included with the CD. |
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| Violin 1 & 2 | Bassoon (Contrabassoon) |
| Viola | Horn |
| Cello | Trumpet |
| Double Bass | Low Brass |
| Flute/Piccolo | Timpani/Percussion |
| Clarinet (all) | Harp/Keyboard/Other |
| Oboe (English Horn) |
News for January 22, 2010
Discover the 2010 Grammy nominees
A selected list of nominees from the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards is below. Check Acorn for current availability and more nominees.
| Best Chamber Music Performance |
Emerson String Quartet, Intimate Letters |
CD MUS-12650 |
| Best Choral Performance |
Krzysztof Penderecki, Utrenja (Warsaw Phil. Choir and Orchestra, Antoni Wit, cond.) | CD MUS-12648 |
| Best Classical Album |
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (San Francisco Symphony & Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas) | CD MUS-12657 |
| Best Classical Contemporary Composition | George Crumb, American Songbooks II & IV | CD MUS-12647 |
| Best Classical Vocal Performance | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Recital at Ravinia | CD MUS-12705 |
| Best Contemporary World Music Album | Béla Fleck, Throw down your heart: Tales from the acoustic planet, Vol. 3, African sessions | CD MUS-12053 |
| Best Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra | Béla Bartók, Concertos (Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Berlin Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez, cond.) | CD MUS-12691 |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Album | Allen Toussaint, The Bright Mississippi | CD MUS-12653 |
| Best Opera Recording |
Dmitry Shostakovich, The Nose (Chorus and Orchestra of The Mariinsky Theatre; Valery Gergiev) |
CD MUS-12372 |
| Best Small Ensemble Performance | Stile Antico, Song of Songs |
CD MUS-12649 |
News for January 12, 2010
Do you want to learn how to incorporate OAK into the classroom or studio? Drop by the Music Library for a Tune-Up!
All Blair faculty members are invited to attend a Faculty Tune-Up session that will introduce basic features of OAK, Vanderbilt’s version of the Blackboard course management software. These sessions will be led by Michael Hime and Sara Manus, Blair’s Tier I+ Support personnel for OAK. We will show you how to make your course available, how to use OAK’s e-mail feature, and how to add Michael Jones as a course builder so he can add streaming audio files to your course. This session will be offered three times, on 1/13, 1/20, and 1/27, from 12:10 until 1:00 pm in the Music Library Seminar Room. Feel free to bring your lunch and your questions about OAK. If you are interested in learning more about OAK but are unable to attend a session, feel free to set up an appointment with Sara Manus (2-8686; sara.manus@vanderbilt.edu).
News for January 6, 2009
Blair alumna publishes an article on MS Bologna Q15 in Plainsong and Medieval Music
Andrew Westerhaus graduated from Vanderbilt with a B.Mus, summa cum laude and is currently a Ph.D candidate in the history and theory of music at the University of Chicago. He has an article published in the current issue of Plainsong and Medieval Music entitled "A lexicon of contratenor behavior: case studies of equal-cantus Italian motets from the MS Bologna Q15." His paper considers contratenor parts in four of these motets from codicological, contrapuntal and stylistic perspectives. His lexicon seeks to distinguish between the features of an original contratenor and a later one, and the paper posits that studying contratenors can offer a unique window into fifteenth-century compositional thinking.
Currently, Mr. Westerhaus is working on a dissertation concerning analytical issues in Stravinsky’s so-called "Neo-Classical" music.
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Upcoming events
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010,
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Faculty Tune-Up Session –
An ACORN Refresher
More info>>
Need help finding scores, CDs, DVDs, and books in the library catalog? Drop by the Music Library Seminar Room on Wednesday, February 3, at 12:10 pm for a refresher on ACORN. Sara Manus will cover basic and advanced search strategies, share searching tips and tricks, and offer solutions to common problems with finding music materials in ACORN. A demo of DiscoverLibrary (a new search and discovery tool for the library’s collection of resources) will also be included. If you are unable to attend this session but are interested in learning more about using ACORN, contact Sara Manus to schedule a consultation (sara.manus@vanderbilt.edu; 2-8686).
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Music Library hours
Spring Semester Hours
Monday through Thursday:
8:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: CLOSED, with exceptions*
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