Friday, October 29, 2010

New Music DVDs in the Library!

Here's a list of some recently added Music Related DVDs

MUSIC:

"Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp."

Call Number: DVD-5189-90

Bernstein Conducts Bernstein
Call Number: DVD-5286

Conducting from the Inside Out: Gesture and Movement
Call Number: DVD-5287

Erich Leinsdorf in Rehearsal
Call Number: DVD-5280

George Solti in Rehearsal
Call Number: DVD-5289

Herbert Von Karajan in Rehearsal and Performance
Call Number: DVD-5290

H. Robert Reynolds Conducts Paul Hindemith

Call Number: DVD-5313-4

Marco Polo: Opera Within an Opera
Call Number: DVD-5329

Master Conductors: A Legacy of Wisdom
Call Number: DVD-5289

Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden
Call Number: DVD-5319

Saint Francis of Assissi (Opera)
Call Number: DVD-5330-2

DANCE:

Ballerina
Call Number: DVD-5344

Prima Ballerina
Call Number: DVD-5343

THEATRE:

Revengers Tragedy
Call Number: DVD-5328

Monday, August 23, 2010

Linking to electronic reserve lists and library subscribed databases

Faculty/Staff:

Please remember that links to electronic reserve lists and library subscribed databases need to be modified with the Off-Campus URL generator to work correctly (prompt for a UWM ID and Password) from off campus.

If you need help with this please ask.

52nd Grammy Award Nominees/Winners

Select nominees and winners from the 52nd Grammy Awards have been added to the Music Library.

Most of them can found in the call number range C-Disc Z MAA 1001 to C-Disc Z MAA 1045.


Highlights include:

Monday, August 16, 2010

IMSLP and Orchestral Parts

Did you know that IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) has orchestral parts in addition to scores?

They have a seperate List of Orchestra Pieces with Parts and you can find available orchestra parts listed below the full score listings of individual pieces. Like this one for Mahler Symphony No. 1.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Updated Music Library Homepage

We are, as always, soliciting opinions on the newly updated Music Library web page.

This time around the update focused on access to databases and general simplicity. It's getting closer and closer with each update to our original intention.

http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/Music/

feel free to send comments through AskMusic.

Monday, August 9, 2010

FIGHTING WITH TEENAGERS: A COPYRIGHT STORY

This is a link to a blog post dealing with copyright by musical theater composer Jason Robert Brown that we at the Music Library found interesting (that I just noticed is over a month old... better late then never I guess) .

http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/weblog/2010/06/fighting_with_teenagers_a_copy.php

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

New from Valerie Errante

Selected Songs of the Munich School, 1870-1920: Lieder for Soprano Voice and Piano by Alexander Ritter, Ludwig Thuille, Max Schillings, August Reuss, Walter Courvoisier, Walter Braunfels, and Richard Trunk
Edited by Robert W. Wason and Valerie Errante

this is volume 54 in A&R editions Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries serise.

Link to the publishers site.

A link to it's record in PantherCat


Monday, July 26, 2010

Gillian Rodger's Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima


Gillian Rodger's book Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century is now available at the Music Library!

Please check PantherCat for its call number and availability.

Information from University of Illinois Press.

Judy Kuhn's Shostakovich in Dialogue

Judy Kuhn's recently published book Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 is now available for check out at the Music Library.

A review from the August issue of Strings is available in its entirety here.

Please check PantherCat for call number and availability.

Information from Ashgate Publishing.