Rock's BackPages ! a database trial !

We recently added a new trial to the Trial Database libguide:


Rock's Backpages is an online database of music writing, sourced from the pages of music and mainstream press (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early 1960s right up to the present day. There are thousands of articles and over 200 exclusive, and previously unpublished, audio interviews with major rock music artists.
http://guides.library.uwm.edu/content.php?pid=105184&search_terms=trials

Rock's Backpages will be accessible until March 15, 2011.

We encourage folks to try this wonderful resource and submit comments via the Comments link on the guide or by filling out the Database Evaluation Form (which is also linked to on the Guide).

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

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:

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.

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.

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