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Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

This release contains 601 works totaling 309 hours.

ARTstor and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation have released more than 750 images of major artworks from the permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images document the Guggenheim Museum’s superb holdings in modern and contemporary art by such significant artists as Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claes Oldenburg, Cindy Sherman, and Vincent van Gogh, among many others.

This is the first release of a projected 7,000 images of art, exhibition installation views, and architecture from the Foundation. Future releases will include 5,000 installation views spanning from 1990s to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, more than 1,000 installations views from the museums in Bilbao and Venice, and 200 historical and contemporary photographs documenting the architecture of these three museum buildings.

read more at: http://artstor.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/now-available-the-solomon-r-guggenheim-foundation/

Baylor access to ARTstor:

on campus: http://www.artstor.org/

off campus: http://ezproxy.baylor.edu/login?url=http://www.artstor.org

New additions to Classical Music Library database: 1,811 albums (7,767 tracks) from a wide variety of labels including material from Bel Canto Society; Bridge; Cantolopera; Gimell; Haenssler Classic; Lyrichord; Mark Custom; Mode Records; New Albion; North/South; and Wirripang.

New artists and ensembles include: The Tallis Scholars; Stables Ensemble; Beniamino Gigli; Auer String Quartet; Virginia Wind Symphony; Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic; The Wellesley Chamber Singers; Amadeus Guitar Duo; Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig.

You can see a list of all new content here: http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

The Music Online package now contains:
783,199 tracks of music
101,311 pages of text reference
25,634 scores
1,119 hours of video

Baylor folks, access these through: https://www1.baylor.edu/ERD/Search/Search.aspx

Many of the British Library’s rare or unique 16th-century music editions are now freely available online, thanks to a partnership between Royal Holloway, University of London, the British Library and JISC.

The Early Music Online project has digitised from microfilm more than 320 anthologies of printed music from the 16th century. The earliest, a collection printed by Ottaviano Petrucci, dates from 1503. Highlights of the collection include sacred music by Josquin des Prez, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd; secular songs from Nuremberg, Paris and Lyon; lute music from Venice and organ music from Leipzig. Over 9000 individual compositions have been digitised.

You can access these digitised editions free of charge via http://www.earlymusiconline.org

Links to the digitised music have also been embedded in the catalogue records in the British Library catalogue (http://explore.bl.uk), COPAC (www.copac.ac.uk) and the RISM UK database (www.rism.org.uk). The project team has greatly expanded the existing catalogue records for these items, creating inventories of the contents of each anthology and adding bibliographical information such as transcribed title-pages and details of provenance. You can now search the digitised content by composer name, title of composition, name of printer/publisher, name of dedicatee, and place of printing/publication. We hope this will open up these important early music collections for further research, study and performance.

For university teachers, Early Music Online should be particularly useful in teaching such topics as: the history of 16th-century music; the history of music notation; the history of music printing; and performance practice. The digitised content includes examples of all the different notational systems used in 16th-century music (including mensural notation and also different types of lute tablature and keyboard tablature). Students can also learn much about performance styles by studying the original notation. Early Music Online contains hundreds of pieces unavailable in modern editions, and hence provides ample material for students interested in editing or performing previously inaccessible music.

The project was funded by the 2011 Rapid Digitisation Programme of JISC, the UK’s technology consortium for higher and further education.

If you have any comments on using Early Music Online, please contact Dr Stephen Rose, the Project Director (stephen.rose[at]rhul.ac.uk).

CML just added another 1,409 albums (35,688 tracks) from the EMI label. There are now over 50,000 tracks of EMI content in the collection.

New content comes from EMI Classics, Angel Records, Capitol Catalog, and more.

Highlights include recordings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jussi Bjorling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Itzhak Perlman, Renata Scotto, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra, Taverner Choir, Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Melos Ensemble, Pinchas Zuckerman, Borodin Quartet, Christoph Eschenbach, Elly Ameling, Trio Sonnerie, Alban Berg Quartett, Chung Trio, John Ogdon, and more.

Also included in this release are hundreds of full length operas, including:
*Puccini – Turandot (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Puccini – La Bohème (Mirella Freni, Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma)
*Mozart – Don Giovanni (Joan Sutherland, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*Puccini – Tosca (Placido Domingo, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*Mozart – Così fan tutte (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*R. Strauss – Elektra (Eva Marton, des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
*Donizetti – Don Pasquale (Beverly Sills, Ambrosian Opera)
*Gounod – Faust (Thomas Allen, National Opera of Paris)
*Bellini – Norma (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Massenet – Manon (Roberto Alagna, La Monnaie)
…and many more.

Other new albums include:
*Walton conducts Walton: Symphony No. 1, Belshazzar’s Feast
*Bela Bartók: Mikrokosmos Books 1-6
*Ireland: Piano Concerto and solo piano works
*Mendelssohn: Elias
*Penderecki: Orchestral Works
*Joyne Hands – English Renaissance Music
*Barry Tuckwell: Horn Concertos
*Simon Rattle Edition: Britten
*Karlheinz Stockhausen: Spiral 1 & Japan
*20th Century Classics: Arvo Pärt

Altogether, CML now includes 134,381 tracks

Music Online, the umbrella interface for all the Alexander Street Press music resources (available to Baylor folks) now includes:
764,751 tracks
100,030 pages text reference
24,977 scores (417,083 pages)
889 hours of video

get busy listening!

CML has added 459 albums (8,384 tracks) from a wide variety of labels, including new releases from Haenssler Classics, Mode Records, Bridge, Vox, and Wirripang.

New material includes compositions by Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Arnold Bax, Gustav Mahler, Charles Koechlin, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Carter, Edvard Grieg, Morton Feldman, Aldo Clementi, Antonio Salieri, Lawrence Dillon, John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Fillmore, Morton Subotnick, Ursula Mamlok, Valentin Silvestrov, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, and more.

Example new albums include:

*Olivier Messiaen: The Works for Orchestra (SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg)
*Pioneers and Exiles: Violin Music from Israel (Kolja Le ssing)
*Lute Music of the Renaissance: The Schele Manuscript Hamburg, 1619 (Joachim Held)
*Insects and Paper Airplanes: Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon (Daedalus Quartet)
*Japanese Piano Works (Gerhard Oppitz)
*Arlene Sierra, Vol. 1 (Arlene Sierra)
*Australian Song Cycles, Vol. 1 (Wendy Dixon)
*Elliott Carter: Choral Works (SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart)
*Bridge, Britten & Bax: Cello Sonatas (Johannes Moser, Paul Rivinius)
*Mozart: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin (Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Antonio Pappano, Konstantin Lifschitz)

You can browse the new content here — http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

Classical Music Library now contains 6,387 albums (98,693 tracks)

Below are the most recent updates to the family of resources known collectively as MUSIC ONLINE from Alexander Street Press.

Now get out there and do some listening!

AMERICAN SONG
We’ve added 41 albums (600 tracks) from Amherst Records, Rebel Records, Southern Records, Tompkins Square Records and Yellow Dog Records. New material includes bluegrass, blues, funk, soul, and honky-tonk.

Highlights of the new content include fiddle music performed by late U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, songs recorded by NYC subway musicians, historical war songs from 1924-1939, and (creepy!) an album of folk-rock released by Charles Manson a year prior to his arrest.

Example albums include:
*Watermelon Slim: Big Shoes to Fill
*Max Ochs: Hooray for Another Day
*Bloody War Songs: 1924-1939
*The Pipes and Drums of the Washington Memorial Pipe Band
*NYC Subway: Songs from the Underground – New York’s Best Subway Musicians

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY
We’ve added 53 albums (828 tracks) from Amherst Records, Malanga Music, and Yemaya. New material includes Afro-jazz, contemporary big band, swing, dixieland, Latin jazz, and more.

Example new albums include:
*Hot Club of Philadelphia: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
*Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna
*Arturo Sandoval: Live at the Hotel Nacional, Havana, 1986
*Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Jazz Plaza Festival, 1985
*Spyro Gyra: Carnaval
*Della Reese: The Angel Sings

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC
We’ve added 41 albums (495 tracks) from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Lyrichord, and Six Degrees Records. New material includes ambient dub, African drumming, drinking songs, Nu-Jazz, rumba, world beat, sephardic, song and more.

Example albums include:
*Gamelan of Java, Vol. 4: Puspa Warna
*DJ Cam: Loa Project, Vol. 2
*Timna Brauer & Elias Mieri Ensemble: Flamenco Judaico
*Master Drummers of Africa, Vol. 2: Ubuntu
*New Zealand’s Maoris: Unknown Earth
*Kix (Bent Remixes)

The total content count for Music Online now equals:

692,652 tracks
89,671 pages text reference
24,368 scores (400,000 pages)
488 videos

Below are the most recent updates to the family of resources known collectively as MUSIC ONLINE from Alexander Street Press.

Now get out there and do some listening!

AMERICAN SONG
We’ve added 41 albums (600 tracks) from Amherst Records, Rebel Records, Southern Records, Tompkins Square Records and Yellow Dog Records. New material includes bluegrass, blues, funk, soul, and honky-tonk.

Highlights of the new content include fiddle music performed by late U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, songs recorded by NYC subway musicians, historical war songs from 1924-1939, and (creepy!) an album of folk-rock released by Charles Manson a year prior to his arrest.

Example albums include:
*Watermelon Slim: Big Shoes to Fill
*Max Ochs: Hooray for Another Day
*Bloody War Songs: 1924-1939
*The Pipes and Drums of the Washington Memorial Pipe Band
*NYC Subway: Songs from the Underground – New York’s Best Subway Musicians

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY
We’ve added 53 albums (828 tracks) from Amherst Records, Malanga Music, and Yemaya. New material includes Afro-jazz, contemporary big band, swing, dixieland, Latin jazz, and more.

Example new albums include:
*Hot Club of Philadelphia: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
*Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna
*Arturo Sandoval: Live at the Hotel Nacional, Havana, 1986
*Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Jazz Plaza Festival, 1985
*Spyro Gyra: Carnaval
*Della Reese: The Angel Sings

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC
We’ve added 41 albums (495 tracks) from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Lyrichord, and Six Degrees Records. New material includes ambient dub, African drumming, drinking songs, Nu-Jazz, rumba, world beat, sephardic, song and more.

Example albums include:
*Gamelan of Java, Vol. 4: Puspa Warna
*DJ Cam: Loa Project, Vol. 2
*Timna Brauer & Elias Mieri Ensemble: Flamenco Judaico
*Master Drummers of Africa, Vol. 2: Ubuntu
*New Zealand’s Maoris: Unknown Earth
*Kix (Bent Remixes)

The total content count for Music Online now equals:

692,652 tracks
89,671 pages text reference
24,368 scores (400,000 pages)
488 videos

Interested in the history of classical music? Then be sure to check out Richard Taruskin’s Oxford History of Western Music, now available online anytime anywhere through the Baylor Libraries. Taruskin, noted as one of the most “prominent and provocative musicologists of our time” (= musicological rockstar), has received much acclaim and numerous awards for this monumental work. The Washington Post had this to say about OHWM: “Erudite, engaging, and suffused throughout with a mixture of brilliance and delirium…staggering, brilliant, opinionated.”

Appearing first in print as a daunting five-volume monster, the online version includes over a million words, all 1.25 million words, 500 images, and 1,800 musical examples. Setting up a free personal profile allows you to save content.

For a guided powerpoint tour, click here.