New York Philharmonic Digital Archives

The Archives collections contain material that dates back to the Philharmonic’s first concert in 1842, but the first phase of our digitization begins in the middle of this long history. In deciding where to begin with our digitization project, we held a roundtable discussion that included librarians, historians, musicians, conductors, journalists, and students to evaluate the different time periods in the Philharmonic’s history and to determine what might provide the most unique source material. The International Era, 1943-1970 was selected for several reasons. It is the time when the United States becomes a world power and New York City its cultural capital; when the New York Philharmonic emerges as a worldwide symbol of this new cultural position. -Web Site

Humanities Source

Provides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and more.

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Trial expires: Friday, March 15, 2013

Index to Printed Music

Electronic resource for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. Included is music from ancient Greek times to the present. Content is searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation and/or number of instruments, and results can be limited by genre and/or language. EBSCOhost.

Music Online: Classical Music in Video

This resource was on trial and has been acquired by the Baylor University Libraries.

Duke University Press Journals Online

Provides online access to the full text of 42 humanities and social science journals.

Classical Music in Video

This resource 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 435 video titles totaling 219 hours.

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Trial expires: Sunday, May 20, 2012

Academic Video Online

Academic Video Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street Press video titles. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage.

Classical Scores Library, Volume II

Volume II  has been added to the Baylor Libraries’ subscription to Classical Scores Library from Alexander Street Press.  The second volume brings together 200,000 pages. It’s the first online score collection for libraries that’s composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers and editions. Many items that are unavailable in print in typical library collections will now be online for viewing and study, including the scores of many composers who self-publish.   Details can be found in the description from Alexander Street Press.

Last year, EBSCO Publishing bought HW Wilson.  EBSCO is in the process of migrating all Wilson databases to the EBSCOhost platform.  The following Wilson databases acquired by the Baylor University Libraries have been moved to the EBSCOhost platform:

• Art Index Retrospective
• Book Review Digest Retrospective
• Education Index Retrospective
• Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
• Play Index
• Readers’ Guide Retrospective
• Short Story Index Retrospective

The remaining Wilson databases should be migrated to the EBSCOhost platform before the end of February 2012, and include the following resources acquired by the Baylor University Libraries:

• Children’s Core Collection
• Fiction Core Collection
• Middle and Junior High Core Collection
• Public Library Core Collection Nonfiction
• Senior High Core Collection

Cambridge Companions to Music

This collection offers comprehensive and accessible essays on composers, instruments or musical topics.