New Database--Naxos Video Library

The UW Music Library is pleased to announce a new subscription to Naxos Video Library! Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos. This database is available on the Music Library Homepage under Streaming Audio & Video. For more information on Naxos Video Library, please see the online FAQ.

New Books, Scores and Recordings

Check out our list of new books, scores and recordings added to the collection during March. Here is a sample of what you will find:

• Cope's Hidden Structures: Music Analysis Using Computers


• Ligeti's Gesammelte Schriften


• Stubbs' Fear of Music


• University of Washington Wind Ensemble's Japan Pre-tour Concert

You may view past, present and future new materials lists at our About Us webpage.

Byrd's "My Ladye Nevells Booke"

"'My Ladye Nevells Booke' contains 42 compositions by William Byrd, and was compiled by the scribe John Baldwin in 1591, in an elegant style quite unlike that of contemporary keyboard manuscripts. Handel's original manuscript of Messiah, written in London between 22 August and 12 September 1741, shows all the signs of rapid composition, with short-cuts in notation, ink blots, and hasty cancellations and corrections."

To view the manuscript, please see the British Library.

New at Your Library!

Welcome back to the UW Music Library! We had a busy summer at the UW Music Library. Here are just a few of the changes you’ll find this fall:

*Finale on the Listening Center computers
*3 Oxygen 8 keyboards available for use with Finale—ask at the Listening Center
window
*New hours available at: http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/hours/music.html
*The books moved! A-ML399 are upstairs, ML400-Z are downstairs
*New subject guide available at: http://guides.lib.washington.edu/music
*RILM has a new look!
*New Music Library staff member-- Lynn Cowan, Reserves Technician
*New Guide on locating Music Primary Resources
*Follow us on Twitter
*Coming soon: air conditioning in the Music Listening Center!

We look forward to serving you in the Music Library!

New at the UW Music Library

The UW Music has been busy this summer! We would like to draw your attention to our new subject guide at http://guides.lib.washington.edu/music . This guide contains the same information as our old guide but presents the information in a user-friendly tab format. You can also directly IM a Music Librarian using the Meebo widget. Faculty and TAs—-we are happy to create guides in this format tailored to your courses.

We have also switched RILM over to the EBSCO service provider. RILM may look different but you’ll still find the same information you have grown to trust with this database.

Finally, as you may have noticed the downstairs Music Library and Listening Center have been closed this month. We are looking forward to serving you with air conditioning! If you need materials from the downstairs Music Library and Listening Center, please ask at the upstairs Music Library desk. Our staff is happy to retrieve these items for you.

As always, we look forward to serving you in the UW Music Library! If you have questions, please Ask Us!

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

The Music Library is pleased to announce the arrival of its newest online resource, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online. This resource includes 1,208 essays and hundreds of audio examples. Genres covered range from American Folk and Jazz to Spoken Word and Sounds. The database is located on the Music Library's Hompage under "More Resources".

Love Streaming? Try the New Music Online!

Do you want to save some time and search several streaming audio and video databases at the same time? Try our new database Music Online. Music Online searches American Song, Classical Music Library, Dance in Video and Opera in Video in a single search! A link to Music Online may be found in the "Streaming Audio and Video" drop box on the Music Library's homepage.

New at the Music Library!

The list of new books, scores, recordings and DVDs added to the Music Library collection in January has been posted. Check out the latest additions and browse older lists on our About the Music Library page.


Also new this month the Music Library has joined Facebook. Become a fan of the UW Music Library! The new Facebook page contains an RSS feed to this blog and a new book shelf. As always, we look forward to seeing you in person and virtually.

New Library Books, Scores and Recordings

The latest of materials added to the Music Library & Listening Center's collection has been posted. You may access the new items list at http://www/Music/Acquisitions/NewAcqDec08.html. You may also browse lists from the past six month on the "About the Music Library" section of our homepage.

A recent online resource that includes the Cambridge Music History series:
Cambridge histories online
http://histories.cambridge.org
Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960, including titles such as Cambridge ancient history and Cambridge history of the English language.

Check out this resource, it's not just for art historians:
ARTStor
http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

New Video Resources

The Libraries have recently subscribed to several new video packages (accessible via UWNetID login from off-site):
Opera in Video. http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/ Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. The current release includes 42 videos.
Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare Series. http://washington.ativ.alexanderstreet.com/ Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Dance in Video http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com/ Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. The current release includes 109 videos.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Full Text

Connect to full text dissertations and theses online through our newest database ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Content includes over 2.4 million entries with 930,000 full text dissertations and theses. Coverage ranges from 1637 to the present. Full text dissertations and theses are available in PDF format. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses can be found on the Music Subject page under the heading of "Dissertations".

New Music Library Materials

The November list of new books, CD's, DVD's, and scores has been posted to the Music Library website. Here is a sampling of what's new this month:

"Explorations of the Shadow World"
Videodisc DVD 513 v. 1-7

"Performing Arts of China the Opera"
Videodisc DVD 503

"Seattle's Most Wanted Music of the Pacific Northwest"
Compact Disc CD 10156

"From the Philip Glass Recording Archive"
Compact Disc CD 10121

Dave Brubeck "The Light in the Wilderness"
Music Stacks M2003.B88 L5 1968

Click on the "About the Music Library" link our Homepage to view New Item Lists from the past six month.

Tom Lord's Jazz Discography

The Tom Lord Jazz Discography is new to the library this quarter and is located on the Music Library's main webpage (http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/) under the "More Resources" heading. You may search the discography by leader, session, musician, tune, record label or several of these fields combined. This is a wonderful resource for all of your jazz recording needs!