Read our Fall 2010 Newsletter here...
Music Library and General Music News
179 new albums added to Alexander Street's Classical Music Library (11/02/2010)
The albums are from Vox Music, Bridge Records, Cantolopera, Mode Records, Newport Classic, and more.
Example of new albums include:
* Young Brendel: The Vox Years
* Katie Zhukov: Six Profiles of Australian Women Composers
* Cowell: Dancing with Henry: New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
* Gerald Finley/Stephen Ralls: Songs of Travel
* Feldman: Late Works with Clarinet
* Laurence Lesser, Haesun Paik: Beethoven, The Complete Music for Piano and Cello
Classical Music Library now includes 4,298 albums and 65,701 tracks, and is growing regularly.
RIPM will add 7 new journals to its database in January 2011 (11/02/2010)
The new additions will go live in January 2011 and will bring the total number of journals in the Archive to 76. This number will grow to 100 by January 2013.
American Musical Journal (New York, 1834-1835)
Gazzetta musicale di Milano (Milan, 1842-1862, first half)
Echo Muzyczne(Warsaw, 1879-1882)
Muzïkal’noye obozrenie [The Musical Review] (St. Petersburg, 1885-1888)
Musikalisches Wochenblatt (Berlin, 1791-1792)
L'Année musicale(Paris, 1911-1913)
Modern Music (New York, 1924-1946)
Alexander Street Press Adds 9 New Videos to Opera in Video (11/01/2010)
New material includes:
* Acis and Galatea (Royal Opera House)
* Dido and Aeneas with Sarah Connolly (Royal Opera House, 2009) * Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 2009)
* Hansel und Gretel (Royal Opera House, 2008)
* Salome with Maria Ewing (Royal Opera House, 1992)
* Un Ballo in Maschera (Teatro Real, 2008)
* Mad About the Opera directed by Mario Costa (Bel Canto Society, 1948)
* Great Opera Arias: A gala concert from the Royal Opera House 1996, starring Placido Domingo, Roberto Alagna, Dwayne Croft, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, and more.
* Documentary on Maria Callas from Bel Canto Society
Opera in Video now includes 157 videos, equalling 328 hours.
Connect to Opera in Video here...
Alexander Street Press Adds 3,597 scores to Classical Scores Library (11/01/2010)
New material is from A-R Editions and includes scores from the Recent Researches of the Classical Era, Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, and Recent Researches in American Music.
Composers released include Armand-Louis Couperin, Johann Adolf Hasse, Ignaz Pleyel, Antonio Salieri, Giovanni Sammartini, Jan Dussek, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Charles-Marie Widor, Amy Beach, and more.
Classical Scores Library now includes 24,300 scores and 399,098 pages.
Connect to the Classical Music Library here...
Opening reception for new exhibit: “Encountering the Other in the Music Library’s Special Collections (10/28/2010)
The reception will be on Thursday, October 28th, from 4-6pm at the Music Library.
Music Library Halloween Exhibit (10/22/2010)
In observance of Halloween, the Gilmore Music Library is pleased to present two of the more ghoulish items from our surprisingly diverse archival collections: a cast of Vladimir Horowitz's hands and the death mask of Henry F. Gilbert. They are on display in the small exhibit case in our main reading room upstairs.
The most renowned pianist of the twentieth century, Horowitz (1903-1989) scarcely needs an introduction. Gilbert (1868-1928) was a Boston-based composer best known for works that draw their inspiration from Native American or African American music. Several other items from Gilbert's papers are currently on display in our main display cases downstairs, as part of an exhibit entitled Encountering the Other.
Music Theory Treatises: A Digital Collection (10/01/2010)
This project was realized in collaboration with Professor Patrick McCreless at the Yale Music Department and with the Yale Library Conservation. Every other year the Music Department offers a course entitled "Theory and Aesthetics". This required class consists in a study of the principal nineteenth-century writings in music theory (tonality, harmony, counterpoint, rhythmic theory, form, etc.) and musical aesthetics. In support of that curriculum, the Gilmore Music Library at Yale makes a collection of rare music theory treatises available to students. Over the years, because of repeated usage, some books have suffered damage. The books used to support the class are mostly 19th century music theory treatises, most of these in German, and have not been not been scanned by anyone (e.g. Google Books.) Digitizing these books has been of great service to the Yale community but also a wonderful contribution to the scholarly world.
URL: http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm2/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2F1027_3
Yale Music Library purchases the Oxford History of Western Music ONLINE (09/23/2010)
Because of positive feedback and its importance to scholarship, the Music Library has purchased the online version of the acclaimed Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford History of Western Music offers an unmatched narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.
Click the following to access the online version:
http://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com
If you are anywhere on campus the access should be seamless. To use the online book from home please login to VPN
DETAILS:
Oxford History of Western Music ONLINE includes:
The full text from the Oxford History of Western Music (OUP 2009) with notes, bibliographies, and further readings for all 69 chapters -
500 illustrations, 1,800 musical examples and index from the 2009 print edition
More than 1,700 editorially selected links to relevant entries in Grove Music Online
Sophisticated search and browse options for easy navigation of the text, and the original pagination from the 2009 edition is retained to aid location of references
Printer-friendly format
Export citations automatically to ProCite, EndNote, Reference Manager, RefWorks and Zotero.
DOIs (and static URLs)
New Additions to Alexander Street Press Databases (09/16/2010)
99 albums were added to Contemporary World Music from Virgin India, Angel Records, Air Mail Music, Playasound, Piranha, Tropical Music, and PAN Records. New material includes Indian Classical music, African drumming, cumbia, African gospel, chant, ritual music and more. Example new albums include:
*Ravi Shankar Collection
*Anoushka Shankar: Anourag
*Swar Shikhar - The Taj Heritage Series
*Samba Touré: Songhai Blues: Homage to Ali Farka Toure
Access the database here...
Additions to Dance in Video.
18 videos including:
*Material from the Alive and Kicking Series *Performances by the Paris Opera Ballet *Performances by the Berlin State Ballet *Performances by the Royal Ballet *Performances by the San Francisco Ballet *Performances by the Nederlans Dans Theater *Performances by the Dutch National Ballet *Documentaries on Alwin Nikolais and George Balanchine *Tap instructional videos
RISM releases their own search engine (09/16/2010)
RISM offers its own native interface for free. The interface aims to take advantage of the rich metadata that RISM has to offer. Access it here...
Music Library Hours for Fall Semester (08/31/2010)
The Gilmore Music Library is resuming its regular hours starting on Wednesday September 1st:
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1:00 PM - 8:45 PM | 8:30 AM - 8:45 PM | 8:30 AM - 8:45 PM | 8:30 AM - 8:45 PM | 8:30 AM - 8:45 PM | 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM | 10:00 AM - 4:45 PM |
More details on our hours here...
Music Library Gets New Carpet! (08/02/2010)
The Gilmore Music Library is getting a new carpet! After twelve years of heavy traffic, the old carpet was ripped and faded, so it was time for a replacement. The process will begin on Tuesday, August 3, and is expected to take about three weeks. The library will remain open, but there will be some temporary inconveniences:
> The public computers and exhibits will be removed so they are not damaged.
> Parts of the Reading Room will be cordoned off at times. If you need a book shelved in an inaccessible area, please ask a ibrary staff member for assistance.
> There will be some noise and dust.
Thank you for your patience!
New Additions to Alexander Street Press Databases (07/27/2010)
CLASSICAL MUSIC LIBRARY:
24 albums from Wirripang, including contemporary compositions by Australian composers. New material from composers Betty Beath, Phillip Wilcher, John Martin, Jeanell Carrigan, Hugh Dixon and more.
CLASSICAL SCORES LIBRARY:
New material from A-R Editions includes material from the Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance and Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era. Composers include: Johannes Mouton, Pierre de la Rue, Tomaso Albinoni, Adriano Banchieri, Francesco Gasparini, Michel Lambert, Jacopo Peri, Giovanni Felice Sances, Orazio Vecchi, Adrian Willaert, Andrea Gabrieli, Orlando de Lassus, Claude le Jeune, Andre Pevernage, Costanzo Festa, Johannes Martini, and more.
CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC:
2,831 albums (35,158 tracks) from a wide variety of labels and genres, including Afro-pop, Argentinian folklore, bachata, bhangra, Carnatic music, dancehall, Fado, flamenco, Ghazal songs, Hindustani, Judaica, Latin, Reggae, Son, and more.
OPERA IN VIDEO:
An additional 35 operas now have full subtitles
Gilmore Music Library Letters Database is Now Online (07/16/2010)
It is our pleasure to announce the release of the first phase of the Gilmore Music Library Letters Database. The database is composed of items from the Music Library’s Miscellaneous Letters and Documents collection, an exceptional treasure of musicological and historical artifacts. Our collection includes unique letters from/to composers and musical performers, acquired by the Gilmore Music Library through purchase and gift. The collection constitutes of manuscript letters from many of the greatest names of the classical music canon such as Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky as well as famed American composers like Elliott Carter, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and many others.
The first phase of our project makes almost sixty of these letters accessible to the public via:
http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm2/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2F1027_1.
We hope to continue expanding this database in the future to include more of our unique collections.
Our Bicentennial Schumann Exhibit is now online (07/12/2010)
On June 8, the Gilmore Music Library celebrated Robert Schumann’s 200th birthday with the installation of an exhibit entitled Robert Schumann: Composer, Critic, and Correspondent. Our exhibit is now accessible online.
Music Library now Offers Access to RIPM through New Interface (06/22/2010)
The Gilmore Music Library now subscribes to the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950) (RIPM) through a new interface designed by RIPM itself. The database offers full-text scanned articles from over 120 journals and over 555,000 citations. An interesting fact... RIPM offers three times more citations than RILM for Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Schumann, Verdi, Donizetti, Saint-Saëns, Bizet and Rossini!!! Click here to try the new database.
Access to RILM is now provided through EBSCO Databases (06/22/2010)
Famous Contralto Maureen Forester Passes Away (06/17/2010)
Avant Garde Project Website Makes 20th-century experimental and electroacoustic music available for Free (06/08/2010)
The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. Click here to go their website.
In Honor of Schumann's Birthday Murray Perahia Talks with NPR about the Composer's Inner Child (06/08/2010)
To mark the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s birth, pianist Murray Perahia sat down at the NPR studio piano to talk with Performance Today host Fred Child about the composer Perahia calls "a real romantic." More on NPR's website...
Yale Oral History of American Music (OHAM) Acquires a Large Collection of Interviews on the Composer Stefan Wolpe and his Music (06/03/2010)
Yale Oral History of American Music has acquired a large collection of interviews on the composer Stefan Wolpe and his music from the Stefan Wolpe Society through its President Austin Clarkson. The materials include: 122 interviews on original tape reels, transfers to CDs, and transcripts in an unedited format. Contact OHAM for more information.
Renowned American Composer Benjamin Lees Passes Away (06/02/2010)
Details of Mr. Lees death can be found on the Sequenza 21 websit. Biographical information can also be found on Boosey and Hawkes's website. The papers of Benjamin Lees are housed at the Yale Gilmore Music Library. Inquiries can be directed to our Special Collections office
YBOP's "La Finta Pazza" premieres on April 23 (04/16/2010)
Yale Univeristy Office of Public Affairs describes the project and upcoming performance...
Micah Hendler (Calhoun ’11) is the recipient of the 2010 Lise Waxer prize for the most distinguished student paper in the ethnomusicology of popular music (04/15/2010)
He presented his paper, “I am a Seed of Peace: Music and Israeli-Arab Peacemaking” at the Northeast Chapter meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology at Harvard University on April 10th.
Ingram Marshall's Music Featured in Scorsese's "Shutter Island" (03/19/2010)
Encountering the Other: Images from the Gilmore music Library's Special Collection
(03/16/2010)
Naxos Music Library Newsletter (03/03/2010)
Highlights of progress made on liner notes additions and new releases
Midnight at Yale Blog Discusses the Music Library's Special Collections (02/22/2010)
New Content - Eight Labels Added to DRAM (02/15/2010)
In recent months, eight new labels were added to the DRAM family: Einstein Records of New York City; Firehouse 12 Records of New Haven, Connecticut; b-boim records of Vienna, Austria; Porter Records of Winter Park, Florida; Edition Wandelweiser of Haan, Germany; Peacock Recordings and Skirl Records, both of Brooklyn, New York; and BMOP/sound, the label of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. As a result, nearly 200 albums were added to the DRAM collection, and as these dynamic labels continue expand their own catalogues, DRAM will also continue to grow. For a brief description of each label, along with selections for suggested listening More on DRAM...
New Additions to Alexander Street Music Online (02/05/2010)
CLASSICAL MUSIC LIBRARY
Now contains 4,120 albums and 63,608 tracks.
Added 258 albums (3,528 tracks) from Bridge Records, Celestial Harmonies, and Mark Custom Records plus 1,300 new compositions to the database, including wind ensemble/wind symphonies, choral music, contemporary music by Luciano Berio, David Rakowski, and more.
New albums include:
* David Rakowski: Etudes, Vol. 3
* Three Quartets: The Apollo Saxophone Quartet
* Theme and Variations: Improvisations On Children's Songs
* H. Kling: 40 Characteristic Etudes for French Horn
* Susan Levitin, Gerald Rizze: 20th Century American Duos for Flute & Piano
* The American Impressionist Organ
CLASSICAL SCORES LIBRARY
Now contains 14,757 scores and 318,263 pages.
Added 205 scores (9,716 pages) from Faber Music, Ltd., and Universal Edition. New scores include compositions by Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Alban Berg, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Anne Boyd, Arcangelo Corelli, Colin Matthews, Robert Schumann, Peter Sculthorpe, Carl Vine, Carl Maria von Weber, and more.
Two Grad Students Blog their way through Taruskin's Oxford History (02/05/2010)
"Literature lovers have Proust’s 7-volume In Search of Lost Time; thespians have the 8-hour Faust by Goethe (and Japanese thespians have even longer Noh plays); opera fans love to get lost in “The Ring” cycle; and for humble musicologists, we have Richard Taruskin’s The Oxford History of Western Music." More on their Blog Here
Scriabin's Prometheus to be performed with lighting effects faithful to the composer's vision (02/05/2010) (02/01/10)
MORE on the University's Office of Public Affairs website
Yale School of Music debuts high-def video streaming (02/01/2010) (02/01/10)
Like snowflakes, the sounds of bells dance on the air — high crystalline chimes swirling amidst the bongs of lower notes. The source of this music — Yale's new mobile carillon — is located in Lot 16, just outside the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory on Whitney Avenue. MORE on the University's Office of Public Affairs website
The Music Library now provides access to "Music Online", Alexander Street's combined search (01/22/10)
With Music Online, Alexander Street Press aims to provide the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online allows users cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Yale Library has subscriptions to:
> Classical Music Library
> Contemporary World Music
> African American Song
> American Song
> Classical Scores Library
> Dance in Video
> Opera in Video
> The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
> Smithsonian Global Sound
Yale's New Mobile Carillon (12/11/09)
Like snowflakes, the sounds of bells dance on the air — high crystalline chimes swirling amidst the bongs of lower notes. The source of this music — Yale's new mobile carillon — is located in Lot 16, just outside the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory on Whitney Avenue. MORE on the University's Office of Public Affairs website
You can now purchase tracks on Classical Music Library (12/09/09)
Alexander Street's Classical Music Library now allows you to purchase any tracks very easily. When you are viewing an album click the arrow-like icon left of any track to send the item to your basket. Then proceed to payment by clicking on "My Basket". Of course, as long as you are a student, faculty, or staff at Yale you will have access to all the tracks for free but what if you really want to make sure to get access to something you adore in years to come?!
An Evening of Javanese Music (12/07/09)
Monday, December 7, 2009, 7:30pm Calhoun Cabaret in Calhoun College ...
The Gilmore Music Library now provides access to Contemporary World Music (12/01/09)
Alexander Street's Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will eventually contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This release includes 1,868 albums, equalling 25,322 tracks, growing regularly.
Naxos Music Library launches iPhone app. (11/17/09)
Choral Music in the United States: Treasures from the Archives. (11/10/09)
Read a summary of our current exhibition ...
Julliard School of Music Acquires Beethoven and Mendelssohn Manuscripts. (11/03/09)
More on the New York Times website ...
Yale Libraries Online Help Offerings. (10/26/09)
A Yale Daily News article describing the library's initiatives ...
A Team of "musicologists" at work at an Internet Radio Company. (10/16/09)
Alfred Brendel @ Yale on Nov. 11-12. 2009. (10/16/09)
More on the Yale School of Music website...
Composer John Adams to Present Tanner Lectures at Yale. (10/16/09)
More from the University's Office of Public Affairs ...
New York Phil. receives 2.4 millions to digitize archives. (10/14/09)
More on the New York Times website ...
Read about our current Benny Goodman Exhibit (10/06/09)
Richard Boursy, Gilmore Music Library Archivist, introduces us to Goodman and our exhibit
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute will hold a bicentenary congress (9/24/09)
More information on the Institue's website
Chant Camp comes to New Haven (09/23/09)
Susan Hellauer of Anonymous 4 will lead a session at the Neighborhood Music School ...
Benny Goodman Celebrations at Yale (09/23/09)
Read a full acount of current activities, concerts, and exhibitions from the Yale Daily News.
The British Library Sound Recording Archive now provides access to some of its collection online (09/08/09)
Follow this link to the British Library Archival Sound Recordings website.
Have you ever considered using the Kindle to read music? (08/25/09)
Here's a review of Amazon's device for such purposes.
Unpublished Villa-Lobos scores found in Brazil (08/19/09)
AFP.
Did Mozart Die of a Severe Case of Strep Throat? (08/18/09)
Les Paul, Guitar Legend, Dies at 94 (08/13/09)
Mike Seeger, Singer and Music Historian, Dies at 75 (08/11/09)
Story from the New York Times.
Opera in Video releases 21 new videos from ArtHaus Musik (08/04/09)
New releases include recent performances of works by Donizetti, Humperdinck, Janacek, Massenet, Poulenc, Puccini, Rossini, Strauss, Verdi, and Wagner. Learn More.
National Symphony Orchestra Is Tweeting Beethoven's 'Pastoral' at Wolf Trap. (07/30/09) -- Washington Post
Read the story on the Washington Post
Naxos Music Library resches 500,000 tracks. (07/28/09)
Register to their celebration raffle through twitter, facebook, or myspace.(07/30/09) -- Washington Post
New Mozart piano music found . (07/23/09)
"Two piano pieces have been identified as the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, experts in the Austrian city of Salzburg say." (BBC)
Metropolitan Opera Database. (07/20/09)
This database provides access to information on the Metropolitan's past performances (performers, directors, reviews, photographs, etc.) Click here to access it.
Classical Scores Library Releases Browser Add-On (07/08/09)
Alexander Street Press now has a search engine add-on to enable subscribers to search Music Online from their browser toolbar. You can install the plugin for Music Online here:
http://alexanderstreet.com/resources/addons.htm. The plugin will install automatically if you are using Firefox. There are instructions on how to add the plugin for Internet Explorer on the link above.
Yale University now provides access to Alexander Street's *Opera in Video* (06/30/09)
Yale's Irving S. Gilmore Music Library now provides access to Alexander Street's Opera in Video. So far, Opera in Video contains 63 videos, some, among the most important performances captured on video.
Classical Scores Library Adds 2,736 New Scores (January 2009)
The Classical Scores Library has just added 2,736 new scores from University Music Editions and Faber Music, including 1,257 Renaissance scores,
1,021 Baroque scores,
314 Classical scores,
53 Twentieth Century scores
Highlights of new scores include music by Albinoni, CPE Bach, Berlioz, Binchois, Caldara, Dowland, Gluck, Michael Haydn, Knussen, Colin Matthews, Peter Sculthorpe, Senfl, Stravinsky, Telemann, and Zachow.
Look at these new scores here.
A Renaissance Man Among the Romantics: Felix Mendelssohn at 200 (January 2009)[visit online]
On February 3, 2009, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn. In his 38 short years, Mendelssohn established a reputation as Europe's most eminent composer with brilliant works such as the Midsummer Night's Dream overture, the "Italian" symphony, the violin concerto, and Elijah. His music is well known even to people who have never set foot in a concert hall, thanks to the ominpresent "Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." This exhibit documents Mendelssohn's career with three musical manuscripts and four letters in his own hand, as well as a variety of early published editions, engravings, biographies, and concert programs. As a testament to Mendelssohn's continued prominence in more recent times, we have also included one of Robert Shaw's copiously annotated scores of Elijah. Visit the online exhibition.
Yale Music Library manuscripts now cataloged in RISM (January 23rd, 2009)
Our music manuscripts are now being cataloged into RISM, and about 1400 (mostly Bach family) are currently available, so this will increase access to our special collections. Access RISM Here.
The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library celebrates its tenth anniversary (Sept. 18, 2008)
Gilmore is the only Yale Music Library that today’s students (and many faculty and staff) have ever known. But veteran Yalies still tend to call it “the new music library”; to us, it seems like the move was just yesterday. This exhibit offers a look back at the old library in Sprague Hall, and at the construction of the Gilmore Library; it features photographs, architectural blueprints, articles, diary entries, and other items.