Yale University Library: Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

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National Symphony Orchestra Is Tweeting Beethoven's 'Pastoral' at Wolf Trap. (07/30/09) -- Washington Post

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Naxos Music Library resches 500,000 tracks. (07/28/09)

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.

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