Milner Library now subscribes to the streaming video database Classical Music in Video. The database is available to Illinois State University faculty, staff, and students on and off-campus at this URL: http://libproxy.lib.ilstu.edu/login?url=…, or through the library’s list of music databases.

Classical Music in Video includes streaming video performances of major orchestral and vocal works, chamber music, and solo performances. The recordings range from a number of historical performances (Bernstein TV broadcasts from the 1950s) to current performances by leading ensembles (Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskappelle Dresden, Monteverdi Choir, The English Concert, Kronos Quartet) and artists/conductors (Abbado, Barenboim, Masur, Ozawa, Rattle, etc.). Examples of titles in the collection include the Cardiff Singer of the World competitions, Andre Previn’s Music Night; BBC Proms concerts; John Cage’s 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs; George Crumb’s Makrokosmos I & II; Great Conductors of the Third Reich: Art in the Service of Evil; and Xenakis: String Quartets. Classical Music in Video also includes the full run of video masterclasses produced by the Masterclass Media Foundation. The series features artists like Thomas Quasthoff, András Schiff, Maxim Vengerov, Bernard Haitink, and Simon Carrington.

Instructors can embed video or link to videos in their ReggieNet courses. It is also possible to create playlists of videos and make your own clips of videos.

If you have any questions about Classical Music in Video, please contact the music librarian at  anne.shelley at ilstu.edu.

Milner’s DVD collection is located in the multimedia center, in the northeast corner of the library’s main floor. Even though you can browse the DVDs on the shelves, we know that sometimes it can be tricky to find a movie to watch if you’re not quite sure what you want to see. Now you can browse our catalog of popular films on an iPad, which is set up on a pedestal and located by the browsing books section next to the circulation desk. You can sort by different columns: the movie’s title or director, the year it was released, or the genre (drama, romantic comedy, etc.). The iPad will also tell you the movie’s call number so you can go find it on the shelf in the multimedia center.

Did you know there is a mobile app available for Naxos Music Library? Listen to all your streaming audio reserves or other required listening on the go by installing the NML app — it’s free and available for iPhone, iPad, and Android. You will need to create your own student playlist account to use the app. Once you’re logged in, you can access your private playlists, playlists that your professors have created, or you can search and play the entire NML database! As always, contact Anne Shelley, music librarian, if you have any questions.

April is Jazz Appreciation Month! Celebrate with Ella, Miles, Cole, Sonny, and more with Milner’s subscription Jazz Music Library.

One of the most useful things that mobile devices and tablets can do for you is let you take notes and organize them as digital files. That way, you don’t have to haul around a notebook or binder and try to keep track of all the different hand-written notes you take in meetings or in class.

Evernote is an app that lets you take notes in different ways and with different mediums–text, photo, voice memo, or scribble with your finger–and save it to a master document in the cloud. You can edit the note from any device or computer that has Evernote installed.

This app is available for so many devices, and it has a free version, you don’t have any excuses to not use it. Enjoy!

Jazz Music Library recently added 14 new albums to its collection. Check out the new tracks here: http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew. As of this update there are 10,756 albums, equaling 133,668 tracks or 8,209 hours of music in Jazz Music Library.

So, the Grammys happened this past weekend. Did you know Milner has some of the winning albums/tracks in its collection? Here they are:

Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Music for Viola (Audio CD M47 .K877 J4 2012)

Best Classical Vocal Solo: Poèmes by Renée Fleming (Audio CD M1613 .F63 2012)

Best Choral Performance: Life & Breath by René Clausen (Available online through Naxos Music Library)

Best Classical Compendium: Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis (Available online through Naxos Music Library)

Album of the Year: Babel by Mumford & Sons (Audio CD M1630.18 .M8837 B3 2012)

Best Pop Vocal Album: Stronger by Kelly Clarkson (Audio CD M1630.18 .C5565 S7 2011)

Best Rock Album: El Camino by the Black Keys (Audio CD M1630.18 .B5776 C3 2011)

Best Alternative Music Album: Making Mirrors by Gotye (Audio CD M1630.18 .G68 M35 2012)

Yesterday the world lost notable jazz musician and composer Dave Brubeck, just one day shy of his 92nd birthday. You can celebrate Dave’s birthday today and the marvelous gifts he gave us over the years by going to Jazz Music Library and enjoying some of his greatest standards: Take Five!, The Duke, and In Your Own Sweet Way.

 http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com/Person/2…

The Library of Congress is now streaming interviews between former record executive Joe Smith and over 200 musical icons: Tony Bennett, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Ray Charles, and Herbie Hancock among them. Listen to the interviews here: http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/joesmith/ or check out the book Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music from Milner: http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-isu/…. Enjoy!

Joe Smith poses with Rod Stewart, circa 1974. The former record executive conducted informal interviews with dozens of musicians in the mid-1980s.

A collection of handwritten and published music written and arranged by Lloyd Farlee (1922-2007) is now available at the Dr. JoAnn Rayfield Archives at Illinois State University. Farlee was a professor of music at Illinois State University from 1962 until 1987; he taught voice lessons and directed the ISU Men’s Glee Club for several years. Materials in the collection include choral and vocal arrangements, musical scores, concert arrangements, research notes, programs, and photographs.

View the finding aid for the Lloyd Farlee Papers in the ISU University Archives Database: http://tempest.lib.ilstu.edu/Archon/inde….

Many thanks to Dr. Tim Fredstrom (ISU School of Music) and University Archivist April K. Anderson for coordinating and processing the collection!

The British Library has a rich collection of Mozart manuscripts, and also a few of his letters. Among these treasures is a marriage contract between Mozart and his special lady friend Constanze Weber. Read about the document on the library’s blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/musi…

Check out this fascinating T.E.D. Talk by violinist Robert Gupta. Gupta combined his musical training and background in neurobiology to assist people with mental illness, and became a violin teacher to someone very special…

A senior music ed major at Furman University in South Carolina shares how she uses her iPad for teaching and practicing: http://furmanmusiclibrary.blogspot.com/2…

Some of the music-related apps she talks about are:

iBone (she’s a trombone player)

ProTuner

Metronome

forScore

NPR interviews Klaus Heymann, founder of the Naxos music label that grew into Naxos Music Library.

© 2012 Code 42 Software, Inc.

August 24th marked the 100th anniversary of the ability to copyright motion pictures. The decision by Congress to create a copyright designation for film helped legitimize the now-booming movie industry. Preservation of the films themselves also became important, and today the Library of Congress plays a huge role in protecting these materials at its Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Preservation in Culpepper, Virginia. Read more about the history of film copyright here.

Welcome back! We’re looking forward to seeing you in the library once classes start on August 20. Milner has around 4,000 DVDs that are just waiting for you to check them out — look them up in our online catalog or visit the multimedia center on Floor 2 to browse our collection. Here are some DVDs you might want to watch to help you get ready for the semester:

When his band votes him out due to his embarrassing musical antics, Dewey (Jack Black) has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.

A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and the daughter of his father’s business partner.

During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

A critical edition of Rousseau’s (1712 - 1778) works is now available online. The collection includes full-text images of the scores and fabulous artwork.

Artist : Jean Michel Moreau, le jeune.
dated 1779.

Image Attribution: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Collection complète des œuvres, Genève, 1780-1789, 17 vol., in-4°,
édition en ligne: www.rousseauonline.ch

Milner Library has seven iPads available for checkout. You can use them in the library for up to three hours. Stop by the checkout desk to check one out!

The Internet Archive updates us on its music collection. Almost every live Grateful Dead concert ever… what more could you ask for?

From The Telegraph:

A priceless 12th-century illustrated guide for pilgrims has been recovered by police a year after it was stolen from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Read more.

Press release: Naxos Music Library is proud to announce the addition of the Warner Classics, Teldec and Erato labels to its streaming audio collection. These immense catalogs include many great performances which have become the standard for their repertoire, such as the Barenboim Mozart Operas and Bayreuth Wagner Ring Cycle, the Harnoncourt Beethoven Symphonies and the José Serebrier Glazunov Symphonies and Concertos. On July 2nd, more than 1,000 albums from these catalogs will be available on the Naxos Music Library with the remaining albums in the catalogs and new releases appearing over the coming months.
Dozens of legendary artists have called these labels home including Chanticleer, Chloë Hanslip, Nicolai Lugansky, Beaux Arts Trio, José Carreras, Sharon Kam, Kent Nagano, Cecilia Bartoli, Charlie Siem, Boston Camerata, John Eliot Gardiner and Mstislav Rostropovich among many others. Their performances are now available to subscribers of Naxos Music Library.
Naxos Music Library sets the industry standard in streaming classical music featuring over 70,000 albums from 500 record labels, including BIS, Blue Note Records, Chandos, EMI Classics, Nettwerk Music Group, Sun Records, Virgin Classics, and many others. With more than 1,000,000 tracks of music and tools for music education, Naxos Music Library is available for institutional and professional subscriptions and is currently being enjoyed by over 1200 universities, performing arts organizations, and public libraries in the North America.
Since 2001, new recordings have been produced under the Warner Classics label as well as continuing the APEX budget reissue series which includes recordings from both the Teldec & Erato labels.

Teldec Classics was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1950 as a co-operation between Telefunken and Decca Records. Over its long history the label has been home to many great artists and its catalog includes the pioneering early music label Das Alte Werk.The Erato Disques label was founded in Paris, France in 1953 by Philippe Loury, originally as Éditions Musicales Costallat, when there were very few long-playing Renaissance and Baroque music recordings to be found. This was the area in which Erato first made its mark and which subsequently established its fine and enduring reputation under the guidance of Michel Garcin. Over the years a rich catalogue has emerged across all Classical repertoire areas from many of the finest artists of the day.

Books:

The Book of Mormon : the complete book and lyrics of the Broadway musical / Parker, Stone, and Lopez

Music Technology / Escrivan Rincón

Schumann (2^nd ed.) / Jensen

My Life, My Words: the Autobiography of William Grant Still / Still

Afro-Colombian Hip-hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities / Dennis

Scores:

15 art songs by American composers, high and low voice / Argento, Bernstein, Copland

Collected songs: 54 songs (medium/low voice) / Finzi

Collected songs: 44 songs (high voice) / Finzi

Capricious Harlem: for piano / Blake, arr. Bolcom

Twenty-first century timpani anthology / ed. Jarvis

Recordings:

French Impressions / Joshua Bell

Complete Solo Piano Music, vol. 1 / Dohnányi

The L.A. Sessions / Mark Sherman, vibraphonist

Violin Concertos / Berg, Beethoven

The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording / Parker, Stone, and Lopez

Journals:

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education – now available online, 2008 – present

Databases:

International Index to Music Periodicals – Full-Text – indexes nearly 450 music journals; full text available for 160 titles

Library Music Source –over 35,000 scores focusing on Western classical music

Please contact the music librarian with any questions: 309-438-5464 or anne.shelley@ilstu.edu.

25 songs–from Bernstein’s debut performance with the New York Philharmonic to Purple Rain–were inducted into the National Recording Registry this week.

The National Recording Registry was established in 2000 as “a list of sound recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.”

You don’t need to be a double major in music and chemistry to enjoy this e-book, but it would probably help you get all the jokes. The Biochemist’s Song Book features scores and lyrics for the scientifically-inclined, including the following titles:

The Battle Hymn of the Aerobes

Waltz Round the Cycle

We’re Here Because Urea

Check it out online! http://site.ebrary.com/lib/milner/docDet…