Sleevefacing!!! Yes - vinyl!!

Yes, we have LPs!!  Yes, we want you to know this!!  We'll show you how to find them and how to use them.  Thanks to our friends at Bowling Green who inspired us to follow suit: http://blogs.bgsu.edu/librarysleevefacing/

Thanks to Liane Elias for taking these photos and getting the UNCG Sleevefacing ball rolling!  And to each of the creative faces behind the sleeves! This is just the beginning here at UNCG!

Louis Armstrong/Ted Hunter

Joan of Arc/Dana Boyle

Wilhelm Kempff/Liane Elias

Lucia Popp/Lila Yasin

Arthur Fiedler/Jolly Old St. Nick/Miranda Freeman

Julia Migenes-Johnson/Sarah Dorsey

Stay tuned for more!

New Content added to Music Online

A message from Alexander Street Press - Jazz and Contemporary World Music additions!

The MOST exciting news is the addition of the Blue Note label to Jazz Music Library. We've been working on licensing Blue Note for quite awhile and so are very pleased to have finally started loading their content.

The other exciting news is that all of the new tracks run at both 192kbps and 320kbps bitrates.

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY

850 albums (8,000 tracks) from Blue Note, EMI, Angel Records, Capitol Records, and Vanguard Records. The new content includes releases by Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson, Cassandra Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Prima, Nigel Kennedy, Bernadette Peters, and more. Great recordings include:

*Duke Ellington Live at the Blue Note

*The Complete Imperial Sessions: Sonny Criss

*The Rudy van Gelder Edition CDs of Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Walter Davis Jr, Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon, and more

*Benny Green Live at the Village Vanguard

*David Axelrod at Capitol Records (1966-1970)

*The Complete Capitol Recordings of Art Tatum

*The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols

*Kenny Burrell 75th Birthday Bash Live


CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC

99 albums 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

Music Online now contains:

309,704 tracks

21,973 albums

66,855 pages text reference

21,878 scores (369,844 pages)

426 videos

Enjoy the new content!

New Send-to-Mobile functionality in Alexander Street streaming collections

We now have "Send-to-Mobile" functionality in Music Online, including all of the individual streaming music collections and some items in Opera in Video. This functionality will follow in all of our Alexander Street streaming video collections later this year.

What this means is that you can now send an audio track, video track, album, or playlist from our streaming collections to your mobile device to listen to later. The item that you send stays on your device for 48 hours.


Go to any of our Alexander Street streaming music databases and look for a cell phone icon ("Send-to-Mobile") next to each track, album, or playlist. Wherever you see that icon you can click it and obtain a “shortlink” to send and enable playback on your mobile device.

We provide several methods to send this link:
* We can send a text message to your mobile.

* We can email the link to your email address, which you can pick up on your mobile.

* You can enter the link URL manually into your mobile's web browser.

* On supported devices you can scan a QR-Code directly from your computer screen. You will need to download a QR-Code reader application to do so.

At this time, this functionality is supported on:

* Apple iPhone on 3G network or better

* Mobile Device with Android OS


Shortlinks cannot be accessed outside of your institution network after 48 hours but will still be usable within it.

For more information please visit the Help page at http://muco.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/using_your_mobile_device


Let us know what you think.

New Web Resources page

One of our student employees, Sonia Archer-Capuzzo (DMA in Clarinet and now in the LIS program here at UNCG) has done a great job of re-vamping our web resources page.  It is expanded, re-organized and annotated.  Give it a gander and let us know what you think. Should we add something, change something?  We're all ears!

http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/music/web_resources.aspx

Thanks, Sonia!

New content for Music Online from Alexander Street Press

We have updated the Music Online collection with the following new material:



JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY

120 albums (1,508 tracks) from Concord Jazz, Contemporary, Jazz Alliance, Jazzology, Neon Tonic, Playboy Jazz, and Riverside. New material includes recordings from Sonny Rollins, Pete Escovedo, Art Farmer, Doc Evans, Bobby Darin, Sarah Vaughan, Tito Puente, and more.


Example new albums include:

Bobby Darin: Live! At the Desert Inn
Swiss Dixie Stompers: Petite Fleur
Ray Bush’s BBC Jazz: American Jazz With A British Accent
Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz: Bill Evans
Doris Day: The Love Album

OPERA IN VIDEO


Subtitles released for the following operas:

Cosi Fan Tutte (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/592116)
Carmen (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/592122)
Die Walkure (Netherlands Opera) (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/592013)
Die Walkure (Liceu) (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/591994)
Don Carlo (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/581032)
Don Giovanni (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/577883)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/580998)
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/578543)
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/578541)
Il Viaggio a Reims (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/592048)
La Boheme (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/578396)
La Cenerentola (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/581017)
La Fille du Regiment (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/592137)
La Traviata (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/592066)
Le Nozze di Figaro (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/578410)
L’incoronazione di Poppea (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/578539)
L’Orfeo (2006, Het Muziektheater) (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/578508)
L’Orfeo (2002, Liceu) (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/581262)
Luisa Fernanda (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/581027)
Macbeth (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/581257)
Otello (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/579054)
Tamerlano (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/591981)
The Rake’s Progress (http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/View/581019)


CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC


236 albums (3,853 tracks) from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, INEDIT, Lyrichord, PAN Records, and Tropical Music. New material released includes Afro-pop, cumbia, electronic music, world fusion, klezmer, griot music, joropo, funeral music, and more.


Example new albums released include:

In the Time of My Fourth Great-Grandfather: Western Sisaala Music from Lambussie, Ghana
Mother Volga: Volga Matj, Music of the Volga Ugrians
El Houssaine Kili: Safran
Stewart Sukuma: Afrikiti
Novedades De Chile


Music Online now contains:


258,367 tracks
17,897 albums
64,898 pages text reference
17,265 scores (330,852 pages)
407 videos


Enjoy the new content and the new subtitles!

April 1, 2010

Favorite new book on April 1, 2010 (tee hee - get it?)

Corey Bellis' display for AMS-SE

The Wonderful Corey Bellis made a display for the regional AMS meeting which was held at UNCG on Saturday, March 27, 2010.   Messiaen's piece "Quarter For The End of Time" was the topic of the keynote address.  Here are some photos of the display and our keynote speaker, Rob Fallon, enjoying the display (along with Aaron Allen and Kailan Rubinoff).  Notice the *colors* - can you say synesthesia?  [There is also a photo of Corey at the end as a segue to our (slightly late) April 1 post...] THANKS, Corey!