Blog topic: Music
New titles in Music Reference, September 2018
The Music Library invites you to browse our reference collection. Note the following new additions, listed in no particular order:
John Cage : a research and information guide / Sara Haefeli.
Music library and research skills / Jane Gottlieb (2nd ed.).
Alma Mahler and her contemporaries : a research and information guide / Susan M. Filler.
Archive of Recorded Sound: Open House
Listening to music has become a passion in our current, busy lives. With the development of digital formats and downloading, digital music devices abound in the marketplace, our homes, and our offices—but the listening experience hasn’t always been this way. Just a century ago, before the advent of “digital,” or stereo, or even electric recording, people enjoyed recorded music through such formats as 78 rpm records, cylinders, music boxes, and player piano rolls.
New music scores and facsimiles, June 2018
Modern editions
Architecture for opera and theater
Three massive and extraordinary volumes were recently donated to the Stanford University Libraries: Modern Opera Houses and Theatres: Examples Selected from Playhouses Recently Erected in Europe, with Descriptive Text, a Treatise on Theatre Planning and construction, and Supplements on Stage Machinery, Theatre Fires, and Protective Legislationby Edwin O. Sachs, 2nd issue (London: B.T. Batsford, 1897-1898).The volumes measure 58.5 x 42 cm.
Recent acquisitions by the Chuck Black Endowment for Early Jazz and Blues
The Chuck Black Endowment for Early Jazz and Blues promotes the study of early and traditional jazz, blues, and similar musical styles as they emerged and evolved from 1900-1950. In 2016-17 the Endowment acquired twenty-four rare blues recordings.
New titles in Music Reference, Spring 2018
The Music Library invites you to browse our reference collection. Note the following new additions, listed in no particular order:
Claudio Monteverdi : a research and information guide / Susan Lewis and Maria Virginia Acuña.