Get to know the SCOPUS database

All Columbia students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend Scopus Day on Wed. Oct 31, 2012.  Scopus is “…a large citation and abstract database, covering all subject areas. It contains nearly 18,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers with a range of advanced research features”. This event will offer a “lunch and learn” […]

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New Resource: “In Mozart’s Words”

A new annotated digital collection of Mozart’s letters has been made available, at the web site “In Mozart’s Words“. The collection … provides multilingual access to an annotated version of the voluminous correspondence of Mozart and his family – approximately 1,400 letters – that will progressively be made available online on this website. The website […]

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Check out our streaming audio resources!

There are several databases offering streaming audio which are available through the Libraries. You can access these from any computer in campus libraries, as well as from your dorm room or off-campus (with your UNI and password). Audio titles include: Classical Music Library, Naxos Music Library,  Naxos Music Library Jazz, Smithsonian Global Sound, Contemporary World […]

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Resource Alert: American Radio History

American Radio History (http://americanradiohistory.com) is an interesting free collection of scanned, searchable, full-text periodicals related to broadcasting in the U.S. Articles on the broadcast industry, regional radio markets, sales and chart data, and entertaining advertisements for broadcast-related technologies are contained in several periodical titles, with the ability to search across a given title. The articles […]

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Verdi’s La Traviata – online videos available

Many of the Music Humanities sections are focusing on Verdi’s “La Traviata” this semester. Did you know that there is also streaming video of this opera available through the Libraries? The Opera in Video database offers two full, streaming performances of “Traviata”. Of the two, one offers subtitles in English and other languages. We’re guessing […]

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Naxos Music Library adds film music audio content

Naxos Music Library , available through the Columbia University Libraries, has added new content from the label Varese Sarabande to its collection. Varese Sarabande specializes in film and television soundtracks; content offered includes film music by noted composers such as Bernard Hermann, Duke Ellington, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Horner. Titles include “North by […]

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Sibley Digital Scores

Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) has introduced a new site to showcase its collection of digital scores, the Sibley Digital Scores. The projects aims to “… digitize approximately 10,000 to 12,000 musical scores which are in the public domain, reside in the Library’s general collections, and are held […]

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Naxos Music Library and Naxos Jazz audio now in CLIO

Streaming audio content available on Naxos Music Library and Naxos Jazz is now indexed in CLIO! Over 4,500 records from Naxos Music Library and 1,500 records from Naxos Jazz have been added. This means that when you are searching CLIO, any available Naxos streaming audio content which matches your search will come up, along with […]

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E-Resource: Contemporary Music – Gateway to Contemporary Music in France

Contemporary Music is an online resource which provides access to information about contemporary music in France. The site offers access to “124,993 biographies, books, music scores, sound recordings, videos… available in 17 databases”. The site offers a federated search across the holdings of its participating institutions (see here for a definition of federated searching). Users […]

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Tips on audio playback for Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library, one of the Libraries’ online audio databases, seems to have recently changed their web site, in a way that may impact some users. When you select your audio and start playback, a window launches, running a Flash audio player. Unfortunately, this player will not work on standard library workstations! If you look […]

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