Author Albert Brennick has gifted the Whittaker Library a copy of his book, The Alternative Music Notation.
"Dispenses with clefs and accidentals"
Born in Amsterdam in 1924, raised in Germany, and spending half his adult life in Canada before returning to Germany, Brennick was an architect by profession. He claims that his alternative notation "dispenses with clefs and accidentals and has proven itself in 40 years of practice". It "represents the chromatic scale across all octaves using the traditional note symbols", and "shows all intervals in unambiguous proportions".
Are you intrigued? Disbelieving? Have you talked about conventional notation in class, and debated whether there could be a better way? This book might make you think.
- Araumus - Association for Research of an Alternative and Universal Music Notation
We've blogged about bibliographic software before, but Karen has just put together a five-minute video to introduce Mendeley, which is the one she uses herself. View it here.
And to back this up, you might like to look at our earlier blogpost:-
Making Music - Young Artists Award
We
often receive brochures about festivals, courses and competitions.
Today we received the leaflet for Making Music's Young Artists Award, sponsored by Philip and Dorothy Green.
Applicants must be aged 21-27, and you must apply by 12 February 2018.
www.makingmusic.org.uk/pdgya
The Heidelberg Lied Academy
takes place every spring as part of the 5-week-long Musikfestival Heidelberger
Frühling. Under the artistic direction of celebrated American baritone Thomas
Hampson, the academy offers a series of master classes aimed to give young
singers the tools for well-informed, text-based song interpretation, and to
enable them to tell rich stories through their musical performances. In the
first of three April 2017 Academy master classes, Hampson worked with the
singers soprano Marie Seidler, baritone Justin Michael Austin, and
mezzo-soprano Susan Zarrabi on songs by Ravel, Berlioz, and Satie.
Staff and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can watch these masterclasses through the library's Medici.tv subscription. Watch now!
Author Albert Brennick has gifted the Whittaker Library a copy of his book, The Alternative Music Notation. 
