Library and Information Services, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Monday 20 January 2020

LSO Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

We've just been sent fliers for a prestigious conducting competition.  The competition takes place in March 2021, but the deadline for applications is Friday 26 June 2020.

If you're an ambitious conductor, you'd better take a look at the details right now!  

https://lso.co.uk/lso-discovery/donatella-flick-lso-conducting-competition.html

Monday 6 January 2020

Brio - Special Issue Celebrates Claimed From Stationers' Hall network

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A couple of years ago, one of our librarians was awarded an AHRC networking grant to establish the Claimed From Stationers' Hall network, studying early British legal deposit music and the libraries that received it.

THIS WEEK, a special issue of Brio will hit library shelves in the UK and beyond - it's dedicated to papers about not only early legal deposit music, but also modern musical copyright issues.  A fascinating read - look out for it!

Brio is the official professional journal of the International Association of Music Libraries (UK and Ireland Branch).  We are grateful both to the branch for allowing us to produce this issue, and to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, who kindly granted an Athenaeum Award towards the publication of this special issue.

From the Claimed From Stationers' Hall blog:- 

https://claimedfromstationershall.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/claimed-from-stationers-hall-papers-from-an-ahrc-funded-network-project-brio-vol-56-no-2-autumn-winter-2019/

Digital Music Exhibitions

Whilst we were closed, we were notified of a couple of lovely Irish digital music exhibitions from the Irish Traditional Music Archive.  Do take a look - you'll find it interesting!

" ... some information on our latest traditional music digital exhibitions freely available online.

Furls of Music: a digital exhibition based on field recordings made by Leitrim flute player Michael McNamara 1959-mid 1990s

Dusty Bluebells: a digital exhibition based on field recordings of children’s songs made by Hugh Shields 1961-1975 https://www.itma.ie/dustybluebells"