Name-Dropping (Our New CDs)

Cool Things!

Cool Owl (sorry, Twittaker!)

Today, we've added a fine handful of CDs to our library stock!  A CD by our composition lecturer Alistair MacDonald*, another by traditional music lecturer Lori Watson*, a guitar CD by guitar lecturer Matthew McAllister, and a whole handful of CDs by last week's visiting composition lecturer and guitarist, Professor Stephen Goss from the University of Surrey.  The CDs' pictures won't show up on our rolling new accessions feature on the catalogue homepage, because they don't have ISBNs.  (Yes, we know, it's a shame!)  However, you can look up the composers' names in our catalogue and see what we've got.  We're quite excited to have so much interesting new material all in the same week.

*Alistair's CD is entitled, Untold Story and was made with Anne-Liis Poll - it's the fruit of 5 years of performances and recordings of improvised voice and live electronics in Scotland, Estonia and Iceland. Cover art by artist Shona Barr, liner notes by composer and wordsmith Nick Virgo, published by Leo Records.

 Lori's Yarrow Acoustic Sessions is available via her website, http://loriwatson.net/

And there's a YouTube film about Matthew McAllister's latest album, American Collection!

Owl in Residence: Twittaker

Echoes and Traces - New Compositions Promoted by Creative Scotland

A series of concerts this very week looks very exciting indeed.  Quoting from Creative Scotland, we learn ...

Echoes and Traces is a world premiere of eight new choral works written by eight Scottish composers, developed in response to Nobilis Humilis a 900 year old plain song fragment from Orkney that celebrates St Magnus.World-renowned choral group Cappella Nova will perform the compositions across seven concerts from Wednesday 31 August to Thursday 8 September in some of Scotland’s most stunning historic venues and sites ... read the whole posting here.

How do I get my Royalties when one of my Compositions is Performed?

You need to look at the PRS for Music website.  The Performing Right Society website advises about licences, royalties and more.

• PRS for Music - Royalties 
• PRS for Music homepage

We are the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, assisting our staff and student performers, composers, and production technicians with their information requirements. We have books about performing rights in our collection, which you can find HERE.