Sharing News: Early Music Monographs (Books) Digitized!

This is a piece of news that we received via IAML (International Association of Music Libraries) and the MLA (the Music Library Association, an  American organisation).  Copying and pasting shamelessly, because this is news that's bursting to get out, we offer you this exciting snippet:-

"The Music Division of the Library of Congress has launched a new site with scans of approximately 2,000 books on music published before 1800.  The scans were made from microfilmed versions of the books.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/books-about-music-before-1800/about-this-collection/"

Karen C. Lund is the Digital Project Coordinator for the Music Division.

Libraries, Digital Collections, Real Musical Instruments, REALLY Happy Singers

In the past couple of weeks, we've come across several interesting news alerts, that might interest our readers.  Here are three of them!

The Horniman Library and Museum

The Horniman Library is, not surprisingly, linked with the Horniman Museum - which contains a collection of historical musical instruments.  They are in London.  The Horniman's Library is now available on Copac, and that means more places to find books if we don't have them in our own collections!
 
If you're a musician, you might like to know more about the musical instrument collection too, so let's share the 'blurb' that we received in our email:-

"The Horniman Library collection contains books from the 16th century through to the present day, and covers a wide spectrum of subject areas related to the remit of the Horniman Museum, with a focus on natural history, anthropology and musical instruments. The collection, which originated with Frederick Horniman’s own book collection, has been added to by subsequent directors, curators and librarians and now amounts to some 30,000 volumes. The development of the library collections has been closely linked to object acquisition and curatorial practice in the museum and there is thus a strong connection between the book and object collections.

"You can read more on the Copac blog here: http://blog.copac.jisc.ac.uk/2017/04/19/horniman-library-catalogue-loaded/.

 

"Or, to browse the Horniman Library’s records, select the Main Search tab at http://copac.jisc.ac.uk and choose ‘Horniman Library’ from the list of libraries." 

RNCM Archives shared the next news item with us:-

New project brings major folk song collection to UK 

There's an article in the online M-Magazine which tells you more about the news.  Here's a taster:-

"The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Digital Archive has launched a new project to incorporate a pivotal early 20th century collection of British songs into its folk music database.The digitised collection of James Madison Carpenter (pictured above), which has previously only been accessible by visiting the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, will become free to access online for the first time ..." Read the whole article here

The Neuroscience of Singing 

Okay, every so often, more research appears which proves what everyone here knows to be true - singing is good for you!  But this research is particularly authoritative, so we'd like to share it with anyone who sings or teaches or conducts singers!  It's by Cassandra Sheppard and was published on a website called Uplift Connect on Sunday 11th December 2016.  
Singing Together Brings Heartbeats Into Harmony
 

Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop

First call for papers:-

ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014

Digital Library: Electronic Stuff

 Ebooks - Kindles* - Streaming - E-ncyclopedias - Ejournals!

 

 

 

First year musicians, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Electronic resources talk

by Dr Karen McAulay** 

 took place at 2 pm today, Stevenson Hall.

 

Did you miss it?  Slideshare version of my PowerPoint here.  (It'll be put on the Library Mahara Group as soon as possible.)

* We don't supply the Kindle, but you can use yours - click on the link to a helpful blogpost by Hannah, Library Queen of the Kindle

** All-singing, still not dancing Music and Academic Services Librarian 

• By the way, have you mislaid your link to Christina's Challenge?  Here it is again!

Beethoven Haus, Bonn - Digital archives

• Beethoven Haus - Digital archives

If you're seeking digital Beethoven material, why not start here?

Image from the Beethoven-Haus Bonn homepage

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