Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Quick Shout Out - Calling All RCS Students and Staff!

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We're doing our annual Library Customer Satisfaction Survey: all staff and students have been emailed a link, so please let us know what...
Monday, 13 April 2015

Live Pipes, Recorded Clarsach, Eminent Scottish Composers

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If you are interested in Scottish music, why not consider attending the Musica Scotica conference - in Glasgow this year.  There are a wide...
Friday, 10 April 2015

Presto Classical release "Luminate" as Live Music Now Scotland celebrates 30 years

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Presto Classical - Luminate - Live Music Now Scotland celebrates 30 years - Delphian: DCD34153 Look out for this new Delphian CD in the ...
Thursday, 9 April 2015

Ever had a Vocal Sound Bath?

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Singers, here's a Glasgow event for you - next Saturday, 18th April in Kinning Park. Composer Nichola Scrutton is organising a Vocal S...
Friday, 3 April 2015

Whittaker Library Open 9-5 Tuesday to Friday this Week (7-10 April)

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Don't Panic! The Library is operating holiday hours this week - we're open 9-5, Tuesday to Friday.  Normal hours recommence on Mo...
Thursday, 2 April 2015

The Boundless Energy of Niel Gow and Sons

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Anyone involved in the Scottish music scene knows that Niel Gow and his sons - particularly Nathaniel - produced an enormous amount of fiddl...

Stravinsky and that Russian Sound

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Our BMus third year students are working on essays about Stravinksy and Beethoven - and we've just obtained a new book that'll be ve...
Monday, 30 March 2015

How to Source Information for your Music Essay

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Igor Stravinsky When the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Whittaker Library consulted students recently, we heard that students find ...

How To Cite References, Chicago Style

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Our RCS music students are encouraged to develop a consistent citation style, such as the Chicago (also called Turabian) style. This means ...
Friday, 27 March 2015

RCS Alumnus Simon McKerrell Touches on Intangible Heritage

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ICH means Intangible Cultural Heritage ... read what it means for Scotland Intangible Cultural Heritage is a bit of a buzzword in creat...

224 years ago, this is what German Children Sang!

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  Please Meet Placidus Partsch!  We're attacking our cataloguing piles today!  Karen assigned herself a big pile of collected editions...
Thursday, 26 March 2015

Spring Break Essays? Did you look quickly at JSTOR then give up?

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This posting offers advice to students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, many of whom have music history essays to write during the sp...

Free Scores for RCS Music Students!

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Okay, everyone knows about IMSLP , otherwise known as the Petrucci Music Library .  It's free.  (Check that you're not breaching cop...