Friday, 29 May 2015

Think you Know all about Opera and Celebrity?

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Then here's a conference you might be interested in! OBERTO (Oxford Brookes: Exploring Research Trends in Opera) an...

Do you know your Quadrilles from your Contredanses?

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Quadrilles and Contredanses - Saturday 6 June, Edinburgh We have been asked to help promote this exciting dance event, which takes ...

University of Hull: Lecturer Catherine Baker Researches Eurovision Song Contest - Gender and Geopolitics

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From Catherine Baker, Lecturer at the University of Hull .... Eurovision! We heard about Catherine Baker's research on Academia.edu, ...
Monday, 25 May 2015

Old American music manuscript contains Scots and Gaelic airs!

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Our colleagues at RILM recently posted on Bibliolore about a fabulous new American music manuscript resource.  Here is is:- American Verna...

Pipers, Tell Us What You Think!

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We found a slightly retro bagpipe website called The Universe of Bagpipes.  There is literally loads of information there, and to the untrai...

View more films of Scotland - our Film Students might like this!

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Posted by the National Library of Scotland recently, a reminder that the Scottish Screen Archive has more films that might interest you. I...
Thursday, 21 May 2015

Is Your Leadership Inspired? We have Leadership Foundation Reports ...

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It goes without saying that the Whittaker Library supports teaching, learning and research at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  However,...

Colleagues Duffy and Broad contribute to book on Artistic Practice as Research in Music

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Artistic practice as research in music: theory, criticism, practice RCS Head of Research Stephen Broad and former colleague Celia Duffy...

It's not the Format, but the Content! Oxford Handbooks - Music

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The Whittaker Library currently has a trial of Oxford Handbooks Online for music students and staff at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland....
Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Can you tell your Scripsit from your Sculpsit?

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Here's a little bit of book history to broaden your mind! If you're looking at REALLY old music, sometimes you see tiny writing at...
Monday, 18 May 2015

How to be Deaf-Aware - advice from Action on Hearing Loss

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We were recently sent this useful reminder about how best to communicate with someone who is deaf or hearing-impaired.  Click here .
Friday, 15 May 2015

How old ARE Strathspeys and Reels?

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If you don't mind coming in halfway through an ongoing discussion, you may find this paper of interest.  Michael Newton (University of N...

B. B. King, "Beale Street Blues Boy" (and the Vinyl we Nearly Lost)

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We heard the news today that blues legend B. B. King has died in Las Vegas aged 89.  Rather to our surprise, the Whittaker Library has jus...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

What's in a Name? Labels Stick

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Electronic Resources at the Whittaker Library We agonized.  We wondered if we were using the wrong term for all our lovely electronic r...
Wednesday, 13 May 2015

New Library Stock: Søren Nils Eichberg

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The Danish-German Composer Søren Nils Eichberg has arrived into the Whittaker Library in the form of three scores! Berlin based Eichberg ha...
Monday, 11 May 2015

Are you (or are you going to be) an International Organist?

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Today, the Whittaker Library received a brochure about the St Albans International Organ Festival.  The festival comes highly recommended by...

Read about Harry Lauder and Scottish Popular Culture

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We're always interested in the great Scottish performers of earlier generations, so when we found David Goldie's article, we thought...
Friday, 8 May 2015

The Power of Music: Guardian article on Music and Learning Disabilities

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A recent feature in The Guardian may be of interest to our students studying Community Music.  " Music can transform the lives of peopl...
Monday, 4 May 2015

Phantom Wheel-Tappers, Toe-Tappers, Podium Rappers ...

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Waltzing Away at St Rollox Steam Locomotive at the Riverside Museum  Cataloguing away merrily in the library,  we've just found ...

A Gentle Reminder from Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd

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A reference query today brought three bound copies together which have long been separated on the shelves.  We have a score, a draft program...