Friday, 2 October 2015

Hot off the Press - Faure Songs Vol.3 by our own Roy Howat!

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News for Singers! Peters Edition have just sent us copies of Roy Howat's latest Faure Songs edition - Vol.3 for High and for Medium v...

Oh Yeah, Baby! Whittaker Library gets Naxos Jazz

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Naxos Jazz Staff and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can now enjoy not only the Naxos streamed classical music service, b...

Do you Study Film? Here's Scotland's Moving Image Archive

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From home movies to documentaries, from industry to entertainment The National Library of Scotland has 1700 films and clips for you to wa...
Monday, 28 September 2015

Adding New Scottish Music to Library Stock

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An interesting pile is growing in the library office - music from Scotland, both traditional and modern classical.   We have a new book of...
Friday, 25 September 2015

Women Composers - Raising the Profile (Alma Mahler)

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Alma Mahler was an intriguing and sometimes disturbing character.  Her career as a composer was apparently cut short when she married.  Gust...

Book Vandalism (Gonnae No Dae That!)

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Poor old Chopin We were upset when a student found this, yesterday. It's a library book, folks!  You wouldn't do that to a frien...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

RefMe - Keep Track of your Reading

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Calm Your Inner Geek! People might talk to you about Referencing , or Citations .  It all sounds a bit obscure, doesn't it? It'...

Find a Young Musician from Kirklees Metropolitan Area - 2016 Contest!

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We received a leaflet from The Kirklees Young Musician of the Year Contest 2016. It takes placed in Huddersfield on 19 February 2016.  Ent...

Performing Arts, Whittaker-Library Style

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From time to time we share interesting weblinks for our developing artists. Like these from the Guardian's Culture Professionals blog ...

Welcome to the Whittaker Library

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 Twittaker of the Whittaker Library Book Box for when we're closed Hello, and welcome!  This week we're welcoming the 2015...
Thursday, 17 September 2015

Virtually There - We (Whittaker Library) Had a Dream ...

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  Today's the day they let us out of our box!  Members of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Information Services Team are talking ...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Paris Opera Launches New Platform for Film and Digital Media Productions

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Benjamin Millepied The Paris Opera is opening a virtual third stage, called 3e Scène , which will present works of various media. The ...
Thursday, 10 September 2015

You mean I CAN copy it? (Understanding Music Copyright)

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To be honest, copyright legislation is a rather negative topic! If something's 'in copyright', you can't copy it.  However, ...

Watch Merle Hensel, Tom Scutt and Ian MacNeil interview transcripts

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Staff and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland have access to Digital Theatre Plus, which offers many interesting insights into t...
Monday, 7 September 2015

Finding Old Musical Sources - RISM is Online!

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Great News from RISM! If you research or play music from earlier times, you'll know how important it is to see the sources that our fo...

Want to be an Archivist? (Or conserve your papers responsibly)

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The National Archives' website has plenty of information about good archival practice.  Read about it here:-  Caring for Archives . If...
Friday, 4 September 2015

Type This, Fairfax ... (Suggest a Caption)

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OK, here's a bit of Friday frivolity - can you suggest a caption for this enchanting image?
Thursday, 3 September 2015

Scottish Song Tunes, about 290 Years Ago!

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Time Travel with a Tablet? Musick for Allan Ramsay's Collection  With some excitement, yesterday, we opened this digital copy of...

On This Day ... 1808

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Crusty, objectionable, fussy ....  Joseph Ritson, compiler of Scotish Songs    Scotish Songs The reputed Scottish antiquarian Jos...

RCS Students Get Trial of Naxos Jazz Streaming!

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We’ve arranged for staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to trial the Naxos jazz streaming service for the whole mont...