Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme 2009

Aldeburgh Music has sent a number of leaflets to the Whittaker Library at RSAMD. Some inspirational courses are on offer. Visit the website or pick up a leaflet from the Whittaker Library.

Welcome to the Whittaker Library @ RSAMD

Top Tips for Online Job Applications

Neil Harris has written this article for the helpful people at jobs.ac.uk. If you're looking for work in the academic sector, this is undoubtedy the most useful website to visit regularly.

Robert Minter Collection

Watch this space. Trevor Herbert, Open University lecturer and author, has recently completed a catalogue of the Robert Minter Music Research Archive, a collection of over 1000 facsimiles of MSS of 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century music featuring the trumpet. The catalogue is to be hosted on the internet by the Open University, and access details are shortly to be announced.

• Trevor Herbert's publications include an article about this collection:

'The Robert Minter Archive as a Profile of Natural Trumpet Repertory': paper to the 1992 Historic Brass Society Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts'

• Historic Brass Society website

Alexander Street: Music - free Bach download

Free Download of the Week J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068 This week's free download from Classical Music Library is J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068, performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra; Leopold Hager, conductor. More information about this piece is available on the Classical Music Library music blog. There are currently more than 5,600 tracks from over 1,300 works by Bach in Classical Music Library. Staff and students of RSAMD have access to the full collection at all times. Contact the Whittaker Library for further information.

Film and Sound Archive Australian scholarships

National Film and Sound Archive Australia SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Apply now for 2009 The NFSA invites research proposals from academics, performers, artists, audiovisual industry and archive professionals to draw fresh, innovative perspectives from the national audiovisual collection. Fellows will use the NFSA's collection to create ...

• a new sound or moving image work,
• a publication,
• an exhibit,
• a live audiovisual event
• or a combination of these and other approaches.

The Fellowships offer specially facilitated access and research into the national collection; close collaboration with NFSA curatorial and technical experts; access to the Library; modern accommodation; and a fully equipped work space provided on-site.

Applications for the Fellowships are due by 14 November 2008. For further information and application forms, please visit

http://www.nfsa.gov.au/sar or contact Belinda Hunt at belinda.hunt@nfsa.gov.au

Ancuta Nite charity recital

Hospices of Hope One of our Post Graduate Students Ancuta Nite is very kindly giving a concert on behalf of the Hospices of Hope in Edinburgh on 18th November. Visit the above website for details.

All's well

Read Michael Tumelty's article about RSAMD, in The Herald today.

Web-search strategies (3 minutes that could save hours)

Do you have a deliberate web-search strategy? Or do you just Google it?

Here's a 3-minute clip which could save you a whole lot of Googling time. Turn on your sound, then click the link. It's worth it.

Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

1st-19th October - visit the website and see what's on here.

Glasgow concert halls

Welcome to Glasgow! You can't be a music student in Glasgow without going to some of the concerts at the International Concert Hall. Visit the website here.

Places to go, things to do: Museum of Edinburgh exhibition

The People Behind the Pages: Making books in Scotland

A Free exhibition in the Museum of Edinburgh 142 Canongate Royal Mile 13 September 2008 – 17 January 2009. Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm

Returning to education as a mature student

Article from jobs.ac.uk offering encouragement to anyone returning to education after a while away. Read it here.

(From jobs.ac.uk)

Ethnography in the Performing Arts - a Student Guide (by Simone Kruger)

Here is a new student guide, available as a free pdf download. Recommended by Dr Peggy Duesenberry:

Ethnography in the Performing Arts - a Student Guide

Find out more before you download it - here's a brief description of it.

SIBMAS - images of a great event

Alan Jones, Vice-President, and Claire Hudson, President of SIBMAS, trip the light fantastic - and Alan addresses the delegates at a Civic Reception in the City Chambers, Glasgow.

Pibroch for oboe and drone

Just in the Whittaker Library at RSAMD:

Melinda Maxwell -

• Pibroch, for oboe and drone. The drone can be a tape, or a live instrument eg violin or cello.

Read the review by the British Double Reed Society.

How to take care of your voice

New book being ordered at the request of the Voice Department here at RSAMD: How to take care of your voice: the lifestyle guide

• Want your own copy? Follow the link above!

RSAMD Whittaker Library electronic resources

Staff and students of RSAMD are advised that RSAMD no longer uses Athens. Electronic resources are accessed by institutional login. If you're a member of RSAMD and you encounter difficulty accessing any of our electronic resources, please contact the Information Services Department.

Music Promoters in Scotland

Today (3 September 2008), Michael Tumelty writes in The Herald about Svend Brown and his key position as a music promoter in Scotland. Read his long article - well-worth a look.

• SvendBrown.com

Josh Dickson gets Scottish Music post at RSAMD

If you were out of Glasgow, you might have missed the news - introducing Josh Dickson, new Head of Scottish music alongside Phil Cunningham. Read the article in The Herald here.