Gordon Duncan Trust - awards for the under 30's

THE GORDON DUNCAN MEMORIAL TRUST IS CURRENTLY INVITING APPLICATIONS FOR AWARDS FROM THE TRUST Strategic Objectives of the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust

The Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust is committed to:

• increasing opportunities for musicians working to the highest standards and in innovative ways;
• strengthening the traditional music culture of Scotland;
• increasing opportunities for young people to participate in traditional music;
• increasing audiences for traditional Scottish music.

Who can apply?

Applications under the following criteria can be made by any young person, up to the age of 30, living or working in Scotland, who is finding that their financial circumstances are making it difficult to progress fully in their chosen field.

FOR AN APPLICATION FORM GO TO THE WEBSITE: www.gordonduncan.co.uk/

Savvy Musician - music business information

The Whittaker Library at RSAMD has heard about a useful new book called The Savvy Musician. It promises to offer loads of useful info about the whole business of being a professional musician. We're ordering it this week.

There's also a Savvy Musician Bookstore, accessible through Amazon.com, so if this topic interests you, do stop by and see what they have to offer.

British Library Archival Sound Recordings

Any student or teacher at RSAMD can login to the British Library's Archival Sound Recordings website. For example, Scottish Music students might care to hear "Auld lang syne" recorded on ethnographical wax cylinders way back in 1898! Is it just me, or is there something uniquely thrilling about listening to something recorded not just in the last century, but the one before that? Apologies to Dr Who and the Tardis, but this is the closest to time-travel that most of us will ever come.

Musica Scotica 2010

Musica Scotica 2010: 800 years of Scottish Music Musica Scotica's Sixth Annual Conference Saturday 24 April 2010, 10am - 5pm Opera Studio, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB Registration Form for the 2010 Conference

Cambridge Early Music summer schools

A wide range of summer schools and concerts awaits you. Check out the website now.

O'er the Muir, Amang the Heather

The Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI present: “O’er the Muir, Amang the Heather”: An international conference on Scots and Scottish Gaelic song Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, 2-5 June 2010

Call for papers and conference details - click here.

E-Journals

Is technology creeping up on you? Have your tutors suggested that you dip your toes into the murky waters of electronic journals? It's really not difficult! If you'd like some help getting started, or just want to pick up a 'How to' handout, please contact Karen McAulay or Alan Jones (Music & Drama Librarians respectively.) Or go straight to the Electronic Journals page on the Library website. We're happy to arrange group instruction - just ask your class tutor.

The Ochtertyre Song Weekends

In the WRI Hall, Nurse’s Lane, Comrie, Perthshire Bridging Tradition’: Scots, Irish & Gaelic MASTERCLASSES: 11a.m- 5 p.m. CEILIDH 8 p.m. – 10.30 Feb. 6 -7 Chris Miles and Margaret Bennett March 20 -21 Tom Speirs and Gillebride MacMillan April 24-25 Margaret Stewart and Elizabeth Stewart t.b.c. Anne Neilson and Margaret Callan June 5 - 6 'THE BIG SING’ with Gordeanna McCulloch & Margaret Bennett (community event, Saturday ) Cost: £5.00 for under-25s; or £15.00, all-inclusive (tuition, lunch, teas + ceilidh) Sundays: SING-AROUND: ‘let’s sing them over’ (in Ochtertyre, by Crieff), Travel: Bus service from Glasgow to Crieff, via Stirling;

or train to Dunblane, then bus. Will pick up passengers in Crieff. Accommodation: Local B & Bs, hotels, hostels + concessionary self-catering To book: Tel. (01764) 655 979 or email info@gracenotescotland.org

Local B & Bs or Concessionary-rate accommodation (info on request)

Material Cultures - conference, Edinburgh 2010

July 16-18, 2010, at the University of Edinburgh (Centre for the History of the Book). Find out more here.

Summer courses, anyone?

The Strad magazine has released their listing of summer music courses. You can see it online here.

'Music for Stringed Instruments: Music Archives and the Materials of Musicological Research

CONFERENCE June 23-24, 2010, Cardiff University The guest speaker at this conference will be Professor Robert Pascall (University of Nottingham). Details for this conference can be found at http://stringeditions.leeds.ac.uk/news.htm - the deadline for proposals is March 15.

SNJO play the music of STEELY DAN featuring GRAEME SCOTT Saturday 30th January 2010 LANARK

Visit the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra website for more details. www.snjo.co.uk

Phoenix Grants for disabled musicians

New Grant for musicians with disabilities launched The Musicians Benevolent Fund has launched a new grant giving scheme, Phoenix Grants for Musicians with Disabilities. The Grants provide essential funding to music students and professional musicians living with long term disability. The scheme is now open to applications from individuals across the UK. Launched in January 2010, Phoenix Grants for Musicians with Disabilities is a new grant giving scheme administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund. The Grants will provide essential funding to music students and professional musicians living with long term disability. An MBF Press Release

IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library

Free public domain sheet music library Online since February 16, 2006 (20,868 works -- 50,260 scores -- 2,817 composers) Here's an example - I needed a score of Mozart's Dissonance Quartet. A few clicks, and the PDF was there. If I wanted parts or an arrangement - they were there, too. Apparently users can upload analyses too - which might be helpful, but normal academic guidelines apply: don't believe everything you read on the internet!

This is a collaborative project, not in the European Union. Scores are said to be in the public domain, but exercise caution and heed displayed warnings. A good source for old, out-of-copyright scores and parts. Read more about it below:-

Welcome to the Petrucci Music Library! Our goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. The Petrucci Music Library also encourages the exchange of musical ideas, both in the form of musical works and in their analysis. Feel free to post your analysis of a particular piece on the "discussion" pages, or join our forums for interactive discussion with the community. IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library

Warwick Folk Festival

23-25 July 2010. Visit the website here.

Grad Britain - online magazine for postgrads

Grad Britain Read it - contribute - get paid if they publish your article! The deadline for submissions for the spring issue of GRADbritain is fast approaching. We would like any potential contributions by 1st Feb. If you have any interesting stories or words of advice to share with the postgraduate community please send your articles to us as gradbritain@vitae.ac.uk Tips on writing an article for Grad Britain Grad Britain pays £50 for any article published and asks for a maximum of 800 words. Part of the Vitae.ac.uk network supporting early career researchers.

Why do some books remain unread?

Remaining Unread: The Top Ten Reasons We Don’t Get to Certain Books Beth Carswell investigates this curious phenomenon for AbeBooks.

Jane Austen in the ballroom

Background to dancing in the early nineteenth century can be seen at a website entitled Persuasions On-Line, by dance historian Allison Thompson. There's another interesting website about the 19th century dance, the Quadrille, entitled Ellis Rogers & Quadrille Club. Dance historians please advise Whittaker Live if there are other useful websites that RSAMD dancers and actors ought to know about!

Classical Scores Library trial

The Whittaker Library has a trial of Classical Scores Library until the end of January. The database is expensive but very useful - the best advice to RSAMD staff and students is to 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may'! Trial within the RSAMD Building

Benslow: Music Making July - December 2010

The July-December 2010 brochure is now available. Celebrating 80 years of amateur music-making this year, the Benslow Music Trust offers short courses, concerts and other events which might be of interest to both adult and younger pupils. Website www.benslow.org Email info@benslow.org Instrument Loan Scheme (highly recommended!) ilsbenslow@benslow.org