The Music Library has many resources in many formats. The JVC Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance is an indispensable resource for those study music, dance, and cultures of America and other nations. The series is divided into three parts and each set of DVDs has accompanying guide books.
Music and Dance of Africa
Music and Dance of the Americas
Music and Dance of Europe
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Musical Scores from the Music Library Online
http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/music
Nearly 100 musical scores from UIUC’s Music Library were digitized recently at the Open Content Alliance/Internet Archive scanning center on campus. Represented in this new online collection are Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, Jerome Kern, and Gilbert & Sullivan. The Music Library is one of the largest collections of its kind at a public university, and is currently ranked among the top ten music libraries in the United States. Its collections contain more than 765,000 volumes, including over 55,000 books, 520,000 scores, 19,000 microforms, 150,000 sound recordings, and over 20,000 items in other formats and media. (text borrowed from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/digitizedbotw/2008/05/musical_scores_from_the_univer.html)
Vivaldi lost, Vivaldi found
What makes or breaks an artist?
From Chronicle of Higher Education
New Survey Will Examine What Makes Arts-School Graduates Succeed or Fail
By CAROLYN MOONEY
May 1, 2008