MPAL now has an online subscription to the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
The text and the audio for this resource are now available in one place. You can search or browse.
The advanced search gives you more options, including the ability to look at a list of terms that might appear in a particular search field.
From ASP:
We now have “Send-to-Mobile” functionality in Music Online, including all of the individual streaming music collections and some items in Opera in Video. This functionality will follow in all of our streaming video collections later this year.
What this means is that you can now send an audio track, video track, album, or playlist from our streaming collections to your mobile device to listen to later. The item that you send stays on your device for 48 hours.
Go to any of our streaming music databases and look for a cell phone icon (“Send-to-Mobile”) next to each track, album, or playlist. Wherever you see that icon you can click it and obtain a “shortlink” to send and enable playback on your mobile device.
We provide several methods to send this link:
* We can send a text message to your mobile.
* We can email the link to your email address, which you can pick up on your mobile.
* You can enter the link URL manually into your mobile’s web browser.
* On supported devices you can scan a QR-Code directly from your computer screen. You will need to download a QR-Code reader application to do so.
At this time, this functionality is supported on:
* Apple iPhone on 3G network or better
* Mobile Device with Android OS
Shortlinks cannot be accessed outside of your institution network after 48 hours but will still be usable within it.
For more information please visit the Help page at http://muco.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/using_your_mobile_device
Posted on DRAM News Wednesday, January 20, 2010 [off-campus access]
DRAM is delighted to announce the availability of twenty newly digitized LPs from the CRI label, the initial batch of approximately 400 CRI LPs that we will be making available over the coming months. Never before issued in any digital format, these titles have been functionally unavailable for more than two decades. Each album includes the original liner notes, and all are also available as premium-quality on-demand CD-Rs from New World Records. The first group of twenty albums includes music by Charles Amirkhanian, Jack Beeson, Easley Blackwood, Julian Carrillo, Theodore Chanler, Mario Davidovsky, Robert Erickson, Ben Johnston, Kenneth Gaburo, John Melby, Quincy Porter, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Robert Ward. We will add approximately 15-20 LPs each month, and intend to have all titles available by the middle of next year. (After the first two groups of releases, the remainder of the titles will be issued in numerical sequence.)
CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.) was founded in 1954 by Otto Luening, Douglas Moore and Oliver Daniel. Moore was a well-established American composer, Luening was just beginning his work with Vladimir Ussachevsky, with whom he would help found the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1958, and Daniel was a promoter for such American musical luminaries as Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. Dedicated to the promotion of new music by American composers, CRI released over 600 recordings on LP, cassette and CD over its 49 year history, including works by Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Harry Partch, Ned Rorem, Roger Sessions and Charles Wuorinen, to name just a few. Ownership of the CRI catalogue was assumed by New World Records in 2006, since which time New World has worked to maintain the availability of many CRI titles that had gone out of print or, with the current project, had never before been digitized.
The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label includes important releases by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and many more. There are recordings covering the folk music of many countries, political themes such as wars and protests, as well as genres such as railroad, cowboy, and childrens’ songs.
We have many Smithsonian Folkways CDs and LPs in the Library, but we also have access to hundreds more through our online subscription to Smithsonian Global Sound.
You can search for this content by label, artist, or song or album title.
If you already know the name of the album, choose Browse > Album from the column on the left.
If you want to browse all of the recordings on the Smithsonian Folkways label, choose Browse > Label from the column on the left:
Then, chose Smithsonian Folkways Recordings from the list:
Next, you can get a list of the albums by title by looking at, “Narrow your search further by selecting” at the top and clicking on “Album > more…” in the pop-up window:
Then you will see an alphabetic list of all albums on that label:
Of course you can do this with all of the other labels represented in Smithsonian Global Sound as well.
Now when you search our catalog for recordings, you will find records for recordings in our online audio streaming tools Classical Music Library and DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music). Just click on the “Related URL: Online access” link.
Also, when you search Grove Music Online (via Oxford Music Online) you can click on the “Related Content” tab to find links to CML and DRAM so you can search for related audio content.
You may know that we subscribe to the Classical Music Library streaming audio tool. Now when you search our online catalog, if a recording is available in CML, it will have it’s own entry.
Here’s a Boolean search for Reger and serenades, limited to “music recordings.”
If you click on the title, you get more information about the recording.
You can then click on the link that says “Online Access” to go to the CML tool, where you can click on tracks to play them.
