New titles in Music Reference, Winter 2017
The following titles have been added to the Music Library Reference Room. In no particular order:
Music for silent film : a guide to North American resources / by Kendra Preston Leonard.
Blog topic: New acquisitions
Context Without Content, and Vice Versa
A few weekends ago I went to the relatively-newly reopened SFMOMA. Their exhibition "About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change" features artist Jason Lazarus' installation Recordings #3 (At sea), 2014-2016. It's a wall of found photographs hung so that the actual photograph faces the wall, with only the text written on the back of the photo visible to the viewer.
New music scores and facsimiles, September 2016
For your browsing pleasure, we present the following list of new scores added to composer complete editions, historical sets, and facsimiles.
Modern editions
Elgar complete edition, v. 2b. Accompanied part songs; Pageant of empire.
Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia : a comparative edition / edited by Vincent Corrigan.
Military history in the Foote and Terhune collections
Stanford has recently acquired and processed two collections from American military officers operating overseas in the early 20th century. The papers of Morris Cooper Foote (M2103) and Warren Jay Terhune (M2132) chronicle several critical episodes in Western expansionism and occupation in Asia and its responses.
Morris Cooper Foote’s papers include a variety of material (manuscripts, journals, letters, memos, reports, photographs, maps, newspapers) from his service in the United States Army’s Ninth Infantry. Most of it concerns his experiences in the Boxer Rebellion, but he was already a seasoned veteran at the time. Foote was born September 16, 1843 in New York. His great-grandfather was William Cooper, the founder of Cooperstown, and he was also related to Jacob Morris, who served in the Revolutionary War, and novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
Salmagundi
In my role as manuscripts cataloger, I get to experience the joy of encountering new and different material every day. A recent acquisition that came across my desk was a handwritten manuscript compiled by William Hustler for Jane Fell (the two wed in 1796), titled Salmagundi: A Miscellaneous Combination of Original Poetry Consisting of Amatory, Elegiac, Sonnets, and Other Palatable Ingredients.
New music scores and facsimiles, Summer 2016
For your browsing pleasure, we present the following list of new scores added to composer complete editions, historical sets, and facsimiles.
Modern editions
Crüger Concert Choräle : Kritische Ausgabe ausgewählter Werke / Johann Crüger.
New exhibit celebrates 125 years of Stanford Classics
This year, Stanford Classics turns 125, and to celebrate, we have put together an exhibit examining its early history. While small and undistinguished early on, the department quickly produced scholars of distinction. Today it is a major center of American classics, and a world leader in the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Still, the century and a quarter that intervenes between us and its foundation is often a sort of ever-advancing black box—that is, we seldom have an institutional memory that extends any further back than the recollection of the faculty's most senior member. Earlier outlines of the department's history are therefore simply lost. This exhibit hopes to shed some light on that earlier place and time.
New titles in Music Reference, September 2016
The following titles have been added to the Music Library Reference Room. In no particular order: