Schumann and his 1840 Romantic songs: Three vocal duets in the Memorial Library at Stanford University
Robert Schumann. Zwei Dreistimmige Lieder
Memorial Library of Music, MLM 955
Blog topic: Music
Robert Schumann. Zwei Dreistimmige Lieder
Students find it in the stacks: Plantasia
“Play nice music for plants. Be confident. Get to know your plants better. Don’t worry too much about them. Relax! Read and learn as much as you can. Plants are very understanding.” Listening to the space-age sounds of Plantasia, there’s nothing to do but relax.
For this blog the Archive of Recorded Sound invited one of our student workers to write about an item in the archive. Read on and find out about the soothing sounds of Plantasia as written by guest blogger and student worker extraordinaire Jonah. -Nathan Coy
New titles in Music Reference, December 2019
The Music Library invites you to browse these recent additions to the reference collection:
Dictionnaire des musiciens de la cour d'Henri IV et des maisons princières / Jacques Szpirglas.
Portraits de Peintres: An eclectic collaboration
Reynaldo Hahn. Portraits de Peintres
Memorial Library of Music, MLM 454
Stanford player piano research receives best paper award
Stanford University researchers received the Best Paper Award at the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) on 4 November 2019 held in Delft, The Netherlands. ISMIR is the foremost organization promoting research and development of computer systems to access, organize, and represent music information. The award was presented to the authors Zhengshan “Kitty” Shi (Ph.D.
Academy Hall open house in pictures
I had the pleasure of attending the recent open house held at Academy Hall on Stanford's Redwood City campus, which houses the Media Preservation Lab, Conservation Services, and much of the Department of Special Collections. Here are some things that caught my eye:
Five questions with our new Sound Archives Metadata Librarian: Clare Spitzer
Please join the Archive of Recorded Sound and Music Library in congratulating Clare Spitzer on her new appointment as Sound Archives Metadata Librarian. She began this new post on October 1, having spent the previous seven months in Stanford Libraries as Special Project Music Metadata Librarian.