Blog topic: Music
Databases of the week: streaming audio and video
Ray Heigemeir, Public Services Librarian at the Music Library, recommends the following to stick in your ear and wrap your eyeballs around.
Music librarians invade the Farm
Stanford Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound welcomed the California Chapter of the Music Library Association for a two-day conference.
New music scores and facsimiles, Fall 2019
Modern editions
Bach, CPE. Sonatinas for two keyboards ; Passion according to St. John (1784) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Pre-collegiate students encounter popular music of the past
On Thursday, July 18, students in the popular culture course at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute visited the Department of Special Collections to view materials from the Fielder Collection of American Sheet Music.
Digital library services news - spring 2019
Digital Library How-to Guides
Frank Ferko departing the Archive of Recorded Sound
Frank Ferko is leaving Stanford Libraries to accept the position of Music Metadata Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley working in the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library. Frank leaves a significant legacy of accomplishment at Stanford Libraries. Frank accepted the position of Sound Archives Librarian in August 2016. During the past two and a half years, Frank met with numerous classes to introduce them to the many special collections and recordings in the Archive and handled hundreds of reference questions from researchers all over the world.
John Callcott’s musical best seller
A musical grammar in four parts : I. notation, II. melody, III. harmony, IV. Rhythm, by Dr. John Wall Callcott (1766-1821).
London : printed for Robert Birchall, music-seller by B. McMillan, 1817 (3rd ed.)
Printed by B. McMillan, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.