New titles in Music Reference, Spring 2017
The following titles have been added to the Music Library Reference Room. In no particular order:
The encyclöpedia of heavy metal / Daniel Bukszpan ; foreword by Ronnie James Dio.
Blog topic: New acquisitions
Archives launches women, LGBTQ and communities of color initiative
The Stanford University Archives is proud to announce an ongoing initiative to acquire, process and digitize materials documenting Stanford women, the LGBTQ community, and communities of color. Following on the heels of its Stanford Stories exhibit carried out for the University’s 125th Anniversary, the Archives seeks to expand the range of voices and materials in its collections representing Stanford’s rich history. To that extent, we are happy to share our progress thus far.
New music scores, Spring 2017
For your browsing pleasure, we present the following list of new scores added to composer complete editions and historical sets.
Beethoven. Lieder verschiedener Völker, v. 11/3. Werke / Beethoven.
Brahms. Horntrio und Klarinettrio. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke / Johannes Brahms (Ser. 2, Bd. 7)
East Asia Library receives donation of mid-20th century Japanese diaries
The East Asia Library recently received the valuable donation of a set of diaries written by Hisao Magario (1889 - 1960), a Japanese businessman who operated an import business in Oakland and San Francisco during the mid-20th century. The forty-one volumes of diaries cover the period between 1920 and 1960, describing Magario's time in the United States during the years 1920-1926 and his subsequent activities after returning to Japan.
Introducing the Bear Family Records collection
Founded by Richard Weize in 1975, the German re-issue label Bear Family Records has been a leader in reissuing lavishly produced box sets of American roots music, with a particular focus on American country music (and related genres) from the 1920s through the 1980s. Bear Family’s box sets are impeccably curated, with recordings sourced from the best known copies, or master tapes whenever possible. The reissued recordings are accompanied by extensively researched discographies and book-length liner notes. Bear Family recordings have been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including 17 ARSC (Association for Record Sound Collections) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research and 6 Grammy nominations.
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New music scores and facsimiles, Winter 2017
For your browsing pleasure, we present the following list of new titles added to composer complete editions, historical sets, and facsimiles.
Modern editions
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.
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.