Summer Intersession begins 8/18

Summer Intersession hours will begin on Monday, August 18th, and be in effect through Labor Day. Enjoy the last few weeks of summer, everyone!

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Cambridge Journals Online offers some enhancements

Cambridge Journals Online has announced some enhancements to its online services, including the ability to bookmark content using social bookmarking services (such as del.icio.us), to interface with Zotero, and  a downloadable search widget. Full details on the enhancements are available at this link.
Music journals which currently have online content provided through Cambridge Journals Online via [...]

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Summer reading suggestion

OK, perhaps it’s not “Jaws” or other typical beach reading, but the journal Nature has been running a fascinating series of articles on music and science, including articles by John Sloboda, Nicholas Cook, and Philip Ball. They’ve now made all of the articles available as one download, or you can also browse and download [...]

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Technology re-animates performance. Or, re-performance?

There’s a fascinating story on WNYC’s Soundcheck blog today, which details a process used by the company Zenph, which uses actual audio recordings of keyboard music to re-create live performances, on a computer-driven Disklavier. Their claim is that the process is accurate enough to capture all of the details of an original piano performance. Of [...]

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New E-Resources added

Three new e-resources of interest have been added to the Libraries’ collections. Please have a look!
Questions or feedback? Please contact us at music@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
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Classical Music Reference Library
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6697428
The Classical music reference library brings together reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Included are the reference titles Baker’s dictionary of music, Baker’s biographical dictionary of [...]

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Mister Softee’s siren song

This country is facing a time for big decisions. Wherever you may fall on the Mister Softee jingle controversy (soothing and nostalgic, or nervewracking?), it’s important to have the facts to make an informed decision. Check out the official sheet music, with *lyrics*, to get up to speed on the issues:
http://www.mistersoftee.com/music.html

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Columbia Libraries launches re-designed Academic Commons

Columbia Libraries has launched Academic Commons, a re-designed version of the earlier Digital Commons. The site
“collects, preserves, and makes accessible the scholarship and research of the faculty, staff, and students of Columbia University. The Commons will include articles and monographs, working papers, preprints, technical reports, conference papers, datasets, multimedia creations, and other materials in various [...]

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New book by music faculty member George Lewis

Prof. George Lewis, the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, and Director, The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, has a new book out: “A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music” (University of Chicago Press, 2008). The book is available in CLIO under call number ML3508.8 [...]

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New Bach organ composition discovered

On the heels of the discovery of an unknown aria in recent years, German scholars have announced the discovery of an unknown organ composition by J.S. Bach, as reported (in German) here, with a report in English here. The work is a chorale fantasy on the chorale “Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält”.
A [...]

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Summer hours

The spring semester’s really over – wishing everyone a great  summer! Summer hours for the library are available at this link. Hope to see you in the library!

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