Music journals which currently have online content provided through Cambridge Journals Online via Columbia University Libraries are:

• British Journal of Music Education
• Cambridge Opera Journal
• Early Music History
• Eighteenth-Century Music
• Journal of the Society for American Music
• Organised Sound
• Plainsong and Medieval Music
• Popular Music
• Tempo
• Twentieth-century music

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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 course, other performance issues, such as the room, the instrument, the audience, and how these may have been factors in the artist’s performance, cannot be factored in.

I think this raises many interesting issues of performance vs. recording vs. the perception of “liveness”. To me personally, even at its best this can only be another form of recording, rather than a “live performance”.

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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 musicians, Baker’s student encyclopedia of music and Women composers: music through the ages. Provides coverage of all classical genres, from the Medieval period to the 21st century.

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Opera in Video
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6697350

A streaming video database that will contain approximately 250 important
opera performances, captured on video through staged productions,
interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s leading
performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s
importance to the operatic canon.

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Dance in Video
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6697347

Searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions
and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th
century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental,
and improvisational dance, as wellas forerunners of the forms and the
pioneers of modern concert dance. Videos can be browsed by people, role,
ensemble, genre, and venue. Material types include documentaries,
editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances. Database users
may create their own custom playlists and video clips.

“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 digital formats. Content will grow as new communities and collections are added to Academic Commons.”

The site includes links to Columbia dissertations and theses, with full text in many cases. It is possible to browse these by academic dept., by navigating from Browse All Content By >>> Communities/Collections >>> Columbia Dissertations and Theses >>> Dissertations by Dept. (or follow this link).

Coverage for dissertations is from 1997 forward, with some selected content prior to 1997.

Remember also that for dissertations in general, Proquest Digital Dissertations, available through the Columbia Libraries, is a great resource (note: access limited to full-time students, faculty and staff).

A report here says that the piece will be give its modern premiere in Germany on June 7, 2008, at the Halle Handel Festival, played by Martin Haselböck.