http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/ en Copyright 2008 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:08:55 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss We are very pleased to welcome Greg MacAyeal as Assistant Head of the Music Library. Greg comes to Northwestern from Roosevelt University, where he has been Director of the Performing Arts Library since 2002. Prior to his work at Roosevelt, Greg was Fine Arts Librarian and Library Events Coordinator at Augustana College from 1998 to 2002. As Assistant Head of Northwestern's Music Library, Greg will have a wide array of responsibilities, including managing all public-services operations, serving as the primary music librarian for reference and instruction, and participating in collection development. Greg holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Music in Composition from DePaul University, and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a member of the Music Library Association, he serves on MLA's Collection Development and Resource Sharing Committee, has recently completed a term on the Education Committee, and coordinate the collection-development curriculum for the Educational Outreach Program. Additionally, Greg is involved in the Public Services Working Group of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), serves on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Chamber Players of Chicago, and has been a member of the Continuing Education Subcommittee of the American Library Association's International Relations Roundtable. He also has written reviews for Music Reference Services Quarterly has given presentations at meetings of the Music Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Illinois Library Association. Please join us in welcoming Greg to Northwestern! ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/002017.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/002017.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:08:55 -0600 Please join us in welcoming Tomoko Shibuya as our new Music Cataloger. Since 2003, Tomoko has worked at the New York Public Library, first in the Wilson Processing Unit (2003-2004) and then in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound (2004-2008). At Northwestern, she will be responsible for cataloging scores, sound recordings, and other materials for the Music Library. A Northwestern alumna, Tomoko holds a B.M. in Piano Performance, a B.A. in Computer Studies, and an M.M. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. Additionally, she earned a Master of Library Science with a Specialization in Music Librarianship from Indiana University. Welcome, Tomoko!]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/002009.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/002009.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:00:00 -0600 The Music Library says goodbye to Mark Zelesky as he leaves to begin studies this fall at Louisiana State University toward a Master of Library and Information Science. Mark's last day at Northwestern will be July 18. Mark has served as Listening Center Assistant since 2006, but he also worked at the Music Library from 2000 to 2005 during his undergraduate studies at Northwestern. Mark has contributed to the Music Library in a variety of ways, and all his great work is appreciated. We wish Mark well at LSU and in his future career. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001969.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001969.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:58:12 -0600 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, recently unveiled a new interface for Grove Music Online. As before, this new site, Oxford Music Online, provides online access to the entire content of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed., 2001). Additionally, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music are also included. For additional information on how to make the best use of this new interface, see the tip sheet on the Oxford Music Online website. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001910.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001910.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:05:24 -0600 Chicago Tribune's story about our Beatles manuscripts, the Music Library has attracted the attention of two radio stations. On March 26, Bob Sirott, host of WGN Radio's "Noon Show," spoke with Music Library head D.J. Hoek about the Library's exhibit of Beatles materials, and today's "Eight Forty-Eight" program on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) also included a segment about the Beatles manuscripts. The WGN broadcast is not available online, but the "Eight Forty-Eight" segment can be heard on the WBEZ website.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001895.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001895.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:34:12 -0600 As recently announced by the School of Music, Kaija Saariaho is the 2008 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The selection committee for the award, as reported in the School of Music's press release, noted Saariaho's achievements in "transforming avant-garde techniques into a world of luminous, shifting color and emotional depth, mirroring the human experience." Saariaho's music is well represented in the Music Library, where a wide range of scores and sound recordings is available. A quick "Author" search for Saariaho in NUcat will provide a wealth of materials to explore. Also, Naxos Music Library offers online access to recordings of a number of Saariaho's works. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001892.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001892.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:40:31 -0600 Continuing the press coverage that the Music Library's Beatles manuscripts have been getting recently, the March 23 Chicago Tribune features a full-page story about these unique artifacts. The article focuses particularly on the "For No One" manuscript that shows lyrics Paul McCartney decided not to include in the finished version of the song. The full story can be read at the Tribune's website. An exhibit of high-resolution reproductions of all our Beatles manuscripts is now open to the public through April 18. Located near the entrance to the Main Library, 1970 Campus Drive, the exhibit can be viewed 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. For more information, contact the library at 847-467-5918.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001857.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001857.html Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:47:09 -0600 Two of the Music Library's staff members recently attended the Music Library Association's 2008 Annual Conference in Newport, Rhode Island. Held in the home of the Newport Jazz Festival, this year's conference featured a number of sessions on jazz but also covered a wide array of topics in collection development, cataloging, and technology. Morris Levy, Senior Music Cataloger, attended MLA as well as the Music OCLC Users Group annual pre-conference meeting. D.J. Hoek, Head of the Music Library, served as Program Chair for this year's MLA conference and attended meetings of various committees he is a member of, including the Personnel Subcommittee, the Publications Committee, the Dena Epstein Award Committee, and the 2009 Program Committee.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001795.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001795.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:45:41 -0600 Notations (Something Else Press, 1969), the collection was acquired by the Music Library in the early 1970s. Along with all of the original manuscripts that Cage brought together, the collection also includes letters to Cage by many of the composers who contributed to the project. This new finding aid reflects the Music Library's ongoing efforts to improve access to its archival holdings. With the Notations finding aid completed, we are now at work cataloging the great body of additional correspondence that is part of the John Cage Collection. See the Music Library's website to view the Notations finding aid, as well as additional information about the John Cage Collection. Special thanks to Music Library staff members Jennifer Ward and Ruth Young for their work on the Notations finding aid and their continuing work processing our Cage materials.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001777.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001777.html Home Page Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:26:01 -0600 Observer newspaper, the Music Library presents an exhibit of our Beatles manuscripts. Titled "'Say the Word . . .': Manuscripts by Lennon and McCartney from the Music Library's John Cage Notations Collection," the exhibit includes high-resolution facsimile reproductions of all eight manuscript lyric sheets held by the Music Library. The exhibit is located in the Music Library lobby on the second floor of Deering Library and will be in place through March 1. For more information, see the article on the NewsCenter site.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001784.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001784.html Home Page Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:47:00 -0600 With the recent installation of additional shelving in the Music Library reading room, our collection of oversize scores is no longer housed on tables, allowing these materials to be much better organized. Though the Music Library's major moving project in the summer of 2006 improved the shelving of books and regular-size scores in our collection, oversize scores remained a challenge, and most were stored on tables in the reading room. The additional shelving that has been installed accommodates all the oversize scores that were previously on tables and provides enough room for approximately ten years of collection growth. While oversize scores present challenges in all libraries, the Music Library has an unusually great amount of oversize scores due to the library's particular emphasis on twentieth-century and contemporary music, which often is published in large formats to allow for the very large orchestras and unorthodox notation used by many composers since World War II. To make room for the new shelving, the reading room has been slightly reconfigured. The new layout provides a large open area with tables and seating as well as wireless internet service and study carrels that can be reserved. The Music Library thanks students, faculty, and all its patrons for their patience while we made this improvement, and we hope that everyone finds it easier to access oversize scores and that the reading room is a more welcoming and comfortable area for studying.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001717.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001717.html Home Page Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:56:59 -0600 Two recent acquisitions add to the Music Library's holdings of primary materials relating to Maurice Ravel's life and music. In September, the library purchased a set of 28 letters written by Ravel to lyric soprano Marcelle Gerar (1891-1970), for whom Ravel occasionally served as accompanist and to whom he dedicated the 1924 song Ronsard à son âme. Additionally, earlier this month the library acquired a manuscript written around 1892 during Ravel's first period of study at the Paris Conservatory. Consisting of various three-voice counterpoint exercises, the manuscript is a valuable document of the methods by which Ravel learned and refined his early skills as a composer. These acquisitions, which complement other Ravel manuscripts in the Music Library's collection, were purchased with support of the Constance Heilman Brakke Endowed Fund, the James A. and Sally Ann Hagan Endowed Fund, and the Christine S. Lewis Music Library Fund.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001716.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001716.html Home Page Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:20:09 -0600 The Music Library gladly welcomes Morris Levy to our staff as Senior Music Cataloger. Morris comes to Northwestern from Harvard University's Houghton Library, where since 2001 he has been a Project Music Cataloger for the John Ward Theatre Collection. Prior to that position, Morris was Assistant Librarian at the Berklee College of Music's Stan Getz Media Center and Library from 2000-2001. Morris's duties at Northwestern will include cataloging scores, sound recordings, manuscripts, and other materials as well as managing all Music Library cataloging operations. Morris holds a B.A. in Music History and Theory from Oberlin College, an M.A. in Folklore with a concentration in Ethnomusicology from Indiana University, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of the Music Library Association, and his publications include The King's Theatre Collection: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883 from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection (Houghton Library, 2003; rev. ed. 2006), Italian Ballet, 1637-1977 from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection (Houghton Library, 2005), sixteen articles in the Encyclopedia of the Blues (Routledge, 2006), and reviews in Notes and the Journal of American Folklore.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001688.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001688.html Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:45:49 -0600 Music Library Holdings Exhibited Around the World In addition to making its holdings of manuscripts and other rare materials available to students, faculty, and visiting researchers, the Northwestern University Music Library lends items to museums for special exhibitions. In this exhibit, the Music Library highlights selected items that have been presented at museums in the United States, Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. Unique original works by John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, and others are included, and catalogs published in conjunction with the exhibitions are also displayed. ]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001677.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001677.html Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:44:57 -0600 Reference and General Questions Effective immediately, I ask that all e-mail reference questions and other general queries be sent to musiclibrary@northwestern.edu This is now the primary e-mail address for the Music Library, and all messages sent to that address will be routed to the proper staff member. For telephone queries, the Music Library's usual phone number should be used: 847-491-3434. Library Instruction Classes Faculty wishing to schedule library instruction sessions for their courses should contact me to arrange a time and to discuss what topic(s) you would like to have covered. For the interim, I will be coordinating all classroom instruction. In most cases, I plan to teach the sessions myself, but, when this is not possible due to scheduling conflicts, I may draw on staff from the Main Library's reference department to assist. Faculty who would like to include library instruction in their courses are encouraged to contact me as soon as possible.]]> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001671.html http://www.library.northwestern.edu/music/news/archives/001671.html Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:01:15 -0600