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African American Music Reference. New
sources include titles from the University Press of Mississippi, UNC
Press, and Da Capo Press. Also included are new scores of spirituals
and many examples of Blues lyrics. New titles added include:
• From the University Press of Mississippi
o The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture
o Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story
o Ladies of Soul: Nobody Knows Where the Blues Comes From
o Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life
• From the University of North Carolina (UNC) Press
o Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
• From Da Capo Press
o Jazz and its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader
American Song. In July we added 87 albums (1,526 new tracks) to American Song, including works from Arhoolie Records, Fantasy Records and Stax
Records.
• Works added feature Tejano, conjunto, norteño, blues, soul, cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, and American folk genres.
• Among the new albums are: Clifton Chenier: Zydeco Sont Pas Sale; Legé & Poullard: Live! At The Isleton Crawdad Festival; Steve Cropper: With A Little Help from My Friends; Pine Leaf Boys: La Musique; Oscar “Papa” Celestin and His Tuxedo Jazz Band; Wade Frugé: Old Style Cajun Music.
• To see a complete list of new content, access the “What’s New” tab on American Song here: http://amso.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew (Note that you need to be an authenticated user to access this area of American Song. To request 24-hour trial access, e-mail marketing@alexanderstreet.com)
Classical Scores Library.
The addition of 1,239 new scores (14,906 pages) includes works
from University Music Editions and Harvard University
Press’s Historical Anthology of Music series.
• 1,000 new scores from University Music Editions include:
o 420 Beethoven scores from the Breitkopf & Hartel 1888 edition
o 200 J.S. Bach scores from the Bach Gesellschaft Edition
o Scores by Liszt, Handel, Palestrina, and more.
• Hundreds of new scores from Harvard University Press include:
o Composers from the Baroque and early classical periods, such as Schuetz, Piccini, Telemann, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Gluck, and Kaiser.
o Important medieval and Renaissance composers including Gibbons, Palestrina, Dowland, Lassus, Des Prez, Adam de la Halle, Byrd, DuFay, Gabrieli (both Andrea and Giovanni), Le Jeune, Machaut, Ockeghem, Sweelinck, Tallis, and Victoria.
Contemporary World Music
has grown by 2,528 new tracks (173 albums) from INEDIT, ARC Music, Air
Mail Music, Budamusique, Nimbus, Playasound, Topic Records, and World
Music Network in a wide range of genres (Indian Classical, flamenco,
tango, belly dance, klezmer, calypso, mariachi, son, and corrido
music).
• New albums feature:
o Ensembles such as Los Pingüinos del Norte, Los Campesinos De Michoacán, and Los Alacranes de Durango.
o Shakuhachi music from Japan from Yoshikazu Iwamoto and Etsuko Chida
o New recordings from musicians Daby Balde, Munir Bachir, and the group Csókolom
o New album titles include: Nazaré Pereira: Ritmos da Amazonia, Para Belem; Noor Shimaal: Where Africa Meets the Orient; Chatuye: "Heartbeat in the Music,” World Music in California; Chocolate, Peru's Master Percussionist.
The Garland Encyclopedia of Music Online: Just Re-launched
This ten-volume full-text reference now includes the 9
companion albums and 271 audio examples associated with each
chapter. Users can link to and listen to audio examples from
the full-text notes section of each chapter as they read, or
browse and listen to the complete collection of recordings
by album, track title, performer, or date.
This collection has also been updated with browsable
indexing fields, an expanded advanced search, and all audio
tracks from the accompanying CDs for each volume. Users can
now browse by Person, Cultural Group, Place, Audio Tracks,
Audio Volume, Subject, Genre, Instrument, and Ensemble. Each
accompanying CD with liner notes and track information are
browsable and play using our standard audio player. The
Advanced Search fields have been expanded to include subject
specific fields including instrument, person, genre,
ensemble, organization, place, language, subject, and
cultural group. We have added roughly 6,000 new terms to our
controlled vocabularies in indexing these volumes, used over
100k times across all 10 volumes.
To see the complete list of recordings added, access the Browse Audio Samples area here: http://glnd.alexanderstreet.com/Browse/Recording (Note that you need to be an authenticated user to access this area of The Garland Encyclopedia of Music Online. To request 24-hour trial access, e-mail marketing@alexanderstreet.com)
Opera in Video
now includes German language subtitles for Capriccio, Gloriana, Pique
Dame, Satyagraha, Turandot, and French language subtitles for
Satyagraha. These languages now appear as options in the subtitle
transcript link, as keyword searchable text, and as language options
for scrolling subtitles in the video player.
Other Content Updates
• Content update news in this issue is largely limited to Alexander Street Music Online collections. Starting with the next bulletin, however, in September, we will include content updates for all Alexander Street collections. Stay tuned!
• Black Short Fiction and Folklore
now features “Performed Words: Ballads and Folktalkes of Tanzania’s
Haya People.” A multimedia resource that uses Synchrotext technology to
stream audio recordings of Haya balladry and folktales simultaneously
with their English-language transcriptions, “Performed Words” lets
users experience Haya oral tradition in new ways. The site contains 10
ballads and 36 folktales, including "King Kitekere," a heroic ballad
about prophecy and bravery that documents the Kyamutwara army's battle
with the Ihangiro people of the neighboring Kihanja kingdom. You can
read more about it at http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/blfi/blfi.browse.synchrotext.aspx
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