Looking for a job in music, dance, or theatre? Start by visiting the College of Fine and Applied Arts Career Services office. They've got job listings, resume guidance, workshops, and more.
The School of Music also maintains a career opportunity list.
If you are a musician looking for a festival to attend this summer, Career Services also has a festival list.
Look for more information on our website in the near future!
Did you know that the Music Library has hundreds of DVDs in various genres (not just opera!) that you can check out? All you have to do is take the call number to the circulation desk and ask for the item. Here is just a small sample:
DVD M5 C538 2002 Claudio Arrau: Schumann Piano Concerto, Schumann Carnaval, Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32
DVD M1060 K378 2005 Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic: Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
DVD M1630.18 S736 2002 Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Standards
DVD M1741.18 L439 2003 Led Zeppelin: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1970
DVD M1812 K63 R4 Kodo (drummers) Live at the Acropolis
DVD PN1992.8 D6 J646 2002 John and Yoko's Year of Peace
To find these and more DVDs in the library catalog, set limits to "Film/Video" and do an author, title, or keyword search for what you want.
iTunes turns five
from Wired.com
The Music Library has many resources in many formats. The JVC Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance is an indispensable resource for those study music, dance, and cultures of America and other nations. The series is divided into three parts and each set of DVDs has accompanying guide books.
Music and Dance of Africa
Music and Dance of the Americas
Music and Dance of Europe
Summer Stages (From NY Times)
Theater
Published: May 11, 2008
Plays by Shakespeare, John Guare, Michael John LaChiusa and more, in festivals from Alabama to Washington.
It comes as no surprise that students use YouTube for fun and for research, because it's easy to use and has a lot of content. Respected music writer Norman Lebrecht writes about how he too has been pulled into YouTube.
While he's writing about music specifically, there is also a lot of dance content. Looking for a demonstration of how a dance move goes (especially popular dance)? Try searching YouTube. Theatre researchers can also use YouTube to their benefit. Of course, as with any tool, you have to evaluate what you find here critically. But, YouTube can be very useful.
How YouTube shrank the classical world
By Norman Lebrecht / June 25, 2008
the Lebrecht Weekly in LaScena Musicale
31 articles about how to practice more efficiently on any instrument
31 Days to Better Practicing: A Readers Guide
Suggestions for how to get the most out of "31 Days"
Both from the Collaborative Piano Blog
Perhaps you haven't started writing those term papers yet, or perhaps you are knee-deep in your thesis or dissertation. In either case, if you need a quick reminder about how to cite things in your paper, see the online version of the Chicago Manual of Style.
More help is available under the "How do I manage my research" section of the new Research Guides page of the MPAL website.
Take advantage of these great workshops offered by the Main Library:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html
Civil War Sheet Music Collection
In anticipation of the 2009 bicentennial celebration of Abraham Lincoln's
birth, we recently digitized a small collection of Civil War era sheet
music from the University of Illinois Music Library.
(From the Digitized Book of the Week Update)
[From DRAM's offices]
Dear DRAM Members,
The summer months proved to be a productive time here at DRAM. We were able to introduce some wonderful new content from several labels and lay the foundation for the addition of more new content and functionality in the months to come. Read on for more details.
New Content
In recent weeks, we've added several hundred new albums to DRAM from many of our participating labels. Moreover, having greatly reduced a substantial backlog of material and streamlined production processes, the stage is set for more frequent additions of new recordings to DRAM's collection going forward.
Albany Records - 393 New Albums
New World Records - 95 New Albums
Cedille Records - 71 New Albums
Mutable Records - 12 New Albums
Pogus - 19 New Albums
Open Space - 8 New Albums
Mode Records - 7 New Albums
Call for Submissions - Share Your Knowledge and Favorite Recordings
As DRAM's collection continues to grow, so do our efforts to offer users entry points into DRAM and opportunities to engage and contribute. As you may have noticed, one way we're seeking to do this is with the play-lists and accompanying essays in the "Featured Content" section of DRAM's homepage each month.
If you, a library colleague, faculty member, or dedicated student at your institution is interested in contributing a play-list to our Featured Content section, please write to me at tsinclair@dramonline.org with your idea for a submission.
Selected play-lists must meet with editorial approval, and should contain approximately 10 selections and a 1000 - 2500 word essay explicating the reason for each selection and how it contributes to the list's unifying theme. Topics might include, but are not limited to, a particular composer, time-period, instrument, or compositional element. Creativity in selecting topics is encouraged, and play lists may be posted more frequently than the current once a month schedule as the number of viable contributions permits.
DRAM Radio - Partnership with Art of the States
DRAM Radio has made substantial progress towards its debut, and we're aiming to launch our first radio programs in mid-November. So far, more than three quarters of the remaining original 100 New World LPs have been re-mastered and digitized for the first time, enabling the inclusion of these classic recordings in DRAM's Radio programming.
Even more exciting, we're very pleased to officially announce a partnership between DRAM and Art of the States towards the joint production of original broadcast programming featuring the composers, performers and music in DRAM.
Art of the States, like DRAM, is a non-profit organization committed to sharing new and important American music with the world. For over 15 years Art of the States has been expanding the audience for US-based composers through its international distribution network, with its programming carried by 75 terrestrial radio broadcasters in 50 countries. The Art of the States website, launched in 2002, attracts a geographically diverse and highly devoted listenership with broadcast content which, as a visit will show, offers a terrific compliment to DRAM's. Our hopes for this partnership are high, and we look forward to presenting our debut productions in November.
Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?
Henry Blodget | January 3, 2009 8:39 AM
An interesting look at how many individuals are making the majority of changes to Wikipedia. There are differing opinions on the best methodology for measuring this, but either way, the numbers may surprise you.
The Savvy Researcher
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html
Drop-in workshops geared to graduate students in all disciplines!
small class size * hands-on * quick paced * one-hour sessions
The information experts are here to help you with everything from informational organization strategies to questions about copyright law basics to locating data sets to citation management to finding grant funding.
For registration information, please visit: http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/
Co-sponsored by the Graduate College
Jazz on the Screen:
A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker
This searchable filmography documents the work of some 1,000 major jazz and blues figures in over 14,000 cinema, television and video productions.
OK, while many of you seem shy about commenting on the blog, you have told me that you'd be interested in a Twitter stream from the Music and Performing Arts Library--so here it is: twitter.com/mpalillinois Click on "Follow" under the MPAL Illinois logo so you don't miss any of our Tweets.
The Jazz Music Library is now available to UIUC community members on a trial basis. Try it out and let us know what you think.
You may know that we subscribe to the Classical Music Library streaming audio tool. Now when you search our online catalog, if a recording is available in CML, it will have it's own entry.
Here's a Boolean search for Reger and serenades, limited to "music recordings."
If you click on the title, you get more information about the recording.
You can then click on the link that says "Online Access" to go to the CML tool, where you can click on tracks to play them.
The Library now has a subscription to Alexander Street Press's Theater in Video
"Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 242 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, King Lear, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Bérénice, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, Krapp's Last Tape and Othello, among many others. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Eli Wallach, Zoe Caldwell, Sam Waterston and more. For the first time, students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging."
The longest running jazz festival in the world!
Each fall since 1958, the seaside city of Monterey, California, has been the site of performances by the world's finest jazz and blues performers. The festival's archive - preserved by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound - contains recordings of live festival performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution
Search nearly 9,000 performances and other segments representing 1,000 hours of audio and video content are described in the database
Have you been using our great collection of sheet music on CDROM? Well, now it's available to the University of Illinois Community via Library Music Source.
CD Sheet Music
Includes masterworks for piano, organ, classical guitar, strings, winds, voice, chorus and study scores. It includes:
* 35,000 pages of piano music
* 30,000 pages of vocal music (arias and art songs)
* 17,000 pages of opera vocal scores
* 21,000 pages of choral vocal scores
* 15,000 pages of violin music
Orchestra Musicians' CD Rom Library
Including all the parts to over 600 orchestra masterworks, this is a 10-Volume set of original orchestra parts and scores for violin, viola, cello, bass, flute (piccolo), oboe, clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, low brass, timpani/percussion and harp/keyboard/ miscellaneous. Note: Printing all the separate parts enables performance.
There are now more full text link options for the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) databases. If the full text of an article is available directly from one of those sources you'll still see "Full text" or "Full text-PDF" links. If the article is potentially available from another online source you'll see the blue "Discover UIUC Full Text Linking" button. If you click on it you will be given other options to locate the item online or request it via InterLibrary Loan.
If you have any questions about this, just stop by the MPAL and let us know!
Did you know that we have a large collection of early childhood music resources? You can find them in the library online catalog by doing a phrase search for "early childhood music project.
Need visual images to support your research? Use ARTstor (U of I community only, library subscription resource).
ARTstor Resources in Music History http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/inter-music-history.pdf
ARTstor Resources in Theatre and Dance http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/inter-theater-dance.pdf
What is ARTstor you ask?
"ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes."
Have fun!
The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label includes important releases by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and many more. There are recordings covering the folk music of many countries, political themes such as wars and protests, as well as genres such as railroad, cowboy, and childrens' songs.
We have many Smithsonian Folkways CDs and LPs in the Library, but we also have access to hundreds more through our online subscription to Smithsonian Global Sound.
You can search for this content by label, artist, or song or album title.
If you already know the name of the album, choose Browse > Album from the column on the left.
If you want to browse all of the recordings on the Smithsonian Folkways label, choose Browse > Label from the column on the left:
Then, chose Smithsonian Folkways Recordings from the list:
Next, you can get a list of the albums by title by looking at, "Narrow your search further by selecting" at the top and clicking on "Album > more..." in the pop-up window:
Then you will see an alphabetic list of all albums on that label:
Of course you can do this with all of the other labels represented in Smithsonian Global Sound as well.
