Take a virtual tour of cim.edu/library

Take a virtual tour of the library web pages.  This five minute tour describes the organization of our new web pages and overviews the variety of online resources it links to.

New Opera on DVD

New additions to our DVD collection include….

Les Huguenots – Giacomo Meyerbeer
Call Number: DVDc 509
Dame Joan Sutherland’s farewell performance to the operatic stage, this production captures the horror and tragedy of the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, as well as the splendor and romance of 16th century France.

The First Emperor – Tan Dun
Call Number: DVDc 511
The first emperor is an epic story of love, power and betrayal. The story centers on the Emperor Qin, the first emperor of China, a controversial and brutal ruler best known for unifying the country, building the Great Wall, and creating a vast army of terra cotta soldiers to guard his tomb.

La forza del destino- Giuseppe Verdi
Call Number: DVDc 513
Recorded live at the Teatro Comunale, Firenze, 2007.

Roméo et Julíette – Charles Gounod
Call Number: DVDc 514
Recorded in performance, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg Festival 2008.

L’elisir d’amore – Gaetano Donizetti
Call Number: DVDc 516
Recorded at the Opéra national de Paris, June 2006.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – Kurt Weill
Call Number: DVDc 517
Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is ‘in’ and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust and the pursuit of pleasure, where cash is king and poverty is punishable by death.

La vie parisienne – Jacques Offenbach
Call Number: DVDc 518
Recorded in performance Dec. 26, 28-29, 2007, Opéra national de Lyon.

Don Gregorio – Gaetano Donizetti
Call Numbers: DVDc 520

The Minotaur – Harrison Birtwistle
Call Number: DVDc 521
Recorded in performance, Apr. 25 & 30 and May 3, 2008, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Other new DVDs:

A celebration of Leonard Bernstein: opening night at Carnegie Hall 2008
Call Number: DVDc 515

Le sacre du printemps – Igor Stravinsky
Call Number: DVDc 519
Seen here is the legendary two-part Sacre du printemps from the final years of his creative life, complemented by the film Soulscapes, a highly personal and moving portrait of Uwe Scholz with excerpts from his most important ballets.

CIM launches new website

Today, the Cleveland Institute of Music unveiled a new design for www.cim.edu.

We are excited about our new library web site: www.cim.edu/library.   We tried to put the most requested items on all the pages, including popular online tools such as Grove Music Online, forms and a list of our digital streaming collections.  Therefore, on the right side of every library page, you will see a list of Links, Forms and Listen.  Under “Listen” you can link to the digital streaming services we subscribe to.

We are introducing an Ask a Librarian service where you can submit questions to our Reference Librarian, Bonnie Eggers electronically.

To access many of the resources, you will need to have the VPN Client installed on your home computer.  See our Connect Off-Campus page for more information.

A new feature is  Resources for You. We have arranged this section grouping together the most popular links for each type of library patron.

Please take some time to explore our pages.  Your feedback is most welcome.

New Books – July 2009

• MT 6.Bu928m R524 – Musical Poetics by Joachim Burmeister. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
• MT 100.St83 G875ig – Igor Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress by Paul Griffiths. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• MT 883.C654p 1982 – Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias by Berton Coffin et al. 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1982.
• ML 275.5.K156t – The Twisted Music: Musicians and their Music in the Third Reich by Michael H. Kater. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• ML 410.Be393 L814be – Beethoven: the Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
• ML 410.Sch63 Sch63 – Schoenberg and His World edited by Walter Frisch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
• ML 410. Sh82 Sh822 1995. Shostakovich Studies edited by David Fanning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• ML 420.H783m – Marilyn Horne: my Life by Marilyn Horne. New York: Atheneum, 1984.
• ML 1733.2.R71op – Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice by Ellen Rosand. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

New Books – June 2009

The following titles were added to our shelves in June.

• Adlington, Robert, ed. Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ML 3916.So84.
• Blevins, Pamela. Ivor Gurney & Marion Scott. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2008. ML 410.G966 BL617iv
• Bohlman, Philip V., ed. Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ML 3776.J556 Bo634 and CDc 13,436
• Cirone, Anthony J. On Musical Interpretation in Percussion Performance. Gatesville, MD: Meredith Music, 2008.  MT 655.C496on.
• Ertan, Deniz. Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought and Art. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2009. ML 410.R833 Er88d
• Fruhauf, Tina. The Organ and its Music in German-Jewish Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.  ML 626.F94or.
• Rice, John A. Mozart on the Stage. New York: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2009. ML 410.M877 R363m
• Rowe, Mark W. Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Virtuoso Violinist. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. ML 418.Er66 R792h.
• Seldes, Barry. Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2009. ML 422.Be458 Se48L
• Weiner, Howard T., ed. Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and other Popular Traditions. Lanham: MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. ML 3505.9.Ea76

New Reference Books, June 2009

Shrock, Dennis. Choral Repertoire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Ref. ML 128.C456 Sh87c

Choral Repertoire is a descriptive survey of the choral music of the Western hemisphere as selected by the author, Dennis Shrock, according to the “historical significance” of the composer.  The book lists composers by country within the standard historical eras.  The author has selected to organize all content by “relative importance” with the exception of composers who are listed chronologically within the preceding categories.  A composer index is included to facilitate locating specific entries.  The author provides a historical overview of choral music for each era and country as well as a discussion of the specific composer’s general biography and choral music output.  Choral compositions are described including date, catalog number, scoring, and timing.

Thompson, J. Mark, ed.  Solos for the Student Trombonist. Vuarmarens, Switzerland: Brass Press, 2004. Ref. ML 128.T75 So47 2004

A bibliography of solos for solo trombone (both tenor, bass, and alto trombones) arranged by Grade level (from Grade 3 to 6).  Descriptive information for each work includes composer, title, editor, publisher, duration, range, degree of difficulty,  clefs used and special performance techniques etc.  Recordings of each solo are also listed.    The book includes several appendices including a complete list of recordings as well as indexes by title and composer.

Bayne, Pauline Shaw. A Guide to Library Research in Music. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Ref. ML 3797.Ba344g

In A Guide to Library Research in Music, Pauline Shaw Bayne provides a comprehensive manual on the intricacies of research methods and information tools in the field of music.  Aimed at the graduate student in music, the book is organized into three parts:  The Short Course; Music Research and Writing; How To: Discovery and Use Resources; and Resources: The Literature of Music.  This book may be used for individual study but could also serve as a class textbook.  The author provides learning exercises throughout the book.

Van Cliburn Competition on Naxos

Naxos Music Library announced today that 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will be completely available through Naxos Music Library.  As of today, they have released the preliminary rounds and the winner’s recordings.

To explore these recordings on Naxos Music Library, search by the keyword “Van Cliburn” and all related recordings will be listed.

You can hear the winners’ recordings by searching these catalog numbers:

Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medalists

• Nobuyuki Tsujii: VCF090523D
• Haochen Zhang: VCF090525F

New Reference Books, May 2009

More stellar reference books are on our shelves.  These include bio-bibliographies on Liszt, Ravel and Saint-Saens, the Encyclopedia of Percussion, Directory of Choral-Orchestral Music and a handbook of orchestral “pops” music by Lucy Manning.

Beck, John E. ed. Encyclopedia of Percussion. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2007. Ref. ML 102.P412 En19 2007.

Provides concise definitions of Western and selected non-Western percussion instruments.  Includes larger articles on broader topics such as Percussion Ensembles, Steel Band/Pan, etc.  The encyclopedia also contains illustrations and a table of percussion terms in English, French, German and Italian.

Manning, Lucy. Orchestral “Pops” Music: A Handbook. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2009.  Ref. ML 128.Or1 M316

Author has compiled a list of the core orchestral repertoire performed in “Pops” concerts.  For each composition, the book describes instrumentation, duration, movements, title, publishers as well as assigning a “theme” for program planning. Examples of themes include Valentine, Instrumental Pops, Dance, Patriotic, Animals, and Popular Song etc.

Rosewell, Michael. Directory of Choral-Orchestral Music. New York: Routledge, 2007. Ref. ML 128.C45 R729d

Michael Rosewall has undertaken a ‘systematic study’ of the choral-orchestral repertoire.  The book describes choral-orchestral works composed during the past three centuries.  The author intentionally includes repertoire by “non-western musicians, and many works of contemporary writers – especially female composers.”  Each entry describes the title, instrumentation, duration and a list of editions/publishers for the composition.   The directory is organized alphabetically by composer and includes various helpful indexes to the content  (e.g. Works with children or youth voices).

Bio-Bibliographies

At ML 134, in our reference collection, you will not only find catalogues and thematic catalogs dedicated to specific composers, but will also find books that are often called ‘bio-bibliographies” or “Guides to Research.”  Primarily published by Routledge and Greenwood Press, these research guides are an excellent place to start when searching for information about a composer and his/her works. These guides/bibliographies provide a biographical sketch of the composer, a descriptive list of his/her compositions, and a bibliography of publications by and about the composer and his/her music.

Flynn, Timothy S. Camille Saint-Saens: A Guide to Research. New York: Routledge, 2003. Ref. ML 134.Sa22 F679c

Saffle, Michael. Franz Liszt: A Guide to Research. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2004. Ref. ML 134.L699 Sa17L 2004

Zank, Stephen. Maurice Ravel: A Guide to Research. New York: Routledge, 2005. Ref. ML 134.R196 Z16m

Recent Acquisitions – chamber music

The following list is some of the new chamber music for strings and/or woodwinds that the Robinson Music Library has recently added. There just might be that “perfect” piece to complete your recital program.  All items are score and part sets.

• Chabrier, Emmanuel. Espana Rhapsody arranged by Rick Robinson
  flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin & double bass. Oversize M885 C343es R566
• Chen Yi. Near Distance for flute/alto flute, B♭ clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion. M647 C42n
• D’Rivera, Paquito. Aires Tropicales for woodwind quintet.  M557 D833ai
• Farrenc, Louis. Piano Quintet no. 2.  M512.4 F247 op. 30 P586
• Higdon, Jennifer. Smash for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello and piano. M622 H535sm
• Hovhaness, Alan. Prelude and Fugue for oboe (flute) and bassoon. M289.2 H82 op. 13
• Martinu, Bohuslav. Sextet for piano and winds. M617 M366
• Maslanka, David. Quintet for Winds no. 3. M557 M379 no.3
• Milhaud, Darius. Corcovado arrangement pour flute et guitare. M297 M599s c L577
• Milhaud, Darius. 2e Trio pour piano, violon, violoncelle. M312 M599 op. 428
• Milhaud, Darius. Two Sketches for woodwind quintet.  M557 M599es aa
• Piazzolla, Astor. Libertango arranged for woodwind quintet. M559 P578L Sc84
• Piazzolla, Astor. Milonga sin Palabras for woodwind quintet. M559 P578m Sc31
• Schickele, Peter. Quartet for clarinet (in A), violin, violoncello, and piano. M422 Sch32
• Schoenfield, Paul. Trio for clarinet, violin and piano. Oversize M322 Sch633
• Schoenfield, Paul. Café Music for piano trio. M312 Sch633c
• Steinmetz, John. Quintet for woodwinds. M557 St365
• Wetzel, Richard. Sonatina Americana for double reed quartet (2 oboes, 2 bassoons). M457.2 W538so
• Witt, Friedrich.  Quintet for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano. M519 W783 op. 6
• Woodbury, Arthur. When Nod Dreams for two oboes and English horn. M357.2 W852w

New Reference Books – April 2009

New additions to our reference collection this month includes a research and information guide to the violin, a guide to variants in Wagner’s Ring cycle, and additional libretti translations published by Leyerle.

Katz, Mark. The Violin: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge, 2006.  Ref. ML 128.V81 K159v

As the author notes in the preface, it has been over 100 years since a major bibliography dedicated to the violin has been published.  This book addresses this lacuna by providing an up-to-date annotated bibliography centered on the violin.  It is divided into several chapters: Reference & General Studies; The Violin: Acoustics and Construction; Violin Playing and Performance Practice; Violin Music; and Violinists, Violinist-Composers, and Violin Teachers.  Entries are arranged chronologically within each sub-topic.  The book includes author, name, and subtject indexes.

Webb, Susan S. Variants in Wagner’s Vocal Lines: The “Ring” Operas.  Geneseo, NY: Leyerle Publications, 2000.  Ref. ML 410.W125 W384v

In this book, Susan S. Webb documents each variant in the vocal lines from Wagner’s Ring operas.   For each variant, Webb describes how the variant is treated in various key sources (including the compositional sketches, librettos, and the first printed full scores and piano-vocal scores].   She also provides a commentary that summarizes the key discussion/background for the variant.  The book includes indexes by role and by first line of text. Webb provides an extensive amount of information to aid the performer, researcher, conductor etc. in his/her study and performance of this work.

Castel, Nico. Gluck & Monteverdi Opera Libretti. Geneseo, NY: Leyerle Publications, 2008. Ref. ML 48. G52

Castel, Nico. Handel Opera Libretti. Vol. 2. Geneseo, NY: Leyerle Publications, 2007. Ref. ML 49.H118 C2755h v. 2

Attention all singers, the library has two more volumes of Nico Castel’s translations and phonetic readings of opera libretti.  The latest volumes feature the operas of Monteverdi and Gluck and the second volume of Handel’s oeuvre in this genre.  As usual, the books contain Castel’s notes specific to the diction of the language, plot summaries, and, of course, the libretti alongside the English translation and phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet.  Our entire collection of Castel’s opera translations can be found in our reference collection under ML 48-49.