Computerized Mensural Music Editing February 27, 2009
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Fans of mensural music may be interested to visit the Computerized Mensural Music Editing site.
Electronic Music from Germany February 18, 2009
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Lovers of electronic music may be interested to know about the site hosted by the Goethe Institute presenting German music in this area, both popular and classical.
19th-century piano music in Rio de Janeiro February 11, 2009
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Since the last time I looked, the folks at the National Library have put 875 digitized scores on line, and they are delivered as high-quality JPEG images (hooray!) which can be downloaded, or as DJVU files (anyone using this file-type yet?)
The search/delivery software for their digital library doesn’t seem to be quiteworking yet, since a search for scores (”partituras”) tells you that there are 875, but the command to retrieve the result set will only pull 400 (100 at a time).That first 400 seems to have a wide majority of polkas for piano by Brazilian composers from the later 19th century, with some quadrilles as well.
The BN also has a very strong collection of European music from this period,but nothing seems to have been digitized in that area as yet.
How to get there:
go to http://www.bn.br/bndigital/pesquisa.htm
and choose “tipo de publicacao” – the second page of results includes
the keyword “partitura”. Click.
Albeniz at the Biblioteca de Catalunya February 10, 2009
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The Biblioteca de Catalunya has close to one hundred musical scores digitized, including a large selection of items by Albeniz.
See the list.
Digital music at the National Library of Norway February 9, 2009
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Music-lovers may be interested to know that one can search the OPAC at the National Library of Norway for music and find digitized radio broadcasts (they play as Real media files).If you search for “musikk”, the first radio program that comes up is music for violin and piano by Svendsen and Lammers.
In searching be sure to limit to “digitalt innhold”.
Go to: http://www.nb.no/sok/search.jsf
