LIBRARY BUILDING CLOSURE AND ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Hopefully by now you’ve become aware of the Library Construction project.  The library is doing its best to communicate what is happening, but many of you are feeling frustrated by access problems and confusion.  If  you are really in a pickle and need material more quickly than the turn-around required for paging print materials,  there are electronic options that allow for remote access.  With these e-books, you can download and read the material you might be interested in anywhere you have an internet connection.  Here is how you can find electronic books in our catalog.

Go to the Leonard Library catalog and do a keyword search for an area of interest, such as this.  In these records, you will see under the status area that it says ON-LINE.  This is the code for a book that is available via the internet.  If you are off-campus you will still need to use your SFSU ID and LIBRARY PIN to authenticate yourself as being an SFSU affiliate.

There is also another way to “limit” your search results so that your results list only shows these ON-LINE materials.   Use the location INTERNET in the ADVANCED SEARCH MODE.

You can enter the portal to NET LIBRARY directly, here.

Once inside the NET LIBRARY portal, you can search by keyword, subject, author or title.  I did a subject search for music and here are some of the results:

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Better Than It Sounds: A Dictionary of Humorous Musical Quotations by Barber, David W. Publication: Toronto Sound And Vision, 1998. Better Than It Sounds The music teacher came twice each week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin. — George Ade Accordion A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t. — Anon. Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), American journalist, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906). Advice When a piece gets difficult, make faces. — Artur Schnabel (1882-1951), Austrian pianist, giving advice to fellow pianist Vladimir Horowitz. We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. — H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist and music critic. Bagpipes Others, when the bag-pipe sings i’ the nose, Cannot contain their View this eBook | Show Details | Add to Favorites

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My Music Is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940 by Glasser, Ruth. Publication: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, 1997. Introduction People and their cultures perish in isolation, but they are born or reborn in contact with other men and women, with men and women of another culture, another creed, another race. If we do not recognize our humanity in others, we shall not recognize it in ourselves. Carlos Fuentes On July 14, 1930, the New York Times reported that the country’s rate of unemployment was at least 20 percent and rising fast. On this day, eight and a half months after the stock market crash, the newspaper also showed that over the past year Prohibition had cost the U.S. government $960 million in enforcement proceedings and loss of alcohol tax revenues. Just as Americans continued to drink during Prohibition, those who could afford it continued to seek View this eBook | Show Details | Add to Favorites

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The Musician’s Guide to Reading & Writing Music by Stewart, Dave. Publication: San Francisco Miller Freeman Books, 1999. One— The Notes This is a stave, on which we write the notes. The higher the pitch of the note, the higher its position on the stave. For example, is higher than If the stave has this symbol at the beginning, it is used for the treble register, i.e., fairly high notes. is called the treble clef. Here are the names of the notes on the treble stave: on the lines, and: in the spaces. when combined. It is possible to go higher or lower, for example: It may have occurred to some of you that and are the same note. You’re right. There are times when one name is more apt than the other, but I’ll save my explanation of this till Chapter 5 by which time your musical IQ will be sufficiently raised for you to be able to grasp the concept with sneering View this eBook | Show Details | Add to Favorites

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One Voice: Music and Stories in the Classroom by Britsch, Barbara Martin.; Dennison-Tansey, Amy. Publication: Englewood, Colo. Teacher Ideas Press, 1995. PART I 2. Verbal: Specific answers to questions about the music, metaphors, or symbolic language that refer to something occurring or a story created in response to the music. 3. Kinesthetic: Rhythmic and creative movement to the music (both overall and specific elements). Because young students’ verbal abilities are not fully developed, visual and kinesthetic responses work especially well with this age group. However, not having a musical vocabulary should not be a deterrent to verbal responses for any age. The use of metaphor, simile, creative questioning, and so on can overcome this language barrier. It is of little value for the student to understand that “accelerando” means to speed up if he cannot recognize that occurring in a piece of View this eBook | Show Details | Add to Favorites

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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America Music/culture by Rose, Tricia. Publication: Hanover, N.H. Wesleyan University Press, 1994. Chapter One— Voices from the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production Public Enemy’s “Can’t Truss It” opens with rapper Flavor Flav shouting “Confusion!” over a heavy and energetic bass line. The subsequent lyrics suggest that Flavor Flav is referring to lead rapper Chuck D’s story about the legacy of slavery, that it has produced extreme cultural confusion. He could just as easily be describing the history of rap. Rap music is a confusing and noisy element of contemporary American popular culture that continues to draw a great deal of attention to itself. On the one hand, music and cultural critics praise rap’s role as an educational tool, point out that black women rappers are rare examples of aggressive pro-women View this eBook | Show Details | Add to Favorites

As always, the library databases are  available remotely, with your SFSU ID and Library PIN number if off campus. Reminders  of a few of these databases, below.  I do encourage you to use these databases.  We do keep statistics of who uses them, and when statistics show that use amongst our community are low, these resources may be discontinued.

For a complete list of Music related library databases, go here.

For a more complete list of Music related resources, go here.

BYRON HOYT DIGITAL  SHEET MUSIC COLLECTION – This database accesses over 8,000 classical music scores in the ebrary database. It includes repertory for soloists, chamber music ensembles, choirs, orchestras and operas. It also includes an important collection of American music published between 1850 and 1920.

CLASSICAL MUSIC LIBRARY–Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource-a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information.

SMITHSONIAN GLOBAL SOUND–Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE (FORMERLY GROVE ONLINE)–

Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford’s music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.

For more in-depth information about the editorial changes behind the Grove relaunch, please visit the Grove Music Online page.

Oxford Music Online also features Colin Larkin’s landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music — online for the first time by popular demand. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, the Encyclopedia is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. It is exhaustive, meticulous, authoritative — and incredibly fun to read.

RILM ABSTRACTS OF MUSIC LITERATURE–Citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. This file is produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale.

RIPM RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS–RIPM – Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. Treating primary source material, RIPM indexes the content of complete runs of journals, including articles, reviews, news columns, miscellaneous items, surveys of the press, bibliographies, iconography and advertising. In addition, this database offers access to an immense bibliography of music and to thousands of English-language translations of foreign documents. Approximately 20,000 records are added annually. Plans are currently underway to expand RIPM’s coverage to include Latin America. RIPM is produced under the auspices of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML).