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Sat, 18 May 2013 09:01:59 PDT Sat, 18 May 2013 09:01:59 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=753762 Online Magazine about World Music - a space for the appreciation of independent music worldwide and knowledge sharing. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=749839 JazzStandards.com is a website dedicated to the preservation of information for the musical compositions known as Jazz Standards.The information at this site has been assembled from hundreds of reference books and historical documents with additional commentary by jazz performers, historians, and musicologists.In one location you can find:A list of the 1000 most-frequently recorded jazz standard compositions (Click on Songs) Detailed information on the top 300 jazz standards including origins, historical notes, musical analyses, CD suggestions, and much more (Click onSongs) Concise biographies for the writers and introducing performers A decade-by-decade look at jazzhistory through the trends, events, and people who shaped the jazz standards canon. References on hundreds of songs to help you in your research (look inSongs, Biographies and the Jazz Standards Bookstore) Questions and Answers, see the column to the right. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=749808 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1959, is widely regarded as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world. In this free Listening Library, enjoy performances of more than 250 compositions written from 1691 to 2011. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=749812 The Keeping Score web site is designed to give people of all musical backgrounds an opportunity to explore the music and life of the composers featured in the Keeping Score television series in depth, and at their own pace. Extensive audio, video, and critically acclaimed interactive material explores each composer’s scores and pertinent musical techniques as well as the personal and historical stories behind them in a user-friendly way. The site is designed to appeal particularly to high school, college and university music appreciation students and their teachers, and its interactive learning tools offer a unique and in-depth online learning experience. The site also includes a historical timeline that takes users deeper into the eight individual composers’ political, social, and cultural milieus as well as downloadable lesson plans created by teachers who have experienced theKeeping Score Education program. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=748794 Take a spin through artCircles™ to discover a world of art images in a brand new way. Let your fingers wander as you whirl through wheels of art by colors, words, themes or curators—the artists, designers and tastemakers of our times—who share their unique perspectives on creativity and the art that inspires them. Each spin reveals new art that just may surprise you and change the way you see a painting or photograph. Then, shape and share your own collection. Who knows, your “favorites” circle could take someone else on a magical art journey.The app is from the commercial site www.art.com that can mat and frame art prints that you buy from them. You do not need to buy anything to use the app.The artworks featured in artCircles are available for purchase on the app and at art.com and can be custom framed in a variety of styles. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=747523 Figure/Ground is an interdisciplinary research website investigating central problems across the university environment today through a myriad of approaches in the fields of education, technology and media studies, and the arts, humanities and social sciences. Figure/Ground organizes its discussion around four central problems across the university environment today: academic capitalism, the university in the information age, the sovereignty of disciplines and mentorship and pedagogy. The site's main avenue of practice is the Figure/Ground interview collection, which features in-depth conversations with academics and intellectuals from all walks of life who are teaching and working within education, technology and media studies and the arts, humanities and social sciences. There are over 150 interviews in the collection with more being added. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=733841 'In this book you will find a collection of more than 15 masterpieces of classical music, composed by the greatest characters of all time and performed by superb philharmonic orchestras, also enjoy the biography of the various composers, just take your time to enjoy of the elite of the music.'This app costs $1.99 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=718361 'The inaugural online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth of the American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990). The multiformat Aaron Copland Collection from which the online collection derives spans the years 1910 to 1990 and includes approximately 400,000 items documenting the multifaceted life of an extraordinary person who was composer, performer, teacher, writer, conductor, commentator, and administrator. It comprises both manuscript and printed music, personal and business correspondence, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, awards, books, sound recordings, and motion pictures.The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through the 1950s, and were selected from Copland's music sketches, correspondence, writings and photographs.' http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=718403 'The sheet music in this digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. The full collection consists of approximately 500,000 items, of which perhaps 250,000 are currently available for use. It is one of the largest collections of sheet music in any library in the United States. The sheet music, primarily vocal music of American imprint, dates from the 18th century to the present day, with the largest concentration of titles in the period 1840-1950.Categories of particular note in the full collection include 19th century color lithographs; the works of Boston lithographers; music relating to World Wars I and II; music from the Yiddish-American stage at the turn of the century; early American imprints; Confederate imprints; Broadway show music; movie music; musical settings of American poetry; Rhode Island music; octavo band arrangements; and a very large collection of general popular music of the 19th and 20th centuries.' http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=718409 'For most of the nineteenth century, before the advent of phonograph and radio technologies, Americans learned the latest songs from printed song sheets. Not to be confused with sheet music, song sheets are single printed sheets, usually six by eight inches, with lyrics but no music. These were new songs being sung in music halls or new lyrics to familiar songs, like "Yankee Doodle" or "The Last Rose of Summer." Some of America's most beloved tunes were printed as song sheets, including "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Song sheets are an early example of a mass medium and today they offer a unique perspective on the political, social, and economic life of the time, especially during the Civil War. Some were dramatic, some were humorous; all of them had America joining together in song. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress holds 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth century to the 1880s, although a majority of the song sheets were published during the height of the craze, from the 1850s to the 1870s.'