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  • Lisa Rae Philpott
    Music Library
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Audio

  • Finding CDs, LPs and Videos
    Helpful hints for finding recordings and videos located in the Western Libraries' Music Library.
  • Naxos Music Library [electronic resource]

    The newest addition to our online subscriptions (i.e. use the Off-Campus Access link to input your WesterOne username and password), NAXOS Music Library offers streamed access to 55,000+ recordings and adds some 800 recordings each month.  Genres include classical, blues, jazz, nostalgia, pop, rock and many more. You can search by composer, performer, label; create playlists for classes, find opera libretti and synopses, and analyses and details of works (available recordings, instrumentation, duration).

  • Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries [Electronic Resource]

    "Smithsonian Global Sound is a network of international cultural institutions working to preserve and distribute music from archives worldwide, and to foster appreciation for traditional roots music. Through its Web site, Global Sound will offer audio and video downloads, streaming media, educational resources, and detailed liner notes to music lovers, students, historians, teachers, and the academic community."

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Biographies

  • Grove Music Online
    An excellent source for biographical information about singers and musicians:  composers, performers, conductors and music scholars.
  • Encylopedia of Music in Canada [online]
    Excellent starting-point for finding information on CANADIAN musicians:  composers, lyricists, performers, conductors, etc.
  • Musicians Necrology - Gaylord Music Library
    Since death notices often contain conflicting dates, ages, and name forms, all are reported. Alternate name spellings are listed in square brackets. Citations follow the data they have provided.  This file is maintained on a daily basis, and is the source from which the Music Library Association's annual Necrology Index is extracted.
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Diction

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Encyclopedias

  • Grove Music Online
    Accessible from home (you must first authenticate your access - via "Off-Campus Access"), Grove Music Online contains The New Grove Dictionary of Opera - BUT NOT the Appendices from the back of of vol. 4. Also contains articles on composers, singers, teachers, and genres: opera, art song, vocalise, etc.
  • Encyclopedia of Music in Canada - online
    Useful for finding information about Canadian composers (works lists), performers and venues.
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Handbooks

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Multimedia

  • Opera in Video [electronic resource - streamed video]
    A streaming video database that will contain approximately 250 important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.
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Plots

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Printed Music

  • Schubertline

    The online score service for singers:  instant printed sheet music of lieder, songs and arias - view, play and print in any key, using Sibelius Scorch, the free software for downloading and printing sheet music from the Internet.  REMEMBER to note the username/password - from the "Password" list (accessible via your Western Identity name and password) - you will not need it until it's time to "BUY" your selections.  Need help?  View my SCHUBERTLINE video.

  • Music Online [electronic resource] : Classical Scores Library.

    Part of the Alexander Street Press suite of databases, this subscription offers full scores in PDF format.

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Translations

  • IPA resources published by Leyerle (Nico Castel, et. al.)
    Location: DICTIONARY TABLE, Music Library, TC 234. These volumes include translations and set the standard for IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) for singers.
  • Lied and Art Song Texts Page
    An archive of texts used in Lieder and other classical art songs (Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, piosenki, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The collection currently indexes 86,136 vocal settings of 54,442 texts and includes 10,857 volunteer translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.
  • Aria Database
    The Aria Database is an actively growing collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those titles that are not affected by copyright restrictions.  As of 2010:  1286 Arias - 171 Operas - 61 Composers - 381 Translations - 1027 Aria Texts - 223 MIDIs.
  • Translate with Babel Fish
    Not always entirely accurate, but worth a try - if you're desperate.
  • German - English Dictionary: BEOLINGUS - Your Online Dictionary
    Search through more than 900,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, and quotations in English and German. Browse lists for special topics. Listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.
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