Reading 10: Onwards and Upwards!

So here we are! Last blog of the semester, and although it has been fun, I’m looking forward to doing more legwork for my own projects and less for Oxford Music Online entries (we love you, Prof. Shanton). At the end of this journey, we ask ourselves this...

Reading 8: Preservation, Copyright, and Sound Recordings

The Apocalypse is upon us! “How Streaming Media Could Threaten the Mission of Libraries” (cue timpani roll and dissonant chords on low brass) I am not sure how to feel about this article — Is the advent of new avenues of distribution for recorded music a...

Reading 7: For the Future

There is SO MUCH to think about the issue of digital access to information nowadays: on one hand we’ve got issues of copyright and ownership; on the other hand we’ve got the benefits of equalized access to information for everyone with access to Internet....

Reading 6: To be, or not to be [historically accurate]?

To play a [historically accurate] note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable! — Beethoven? (maybe). As dry as a dictionary entry might be, the Oxford’s entry on “Historical Performance” sparked some really entertaining thoughts in...

Reading 5: From hand to paper – A note about sources.

Definitions, differences, and importance. When researching music, one might find interesting things, erased content or notes to self that composers (or copyists) left themselves in their manuscripts – be it autographs (handmade copies by the hand of someone), or...