Transcript AMS-SEM New Orleans November 2012

Music Online
Sheraton Grand Ballroom B
AMS/SEM/SMT, New Orleans, November 3, 2012
Agenda
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Quick reminder of what we do …
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New works added to Classical Scores Library, Volume II
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New titles added to Classical Music in Video
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Apps
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Local uploading
Classical Music
140,000+
audio tracks
25,000+
scores
1,200+
Hours of video
• Over 200 high quality labels
• Coverage in breadth and
depth across all genres
• Streaming up to CD quality
(320kbps)
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All major genres/periods
All major score types
Indexing to the movement
Print to annotate
• Musical performance,
opera and dance
• Indexing to the movement
• Create and share clips
World Music
246,000+
audio tracks
Garland
Encyclopedia of
World Music
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800+ high quality labels
169 countries
1,000+ genres
1,400+ cultural groups
Streaming up to CD quality
• All 10 volumes
• Text searchable
• 300 audio examples
14%
27%
27%
18%
10%
4%
Popular Music
355,000+
audio tracks
• Definitive jazz from the early
‘20s to today
• American roots music and
pre-1960 American popular
music
• Wide and growing range of
popular music from around
the world
• 300+ labels
• Streaming up to CD quality
Global coverage: playlists
Global coverage: all formats
Classical Scores Library: Volume II
Summary
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Largest source of previously
unpublished, in-copyright works by
major contemporary composers from
around the world.
Currently c. 40,000 pages of scores
(1,200+ titles), growing to 200,000 pages
on completion.
Composers include:
Susan Botti
Andrew Ford
Yotam Haber
Ryan Carter
Marc Yeats
Peter McNamara
Colin Spiers
Thomas Oboe Lee
Gordon Kerry
Mark Isaacs
Moya Henderson
Chih-Yuan Kuo
Classical Scores Library: Volume II
sample of composers included
Huck Hodge, University of Washington
Robinson McClellan, Rutgers University
Anthony Ritchie, University of Otago
Thomas Reiner, Monash University
Damien Ricketson, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Paul Stanhope, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Nicholas Paul Vines, Sydney Grammar School
Andrew Schultz, University of New South Wales
Ralph Middenway, University of Tasmania
Hans Huyssen, University of the Freestate in Bloemfontein
Katia Tutiunnik, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
Liao Kuei Liu, National Taiwan Normal University
Tsung-Hsein Yang, Taipei National University of the Arts
Classical Scores Library: Volume II
We want YOUR SCORES!
Classical Music in Video
Summary
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A comprehensive streaming video
collection to support the study of
classical music.
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Currently 300+ hours of video, growing
to 1,000 hours at completion.
Relevant for music history, music
appreciation, music performance,
analysis and theory.
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Classical Music in Video
Comprehensive
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From Medieval to the 21st century.
Historical recordings from the 1950s up to the most current
recordings today.
Performances of all forms of music, including major
orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber
music, oratorio, and solo performances.
Masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from
around the world.
Documentaries profiling classical artists and their work.
Baroque
20th Century
Classical
Late-romantic
Romantic
National
School
21st Century
Classical Music in Video
Exclusive content
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Award-winning series from
Masterclass Media Foundation
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World-class musicians teaching the performance
of works with which they are associated.
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Series will cover all instrument groups, including
singing and chamber music as well as conducting
and composing.
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Specially filmed with multiple camera angles to
capture teacher commentary and performance
techniques
“the best films of performance teaching that I have ever seen ”
Sir Curtis Price, former Principal, The Royal Academy of Music, London
Classical Music in Video
Upcoming artists and ensembles
• Jessye Norman
• Lang Lang
• LA Philharmonic
• Cecelia Bartoli
• Seiji Ozawa
• Mirella Freni
• Kinshasa Symphony
• Israel Philharmonic
Content update highlights:
Smithsonian Global Sound
+25 Albums from the Mickey Hart Collection
•preserves and furthers the Grateful Dead percussionist’s
endeavor to cross borders and expand musical horizons.
•6 of the albums form the “Endangered Music Project,” a
collaboration between Mickey Hart and the American Folklife
Center at the Library of Congress, which presents recordings
from musical traditions at risk.
Content update highlights:
Dance in Video
+110 hours including:
•15 Days of Dance documentary series
•Shows full process from rehearsal to performance of a new work
commissioned by the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.
•Each day documented in detail, and shows the creative process between
choreographer and dancers.
•Finis Jhung ballet technique videos
•Balanchine Foundation interpreters archive
•Live at Broadway Dance center instructional material
•Dance Pulp interviews with dancers and choreographers
•Documentaries on leading figures and ensembles in dance (Ruth
St. Denis, Liz Lerman, Chuck Davis)
Content update highlights:
African American Music Reference
+22 new titles (6,700 pages) including:
•biographies of Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, The
Supremes
•reference on the Jubilee Singers, New Orleans Jazz,
art songs by African American composers, and more
•Sourced from:
• University Press of Mississippi
• Wesleyan University Press
• Da Capo Press
• Thunder's Mouth Press
completed
Classical Scores Library
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The largest and most comprehensive
online scores database to support the
teaching and research of classical music
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24,000+ scores that can be printed and
annotated
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Relevant for music history, music
appreciation, music performance,
analysis and theory.
"For the professional musician, Classical Scores Library is amazing"
Booklist, 2009
Opera in Video
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A comprehensive collection of operatic
performances covering the most
commonly studied operas in music
history, opera literature, and
performance classes.
500 hours of video comprising 288 works.
Relevant for music history, music
appreciation, opera performance,
analysis and theory.
“an excellent teaching tool for music schools. . . . Highly recommended”
Notes (Journal of the U.S. Music Library Association)
African American Music Reference
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Critically acclaimed and comprehensive
reference database chronicling the rich
history of African American music.
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50,000 pages of text and over 17,000
pages of liner notes
Essential for African American studies,
music education and American history
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"Highly recommended”
"A+ rating”
apps
Apps – why?
• Platforms aren’t agile, by definition
• We have a lot of valuable content/metadata
• You understand your needs better than we do
• The cost of creating analytical tools is falling
• We want to step out of the way …
Apps – for example …
http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu/?q=node/14 (SALAMI)
•Analyses the structure of 100,00s of pieces of music from the
Internet Archive so that one can easily identify the coda, etc.
of a given piece of music.
http://camil.music.illinois.edu/software/choralecomposer
(Chorale Composer)
•Interactive music theory instruction application that offers
real time, automatic analysis of musical input and Teacherdefined templates that automatically generate interactive
practice sheets
Apps – for example …
http://www.peachnote.com (Peachnote score viewer)
•Create and share annotations as an independent overlay on
top of a score image
Apps – our thoughts …
• In early 2013, we’ll release an API to enable 3rd parties to
build apps on top of our content
• Let us know if you’d like to get involved:
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Apps that would benefit from access to our content
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Ideas for apps
publishing
local recordings
Local Hosting of Library Collections
Why?
We have a publishing platform designed with
music in mind:
•Relevant metadata/vocabularies
•Built-in discovery
•Access controls
•Educational tools
•Scalable
•Opportunity for licensing
Local Hosting of Library Collections
Pilot
Jazz in Video
•targeting major jazz performances from all
around the world
Pilot to investigate hosting School of
•complement to Jazz Music Library
Music recordings (audio, video) on
Alexander
World MusicStreet’s
in VideoMusic Online platform
•Cross-searchable
•targeting major archives of field recordings and
publishedtools
videos of world music performances
•Playlist
from around
the world
•Access
controls
•complement to Contemporary World Music and
Smithsonian Global Sound
Local Hosting of Library Collections
Interested in experimenting with us?
Requirements
•Digital files
•Digital metadata in structured file
•Permission to stream locally
Other developments
• Text searchable liner notes
• 2.5mbps video streams
And finally…
1. Please ensure you are on our list of
attendees to enter our draw to win a
free year of Classical Music in Video or
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
And finally…
2. Please take a trial card and try out any
collections you don’t already use
And finally…
3. Don’t forget to ask us about any
Alexander Street Press collections that
are of interest
www.alexanderstreet.com