In this case study, I describe my experience using a drawing exercise to help students relax and bring awareness to stereotypes in classical music before introducing the topic of researching composers from historically marginalized communities. There are prompts to guide readers through the drawing exercise along with helpful tips based on four years of observations using this exercise as a teaching technique. While my experience has been positive, I recognize there is still much work to be done around drawing research in many disciplines and library instruction. The author identifies as a white, cisgender woman of English, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, German, and Slovak descent.
This paper explores the potential value of library closing music-originally designed as functional music for daily closure-in promoting both library music resources and liberal arts education. After introducing the concept of closing music and analyzing its relationship to background music, the paper examines the legal protection of library closing music through WIPO's "library exceptions" and China's intellectual property regulations. The core case study provides a "thick description" of the Tianjin University Library's closing music project from an "emic perspective" in the cultural anthropological sense, covering its design, implementation, selection principles, along with one music theme and three explanatory note examples, to illustrate the project's style, quality, and value aspirations. It also discusses audience engagement with the project, highlighting listeners' responses and interactions. Based on this case, the paper demonstrates how closing music can offer a new "in-library music appreciation" model while also encouraging the further use of related musical materials, thereby enhancing the utilization of library music resources. Following this, the paper reviews the history of music in liberal arts education and examines its modern fate, further proposing that the role of the music librarian, much like Socrates' "midwife," is to guide students toward a liberal arts education through "conversation" with "good and desirable" music. Building on this idea, the paper concludes with an educational practice: a liberal arts course creatively adapted from Tianjin University Library's closing music and its explanatory notes as teaching materials.
This article explores different features that might account for the longevity of three digital projects in music: The Arnold Schonberg Center website, the Digital Mozart Edition, and the Ricercar Projects led by Richard Freedman. Four characteristics repeatedly emerged in these three projects: digitized source material, a database of sources, pedagogical resources, and MEI. While the projects do not share all these aspects, they are seen in more than one and also occur with regularity in additional musical projects. According to scholarship surrounding them, the reasons for including these features in multiple projects extend beyond their availability and popularity in Digital Scholarship. Digital source material is often a foundational aspect of a digital resource, and along with a database of sources, is geared towards researchers, who are the primary users of these projects. As the projects develop, the motivation to reach a wider audience is evidenced by an influx of pedagogical materials. Projects such as these that have remained operational for such an extended time are able to incorporate long awaited technologies, like MEI, which took over a decade of development before being comfortably and successfully integrated into the live resources. Finding commonalities between the projects and their features gives an indication of successful paths in the future and aspects for consideration as new developments continue to take shape.
Books Recently Published Compiled by James Procell and Matthew Ertz This column is compiled quarterly from a variety of sources, including publisher and vendor websites and announcements. If you are an author or editor of a recently-published music book and would like to request inclusion in a future column, please send a message to music.library@louisville.edu. ________ ENGLISH Adams, Allison D., and Brian R. Horner. Playing & teaching the saxophone: a modern approach. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xiii, 239 p. ISBN 9780197627594. Adams, Byron, and Daniel M. Grimley, eds. Vaughan Williams and his world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. xi, 330 p. ISBN 9780226830452. Bard Music Festival series Alanne, Sami. The theory and practice of psychodynamic music psychotherapy. Dallas: Barcelona, 2023. xii, 377 p. ISBN 9781945411793. Allsbrook, Jr., William C. Making music: the banjo in a southern Appalachian county. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023. xviii, 246 p. ISBN 9781496845801. American made music series Almada, Carlos de Lemos. Musical variation: toward a transformational perspective. Cham: Springer, 2023. xxxv, 307 p. ISBN 9783031314506. Computational music science Anesiadis, A lexandros. Heroes of the metal underground: the definitive guide to 1980s American independent metal bands. Port Townsend: Feral House, 2023. 517 p. ISBN 9781627311403. Arnold, Gina, et. al., eds. The life, death, and afterlife of the record store: a global history. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. vi, 283 p. ISBN 9781501384509. Avid Technology, Inc. Make music with Pro Tools: Av id off icial curriculum. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. xviii, 423 p. ISBN 9781538175620. Avid learning series Barg, Lisa. Queer arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and midcentury jazz collaboration. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2023. xii, 265 p. ISBN 9780819500632. Music/culture Barra, Vincenzo. The musician and the senator: the microhistory of a friendship. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. 204 p. ISBN 9781032274256. Microhistories Beer, Madison. The half of it: a memoir. New York: Harper, 2023. x, 160 p. ISBN 9780063237698. Beets, Greg, and Richard Whymark. A curious mix of people: the underground scene of '90s Austin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 350 p. ISBN 9781477328132. Bernstein, Jane A. Printing music in renaissance Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xvii, 272 p. ISBN 9780197669617. Beshara, Robert K. A psychoanalytic biography of Ye: the legacy of unconditional love. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2023. xxxiv, 166 p. ISBN 9781527528864. Blumhofer, Edith L. Songs I love to sing: the Billy Graham crusades and the shaping of modern worship. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2023. xxi, 165 p. ISBN 9780802875297. Breckling, Molly M. Hidden treasures: cultural, social, and political commentary in Mahler's songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2023. xii, 264 p. ISBN 9781638040408. Brown, George. Too hot: Kool & the Gang & me. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2023. v, 186 p. ISBN 9781641609180. Bruscia, Kenneth E. Assessment in music therapy: options and resources. Dallas: Barcelona, 2023. xix, 605 p. ISBN 9781945411632. Callahan, Dan. Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2023. viii, 375 p. ISBN 9781641609227. Campbell, Genevieve. The old songs are always new: singing traditions of the Tiwi Islands. NSW: Sydney University Press, 2023. xlv, 315 p. ISBN 9781743328750. Indigenous music, language and performing arts Campbell, Jeff, and Braeden Paul. Texas bluegrass legacies: families and mentors through the generations. Charleston: The History Press, 2023. 128 p. ISBN 9781467153676. Campbell, Robert J. Haight-Ashbury, psychedelics, and the birth of acid rock. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. xi, 238 p. ISBN 9781438493367. Excelsior editions Carner, Gary. Pepper Adams: saxophone trailblazer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. xiii, 240 p. ISBN 9781438494357. Excelsior editions Carr, Elizabeth. Josef Hofmann: the piano's forgotten giant. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. xv, 239 p. ISBN 9781538183403. Cason, David. The life and music of Graham Jackson. Gainesv ille: Universit y Press of Florida, 2023. xii, 174 p. ISBN 9780813069777. Chan, Andrew. Why Mariah Carey matters. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 145 p. ISBN 9781477325070. Music matters; 013 Chun, Edna B., and George S.T. Chu. Transformational music teaching. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xv, 205 p. ISBN 9783031389191. Cimardi, Linda. Performing arts and gender in postcolonial western Uganda. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2023. xxiii...
