Author: Jenny

  • Chat is Back!

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    Jenny

    Various technical difficulties last semester made it so we had to remove the live-chat feature from our website, but we are please to report that it is back! From the Maxwell Music Library home page, you can click on the chat bubble that says “Chat with the music librarian,” or go directly to our contact…

  • Hours for January 4-8

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    Jenny

    We will be open Monday through Friday this week, 9 am – noon and 1-4 pm. This is a great week to get in and do some listening, research for your upcoming recital program notes, or to watch those operas you always wanted to have time to watch!

  • Finding music on the internet

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    Jenny

    When preparing a piece, or researching performance practice, it can be helpful to listen to several versions of it. There are the usual library resources of the compact discs we have on the shelf, and databases such as Classical Music Library. If you are looking for more, the internet is a logical place to go.…

  • Women in Music

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    Jenny

    One of my pet projects this summer was to read more about women in classical music, and to do a lot of listening. I thought I’d share the resources I came across in the Maxwell Music Library. We have sixteen books with the subject heading of women and music, and that is where I would…

  • Kindle Music Experiments

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    Jenny

    This summer I had the opportunity to try the sheet music newly available for the Kindle, the wireless reading device made by Amazon. I tried both the regular (6″) sized Kindle and the KindleDX, which has a 9.7″ screen. From Kindle Experiments Right now, Kindle treats sheet music as it does any other image. Most…

  • Dedicated Listening Carrels ’09

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    Jenny

    Garrison Ries – for years of dedicated service Tiffany Gibson – for years of dedicated service Robert Wells – for being the most likely to end up on our shelves in the future Natalie Wren – for delving deep into the resources of the music library Heather Jackson – for serving as the music library…

  • Trial of RISM

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    Jenny

    If you are a Furman faculty member or student, you can access the trial to RISM Series A/ii: Music Manuscripts After 1600. This database is an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world’s musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. A comprehensive annotated index and guide to…

  • Elliott Carter – 100 Years and Still Composing

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    Jenny

    In December, Elliott Carter celebrated his 100th year with a concert at Carnegie Hall. Carter is still composing now, in fact of his body of work containing just over 130 pieces, 30 were written in the past ten years. 10 were written in 2007 alone, and 6 in 2008. Other Resources:Carter Centenary Web siteContains press…

  • FU Community United to Save PASCAL

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    Jenny

    PASCAL is the agreement that allows our university access to myriad databases as well as providing PASCAL Delivers which many of us benefit from every day as a quicker way to request items our library does not own. The money that the State of South Carolina has put into this may soon be pulled, and…

  • Exciting News for Spring Semester

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    Jenny

    The music library has been approved to be open additional hours starting January 12, the first day of classes spring semester. Our new hours will be: Sundays 1 pm – midnightMondays 8 am – midnightTuesdays 8 am – midnightWednesdays 8 am – midnightThursdays 8 am – midnightFridays 8 am – 4 pmSaturdays 1 – 5…