Music Online

Sheraton Grand Ballroom BAMS/SEM/SMT, New Orleans, November 3, 2012

1. Quick reminder of what we do …

2. New works added to Classical Scores Library, Volume II

3. New titles added to Classical Music in Video

4. Apps

5. Local uploading

Agenda

Classical Music

• Over 200 high quality labels• Coverage in breadth and

depth across all genres• Streaming up to CD quality

(320kbps)

• All major genres/periods • All major score types• Indexing to the movement• Print to annotate

140,000+audio tracks

25,000+scores

1,200+Hours of video

• Musical performance, opera and dance

• Indexing to the movement• Create and share clips

World Music

• 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

246,000+audio tracks

Garland Encyclopedia of

World Music14%

10% 4%18%

27%27%

Popular Music

• 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

355,000+audio tracks

Global coverage: playlists

Global coverage: all formats

Classical Scores Library: Volume IISummary

• Largest source of previously unpublished, in-copyright works by major contemporary composers from around the world.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 Colin SpiersAndrew Ford Thomas Oboe LeeYotam Haber Gordon KerryRyan Carter Mark IsaacsMarc Yeats Moya HendersonPeter McNamara Chih-Yuan Kuo

Classical Scores Library: Volume IIsample of composers included

Huck Hodge, University of WashingtonRobinson McClellan, Rutgers UniversityAnthony Ritchie, University of OtagoThomas Reiner, Monash UniversityDamien Ricketson, Sydney Conservatorium of MusicPaul Stanhope, Sydney Conservatorium of MusicNicholas Paul Vines, Sydney Grammar SchoolAndrew Schultz, University of New South WalesRalph Middenway, University of TasmaniaHans Huyssen, University of the Freestate in BloemfonteinKatia Tutiunnik, Universiti Teknologi Mara, MalaysiaLiao Kuei Liu, National Taiwan Normal UniversityTsung-Hsein Yang, Taipei National University of the Arts

Classical Scores Library: Volume II

We want YOUR SCORES!

Classical Music in VideoSummary

• A comprehensive streaming video collection to support the study of classical music.

• Currently 300+ hours of video, growing to 1,000 hours at completion.

• Relevant for music history, music appreciation, music performance, analysis and theory.

Classical Music in VideoComprehensive

• 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.

National School

Baroque ClassicalLate-romantic

Romantic

20th Century

21st Century

Classical Music in VideoExclusive content

• Award-winning series from Masterclass Media Foundation

• World-class musicians teaching the performance of works with which they are associated.

• Series will cover all instrument groups, including singing and chamber music as well as conducting and composing.

• 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 VideoUpcoming 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

• The largest and most comprehensive online scores database to support the teaching and research of classical music

• 24,000+ scores that can be printed and annotated

• 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

• 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

• Critically acclaimed and comprehensive reference database chronicling the rich history of African American music.

• 50,000 pages of text and over 17,000 pages of liner notes

• Essential for African American studies, music education and American history

"Highly recommended” "A+ rating”

apps

• 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 – why?

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 Teacher-defined 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

• 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:

– Apps that would benefit from access to our content

– Ideas for apps

Apps – our thoughts …

publishing local recordings

Local Hosting of Library CollectionsWhy?

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 CollectionsPilot

Jazz in Video•targeting major jazz performances from all around the world•complement to Jazz Music Library

World Music in Video•targeting major archives of field recordings and published videos of world music performances from around the world•complement to Contemporary World Music and Smithsonian Global Sound

Pilot to investigate hosting School of Music recordings (audio, video) on

Alexander Street’s Music Online platform•Cross-searchable•Playlist tools•Access controls

Local Hosting of Library CollectionsInterested 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