The Maine Music Box

Web-Wise 2005:Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources

February 16–18, 2005

Marilyn Lutz and Laura GallucciFogler Library, University of Maine

Funded in part with an Institute of Museums and Libraries award.

Project Partners

Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono

Bagaduce Music Lending Library, Blue Hill

Bangor Public Library, Bangor

Funding: Institute of Museums and Libraries

Collaborative Vision

Broaden access to music literature by digitizing unique collections of sheet music, scores, manuscripts

Provide a musical rendition of the sheet music or score

Develop a digital music library tool to support teaching and learning (in Maine schools)

Create a tool to deliver images of sheet music or scores, along with customizable options for sound files: control playback, tempo, instrumentation and key

Create preservation copies

What is it?

An interactive, multimedia digital music library

Database of images of sheet music and scores with associated sound renditions, cover art and lyrics

Enhanced functions—software plugin enables users to playback audio and manipulate the arrangement of the selected pieces by changing the key and the instrument.

Software

“Scorch” files require a Scorch plug in, free

and downloadable program, compatible with

most browsers (licensed)

Gives user ability to interact with the

scores in the database on the server to

the extent permissions are profiled

Collections

22,000 pieces of historical and popular sheet music, 1865–1990, written for voice and piano

“Parlor Salon” scores written specifically for piano

  Notable composers from 1920–1990,

including Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert, Percy Wenrich, Jean Schwartz, Paul Dresser, George M. Cohen

Collections

Vocal, Popular Sheet Music Collection (Bagaduce)over 16,500 pieces of popular American music representing the many vocal styles from late 19th through the 20th Century

Parlor Salon Collection (Bagaduce)3,569 scores organized in three unique collections: Vocal Parlor/Salon, Piano Parlor/Salon and Violin Parlor/Salon

Maine Collection (Bagaduce) over 2,200 pieces ranging from 1845–1997; includes keyboard, choral, vocal and instrumental music

  Haywood Jones Collection (Bangor Public)

28 original manuscript scores primarily of marches and school songs, for local high school bands in New England

Instruction Channel

Instruction tool keyed to digital music library

Lessons designed around instructions accessing full database of music (login required)

Number of registered logins– one-on-one music instruction– personal use

Collections Instructional Violin

The International Library of Music for

Violinists; First steps, with supplement of

easy violin solos

Vol. 1 The Violinist First Book

New York, The University Society, 1925

a teaching and learning tool

Evaluate pitch and adjust speed by playing in unison with sound

Develop sight-reading ability by tracking playback

Enhance visualization process by transposing key signatures and chord symbols

Enlarge repertoire by transposing music for one instrument for another

a teaching and learning tool

Understand how changes in tempo and

rhythm accent artistry by comparing

computer generated files with actual

recordings

Enhancing the learning experience

See / hear solo within the score See / hear solo played with accompaniment See / hear exact rhythm on the score

(follow the bouncing ball) Slow down music for instructional purposes View digital videos attached to lesson plan Transpose piece (including accompaniment)

to any key

a teaching and learning tool … for the future of music education

Reinforcement of more comprehensive

musical training at a younger age

Opens up new possibilities:

– distance education in music?

– archive teaching techniques of the

“masters” for future generations?

The Maine Music Box

http://mainemusicbox.library.umaine.edu

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