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- Reflections from the Keyboard
CSPAC, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Sunday, October 11 at 2:00pm
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MITH announces launch of Shakespeare Quartos Archive
The Maryland Institute for Technologies in the Humanities (MITH) has exciting news about a new digital archive. Here is the blurb on it, co-opted form the MITH homepage, mith.umd.edu: MITH is pleased to report the launching of the Shakespeare Quartos Archive by th...e Folger Shakespeare Library...
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See MoreThe Maryland Institute for Technologies in the Humanities (MITH) has exciting news about a new digital archive. Here is the blurb on it, co-opted form the MITH homepage, mith.umd.edu: MITH is pleased to report the launching of the Shakespeare Quartos Archive by th...e Folger Shakespeare Library...
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Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean
Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean by Peter Manuel; Type: books Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009. My notes: none
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Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean by Peter Manuel; Type: books Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009. My notes: none
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Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library Happy 40th Sesame Street! Come to MSPAL and watch the very first show and other episodes. These videos are part of The Jim Henson Works at the University of Maryland.
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library James Gardiner (MSPAL student alum) and Nick Blaemire celebrate the release of the cast recording of their musical "Glory Days."
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The cast and creative team of Glory Days will reunite for one night only, Monday, November 23, to celebrate the cast recording of the show in a special concert at Joe's Pub. For tickets to the concert, $20, visit www.joespub.com. ...
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library Are you a Deadhead with an MLS? The University of California Santa Cruz is looking for you! Be their Grateful Dead Archivist (the link is to a pdf of the job announement).
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Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603 : material practices and conditions of playing
Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603 : material practices and conditions of playing by Helen Ostovich; Holger Schott Syme; Andrew Griffin; Type: books Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009. My notes: none
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See MoreLocating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603 : material practices and conditions of playing by Helen Ostovich; Holger Schott Syme; Andrew Griffin; Type: books Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009. My notes: none
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Problems with reserves
We recently updated our course reserves system, which has caused some problems. The following is an announcement that went out to all faculty using reserves. Let us know if you have any questions. The UM Libraries Course Reserves system was updated November 4, 2009. The issue with the random t......
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See MoreWe recently updated our course reserves system, which has caused some problems. The following is an announcement that went out to all faculty using reserves. Let us know if you have any questions. The UM Libraries Course Reserves system was updated November 4, 2009. The issue with the random t......
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Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603 : material practices and conditions of playing
Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603 : material practices and conditions of playing by Helen Ostovich ; Holger Schott Syme ; Andrew Griffin ; Type: books Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009. My notes: none
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See MoreLocating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603 : material practices and conditions of playing by Helen Ostovich ; Holger Schott Syme ; Andrew Griffin ; Type: books Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009. My notes: none
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Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
Free Event - Friday, October 23, 2009
3:30pm - Leah M. Smith Lecture Hall, rm. 2200
www.music.umd.edu
Mark Katz presents a lecture titled "Mix and Scratch: The Turntable Becomes a Musical Instrument, 1975-1978." This talk takes as its focus the transformation of the turntable from a playback device to a musical instrument during the early years of hip-hop. ...
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library UM School of Music faculty artist James Stern will perform J.S. Bach's complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006 Friday, October 23. MSPAL has several recordings available on CD and many more available via online streaming. Check them out!
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The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland is a performing arts center located on the campus of the University of Maryland
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library In case you missed this.
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In Silver Spring, a cellist plays in duo with electric guitar, their music wrapped in an envelope of reverb and static from the computer processors onstage. In Baltimore, a saxophone and bass clarinet perform acoustic compositions by acclaimed 20th-century composers in tandem with new electronic ...
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Musicians don't have better ears than the rest of us, but several new studies find that musical training can improve hearing. The musically trained brain can distinguish between subtle pitch and tonal differences in sound that many of us cannot.
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Martha Hill and the making of American dance
Martha Hill and the making of American dance by Janet Mansfield Soares Type: books Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2009. My notes: none
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Martha Hill and the making of American dance by Janet Mansfield Soares Type: books Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2009. My notes: none
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Music in art
Music in art by Alberto Ausoni Type: books Publisher: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. My notes: none
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Music in art by Alberto Ausoni Type: books Publisher: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. My notes: none
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Trial of DELRdi - Dance Education Literature Descriptive Index
The Performing Arts Library has also set up a trial of the Dance Education Literature and Research descriptive index (DELRdi). DELRdi was created by the National Dance Education Organization with a grant from the US Department of Education. It is an index o...f literature and research on teaching,...
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See MoreThe Performing Arts Library has also set up a trial of the Dance Education Literature and Research descriptive index (DELRdi). DELRdi was created by the National Dance Education Organization with a grant from the US Department of Education. It is an index o...f literature and research on teaching,...
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