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FYI France: digital & other music library resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
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FYI France: digital & other music library resources
France has music! Some of the finest concerts I've ever attended=20
have been held in tiny French locales, hidden away in ancient=20
nooks which have hosted music for a millennium...
Online, then, French music library resources have been=20
proliferating: for example,
** Conservatoire de Paris
Yes, this is _the_ "Conservatoire" -- although nowadays, since=20
1980, there is another one 'way down-south in Lyon, too, see=20
below. This venerable institution up in Paris, though, now in its=20
relatively-new digs (1990) out at La Villette (metro Porte de=20
Pantin), has assembled an impressive array of music resources online --
[Unfortunately the CNSMDP site is built on Flash apps which=20
currently cannot be read via iPhone... grr...]
Paris, Conservatoire national sup=E9rieur musique et danse de Paris,
M=E9diath=E8que Hector Berlioz
W3: (m=E9diath=E8que) http://mediatheque.cnsmdp.fr/OPACWebAloes/OPAC/index.=
aspx
W3: (conservatoire) http://www.cnsmdp.fr
Address: 209 avenue Jean-Jaur=E8s, 75019 Paris
t. (0)1.40.40.47.56
Email: mediat@cnsmdp.fr
http://fyifrance.com/fyi1pli3.htm#ParisConserv
-- for instance the following resources now are offered by the=20
CNSMDP m=E9diath=E8que online -- and it is very interesting to see,=20
from the following list, the extent to which "music" now is=20
globalizing... at least music education is... --
From=20CNSMDP, la M=E9diath=E8que, "Ressources internet" -- a selection --
* Discoth=E8que Naxos
* Music Online
* R=E9pertoire de th=E8ses et m=E9moires en musique et musicologie (Soci=E9=
t=E9
fran=E7aise de musicologie)
* Sites concernant les th=E8ses (Agence bibliographique de
l'enseignement sup=E9rieur) -- full-text theses
* DocTh=E8ses / T=E9l=E9th=E8ses -- SUDOC CD
* SUDOC (Syst=E8me universitaire de documentation) -- SUDOC online
* Atelier national de reproduction des th=E8ses (ANRT) -- catalogs
* Fichier central des th=E8ses (Universit=E9 Paris X Nanterre)
* RILM (R=E9pertoire international de litt=E9rature musicale)
* Th=E8ses canadiennes
* Music in Print
* RIPM (R=E9pertoire international de la presse musicale), includes,
=A0 =A0 Revue musicale (Paris, 1827-1835)
=A0 =A0 La Gazette musicale de Paris (Paris, 1834-1835)
=A0 =A0 La Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris (Paris, 1835-1880)
=A0 =A0 L'Art musical (Paris, 1860-1870; 1872-1894)
=A0 =A0 La Chronique musicale (Paris, 1873-1876)
=A0 =A0 La Revue musicale (Paris, 1901-1912)
* JSTOR (19th-century music, Archiv f=FCr Musikwissenschaft, Journal of
the American Musicological Society, Music Analysis, Revue de
Musicologie...)
* Grove Music Online
* Encyclopaedia Universalis
* Le Conservatoire national de musique et de d=E9clamation : documents
historiques et administratifs / Constant Pierre, 1900 --
"digital version of a tool indispensable for studying the
history of the Conservatoire de Paris itself, in pdf format --
contains a dictionary of instructors and laur=E9ates, from its
origins until 1900."
* Index des p=E9riodiques de musique canadiens (IPMC)
* P=E9riodiques (revues, journaux...) en texte int=E9gral -- online
fulltext of 60 periodicals, provided by the m=E9diath=E8que
* Biblioth=E8que chorale virtuelle Musica
* RISM-U.S. Libretto Database
* Operabase
* Portail de la musique contemporaine en France -- search-engine for
post-1945 music, a cooperative effort of le Centre de
documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc), la Cit=E9 de la
musique, le Conservatoire de Paris (cnsmdp), l'Ensemble
intercontemporain, l'Ircam, and la M=E9diath=E8que Musicale Mahler (MMM)
* Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc) --
contemporary composers, simultaneous listening and
score-reading, biography, 13000+ works, full digitization of
the sound works is completed and that of the rest of the
collection is under way
* Ircam link, see below
* Ressources en ligne du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles -- 17th-18=
th c.
=A0 =A0 PHILIDOR database: works, events, bibliography, catalog
=A0 =A0 Texts and articles: Cahiers PHILIDOR collection, CMBV concerts
collection, Bulletins de l'Atelier d'=C9tudes since 1990,
bulletin Charpentier
=A0 =A0 Index auteurs et incipits of the Bibliographie des recueils
collectifs de po=E9sies (1597-1700) of Fr=E9d=E9ric Lach=E8vre
* RISM A/II -- music manuscripts, 1600-1800
* RISM A/II (France)
* RISM A/II (Etats-Unis)
* RISM A/II (Grande-Bretagne et Irlande)
* RISM A/II (Italie)
* Catalogue du Centre d'=E9tudes sup=E9rieures de la Renaissance
* M=E9diath=E8que du Centre national de la danse -- link
* Ressources.analyses (la Sorbonne) -- 200 documents
* Musimediane - Revue fran=E7aise d'analyse musicale, audiovisuelle et mult=
imedia
* Catalogues des biblioth=E8ques fran=E7aises
* Catalogues de biblioth=E8ques =E9trang=E8res
** Conservatoire national sup=E9rieur musique et danse de Lyon, la=20
M=E9diath=E8que Nadia Boulanger (since 1980)
W3: (m=E9diath=E8que) http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/e.php?lsd=3D7&tc=3D5
W3: (conservatoire) http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/
Address: 3 quai Chauveau, Lyon
Postal: C.P. 120, 69266 Lyon cedex 09
t. (0)4.72.19.26.26, fx. (0)4.72.19.26.00
-- on the banks of the Sa=F4ne...
"presentation
"The Nadia Boulanger Multimedia Library occupies the part of the=20
building that formerly housed the library of the veterinary=20
school. The official architecture of the nineteenth century is=20
still apparent in the walnut panelling and the fine craftsmanship=20
of the cabinets once used to display the anatomy collection, all=20
of which blends quite naturally with the high-tech design of the=20
new furniture and digital stereo listening equipment.
"The Nadia Boulanger Multimedia Library was opened in 1980, at=20
the same time as the Lyon CNSMD itself. It owes its name to the=20
donation made to the Lyon CNSMD by Annette Dieudonn=E9 in=20
accordance with the wishes of Nadia Boulanger, who requested that=20
the collection of music she had used for her own work should=20
serve the needs of young professional musicians after her death."
"some numbers
"More than 42000 documents can be borrowed
28000 pieces of music
6700 books on music
3800 books not related to music
4200 compact discs
20 CDRoms
180 internet sites can be accessed by title, author or subject
"reading room: more than 22000 documents
"periodicals room : more than 120 current issues of music periodicals"
** Conservatoire de Lyon (since 1872)
W3: (m=E9diath=E8que) http://www.conservatoire-lyon.fr/mediatheque.html
W3: (conservatoire) http://www.conservatoire-lyon.fr
Address: 4, mont=E9e Cardinal Decourtray, 69005 Lyon
t. (0)4.78.25.91.39
Email: mediatheque@conservatoire-lyon.fr
M=E9tro Ligne D, Arr=EAt station VIEUX LYON (Cath=E9drale St Jean),=20
Funiculaire direction FOURVIERE...
-- this must be the only music conservatory in the world reached=20
by "funiculaire"...
[tr. JK:] "The Conservatoire de Lyon possesses a M=E9diath=E8que of=20
great richness. It plays an important role in the music=20
curriculum of the students, and it represents an important=20
pedagogical tool for the instructors. It also is a resource of=20
inestimable value for outside musicians, amateur or professional,=20
as well as for researchers in musicology.
"The collections are 60% gifts of the musicians and other donors=20
of Lyon -- Ennemond Trillat -1890-1980-, L=E9on Vallas -1879-1956-,=20
Henry de Chaponay, Ninon Vallin -1886-1961-, Henri Dumoulin, etc.=20
They are divided in three sections: the biblioth=E8que, the=20
discoth=E8que, and the r=E9serves.
"A total of 73,000 documents is accessible for in-library use or=20
for loan. The M=E9diath=E8que is open to all!
"The biblioth=E8que provides in-library use and loan of scores,=20
books and periodicals. It contains 45,000 scores, 6,000 music=20
books and encyclopedias, and 2,000 specialized periodicals.=20
Nearly 20,000 scores are available for loan. The biblioth=E8que=20
also contains a valuable collection of instrumental and vocal=20
scores of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Loans are free of=20
charge for the students and instructors of the Conservatory.
"The discoth=E8que is a space for in-library listening and reading,=20
offering 7000 CDs, 1500 phonograph records, 50 DVDs, et 500=20
books. This space is enriched by many significant gifts and=20
legacies, of classical music and jazz, of the music critic=20
Ferruccio Nuzzo, the Lyonnais jazz researcher and collector Alain=20
Yves-Aim=E9 Fournier (1945-2006), and of Roger Accart (1920-2007),=20
founder and backer of 'Musique du temps', and of Anne-Marie Lamy,=20
former professor of piano at the Conservatory."
** Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique, l'IRCAM
W3: http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/
W3: http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/index-e.html (in English)
W3: http://www.ircam.fr/
A remarkable array of online services:
Text, Multimedia, Varia -- not all of them available to all=20
users, on the general public site, but you get the idea -- a=20
model, for music "digital library" offerings anywhere, nowadays --
* CATALOG, books, scores and magazines
* RECORDINGS, FILMS, Online concert archives, CDs, films
* THE INTERNET, Selected resources from the Internet
* COMPOSERS FILES, biographies and musicological analyses
* INSTRUMENTAL SOUND, New techniques for musicians with many examples
and work excerpts
* INFORMATIONS, Opening hours, fees, technologies
* MUSICAL ANALYSES, with audio excerpts
* VOICE AND COMPUTER, The vocal tract and its use in music creation
* ARTICLES, Online musical and scientific texts
* IAML FRANCE, Int'l Assoc. of Music Libraries
* GROVE MUSIC, Music, musicians, opera and jazz
* BIBLIOST2I, CNRS-INIST portal for sciences and techniques
* BIBLIOSHS, CNRS humanities portal
* NEWSWATCH, Music and technology
* RILM, Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-)
* MUSIC CATALOG, Library of Congress (1960-2005)
* IIPA, International index to music periodicals
* IIPA, International index to performing arts
** Biblioth=E8que nationale de France / la BnF, music
A world-class resource to be "data-mined", truly -- there is a=20
great deal here, in this now-enormous, multi-media, multi-site in=20
both the physical and the virtual sense, bibliographic and=20
general informational extravaganza, now called the Biblioth=E8que=20
nationale de France -- only some part of which may be reached via=20
the following brave attempt at a website summary... being a=20
librarian at an institution like the BnF is a little like riding=20
an enormous tidal wave, you don't control or even guide it,=20
sometimes it's all you can do just to stay in the saddle...
W3: http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/collections.htm?ancre=3Darts.htm
"Musique"
"Sommaire" --
* Partitions imprim=E9es et manuscrites
* Musique enregistr=E9e
* Livres et revues
* Iconographie
"voir aussi" --
* Autres th=E8mes
* Music-hall, chanson, cabaret
* Danse, ballet
* Op=E9ra (spectacle)
* Liste des p=E9riodiques =E9lectroniques disponibles =E0 la BnF
* Liste des bases de donn=E9es disponibles =E0 la BnF
"ressources num=E9riques" --=20
* S=E9lection de sites Internet des Signets de la BnF sur la musique
* Exposition virtuelle Berlioz, la voix du romantisme
And now-showing, at the BnF, inter very much alia:
"Gounod, Mireille et l'op=E9ra", site Op=E9ra
jusqu'au 18 octobre 2009...
And don't forget the BnF's pioneering digital library, Gallica,
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
-- and so much more, in music as in other things, at the BnF...
And in France there are music schools --
** La Schola Cantorum, Paris
-- and libraries and archives and collections, scattered liberally
across the Hexagone and now across the virtual Hexagone as well --
** the music festivals -- something for everyone...
* Avignon
* Aix
* Africajarc
* many more...
** mediath=E8ques, generally, and discoth=E8ques, and phonoth=E8ques, and v=
ideoth=E8ques
** And others?
Being pragmatic am=E9ricain, moi, I cherish no Gallic dreams of=20
completeness and universality: there's always one more library, I=20
believe, in a place as information-filled as France -- one more=20
place which has nourished scholars and the simply curious,=20
sometimes for centuries, sometimes since last week when it made=20
its first appearance on the Ouebbe.
At http://www.fyifrance.com I maintain long lists of these=20
resources, with links and other information, and recently I have=20
been expanding the music and music library information. So, if=20
anyone would like to suggest an entry -- some favorite spot in=20
Paris, some treasured archive out en province -- please send a=20
note to kessler@well.com and I will add it.
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
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