Music CD Collection
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Music CD of the Month
Our Featured Music CD for November is Battle Cry of Freedom performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Call Number: M1630.18.B37 1991
Contents: The battle hymn of the Republic (5:23) -- America (4:22) -- America, the beautiful (4:31) -- Columbia, the gem of the ocean (4:09) -- God bless America (4:21) -- Revolutionary War medley (4:50). Yankee Doodle ; Chester -- Civil War medley (14:16). The bonnie blue flag ; Lorena ; Dixie ; The battle cry of freedom ; Tenting on the old camp ground ; When Johnny comes marching home -- Service songs medley (4:12). From the halls of Montezuma ; Anchors aweigh ; The wild blue yonder ; The caissons go rolling along -- The star-spangled banner (3:58).
Subjects: Patriotic songs -- United States; War songs.
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New Music for 2009
We are excited about our new "best of the best" CDs and DVDs in the area of music. We have operas, ballets, folk music, symphonies, and more...
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FInd Music CDs in Our Catalog
To search for music CDs in the Library's catalog, use the keywords "sound recording" and whatever you seek. For example: sound recording broadway brings up 73 items. Then, limit your search to VC/UHV Music - CD & LP with the limit pull-down menu on the upper right side of the results screen and click on GO. This will reduce our results list for sound recording broadway to 60 items - all available in the VC/UHV Library Media Center.
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards website features an archive of the winners for the 50-year history of the award. These awards are voted on yearly by the Recording Academy, whose members have a technical or creative credit on "a minimum of six tracks (or their equivalent) in at least one voting discipline and the album must have been commercially released in the United States."-- from the Grammy website.
Latin Grammy Awards
The Latin Recording Academyis composed of members who are "dedicated to improving the quality of life and the cultural condition for Latin music and its makers both inside and outside the United States. The Latin GRAMMY Awards aim to recognize artistic and technical achievement, not sales figures or chart positions, with the winners determined by the votes of their peers — the qualified voting members of The Latin Recording Academy."--from the Latin Recording Academy Website
Links for Music
The Performing Arts Reading Room at the Library of Congress website contains a page of links to resources in music, theater and dance. Links are included for copyright sites to assist in the proper use of copyrighted music, directories of music publishers, music organizations, and other research resources for music.