Trial of RIPM Available Now!

We now have a trial of RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals.

RIPM was established to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. While the importance of this monumental documentary resource has long been recognized by the musicological community, RIPM represents the first effort to undertake and to coordinate retrospective periodical indexing on an international scale. Click here to get started

Want to learn more about RIPM? Visit their website, here:
http://www.ripm.org

Please keep in mind the trial expires May 17, 2010.

For questions and feedback, please email the Music Librarian at pedrosian@oxy.edu.

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everybody

Enjoy :)

MOFA This Friday!

The Occidental College Music Department

presents

Music on a Friday A fternoon

Friday, March 19, 2010

Bird Studio

4:30-5:30 p.m.

Free Admission

Students will be performing musical selections by

Mozart, Bach, Schumann, Beethoven, Liszt and others

Vocalists include:

Sienna Beckman and Rebecca Scott

Instrumentalists:

Megan Lang, Sam Sleeper, Jacob Groen, Alexandra Forman,

and Joseph Wei

Accompanists: Galina Barskaya and May Fang

Saint Motel Makes Contact on April 10 at the EchoPlex

Saint Motel is an up and coming L.A.-based band that was kind enough to seek out our quaint little blog here at Oxy. Their sound has been compared to Franz Ferdinand and the Bravery (in my opinion, lead singer A/J Jackson sound exactly like the Bravery's Sam Endicott), and I'd even go so far as to say they have a little Rooney in them. “It’s not necessarily about being original,” guitarist A Sharp told buzzbeats of the band’s pliable sound. “It’s about taking all the relevant things that happen in your life and putting them together in different ways.”

Saint Motel is especially know for their live energetic performances. During a residency at Spaceland, they had a different cinematic theme each week, and according to this beat crave review (http://beatcrave.com/2009-10-06/saint-motel-concert-review/) they really went all out. You can expect that same sense of fun at their upcoming concert at the EchoPlex on April 10.

As We Speak: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

For my first post on the Oxy Music Library’s blog, I thought I’d try to report on something as up to date and poignant as I possibly could. Well, some might argue poignant is a too strong word for the Rock and Roll hall of fame. However, they are inducting the class of 2010 Right Now (as I write this!), and it’s a pretty heavy hitting class. Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Stooges and, surprisingly, ABBA. It looks like even the Rock and Roll hall of fame wasn’t enough to get ABBA over it’s fussing and feuding, and they won’t all be in attendance for the show, let alone putting together a live set like Genesis, Jimmy Cliff and the Stooges. For anyone who questions the validity of the Rock and Roll hall of fame, A 62 year old shirtless Iggy Pop just referred to Billie Joe Armstrong and Eddie Vedder as “some kid[s]”. While you can argue over the validity or the importance of the Rock and Roll hall of fame, there is still something very cool about anything that can pull together a Wyclef John-Jimmy Cliff duet, or drag one of the most influential front-men of all time on stage to hassle the leading rockstars of today.

Musicovery: Interactive WebRadio

I was doing some research on Music and Mood, when I happened on yet another interesting webRadio site. Musicovery.com is a website that creates playlists for you based on your mood.

To use musicovery, first you define your mood on the "moodpad" spectrum. The spectrum ranges from dark to positive, energetic to calm, and everywhere in between. You can also opt for the "dancepad"feature, which provides a spectrum of speeds. Musicovery then creates a playlist for you based upon your selection.

You can further narrow your music selection by specifying only certain genres. You can ban certain songs from your playlists, and add others to be played more frequently. They even have a dial that controls what era the music is from! So, if for instance, you're having an 80s dance craving, you can move your mood somewhere in the vicinity of "energetic and positive," specify the 80s era, and select pop and rock from the music genre categories. Voila! Now add some big hair, leg warmers, and Molly Ringwald and you'll be dancing the night away.

Musicovery is also available for your own itunes music! Download the application, and it will select music directly from your library based on your mood specifications.

For more information on Musicovery technology, see the wikipedia article here.

Musicovery offers free registration to anyone, as well as a premium service starting at $4. The free service has slightly lower quality music and has no commercial breaks. Major advertising agency JWT listed Musicovery on its 2007 list of "80 things to watch in 2008.

Occidental Glee Club St. Patrick's Day Celebration!!

The Occidental Glee Club

Invites you to join them for a

St. Patrick’s Day Celebration!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Herrick Chapel

8:00 p.m.

Also featuring

The Accidentals and Cadence

Performing new Glee Club repertoire and Irish favorites

“The Minstrel Boy,” “Irish Blessing,” “When Irish Eyes are Smiling,” “The Last Rose of Summer,” “Danny Boy,” and others

$10 General Admission

Students with Oxy ID free

Refreshments will be served