New content has been added to several of the Alexander Street Music Online collections:
African American Music Reference: 1,317 pages in 15 titles from Chelsea House Publishers, Hampton Institute Press, and David McKay. New titles include:
- Traditional Black Music Series (13 volumes) by Jerry Silverman (sheet music including spirituals, slave songs, songs of protest and civil rights)
- Sheet music of hymns and religious folk songs published by Hampton Institute Press
- Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas (Beatrice Landeck)
- African American Music Reference now totals 34,112 pages
American Song: 912 tracks from 40 albums of traditional folk songs, rural blues, gospel hymns, and more. Highlights include:
- 9 volumes of traditional folk songs recorded specifically for American Song by folk singer Jerry Silverman. These folk songs were collected and published in his Folk Song Encyclopedia. These are the recordings that complement the sheet music in the Encyclopedia. Liner notes for the songs include a description of the folk song plus the complete lyrics.
- Country/rural blues from Takoma Records
- I’m Going Down to North Carolina – The Complete Recording ofthe Red Fox Chasers, 1928-31, from Tompkins Square Records
Classical Music Library: 3,528 tracks from 258 albums from Bridge Records, Celestial Harmonies, and Mark Custom Records, 1,300 new compositions were added to the collection, including wind ensemble/wind symphonies, choral music, contemporary music by Luciano Berio, David Rakowski, and more. Examples of new albums include:
- David Rakowski: Etudes, Vol. 3
- Three Quartets: The Apollo Saxophone Quartet
- Theme and Variations: Improvisations On Children’s Songs
- H. Kling: 40 Characteristic Etudes for French Horn
- Susan Levitin, Gerald Rizze: 20th Century American Duos for Flute & Piano
- The American Impressionist Organ
Classical Scores Library: 9,716 pages from 205 scores from Faber Music, Ltd., and Universal Edition. New scores include compositions by Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Alban Berg, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Anne Boyd, Arcangelo Corelli, Colin Matthews, Robert Schumann, Peter Sculthorpe, Carl Vine, Carl Maria von Weber, and more. Classical Scores Library now contains 14,757 scores and 318,263 pages.
Jazz Music Library: Additional indexing has been completed for over 1,000 albums in Jazz Music Library. New fields, including complete instrumentation, subgenres, and biographical data were released for these albums.
