{"id":966,"date":"2019-09-25T19:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T03:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=966"},"modified":"2019-09-25T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:41:57","slug":"hey-mr-dj-put-a-record-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2019\/09\/25\/hey-mr-dj-put-a-record-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Mr. DJ, Put A Record On\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever wanted to delve into a particular piece of music, there\u2019s nothing like a good guide to give you context and show you what to look for. We have any number of titles on individual works, such as <em>Avatar of Modernity: The Rite of Spring Reconsidered\u00a0<\/em>(M1520.S9 A82 2013) and <em>Who Should Sing Ol\u2019 Man River? <\/em>(ML410.K385 D44 2015), but it often helps to have a series dedicated to explaining music in a standard format.\u00a0 One of the best is the <em>Cambridge Music Handbook\u00a0<\/em>series; we have 44 of them covering such diverse works as Vivaldi\u2019s <em>The Four Seasons\u00a0<\/em>(ML410.V82 E84 1996), Gershwin\u2019s <em>Rhapsody in Blue\u00a0<\/em>(ML410.G288 S27 1997), and Sibelius\u2019s <em>Symphony No. 5<\/em>; search in the catalog for Cambridge Music Handbooks and they should all come up. There\u2019s even one for <em>The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u00a0<\/em>(ML421.B4 M66 1997), although that\u2019s an exception to the generally classical works covered by the series.<\/p>\n<p>Another good series is <em>Unlocking the Masters\u00a0<\/em>by David Hurwitz; this listener-friendly series focuses on works by the same composer rather than being book-length treatments of individual pieces. Each book comes with a CD featuring works used as examples in the text. We have two of them:\u00a0<em>The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner\u2019s Manual\u00a0<\/em>(ML410.M23 H86 2004) and <em>Sibelius: The Orchestral Music: An Owner\u2019s Manual\u00a0<\/em>(MT92.S63 H87 2007). There are another twelve or so titles in the series\u2014including Shostakovich, Dvorak, Handel, and others\u2014and I expect to get more of them in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s an excellent book called <em>Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa<\/em>.\u00a0Haruki Murakami, a well-known Japanese author (<em>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u00a0<\/em>and others), had lengthy and very insightful conversations with the famous conductor. While we don\u2019t have a copy in the Consortium Library, Anchorage Public Libraries does.\u00a0It\u2019s very enjoyable and well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever wanted to delve into a particular piece of music, there\u2019s nothing like a good guide to give you context and show you what to look for. We have any number of titles on individual works, such as Avatar of Modernity: The Rite of Spring Reconsidered\u00a0(M1520.S9 A82 2013) and Who Should Sing Ol\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}