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1. HOW DO I FIND A JAZZ SCORE &/OR PARTS? 2. CAN I SEARCH FOR SONGS IN ANTHOLOGY SCORES? 3. WHAT IF I DONT KNOW THE TITLE OR COMPOSER? 4. WHY NOT SEARCH FOR JAZZ SCORES BY SUBJECT? 5. WHAT ARE FAKE BOOKS & REAL BOOKS? 6. CAN I JUST BROWSE THE JAZZ SCORES? 7. HOW DO I FIND A JAZZ CD or LP? 8. CAN I SEARCH FOR TRACKS ON A CD or LP? 9. CAN I JUST BROWSE THE JAZZ CDs & LPs? 10. CAN I BORROW THE FISK COLLECTION LPs? 11. WHERE ARE THE JAMIE AEBERSOLD (NAJ) KITS? 12. HOW DO I FIND JAZZ DVDs & VIDEOS? 13. CAN I BROWSE THE JAZZ DVDs & VIDEOS? 14. ARE THERE ONLINE LISTENING DATABASES FOR JAZZ? 15. WHAT IF THE LIBRARY DOESNT HAVE WHAT IM LOOKING FOR? 16. CAN I SEARCH THE STATE LIBRARY FROM THE ECU CATALOGUE? 17. IS IT OK TO COPY MUSIC? 18. HOW DO I FIND BOOKS ABOUT JAZZ? 19. CAN I BROWSE THE BOOKS ON JAZZ? 20. HOW CAN I RESEARCH JAZZ FURTHER? 21. CAN I USE THE INTERNET FOR MY RESEARCH? 22. I CANT GET STARTED WHO DO I ASK?
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Clicking on the second result (the first looks like a CD heading) gives us:
Quite a long list, but clicking on first item shows it is a score which Corea has authored:
Groups such as the Beatles, Herbie Mann Trio, and as we saw above Chick Corea Electric Band, etc. can also be used as Author searches and in library practice they are called corporate authors. An alternate way of searching for a score, if you know its title, is by Title search:
We entered the title Freckle Face above, and submitting the search gives:
Submit:
The reason we were successful in finding this song in two anthologies is that the library cataloguing for the album listed all songs in it and also made them searchable. Some of the older cataloguing for albums and vocal scores does not have this facility, so you may not get a result doing a title search for the song. There are a few ways you can go: *Google the song title, to get information on composer, lyricist, and the show it came from so that that information can be used in a more thorough library search. *Use reference books in the Library reference collection (level 3) to gain author and show information for a more thorough library search. The following reference books contain useful information on Broadway and other popular song repertoire:
AMERICAN SONG (VOLS 1-2) GREAT SONG THESAURUS HOLLYWOOD SONG POPULAR SONG INDEX
*Use other libraries: the significant other library for jazz in Perth is the State Library Music Collection you can search it from our own catalogue on your computer & this is covered in more detail in FAQ 16. of this guide.
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A lot of material has been found by our keyword search jazz saxophone and much of it is scores, for instance the first result, when clicked on, confirms this:
Note also in the above full record the subject headings the library catalogue system has given to this score. These can be clicked on too, to give other material falling under the same subject headings.
Subject searches such as the above will retrieve scores, parts, CDs, LPs and books. You may need to click on the entries to see them in full to confirm the format of the material.
Here is one example of a Subject search, looking at the range of the librarys fake books:
Our results below are a grouping of titles under the heading and its variants:
We can either click on each one we want to get the shelf holding, or, click on Extended Display to get them all. Lets do the latter:
This is just the first page, listing 11 of the 61 fake books we have.
5. WHAT ARE FAKE BOOKS & REAL BOOKS & WHERE CAN I FIND THEM?
A fake book is really a score: a collection of lead sheets to help a musician learn new songs. Just the melody, chord symbols and lyrics are there: enough for someone who didnt know the tune to fake it. The first fake books were often illegal as copyright was not negotiated with song authors. The Real Book was a very influential fake book which sprang up in the 1970s in Boston USA. (def. from Oxford Music Online). Nowadays most fake books, including the ones in our library, are legal. MT/AY in the music scores is the best area in which to browse fake books, but some also feature around KDW. However, a small number of fake books because of their special emphasis can be found at different classifications, eg KE.
Note we just put jazz it will retrieve all material which is just under that as a heading and all material which has that as a keyword in subject heading: submitting gives these results:
In this very long listing we are only after scores, so we will use the Limit/Sort Search function (circled above):
Weve used the drop down box for Material type and we have set it on Music scores, then, submitting gives us:
The first page of 726 jazz scores and parts of all kinds!
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Results 2 and 3 are CDs and result 1 is a dvd, but if youre not sure, clicking on any of them will tell you what format they are and more details:
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We have four results and clicking each, or on Extended Display above, will give us the actual items, well do the latter:
So we have again numerous results, but two items there are evidently CDs (Y20913 and Y21281) which contain tracks of the jazz standard we are looking for. Some of the older holdings of mainly LPs do not have this facility for an online check of precise contents, as the tracks and sidemen were not individually indexed in those days. The Library has provided bound book form catalogue books in the collection area, as follows, to assist your research and listening with the older X prefixed LPs: MT LAWLEY CAMPUS MUSIC LIBRARY JAZZ INDEX 1982 -1989 INDEX TO THE FISK COLLECTION VOL.1 SONG INDEX INDEX TO THE FISK COLLECTION VOL. 2 PLAYER INDEX/INSTRUMENT INDEX
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Quite a lot of results in all formats, so we click on Limit/Sort Search and set to Material type Music record:
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Which gives us the following list of all the blues LPs and CDs:
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So we are going to use Limit/Sort Search and set Material type dropdown box to FILM/VIDEO:
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Remember though, Blues was a subject heading separate from Jazz a search using all the above steps but keying Blues in the subject field will yield even more DVDs and videos.
Submit gets us to the catalogue entry and we need to click on Connect to Naxos Music Library Jazz- see below:
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Our search for the song Barney Google has given three albums which have versions of it you will need to click on the album title to select tracks and get audio:
Once connected to audio you will be asked to authenticate just re-authenticate using your normal ECU user name and password. It is best to listen through headphones, especially in the Library. Because the range of jazz music on Naxos is not great, the Library will be trialling and hoping to purchase another jazz listening database in early 2009 for your use.
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15. WHAT IF THIS LIBRARY JUST DOESNT HAVE WHAT IM LOOKING FOR?
You can ask us to purchase jazz items there is a Music Purchase Suggestion box with forms in the Music Collection be sure to leave some contact details if you wish to know the outcome of your request. As this can all take some time, most music theatre students use more than one library: The State Library Music Collection, housed in the Alexander Library Building, Perth Cultural Centre, is also a major resource for jazz students & professionals. The collection, as well as including extensive holdings of scores, has a great collection of sheet music of songs which is fully catalogued and can therefore be searched song by song. It is free to join the State Library, although it is best to phone them on 9427 3111 before going in, to check what ID you need to bring to get yourself registered as a borrower. Being a borrower will enable you to use the library and borrow printed music such as vocal scores. Their CDs are not borrowable but you will be able to listen to them there.
16. CAN I SEARCH THE STATE LIBRARY FROM THE ECU CATALOGUE?.
Yes, you can. Here is a series of screen captures from our catalogue which shows how to get into the SL of WA Catalogue and then a simple search on it:
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Note the specific link above for Song catalogue, however, clicking on Search entire Catalogue, will also include Songs:
We will do a Title search for a song which is also the name of a show, Lipstick on Your Collar:
In the three results above, no. 3 is the original pop song, no. 2 is a band arrangement of it and no. 1 is the television show authored by Dennis Potter, all held by the SL of WA.
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Submit will now give us just the books and serials (journals):
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Once thats clicked on you can put in a jazz call number - 781.626:
Submitting will give all jazz material shelved at that call number:
Do the same for 781.65 and you will get even more books, etc.
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Reference books in the library, meaning encyclopedias and dictionaries of jazz are your first step. For space reasons we will look at only the most used jazz reference work: NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF JAZZ in two volumes. It is shelved at R781.6503 NEW in the Reference section on Level 3 of the library and some older sets of the work are available for loan at 781.6503 NEW on Level 4. Other significant reference works for jazz are shelved near it at the same number in the Reference section. Looking up the alphabetically arranged articles on jazz artists and topics can be your starting point for an assignment. One of the most important parts of the articles is the reading list or bibliography at the end. For instance, here is part of the bibliography concluding the Miles Davis article:
A. Hodeir: Hommes et problmes du jazz, suivi de La religion du jazz (Paris, 1954; Eng. trans, rev. 1956/R, as Jazz: its Evolution and Essence) N. Hentoff: An Afternoon with Miles Davis, JR, i/2 (1958), 912 M. James: Miles Davis (London, 1961) [incl. discography]; repr. in Kings of Jazz, ed. S. Green (South Brunswick, NJ, 1978), 75 108 N. Hentoff: The Jazz Life (New York, 1961/R) [incl. previously pubd articles] D. Heckman: Miles Davis Times Three, Down Beat, xxix/23 (1962), 1619 G. Hoefer: The Birth of the Cool, Down Beat, xxxii/21 (1965), 245, 40 G. Hoefer: Early Miles, Down Beat, xxxiv/7 (1967), 1619 D. DeMichael: Miles Davis, Rolling Stone (13 December 1969) L. Feather: Miles, From Satchmo to Miles (New York, 1972/R), 22558 M.C. Gridley: Jazz Styles (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978, 2/1985)
This is a list of both books and journal articles which you can search in the library. Because we have already looked at searching for books, lets take the article by G. Hoefer Early Miles in Down Beat. We select Journal search mode in the catalogue and key in the title:
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Submitting gives two results the option of having the article text electronic (online) is tempting so lets click that:
But, unfortunately the article by Hoefer is from 1967 and the date range of all the electronic sources listed does not go that far back:
So we need to click on the other holding which is for the hardcopy holdings in the library:
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This shows that, in fact, we hold Down Beat back to 1995 only as hardcopy but we have microform holdings going back to 1937. Hoefers article will be found in the microform holdings. You will most likely use the microform holdings of Down Beat at some time in your studies. They are held in the south-west corner of Level 4 of the Library and it is best to ask staff for assistance when you first use them and the microform reader printer there. If we wished to find more up to date articles on Miles Davis, we could use the librarys access to Music Index, which is probably the music database with the best jazz coverage. Its quickest to get to it by doing a title search on the library catalogue (although access to it and other music related through the librarys database suite Metaquest can also be tried at a later stage):
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And we are in Music Index, and will perform a simple search on our subject:
We click on Start Search and here among our results towards the end of the listing are more recent articles:
Articles such as no. 82 above can be found in the librarys online holdings of Down Beat.
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Heres an example of a Google Scholar search continuing our research theme of Miles Davis (note that Scholar Preferences is to the right of the search box):
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Lets click and get full text of the article Out of Notes:
We click on Link to Article and this is the start of the full text article:
Robert Walser
I played "My Funny Valentine" for a long timeand didn't like itand all of a sudden it meant something. Miles Davis1
A flurry of posthumous tributes to Miles Davis almost managed to conceal the fact that jazz critics and historians have never known how to explain the power and appeal of his playing.2 Of course, there has been no lack of writing about Davis, and no shortage of praise for his accomplishments. For example, Musician magazine, which covers jazz but is not primarily devoted to it, launched a cover story with the
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