[net-gold] [ResourceShelf] Newsletter 468
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- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:18:21 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:04:18 +0100
From: Gary Price <gary.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ResourceShelf] Newsletter 468
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Number 468 August 12, 2010
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the one we feature in this week's Resource of the Week is a real gem.
From the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at
Kings College (UK) comes a ginormous searchable and browseable
collection of mp3/streamable music recordings by British and Irish
artists "who were once household names."
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Resource of the Week - CHARM: Online Recorded Music Database from the UK
By Gary Price, Founder and Senior Editor
Direct link to this post online: <http://digbig.com/5bcdsa>
CHARM (Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music), from
Kings College (London, UK) offers a lot of material and, as is often
the case, the best way to get to know it is by visiting the site. In
our experience, many databases are available from only a specific
location (example: a country). With CHARM, however, we were able to
search, find, and listen to recordings online from this UK database in
the U.S.A.
At least this was the case on Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 22:15 GMT,
from Washington D.C. Let us know if you have problems. (Shirl's note:
It also works from St. Petersburg, FL.)
From a JISC Announcement:
Before two record companies merged to form EMI in the 1930s, local UK-
based artists formed the backbone of their catalogues - but after the
merger many of them were dropped to make way for more lucrative
international musicians.
Now over 2000 [the site itself notes 5,000] recordings by those
British and Irish artists are online in an open JISC-funded archive at
King's College London - allowing listeners and researchers to
rediscover leading musicians who were once household names.
[The CHARM project has been around since 2004 but when we came across
the JISC announcement and then searched and listened to several
recordings, we checked and noticed we never mentioned this great
resource of ResourceShelf. Enjoy!]
Most of the recordings are making their first public appearance since
they came out on shellac over 60 years ago and are linked to a range
of research resources about the history of recording to help people
make the most of the collection.
The discs were selected specifically to highlight world-class British
and Irish performers recorded between 1900 and 1950, especially
artists neglected by the newly-formed EMI after the merger of the
Gramophone Co and Columbia in 1931.
[Clip]
Distinguished author and critic John Steane of Gramophone magazine
joined the team to curate the recordings, which are now available for
free streaming as MP3s or for high quality download.
Access CHARM Homepage
* Discographies Several options to search (either left or right rail).
Note the collection of composer web links. Massive!
* Sound Files
Almost 5000 sound files are available via the Find Sound Files
facility.
All sound files are transferred from 78rpm discs held by the King's
Sound Archive at King's College London, under the CHARM transfer
project and the subsequent JISC-funded 'Musicians of Britain and
Ireland, 1900-1950?'.
Apart from a special focus on Schubert songs, the CHARM transfers
aimed to cover a broad range of performers in Classical repertoire,
avoiding where possible tracks that were already widely available in
CD or online reissues. 'Musicians of Britain and Ireland' focused on
performers who recorded mainly in those countries and whose work fell
out of the catalogues following the creation of EMI in 1931.
[Clip]
The sound files use the lossless FLAC format, which can be played with
Winamp, Songbird and numerous other media players.
Also Available:
* Records on the Radio provides a collection of BBC radio scripts from
record choice programmes broadcast in the 1930s and 40s, together with
the original sound illustrations.
* House Conductors, by David Patmore, provides biographies and
selected recordings of some of the conductors who worked for the major
record companies as 'house conductors', c. 1910-35.
* Cortot discoveries introduces recently discovered recordings by the
great French pianist and offers guidance on how to search for more.
* Musicians of Britain and Ireland, 1900-1950
* CHARM and the King's College Archive reproduces an article from
Classic Record Collector in which David Patmore interviews Andrew
Hallifax about his work as the CHARM transfer engineer.
What's Available with Each File:
* Stream Online
* Download in FLAC Format
* Download the Complete Composition (vs. Listening One File at a Time)
* View the Label of the Actual Recording
* View the Full Metadata
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