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The Maine Music Box
Web-Wise 2005:Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources
February 16–18, 2005
Marilyn Lutz and Laura GallucciFogler Library, University of Maine
Funded in part with an Institute of Museums and Libraries award.
Project Partners
Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono
Bagaduce Music Lending Library, Blue Hill
Bangor Public Library, Bangor
Funding: Institute of Museums and Libraries
Collaborative Vision
Broaden access to music literature by digitizing unique collections of sheet music, scores, manuscripts
Provide a musical rendition of the sheet music or score
Develop a digital music library tool to support teaching and learning (in Maine schools)
Create a tool to deliver images of sheet music or scores, along with customizable options for sound files: control playback, tempo, instrumentation and key
Create preservation copies
What is it?
An interactive, multimedia digital music library
Database of images of sheet music and scores with associated sound renditions, cover art and lyrics
Enhanced functions—software plugin enables users to playback audio and manipulate the arrangement of the selected pieces by changing the key and the instrument.
Software
“Scorch” files require a Scorch plug in, free
and downloadable program, compatible with
most browsers (licensed)
Gives user ability to interact with the
scores in the database on the server to
the extent permissions are profiled
Collections
22,000 pieces of historical and popular sheet music, 1865–1990, written for voice and piano
“Parlor Salon” scores written specifically for piano
Notable composers from 1920–1990,
including Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert, Percy Wenrich, Jean Schwartz, Paul Dresser, George M. Cohen
Collections
Vocal, Popular Sheet Music Collection (Bagaduce)over 16,500 pieces of popular American music representing the many vocal styles from late 19th through the 20th Century
Parlor Salon Collection (Bagaduce)3,569 scores organized in three unique collections: Vocal Parlor/Salon, Piano Parlor/Salon and Violin Parlor/Salon
Maine Collection (Bagaduce) over 2,200 pieces ranging from 1845–1997; includes keyboard, choral, vocal and instrumental music
Haywood Jones Collection (Bangor Public)
28 original manuscript scores primarily of marches and school songs, for local high school bands in New England
Instruction Channel
Instruction tool keyed to digital music library
Lessons designed around instructions accessing full database of music (login required)
Number of registered logins– one-on-one music instruction– personal use
Collections Instructional Violin
The International Library of Music for
Violinists; First steps, with supplement of
easy violin solos
Vol. 1 The Violinist First Book
New York, The University Society, 1925
a teaching and learning tool
Evaluate pitch and adjust speed by playing in unison with sound
Develop sight-reading ability by tracking playback
Enhance visualization process by transposing key signatures and chord symbols
Enlarge repertoire by transposing music for one instrument for another
a teaching and learning tool
Understand how changes in tempo and
rhythm accent artistry by comparing
computer generated files with actual
recordings
Enhancing the learning experience
See / hear solo within the score See / hear solo played with accompaniment See / hear exact rhythm on the score
(follow the bouncing ball) Slow down music for instructional purposes View digital videos attached to lesson plan Transpose piece (including accompaniment)
to any key
a teaching and learning tool … for the future of music education
Reinforcement of more comprehensive
musical training at a younger age
Opens up new possibilities:
– distance education in music?
– archive teaching techniques of the
“masters” for future generations?
The Maine Music Box
http://mainemusicbox.library.umaine.edu
No Internet
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