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| | | If so, are you referenced in Musica International, the world choral repertoire database?
Check your presence in the Musica database by clicking here.
In the <Search for> section of the homepage, choose the folder <Composers> to access the search for biographies of composers, and input your last name (and eventually first name).
No result? Contact librarian@musicanet.org to be added. Found yourself? - Please check the data: last name, first name, date of birth (year-month-day), nationality, place of birth, gender, and URL for a detailed biography. Send an update to librarian@musicanet.org, if needed.
- Click on <Scores referenced in Musica>. Get in touch with librarian@musicanet.org to find out how to improve the visibility of your compositions or arrangements and to add others to those already referenced.
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| | Each year, in September, Musica International chooses as its Favorite Piece of the Month a beautiful piece which would be perfect for your Christmas program. Here are a few of them, with multimedia illustrations, recordings of pronunciation and text translations: To find more: - browse through Musica's Favourite Pieces for September of each year since 1998;
- type "Christmas" in the search field "Words of title or Keywords" at www.musicanet.org, and add any other criteria you like, such as choral setting, duration, additional keywords, difficulty, language, other keywords, accompaniment, etc.
Enjoy!
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| | Musica International invites you to meet again and talk repertoire, during a "Musica workshop" from October 23 to 28, 2023 in Strasbourg, France, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The concept of the Musica workshops is to bring together conductors, music librarians, publishers, and composers for a week of interaction, collaboration, and work. Participants interact directly with the database by entering new choral pieces and/or correcting and improving already-existing records. Throughout the workshop, participants exchange their knowledge, skills, and understandings under the guidance and with the support of the Musica team.
Come participate in a worldwide collaborative project by contributing to the database while learning how to use it effectively.
The next workshop will take place on 23-28 October 2023, at the Institute of Phonetics of the University of Strasbourg, France.
Start of the Workshop: Monday, 23 October 2023, 2.00 pm.
End of the Workshop: Saturday, 28 October 2023, noon.
Generally, the schedule is set by general consensus at the beginning of the session. Typically, this is a daily schedule:
- morning work from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm (coffee break around 11:00 am);
- lunch at 12:30;
- afternoon work between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm (coffee break around 4:00 pm) or sightseeing of the region, if working in the evening;
- dinner in the city center;
- free evening, a concert or socializing together.
But… you are a volunteer! Therefore, you are of course free to determine your schedule!
Learn more about the Musica workshops on our website or contact us at office@musicanet.org. |
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| | Every month, Musica publishes a Favorite Piece – a score that every conductor should take with him/her to the proverbial desert island.
The three most recent pieces are: |
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| | Lully, Lulla, Lullay by Philip W. J. STOPFORD (Great Britain) |
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| | The Rose by Ola GJEILO (Norway, United States) |
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| | Les Djinns by Gabriel FAURÉ (France) |
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| | In each MusicaMail, we invite you to send us titles of choral scores corresponding to a given theme. Although there are already almost 5,000 titles (including 16 for forget-me-nots, 60 for lily of the valley, 56 for poppies, over 2,000 for roses, 31 for jasmine, 18 for snowdrops, 15 for anemones, etc.) meeting this criterion, there are no doubt more scores to add, including those talking about the flowers still unknown to Musica...
If the Musica database already contains records for the pieces you suggest, we will add the corresponding keyword (if necessary); otherwise, if we have sufficient information on a piece that is not yet included in the database, we will create a new record. If this is not the case, we will either contact you for more information or give you permission to enter details directly online. |
| | | | | Please email your contributions to librarian@musicanet.org. Our Music Librarian Pierre-Luc will ensure they are followed up properly.
Alternatively, you can add comments to the post concerning this theme on our Facebook page. |
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| | - Help actively to reference your choral heritage online! Musica International is a collaborative project that is run by and for people involved in choral singing. We need volunteers who want to share their passion with the choral community by taking an active part in the project. You can do this in many ways, such as inputting and checking records, translating, assisting with communication tasks. Contact us at office@musicanet.org.
- You can now manage your own choral library without needing to input all the data yourself. Just sign up for a “private field” in the Musica database and take advantage of all the information we already have - all the power of our IT tools to build your own catalogue by simply adding your locations in your private field. The field will normally be accessible and visible to you alone, but you can also choose to share scores from your library more widely. Contact us at office@musicanet.org.
- Are you responsible for a choral federation? We offer global privileged access to www.musicanet.org for all your members, from your website! An advantage which your choir directors will thank you for. Contact us at office@musicanet.org.
- We are also looking to establish a network of national correspondents in all countries. Why not you? Even if you are unavailable to do this yourself, perhaps you know someone who could – someone in your national choral federation, for example. As Musica International is an academic collaborative project, this could be a wonderful opportunity for a university professor, a music librarian, a conductor, a singer, or anyone interested in the choral art.
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