Faculty and Guest Artist Recital Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 6:00 pm Wesley Baldwin, cello; Guest Artist: Wei Tsun Chang, violin; Music Hall. Contact the School of Music at 865-974-3241 for more information.

September 12: Maggie Longmire and Free Soil Farm If there is a grande dame of the Knoxville music scene, it must be Maggie Longmire who has graced the stage for over twenty years, getting better as time goes by. She is still named Knoxville’s best local musician in readers’ polls and her lovely CD, Granddaughter: … Continued

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.      Themefinder. 1999-2000. http://www.themefinder.org/ This music recognition database let’s you search themes in instrumental music using note names, intervals, or contour relationships (up, down, same). We have several reference books that serve the same purpose, especially Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes by Denys Parsons (Ref. ML128.I65P33). Use … Continued

Kikta, Thomas. Student’s Guide to College Music Programs.      Needham, MA: Larkin Publications, 2004. Ref. ML13.S78 2004 A handy reference guide for more than 1,300 college music programs throughout the country. Includes some short articles on being a freshman, financial aid, musical vocations, conservatory versus College of Music, and about auditioning for college programs. The main … Continued

Ezust, Emily. The Lied and Art Song Texts Page. 1995-2004.     http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ Looking for the word to art songs? This site provides indexes by composers, poets, languages, first lines, titles, song cycles, art song texts, songs in English or in English translation. “The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of 18,197 texts used in … Continued

Guest Recital Friday, Oct. 6 at 6:00 pm Takako Hayase, piano; Music Hall. Contact the School of Music at 865-974-3241 for more information.

David Karp Workshop In this informative workshop, Dr. David Karp will present the newest Piano Adventures® publications — My First Piano Adventure™ series and Gold Star Performance by Nancy and Randall Faber. Come and experience this engaging exploration into these two new series and acquire original and creative teaching tips and ideas for your studio! … Continued

508 N. Cusick Street Maryville, TN 37804 (865) 982-0981 Fax (865) 977-1142 This summer the Blount County Public Library will host a concert series entitled “Hot Summer Nights.” From the last week in July through the end of August there will be a concert each Thusday evening at 7:00pm. The concert schedule is as follows: … Continued

Moskowitz, David V. Caribbean Popular Music: An Encyclopedia of      Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall. Westport, CT:      Greenwood Press, 2006. Ref. ML102.P66 M67 2006 Includes information on the different genres, record labels, performers, song writers and producers present within Caribbean popular music. Within each entry words defined elsewhere in the book are noted by … Continued

William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of      Music. Music Research Databases. 2003.      http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/research.html Indiana University’s Music Library lists 73 databases for specialized areas of music research. This is an excellent starting point for any researcher. Check to see what links they provide from the “MLA Obituary Index” to a “Chronology of Modern … Continued