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Indiana University (IU) has been awarded a four-year, three million dollar grant from the Digital Libraries Initiative-Phase 2 program, with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, for a proposal entitled "Creating the Digital Music Library." The project will build on the achievements of IU's VARIATIONS project, a digital library system for recorded music and images of musical notation previously developed at IU's William & Gayle Cook Music Library (Mary Wallace Davidson, Head).

The project will focus chiefly on test-bed development, and will investigate software and system architecture to provide networked access to digital music content (sound recordings, score images, encoded score notations, etc.) for both instruction and library services. Other areas of research include: 1) the use of digital libraries in music instruction; 2) usability and user-centered design; 3) intellectual property rights; and 4) metadata development and standards for digital representations of music.

The digital music library will be available to students, faculty, librarians, and library patrons at IU. High-speed national and international networks will make the system available to selected users at remote locations in the United States and overseas who are assisting in the research: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Northwestern University in the United States; King's College, Loughborough University, and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and Waseda University in Japan.

The team of investigators will include faculty from IU's School of Music, Department of Computer Science, School of Library and Information Science, and School of Law, with support from the University Libraries and University Information Technology Services. For further information, see the project's Web site at http://dml.indiana.edu/index.htm.

The Special Collections Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB; David Seubert, Curator) has added several music manuscripts to its Performing Arts Collection. The autograph of four of the choral songs in Johannes Brahms's Sieben Lieder, op. 62, nos. 1-4 (PA Mss 33) is on loan to the university library from UCSB emeritus professor Dr. John Sonquist and Mrs. Hanne Sonquist. The manuscript is listed as "verschollen" (missing) in Margit L. McCorkle, Johannes Brahms: Thematisch-Bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis ([Munich: G. Henle, 1984], 264). A fascimile reproduction is available on the library's Web site at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/pamss33.html.

The papers of singer Hall Clovis have been donated to the library by the singer's nephew, Douglas Hall. Though not well known today, Clovis and his wife Eleanor Steele performed as the vocal duo Clovis-Steele and concertized in the 1930s, commissioning works from several contemporary composers. Included in the collection (PA Mss 30) are manuscripts of music composed for them by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ("Three Shakespeare Duets," "Six Scottish Songs"), Darius Milhaud ("Trois élégies," "Prends cette rose," "Les quatre éléments"), Jenõ Takács ("Three Chinese Lyrics"), Katherine Ruth Heyman, and Harry T. Burleigh, as well as recordings Clovis made for the Gennett label in the 1920s with the group known as the Four Bachelors. A finding guide will be available at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/pamss30.html. For further information, contact the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106; 805-893-5444; special@library. ucsb.edu.

The Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Brenda Nelson-Strauss, Director) has recently completed a preservation and access project funded by a $107,350 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. During the course of the three-year project, over 15,000 items were cataloged including corporate records, photographs, moving images, special collections, oral histories, and selected non-commercial sound recordings. Several music collections were also cataloged, including nearly 100 scores marked by Fritz Reiner, 130 original compositions and arrangements by Frederick Stock, and over 200 music manuscripts from the Theodore Thomas Library. Among the Thomas manuscripts are works by William Henry Fry, John Knowles Paine, Harry Rowe Shelley, Alfred H. Pease, Silas G. Pratt, Richard Strauss, Joachim Raff, Frederic H. Cowen, H. C. Lumbye...