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Erik Satie wrote this simple but beautiful short piano work in 1897. The pianist on the recording is France Clidat and was recorded in 1982 at the Centre Musical Bosendorfer, Paris.
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Several new albums, scores, and reference works were added to Music Online last month, and are now available to subscribing libraries. New content was added to Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, Classical Scores Library, African American Music Reference, and Classical Music Reference Library.
Newly added reference content includes Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties by Scott Saul (African American Music Reference), and 7 titles on classical composers like Wagner, Mendelsshon, and Haydn from Princeton University Press (Classical Music Reference Library.)
71 new scores from Faber Music and Universal Edition were added to Classical Scores Library, including compositions by Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Schumann, and more.
New albums added to Classical Music Library come from Mode Records, Mark Custom, Celestial Harmonies, and Lyrichord. Jazz Music Library has been updated with dozens of new albums from Jazzology, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige.
Remember, you can see a complete list of newly added content in each of our online music collections by clicking the "What's New" tab in the top toolbar.
Music Online now contains over 255,000 tracks*, close to 65,000 pages of text reference, almost 17,000 scores, and over 400 videos.
For more information on Music Online or any of the individual music collections, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.
* Music Online customers in the US and Canada currently have access to over 255,000 tracks from over 17,000 albums. Customers in all other territories currently have access to over 220,000 tracks from over 15,000 albums.
Last month's Music Library Association meeting in San Diego was a huge success. We'd like to thank everyone who attended our MLA Customer Appreciation Breakfast (our largest ever), and everyone that stopped by our booth in the exhibit hall. If you weren't able to make it to the breakfast, you can view Tim Lloyd's PowerPoint presentation on our Web site.
And just a reminder, all MLA members can enjoy free trial access to all of our online music collections, as well as Ethnographic Video Online. To begin your free trial, go to http://alexanderstreet.com/MLA.htm, then use the login credentials printed on the free trial card given to you at MLA. If you have lost or misplaced your trial card, please email marketing@alexanderstreet.com for a username and password. The MLA trial runs through April 30, 2010.
