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Leeds College of Music: Electronic ResourcesA number of electronic resources are available. Some are loaded onto the PCs, some are on CD-ROMs, and some are online. CD-ROMs are kept at the library counter. Please ask for advice as to which resource you can use where. To use the computers in the Learning Resource Room you will need to borrow a swipe card from the library counter. AuraliaAn easy way to use the computer for ear training. Auralia leads you through a variety of graded exercises and offers you instant feedback. All of your results are recorded, allowing you to keep a close eye on your progress.British Humanities IndexBHI indexes more than 320 humanities journals and newspapers published in the UK. The subjects it covers include music, literature, philosophy, education, art and women's studies. CID2001You may find Careers Information Database useful when making careers decisions. Classical MusicThis interactive CD-ROM features over 60 composers, audio excerpts from over 200 works together with video performances. It also has a timeline with key events in the lives of great composers for every year since 1659.EAS 2001 EntryThis package enables you to fill out your UCAS form on the computer. ECCTISThis database allows access to information on over 70,000 courses at UK universities and colleges of further and higher education Electronics5 CD-ROM box set covering networks, electronic devices, integrated circuits and digital circuits. Electronics is a comprehensive interactive learning system allowing progression at your own pace.Encarta 97 & New Grolier Multimedia EncyclopediaInteractive, multimedia encyclopedias each containing over 2000 articles. Both have extensive music sections.FinaleA music processing package available on several of the machines in the Learning Resources Centre.Indian Classical DanceAn entertaining look at 7 Indian classical dances. Leading exponents demonstrate each dance form.India Festiva & India MysticaTwo separate multimedia CD-ROMs. Festiva celebrates the most popular festivals of all the major religions in India: Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Parsi and Sikh. Mystica explores the popular beliefs, practices, ceremonies and rituals of the every day lives of Indians. Include audio and video clips.International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)This index draws its current content from more than 360 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. It covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. All records since 1996 contain an abstract.Jazz: A Multimedia HistoryA complete chronology of jazz music and its masters with text, photos, videos and selected recordings from 1923-1991.KarishmaA guide to Indian life history and culture making special use of photographs, video and music.Multimedia Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring& Multimedia Strauss: Three Tone PoemsThese CD-ROMs are an in depth study of these works and their composers, combining text, graphics, music and scores. The Strauss tone poems are Don Juan, Don Quixote and Death & Transfiguration.MUSE (MUsic SEarch)A database of abstracts from the international Repertory of Music Literature and the catalogue of the Library of Congress in the USA. It contains over 550,000 citations of periodical articles and books, and details of recordings from 1969 to the present. It covers classical, jazz, rock and pop music, and subjects including history, theory, ethno-musicology, psychology and acoustics. Music Central 97An interactive one-stop music source to pop music combining diversity of musical styles and artists from 1950.Musical InstrumentsGood introduction to instruments of the world. Looks at their history, development and how they are played.MusitionA music theory training package. Like Auralia, Musition leads you through a variety of graded exercises and offers you instant feedback.NISC DISCoverRILM is an index of scholarly periodicals, books and theses in music. Here it is available on CD-ROM. OrchestraA multimedia CD-ROM featuring an orchestral performance explained and conducted by Simon Rattle. An interactive program featuring various sections of the orchestra.SibeliusA music processing package available on several machines in the Learning Resources Centre and library.Times Career DatabaseThis CD-ROM contains details of the careers in the UK's top 100 companies. UCAS DirectoryAn electronic version of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service directory. |
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