MUSIC AUSTRALIA

Marie-Louise Ayres Project Manager, MusicAustralia

A pilot service is now available, with the production service due to commence in the second half of 2003. The pilot content base is small – just 170 items from four institutions – and was carefully selected to test requirements for delivering music related items in a wide range of formats and to explore and demonstrate the rich relationships between printed and performed music materials held by different institutions.

The MusicAustralia pilot allows users to discover digitised printed music, digitised audio recordings, “born digital” scores and pdf derivatives, text, pictures and manuscript items. Users can:

• simultaneously view a piece of digitised sheet music being delivered from the National Library’s web server, while listening to one or more digitised sound recordings of the same work being delivered from the ScreenSound web server, or from the National Library’s website. For example, users can compare the original manuscript version of “Waltzing Matilda” with four different print editions, two folklore recordings, and three audio recordings (a formal version featuring baritone Peter Dawson and full orchestra in 1938, the first known jazz recording featuring Don Burrows in 1945, and a recording of the Franklin B. Paverty Bush Band at the official opening of the new Parliament House in 1988);
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More information at:
www.musicaustralia.org
www.pictureaustralia.org
Email: musaust@nla.gov.au

from http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/downloads/file/About%20APRA/Aprap_March_03.pdf