University of Miami Music Library Double Bass Streaming Music Site
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The University of Miami School of Music, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and the International Archive of Double Bass Recordings are pleased to announce a selection of Double Bass MP3 sound files on its website. More than 25 solo double bassists with orchestra or piano will be heard from the archive's CD collection.
The archive's full catalog is listed in the library catalog. Please visit: search.library.miami.edu
Other future programs, will feature other international bass soloists. Also, 20th century music will be better represented.
The following series of downloads represents the first of
three programs, each one hour in duration, originally designed for national
public
radio with
the
general
listener
in
mind.
Contrasting
in styles and interesting juxtapositions of works and composers (i.e.
Koussevitzky, Sevitzky, Pergolesi, Stravinsky etc.) are characteristic.
There is also a sampling of jazz arrangements. Radio announcer Lyn Farmer
offers comments on each composition. A basic outline of program one the
first of the series, follows.
Technical Note: Please click on the MP3 to stream and play or
Right Click (Control-Click Macintosh) to download to your machine and
save. The following MP3's were sampled at a constant bit rate of 48kb/s
using MPEG
1, Audio
Layer
3
compression
and are distributed
here in 45 second sample clips for the non-commercial and educational listening pleasure of the
university of Miami community. To listen or obtain the entire pieces and original higher
quality sound CD' and/or volumes
2 and 3 of this program please contact
the Music library or links listed at the bottom of this page. A DSL, cable or higher speed modem is recommended.
To listen to this music you need an MP3 player. If you do not have one
installed on your machine, you can download a free one here, Winamp
(PC) or Quicktime
Player (Macintosh).
The Double Bass (Program # 1) Lyn Farmer, Host, "Announcer"
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Through the web the International Archive of Double Bass recordings of the University of Miami School of Music is pleased to share its collection with the world.
The music library houses a lot of double bass music, including the Frederick Zimmermann Memorial Collection. The catalog of all music and recordings is available through Ibisweb.
AcknowledgementsNancy Zavac, Project Coordinator. Lyn Farmer and Lucas Drew, Audio and music introductions. Richard Howell - Mastering of Programs from DAT to CD. Ray Uzwyshyn - web development and design, conversion of Files from CD to MP3, audio editing. ruzwyshyn@miami.edu
LinksSt. Francis Music Publications (www.stfrancismusic.com), Lucas Drew, Editor. Music for Double Bass, string instruments, etc.
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