[ANPPOM-Lista] Musical Acoustics Research Library: New Digital Collection and Website

[Carlos Palombini]

Musical Acoustics Research Library
New Digital Collection and Website

            Stanford University Libraries has provided digital access to
large portions of the Musical Acoustics Research Library (MARL) making
available important research papers from some of the most eminent
acousticians of the 20th century (
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6h4nf6qc/
). The MARL collection consisting of nearly 60 linear feet of materials is
dedicated to the study of all aspects of musical acoustics. The collection,
established in 1996, came about through a joint effort of Carleen Hutchins
and other representatives of the Catgut Acoustical Society (CAS),
Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and
Virginia Benade. MARL consists of the research materials from acousticians
around the world who were dedicated to studying different aspects of violin
making, which make up the Catgut Acoustical Society papers, and the
archives of three prominent wind instrument acousticians, John Backus, John
W. Coltman, and especially Arthur H. Benade. Benade’s work extends far
beyond the study of wind instruments and includes the acoustic properties
of a performer’s mouth cavity, throat, and lungs; the sound patterns that
emerge from the open holes and bells of instruments and the sound a space
returns to an instrument; the perception of hearing; and room acoustics and
the successful design of concert halls. The collection consists of
correspondence, research papers, photographs, media, digital materials,
wood samples, clarinet mouth pieces, and lab equipment.
            In addition to the MARL, the entire forty-one years of the
Newsletter and Journal of the Catgut Acoustical Society are completely
available online (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gt5p1r/).
The Catgut Acoustical Society was formed by acousticians interested in the
acoustics of the violin and other string instruments. In May 1964, the
Society published its first Newsletter, an informal, typewritten periodical
printed by a stencil duplicator that soon matured into a scholarly research
publication. The title changed to the Journal of the Catgut Acoustical
Society in 1984 and again in 1990 to CAS Journal, ending in 2004 when the
Society merged with the Violin Society of America as the CAS Forum.
            The digital projects were funded by the Violin Society of
America, CCRMA, the Stanford University Arts Institute, and the Stanford
University Libraries.

Jonathan Manton
Sound Archives Librarian
Archive of Recorded Sound

Braun Music Center
Stanford University
541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3076

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