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NoIP (Accessed November-December 2007) [Requires an Internet connection and a Web browser; annual subscription pricing (2008 price): $925 for single concurrent user access; also available: 2-5 users, 6-10 users, unlimited users; access: IP filtering, URL referral or User ID/Password.] Finding specific compositions published in collected editions, monuments of music, historical sets, or other sets or series that contain multiple pieces has been a difficult task for decades. The Advanced search screen leads one to believe that its three principal areas are database-specific and independent, but a search term left erroneously in one portion of this search screen will be used in conjunction with search terms entered in a different database area. It is my hope that work will be done to ameliorate this situation, because IPM is an important resource and, if one could use it more easily and with more confidence in the results, it could be indispensable-just as Heyer has been indispensable for half a century to anyone looking for specific pieces published in collected editions, monuments of music, historical sets, or other sets or series that contain multiple compositions.
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Index to Printed Music: Collections &Amp; Series (Ipm)
Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series (IPM). Published by National Information Services Corporation (NISC). Databases licensed from James Adrian Music. http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login .dll?NoIP (Accessed November-December 2007) [Requires an Internet connection and a Web browser; annual subscription pricing (2008 price): $925 for single concurrent user access; also available: 2-5 users, 6-10 users, unlimited users; access: IP filtering, URL referral or User ID/Password.]
Finding specific compositions published in collected editions, monuments of music, historical sets, or other sets or series that contain multiple pieces has been a difficult task for decades. The first major resource to help with this undertaking was Anna Harriet Heyer's Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to Their Contents (hereafter cited as Heyer), the first edition published in 1957, the 3rd and last in 1980. All three editions of this vital work were issued by the American Library Association. Although collected editions, monuments, and the like continued to come out after the last edition of Heyer, most of them were not indexed in any centralized place; there was no good way to find the individual pieces these newer publications contained. The works lists of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 1st ed., 1980; 2nd ed., 2001; online, 2001-; http://www.grovemusic.com) filled the lacuna in part, particularly for collected works of major composers. Between th...See the full content of this document
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