Music At The Eva B. Dykes Library

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After visiting The Eva B. Dykes Library, I’ve found out that there are many musical resources available. Books, magazines, and computers are the typical means for information, however, not only does the library offer these assets but it also provides a Media Resource Center. The research center provides students with cassette tapes and cassette players, television’s, VCR’s and video’s.
In addition, many activities are available for students while working in the library. Students might surf the internet, watch video’s, listen to tape cassette’s, read a wide range of books and magazine’s, study, or in most cases do research.
When searching for a book, or magazine, a call number is displayed, each call number contains a specific meaning. The following call numbers meanings are as follows: ML (Literature of Music) MT (Musical Instruction and Study) M (Instrumental Music). A bibliographic citation for each of the following would go accordingly:
The Broadway Song Companion, DeVenney, David P. ML128. M78 D48, © 1998
Study & Listening Guide for a History, Burkholder, J. Peter MT6.5 .B92 © 1996
The Comprehension Study of Music, Brandt, William E. M2 .C67 V. © 1996
After researching a “Slit Drum” in both, The Harvard Dictionary of Music and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the musical term’s meanings differ. According to The Harvard Dictionary, a slit-drum is “A length of wood or bamboo hollowed out through a slit on one side and beaten with a stick. In America, the slit is often cut in the form of an “H” to make two tongues of different pitch.” The New Grove, definition of a slit-drum is “A percussion tube used for musical or signaling purposes. Made by cutting, burning or gouging a slit in the wall of a hollowed-out tube. On most slit-drums the wall of the two sides of the slit are carved to different thickness so that at least two different pitches can be produced. Whe...