Showing posts with label Alexander Street Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexander Street Press. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Free Classical Downloads from Alexander Street Press

Some time ago we discussed the benefits of listening to music in preparation for study and also during study here.  (We also highlighted the music of Handel here.)  Well, about that time I signed up for email and RSS notifications from Alexander Street Press regarding free classical music downloads.  I keep neglecting to mention this here on the blog, so I'll do so while I'm thinking about it.  For more information visit Alexander Street Press or go directly to Music Online (an ASP blog) where you will find notices of free music downloads.

Franz Schubert LithographImage via Wikipedia

Schubert composed this Fantasie for piano four hands in 1828; it was first published in 1829. This version of the work is for symphony orchestra and is performed by the Rhine Palatinate Orchestra; Kurt Redel, conductor.
Download this work now at http://musicdownloads.alexanderstreet.com/promo/
All tracks downloaded through this promotion are owned by Alexander Street Press and are available to legally download, free of cost to the user.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Free Access to the Alexander Street Press Religion Collections (for December)

A couple of days ago, I highlighted the Alexander Street Press Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts. Prior to that I highlighted the Digital Karl Barth Library. These are wonderful tools, and I want to make sure that none of you miss the following offer to search them for free over the Christmas holiday. Here are links to the collections along with a username and password (good through the month of December!):

COLLECTIONS:
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts









The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation










Digital Karl Barth Library



USERNAME: reviewer
PASSWORD: 46waylaid72



THANK YOU!!!
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts

Here is another digital collection offered by Alexander Street Press worth considering:
A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
The database uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of a treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other works by hundreds of Protestant authors.
Subscription and Free Trial Information

The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts is available for one-time purchase of perpetual access or as an annual subscription. Please contact us at sales@alexanderstreet.com if you wish to begin a subscription or to request a free 30-day trial.


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Friday, December 12, 2008

Trial Access to The Digital Karl Barth Library

For those of you not following the comments, I would like to highlight the following note from Alexander Street Press:
To commemorate the anniversary of his passing, we are offering scholarly access to The Digital Karl Barth Library from now through the end of the year. If any of your readers would like to access it, they may do so at this URL:
http://alexanderstreet.com/dkbl_trial.htm

Sincerely,
Meg Keller
Alexander Street Press

Meg, thank you for the offer. The site looks great and easy to manage.

I also noticed that this website includes a Classical Music Library with is offering a free download of the week: Mozart's Serenade No. 11 in E flat, K. 375. Mozart was Barth favorite composer, and he states that he began each morning by listening to Mozart. Barth writes of Mozart, "he has produced in almost every bar he conceived and composed a type of music for which 'beautiful' is not a fitting epithet" (§ 50 God and Nothingness. In CD Volume III/3, 297). Many thanks!
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