Jazz Contemporary Music 2009

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FEA: WAAPA

Guide to library resources:

Jazz &

Contemporary

Music

ECU LIBRARY


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Guide to Library Resources Jazz & Contemporary 2009 p.2

C O N T E N T S

1. HOW DO I FIND A JAZZ SCORE &/OR PARTS?

2. CAN I SEARCH FOR SONGS IN ANTHOLOGY SCORES?

3. WHAT IF I DONT KNOW THE TITLE OR COMPOSER?

4. WHY NOT SEARCH FOR JAZZ SCORES BY SUBJECT?

5. WHAT ARE FAKE BOOKS & REAL BOOKS?

6. CAN I JUST BROWSE THE JAZZ SCORES?

7. HOW DO I FIND A JAZZ CD or LP?

8. CAN I SEARCH FOR TRACKS ON A CD or LP?

9. CAN I JUST BROWSE THE JAZZ CDs & LPs?

10. CAN I BORROW THE FISK COLLECTION LPs?

11. WHERE ARE THE JAMIE AEBERSOLD (NAJ) KITS?

12. HOW DO I FIND JAZZ DVDs & VIDEOS?

13. CAN I BROWSE THE JAZZ DVDs & VIDEOS?

14. ARE THERE ONLINE LISTENING DATABASES FOR JAZZ?

15. WHAT IF THE LIBRARY DOESNT HAVE WHAT IM LOOKING FOR?

16. CAN I SEARCH THE STATE LIBRARY FROM THE ECU CATALOGUE?

17. IS IT OK TO COPY MUSIC?

18. HOW DO I FIND BOOKS ABOUT JAZZ?

19. CAN I BROWSE THE BOOKS ON JAZZ?

20. HOW CAN I RESEARCH JAZZ FURTHER?

21. CAN I USE THE INTERNET FOR MY RESEARCH?

22. I CANT GET STARTED WHO DO I ASK?


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Guide to Library Resources Jazz & Contemporary 2009 3

1. HOW DO I FIND A JAZZ SCORE &/OR PARTS?

People who create jazz whether they are composers, improvisers, singers, sidemen or all of these,

are treated in the library catalogue system as authors. Here is an example of such an Author search

in the library catalogue:

Clicking on submit gives us the following:

Clicking on the second result (the first looks like a CD heading) gives us:


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Quite a long list, but clicking on first item shows it is a score which Corea has authored:

Groups such as the Beatles, Herbie Mann Trio, and as we saw above Chick Corea Electric Band,

etc. can also be used as Author searches and in library practice they are called corporate authors.

An alternate way of searching for a score, if you know its title, is by Title search:

We entered the title Freckle Faceabove, and submitting the search gives:

Our result is a score and parts of a big band set.


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2. CAN I SEARCH FOR SPECIFIC SONGS IN ANTHOLOGY SCORES?

Yes. Lets say you are looking for a song and you want to see if its in an anthology-type score

(- often also called albums, collections or compilations). Were going to do a title search forthe song

I Got the Sun in the Morning:

Submit:

The reason we were successful in finding this song in two anthologies is that the library cataloguing

for the album listed all songs in it and also made them searchable.

Some of the older cataloguing for albums and vocal scores does not have this facility, so you may

not get a result doing a title search for the song. There are a few ways you can go:

*Google the song title, to get information on composer, lyricist, and the show it came from so that

that information can be used in a more thorough library search.

*Use reference books in the Library reference collection (level 3) to gain author and show

information for a more thorough library search. The following reference books contain useful

information on Broadway and other popular song repertoire:


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AMERICAN SONG (VOLS 1-2) R782 .1403 BLO SONG FINDER R782.42016 FERGREAT SONG THESAURUS R787.42016 LAX SONGS in

COLLECTIONSR782.42016 DEC

HOLLYWOOD SONG R782.42016 BLO SONGS of theTHEATER

R782.42016 LEW

POPULAR SONG INDEX R782.42016 HAV

*Use other libraries: the significant other library for jazz in Perth is the State Library Music Collection

you can search it from our own catalogue on your computer & this is covered in more detail in

FAQ 16. of this guide.

3. WHAT IF I DONT KNOW THE TITLE ORCOMPOSER?

That is a good question because all the above examples pre-supposed you knew what authors or

titles to look for.

It is often the case that you are looking for jazz music to play and only have a style, genre,

instrument(s) or era in mind. Such searches can typically be done as keyword searches, using

keywords which best briefly describe what you have in mind. Lets say we are looking for jazzsaxophone scores and/or parts:

Submit:


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A lot of material has been found by our keyword searchjazz saxophoneand much of it is scores, for

instance the first result, when clicked on, confirms this:

Note also in the above full record the subject headings the library catalogue system has given to

this score. These can be clicked on too, to give other material falling under the same subject

headings.

4. WHY NOT SEARCH FOR JAZZ SCORES BY SUBJECT?

This is actually a good way to search for a variety of jazz material but you need to know the exact

subject headings or at least the main phrases of them to do subject searching confidently.

Fortunately, jazz in the library uses far fewer subject headings than does classical music. Here are

the most useful ones you can use in the Subject search mode:

Blues

Jazz

Jazz(followed by name of a country eg Cuba)

Jazz ensembles

Jazz fake books(use for both fake & real books)Jazz history

Jazz history and criticism

Jazz instruction and study

Jazz studies and exercises(can be followed by name of an instrument, eg trumpet)

Jazz vocals

Flute music Jazz(you may put any instrument instead of flute)

Subject searches such as the above will retrieve scores, parts, CDs, LPs and books. You may need

to click on the entries to see them in full to confirm the format of the material.


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Here is one example of a Subject search, looking at the range of the librarys fake books:

Our results below are a grouping of titles under the heading and its variants:

We can either click on each one we want to get the shelf holding, or, click on Extended Display to

get them all. Lets do the latter:

This is just the first page, listing 11 of the 61 fake books we have.


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5. WHAT ARE FAKE BOOKS & REAL BOOKS & WHERE CAN I FIND THEM?

A fake book is really a score: a collection of lead sheets to help a musician learn new songs. Justthe melody, chord symbols and lyrics are there: enough for someone who didnt know the tune tofake it. The first fake books were often illegal as copyright was not negotiated with song authors.The Real Book was a very influential fake book which sprang up in the 1970s in Boston USA. (def.from Oxford Music Online). Nowadays most fake books, including the ones in our library, are legal.

MT/AYin the music scores is the best area in which to browse fake books, but some also featurearound KDW. However, a small number of fake books because of their special emphasis can befound at different classifications, eg KE.

6. CAN I JUST BROWSE THE JAZZ SCORES?

Yes. As well as given in 5. above, the following areas will be useful to browse:

MT Jazz for big band

PHX Jazz for individual instruments

But scores and parts for smaller jazz ensembles and choral jazz vocals will be found at chamber

music and choir music type classifications so physical browsing cannot be a one stop shop for all

jazz scores.

Virtual or online browsing is more comprehensive and convenient because we can take a subject

approach: Lets say we want whatever scores and/or parts have the wordjazzin their subject field:

Note we just put jazzit will retrieve all material which is just under that as a heading and all

material which has that as a keyword in subject heading: submitting gives these results:


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In this very long listing we are only after scores, so we will use the Limit/Sort Search function

(circled above):

Weve used the drop down box forMaterial type and we have set it on Music scores, then,

submitting gives us:

The first page of 726 jazz scores and parts of all kinds!

7. HOW DO I FIND A JAZZ CD or LP?

As mentioned when we were looking for scores, all people who create jazz are treated in the library

catalogue system as authors. So performers on a CD are searched for by Author. Here is a search

for Aretha Franklin as Author in the library catalogue:


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Clicking on Submit gives the following results:

Results 2 and 3 are CDs and result 1 is a dvd, but if youre not sure, clicking on any of them will tell

you what format they are and more details:


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8. CAN I SEARCH FOR TRACKS ON A CD or LP?

Yes, and its similar to 2. above, when we looked for Stardust in score form in an anthology.

Submit gives us:

We have four results and clicking each, or on Extended Display above, will give us the actual items,

well do the latter:

So we have again numerous results, but two items there are evidently CDs (Y20913 and Y21281)

which contain tracks of the jazz standard we are looking for.

Some of the older holdings of mainly LPs do not have this facility for an online check of precise

contents, as the tracks and sidemen were not individually indexed in those days. The Library has

provided bound book form catalogue books in the collection area, as follows, to assist your research

and listening with the older X prefixed LPs:

MT LAWLEY CAMPUS MUSIC LIBRARY JAZZ INDEX 1982 -1989

INDEX TO THE FISK COLLECTION VOL.1 SONG INDEXINDEX TO THE FISK COLLECTION VOL. 2 PLAYER INDEX/INSTRUMENT INDEX


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9. CAN I JUST BROWSE THE JAZZ CDs & LPs?

Physical browsing might be time consuming because jazz LPs and CDs are interfiled with classical

and music theatre, as is the practice in most music collections.

A subject search under a jazz heading and using Limit/Sort Search, similar to how we browsed jazz

scores, in FAQ 3. , will be best. As Bluesis a related but different subject heading to those featuring

Jazz, lets try it in Subject search, for a browse through the recordings:

Submit gives us:

Quite a lot of results in all formats, so we click on Limit/Sort Search and set to Material type Music

record:


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Which gives us the following list of all the blues LPs and CDs:

10. CAN I BORROW THE FISK COLLECTION LPS ?

The Fisk Collection was donated by the family of the late Graham Fisk, a well known Perth jazz

historian and presenter.

3rd or 4th Year Jazz & Contemporary students can borrow, as the library should have a yearly list of

their names. Jazz & Contemporary students in earlier years need a signed release from their

department. It is not the responsibility of the library staff to source or sign these forms. The Not for

Loan provision is to preserve the LPs, and was decided by the teaching staff and the library.

11. WHERE ARE THE JAMIE AEBERSOLD (NAJ) KITS ?

The New Approach to Jazz Improvisation by Jamie Aebersold is also called NAJ, and is shelved at

Q781.65136 NEW on Level 3 of the library. The series is in large green folders, each one containing

a score and an audiocassette, and also in separate book and CD format, with only a few having the

book and CD together as one item.

12. HOW DO I FIND JAZZ DVDs & VIDEOS ?

This is very similar to looking for CDs and LPs. We can look by author or title if we know these, or

keyword (part of title). As most of the jazz DVDs and videos are devoted to a jazz artist, we can usethe name of the artist as author or subject to locate a DVD or video on them. Lets say we are

looking for Billie Holiday material:


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Submit gives quite a lot of items:

So we are going to use Limit/Sort Search and set Material type dropdown box to FILM/VIDEO:

Submit and we have sorted which items are DVD or video:


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13. CAN I BROWSE THE JAZZ DVDs & VIDEOS?

Yes. Browsing the Film & Video collection on Level 2 of the library you will find that jazz DVDs and

videos are at 781.626 and 781.65.

A virtual or online browse can be done by subject: searchjazz:

Submit gives us a whole range of material:

So we need to use Limit/Sort Search and set it on FILM/VIDEO:


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Submit and we find a list of 162 jazz DVDs and videos:

Remember though, Blueswas a subject heading separate from Jazz a search using all the above

steps but keying Bluesin the subject field will yield even more DVDs and videos.

14. ARE THERE ONLINE LISTENING DATABASES FOR JAZZ?

ECU Library currently has one such database Naxos Music Library: Jazz the quickest way to

access it is to do a title search in the catalogue:

Submit gets us to the catalogue entry and we need to click on Connect toNaxos Music Library

Jazz- see below:


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Once in we can search for jazz by artist, title or keywords:

Our search for the song Barney Googlehas given three albums which have versions of it you will

need to click on the album title to select tracks and get audio:

Once connected to audio you will be asked to authenticate just re-authenticate using your normal

ECU user name and password. It is best to listen through headphones, especially in the Library.

Because the range of jazz music on Naxos is not great, the Library will be trialling and hoping to

purchase another jazz listening database in early 2009 for your use.


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15. WHAT IF THIS LIBRARY JUST DOESNT HAVE WHAT IM LOOKING FOR?

You can ask us to purchase jazz items there is a Music Purchase Suggestion box with forms in

the Music Collection be sure to leave some contact details if you wish to know the outcome of

your request. As this can all take some time, most music theatre students use more than one

library:

The State Library Music Collection, housed in the Alexander Library Building, Perth Cultural Centre,

is also a major resource for jazz students & professionals.

The collection, as well as including extensive holdings of scores, has a great collection of sheet

music of songs which is fully catalogued and can therefore be searched song by song.

It is free to join the State Library, although it is best to phone them on 9427 3111 before going in, to

check what ID you need to bring to get yourself registered as a borrower. Being a borrower will

enable you to use the library and borrow printed music such as vocal scores. Their CDs are not

borrowable but you will be able to listen to them there.

16. CAN I SEARCH THE STATE LIBRARY FROM THE ECU CATALOGUE?.

Yes, you can. Here is a series of screen captures from our catalogue which shows how to get into

the SL of WA Catalogue and then a simple search on it:

Note the link Search Other Catalogues & click on it:


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Note the link, State Library of WA & click on it:

Note the specific link above for Song catalogue, however, clicking on Search entire Catalogue, will

also include Songs:

We will do a Title search for a song which is also the name of a show, Lipstick on Your Collar:

In the three results above, no. 3 is the original pop song, no. 2 is a band arrangement of it and no.

1 is the television show authored by Dennis Potter, all held by the SL of WA.


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17. IS IT OK TO COPY MUSIC?

Australian Copyright law allows for a student in a University to photocopy 10 per cent or one chapter

of a book or a journal article for educational study or research purposes. Photocopying entire books

or journals and photocopying multiple copies is illegal, unless you have specific written permission

of the copyright holders or their representatives.

Similarly, tracks may be copied from CDs or LPs for study/research purposes (eg an assignment or

class presentation) but copying whole albums or making multiple copies is illegal.

The Library (at Mt Lawley) provides one listening carrel in the Music Collection area which is

equipped to record tracks onto audio cassette, for study/research purposes. You will need to apply

at the Loans Desk, Level 1 of the Library, for the key which activates recording.

18. HOW DO I FIND BOOKS ABOUT JAZZ?

This is similar to searching for scores, CDs and DVDs, by author, title or keyword, as outlined

already in this Guide. We can also search by subject. Lets say we are researching Blues:

Submit gives a vast range of items:


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So we will use Limit/Sort Search and set Material Type on BOOK/SERIAL:

Submit will now give us just the books and serials (journals):

19. CAN I BROWSE THE BOOKS ON JAZZ?

Yes: jazz books are shelved on Level 4 of the library at 781.626 and 781.65. You can also do a

virtual or online browse in a similar way to what was outline in 6. and 9. of this Guide for scores and

CDs. A simpler way might be to use a call number search:


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Once thats clicked on you can put in a jazz call number - 781.626:

Submitting will give all jazz material shelved at that call number:

Do the same for 781.65 and you will get even more books, etc.

20. HOW CAN I RESEARCH JAZZ FURTHER?

In the previous section the words serialandjournalhave come up these are words which mean

the same, as does periodical. All three words mean ongoing current awareness publications such

as, in jazz, Down Beat, which appear monthly or more or less frequently through the years. In less

formal literature the word magazine is often used. In this Guide we will refer to publications like

Down Beator Jazz Educators Journalas journals.

Journals are important for researchers because they are a source of the most up to date

information, reviews and opinions; and they may also be where researchers such as yourselves

publish new work about jazz.

First we need to step back and assume you are not necessarily aware of journals in jazz and whatthey contain. What are your first steps for researching a topic?


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Reference books in the library, meaning encyclopedias and dictionaries of jazz are your first step.

For space reasons we will look at only the most used jazz reference work:

NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF JAZZ in two volumes. It is shelved at R781.6503 NEW in the

Reference section on Level 3 of the library and some older sets of the work are available for loan at

781.6503 NEW on Level 4. Other significant reference works for jazz are shelved near it at the

same number in the Reference section.

Looking up the alphabetically arranged articles on jazz artists and topics can be your starting pointfor an assignment. One of the most important parts of the articles is the reading list or bibliography

at the end. For instance, here is partof the bibliography concluding the Miles Davis article:

A. Hodeir: Hommes et problmes du jazz, suivi de La religion du jazz (Paris, 1954; Eng. trans, rev. 1956/R, as Jazz: its

Evolution and Essence)

N. Hentoff: An Afternoon with Miles Davis,JR, i/2 (1958), 912 M.

James: Miles Davis (London, 1961) [incl. discography]; repr. in Kings of Jazz, ed. S. Green (South Brunswick, NJ, 1978), 75

108

N. Hentoff: The Jazz Life (New York, 1961/R) [incl. previously pubd articles]

D. Heckman: Miles Davis Times Three, Down Beat, xxix/23 (1962), 1619

G. Hoefer: The Birth of the Cool, Down Beat, xxxii/21 (1965), 245, 40

G. Hoefer: Early Miles, Down Beat, xxxiv/7 (1967), 1619

D. DeMichael: Miles Davis, Rolling Stone (13 December 1969)L. Feather: Miles, From Satchmo to Miles (New York, 1972/R), 22558

M.C. Gridley: Jazz Styles (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978, 2/1985)

This is a list of both books and journal articles which you can search in the library. Because we

have already looked at searching for books, lets take the article by G. Hoefer Early Miles in

Down Beat. We select Journal search mode in the catalogue and key in the title:
http://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.library.ecu.edu.au/subscriber/article_citations/grove/music/07310#abbr-explainedhttp://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.library.ecu.edu.au/subscriber/article_citations/grove/music/07310#abbr-explainedhttp://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.library.ecu.edu.au/subscriber/article_citations/grove/music/07310#abbr-explainedhttp://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.library.ecu.edu.au/subscriber/article_citations/grove/music/07310#abbr-explained


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Submitting gives two results the option of having the article text electronic (online) is tempting

so lets click that:

But, unfortunately the article by Hoefer is from 1967 and the date range of all the electronic

sources listed does not go that far back:

So we need to click on the other holding which is for the hardcopy holdings in the library:


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This shows that, in fact, we hold Down Beat back to 1995 only as hardcopy but we have

microform holdings going back to 1937. Hoefers article will be found in the microform holdings.

You will most likely use the microform holdings of Down Beatat some time in your studies.

They are held in the south-west corner of Level 4 of the Library and it is best to ask staff for

assistance when you first use them and the microform reader printer there.

If we wished to find more up to date articles on Miles Davis, we could use the librarys accessto Music Index, which is probably the music database with the best jazz coverage. Its quickest

to get to it by doing a title search on the library catalogue (although access to it and other music

related through the librarys database suite Metaquest can also be tried at a later stage):

Submitting gives us the following:

And clicking on result 2, gives us the following:


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We need now to finally click on Connect to Music Index Online:

And we are in Music Index, and will perform a simple search on our subject:

We click on Start Search and here among our results towards the end of the listing are more

recent articles:

Articles such as no. 82 above can be found in the librarys online holdings ofDown Beat.


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21. CAN I USE THE INTERNET FOR MY RESEARCH?

Some confuse internet searching with searching the library databases.

The two may feel the same but there is a difference.

The library databases, such as Music Index which we have just visited, are not available to

general internet users but only to enrolled students and staff of ECU.

ECU Library pays an annual subscription to have the databases available online. Because they are

online people confuse them with internet.

The databases are in fact organised bodies of knowledge on subjects, eg, for us, music. Usually

they index journal articles on the subject and increasingly provide full text. Grove Music Online is,

however, one of the exceptions to this as it is organised in encyclopedia format presenting articles

on the main topics and people of music, which include work lists and bibliographies.If you are a jazz musician you may like to use Grove Online as well, as all the articles in the New Grove

Dictionary of Jazz are included in it.The databasesare not free because information professionalsare paid to establish and maintain them.

Internet searching finds free-to-use sites of varying quality that anyone can access. You could

think of them as equivalent to free newspapers or other information dropped in your letter box.

Some lecturers discourage any use of free internet sources at all.

But:There are some major free music sites of excellent quality.

We will not have time to cover any of these except to recommend searching on Google Scholar,

which is not a site but a commercial search engine which searches sites.

Go to Google and take the Google Scholar option. If you are using your home computer also take

time to set your Google Scholar preferences. You will find it a worthwhile starting point for many

assignments as it has a lot of full text, plus if you are logged on under your ECU authentication, you

will get more full text than the non ECU user.

Heres an example of a Google Scholar search continuing our research theme of Miles Davis (note

that Scholar Preferences is to the right of the search box):


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Clicking on Search leads to:

Lets click and get full text of the article Out of Notes:

We click on Link to Articleand this is the start of the full text article:

Out of Notes:

Signification, Interpretation,

and the Problem of Miles Davis

Robert WalserI played "My Funny Valentine" for a long timeand didn't like itand all of a sudden

it meant something.Miles Davis1

A flurry of posthumous tributes to Miles Davis almost managed

to conceal the fact that jazz critics and historians have never known

how to explain the power and appeal of his playing.2 Of course, there

has been no lack of writing about Davis, and no shortage of praise for

his accomplishments. For example,Musician magazine, which covers

jazz but is not primarily devoted to it, launched a cover story with the


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22. ICANT GET STARTED WHO CAN I ASK?

You may have read through all the FAQs ( Frequently Asked Questions) which are based on

real questions Music Theatre students have asked in the Library, and you still are not sure

where to go, or how to start looking for what you need. That is OK.

Feel free to ask any member of library staff, especially the staff on the Library reference Desk

which is situated on Level 2 at the top of the stairs.

Specifically also the library has specialist music staff whom you can ask, phone or email as

follows:

Ken Gasmier: Senior Librarian, WAAPA: 9370 6243: [email protected]

Maggie Brown: Library Technician, WAAPA: 9370 6005: [email protected]

Amanda Myers: Library Technician: WAAPA: 9370 6003: [email protected]

You can also use your lecturers to help frame and pass on library queries.

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