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Music Subject
Guides
Finding Music Recordings
- Classical
Music Library – Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels).
Pacific users only
- African American Song – African American Song documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Currently features 16,000 tracks of historical recordings.
Pacific users only
- Smithsonian Global Sound – Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
Pacific users only
- American Song – American Song is a history database that contains 50,000 tracks and allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Pacific users only
- Contemporary World Music – Contemporary World Music presents contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The database contains 50,000 tracks of reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Pacific users only
Finding Music Scores
In the Library
On the Web
- Music
Library Association Sheet Music Collections
A list of sheet music collections throughout the U.S., some available online.
- Choral
Public Domain Library
Database of 3,550 choral scores, mostly in the public domain. Particularly
useful for mainstream pieces from the Renaissance through the Romantic era.
Includes some translations.
- Mutopia
This volunteer project aims to make copyright-free musical scores available.
Download as .pdf, PostScript, or Lilypond .ly files.
- Public Domain Music
MIDI files, and text files of their lyrics, created by Benjamin Robert Tubb,
based on original sheet music sources of the 19th century.
- Variations
Music scores from the Cook Music Library at Indiana University.
Viewing & Purchasing Scores
- Schubertline - Online printing
of lieder, songs, and arias which may be viewed, played, and printed in any key using Sibelius
Scorch, the free software which lets you obtain sheet music from the Internet. Most printed
scores cost about $2.00 or you can buy a subscription for unlimited access.
- Theodore Front Musical Literature – Good vendor
for study and performance scores as well as music-related books. They have listings
of everything published since 1994, and much that was published earlier.
- T.I.S. Music Catalog - Online catalog
of a vendor specializing in vocal and keyboard music.
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Finding Journal Articles
In the Library
- International
Index of Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Database of articles published in music and related periodicals containing
over 160,000 citations to more than 350 journals. Abstracts are included from
1996 onward. The database covers current periodicals as well as an ever-growing
backfile which will include the entire publishing run of the journals. Pacific
users only.
- RILM Music Literature
RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
includes abstracts and citations from books, journals, newsletters, conference
proceedings, catalogs, dissertations, and reports of governments and international
bodies from 1967 to the present.
Pacific users only.
- Academic
Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, full text database designed
for academic institutions. The database includes full text for 1800 publications
as well as images, for nearly every academic field of study. Pacific users
only.
- JSTOR
Full-text archive of scholarly journals covering a broad range of disciplines
in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Includes every back issue for 32 music journals.
- Project
Muse
Full-text archive of scholarly journals from the arts, humanities, and
social sciences.
On the Web
Some listed here are scholarly, some are popular, and all are freely available on
the web.
- Critical
Musicology
"A Transdisciplinary Online Journal" hosted by the School of Music
at the Univeristy of Leeds
- ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal
Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-. An interdisciplinary,
peer-reviewed journal created and edited by graduate students in the UCLA
Department of Musicology (some articles require Quicktime and Flash plugins).
- Electronic
Musician
(full-text articles from current issue and back issues to September 1999)
- Journal for Seventeenth
Century Music
Cambridge, MA: Society for Seventeenth Century Music, Harvard University, 1995-.
- MIX
Magazine
(full-text content of past issues from September 2000)
- NewMusicBox
Web magazine of the American
Music Center. Includes audio clips of featured composers.
- PopScriptum
Online journal published by the Forschungszentrum Populare Musik, Berlin --
Berlin, Germany : Humboldt-Universitat, 1992-.
- Directory of Open
Access Journals
A searchable database of e-journals on all subjects, it includes 24 music journals.
- Speech, Music and Hearing
A publication of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, this multidisciplinary
journal covers speech communication, speech technology, speech coding, music acoustics,
and auditory perception.
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Finding Background Information
Detailed Information on Composers, Performers & Historical Periods
- Grove Music Online
Complete full-text access to New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition), plus articles from other Grove music dictionaries. Pacific users only.
- Physical copies of Grove Music Online materials are also available:
- Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Reference - ML100 .N48 2001
- Grove Dictionary of Opera
Reference - ML102 .O6 N5 1992
- Grove Dictionary of Jazz
Reference - ML102 .J3 N48 1998
- Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
Reference - ML105 .N38 1994
Dictionaries
- Oxford
Dictionary of Music (via Oxford Reference Online)
Also
available in print: Reference - ML100 .K35 1994
- The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Reference - ML100 N53 2003
Key General Overviews
- The Oxford Companion to Jazz
Reference - ML3507 .O94 2000
- A History of Western Music
Reference
- ML160 .G87 1988
- Heritage of Music
Reference - ML160 .H5271989
On the Web
Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Dolmetsch Music Dictionary
Key General Overviews
“Music” in the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies: A basic historical overview of medieval music for the non-specialist. Includes a bibliography and links to related topics.
AEIOU Project – Music: An overview of historical periods, forms, styles, instruments and composers, with an emphasis on Austrian music and composers, from the University of Graz and the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Culture. Includes audio clips.
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