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Most Relevant Databases
- International Index to Music Periodicals
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index to articles on all aspects of music.
- International Index to Music Periodicals covers nearly all aspects of music from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. It provides bibliographic citations from nearly 400 journals published in 20 countries. It also indexes the feature music articles and obituaries that appear in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
- Coverage Dates: 1874- (full text 1966- )
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: chadwyck_healey
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xiim-uga1
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- Music Index
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from popular magazines and academic journals.
- The Music Index, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is a comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature, including all aspects of classical and popular music. The Music Index has been available in print since 1949. The Music Index online coverage spans from 1976 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. Some backfile data from the period 1962-1975 is also included. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, news periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Generally, 1984 to the present for indexing & abstracts and 1990 to the present for full text & image. Some publications starting in the 1960s and 1970s are included.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbmi
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- Naxos Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Naxos Music Library (NML) offers streaming audio access to more than 35,750 CDs consisting of over 510,200 tracks of music. NML not only covers standard classical repertoire but also offers an enormous range of specialist repertoire not available from ot
- Naxos Music Library offers all of the recordings produced by Naxos and its subsidiary labels excluding Naxos Historical recordings. In addition NML includes the complete catalogues of labels such as BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with more labels being added from time to time. On average 1,000 CDs are added monthly on or before their public release dates. Look in the upper right hand corner of the NML homepage for up-to-the-minute disc and track counts. Synopses and libretti are included for operas as well as comprehensive liner notes for each recording. UGA’s subscription to NML currently does not include access to Naxos Spoken Word Library or NML Jazz (Fantasy Jazz Catalogue). The subscription does include local and remote access but is currently limited to 15 simultaneous users with a 15 minute inactivity time-out.
Access: On and off campus.
Database provider: Alexander Street Press- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=naxb-uga1
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- Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Encyclopedic resource covering all aspects of music history.
- Oxford Music Online, 2nd edition, (formerly Grove Music Online) is a scholarly encyclopedia of music including biographies of composers, performers and writers on music, as well as articles on styles, terms, genre, concepts, acoustics, notation, and instruments, their makers and performance practice. Coverage ranges from classical music to ancient music, opera, church music, popular music, light music, jazz, and world musics from many regions, countries and cities. Articles are accompanied by links to digital images, digital sound and related Internet sites.
- Coverage Dates: Antiquity to the present.
- Updated: Quarterly
- Database Provider: oxford
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xvdm-uga1
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- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index and abstracts of articles, books, dissertations, conferences, and other literature on music.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature covers international music literature that encompasses historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, dance, and music therapy. Also covered are other fields as they related to music. The database includes all formats of scholarly works: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, conference proceedings, and more.
The RILM database contains more than 250,000 citations to music literature. An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages, RILM Abstracts includes original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, abstracts in English, and author, title, journal, and subject indexes. RILM stands for Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale.
- Coverage Dates: 1969 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xrlm-uga1
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- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature covers international music literature that encompasses historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, dance, and music therapy. Also covered are other fields as they related to music. The database includes all formats of scholarly works: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, conference proceedings, and more.
Related / Narrower Databases
- Contemporary World Music
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Streaming audio files of contemporary music from various cultures all around the world. The service works on Macs and PCs with a browser and requires no special software.
- Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as 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. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. Users can trace the history of a people's music by comparing the traditional styles with the modern interpretations offered in this database.
See also: African American Song; American Song; Classical Music Library; Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries®.
- Updated: Irregular - the database will grow to 50,000 tracks at completion.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=coeo-uga1
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- Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as 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. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. Users can trace the history of a people's music by comparing the traditional styles with the modern interpretations offered in this database.
- IPA Source
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Phonetic transcriptions (using IPA symbols) and translations of selected operatic arias and art song texts.
- IPA Source provides singers access to over 2,300 phonetic transcriptions of operatic arias and art song texts and, where appropriate, literal translations of foreign language texts. Phonetic transcriptions utilize the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. “The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.”
- Updated: Quarterly
- Languages: English and non-English
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=ipao-uga1
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- RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.International inventory of musical manuscripts after 1600
- RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. RISM (Repertoire International Des Sources Musicales) brings together more than 380,000 works by over 18,000 composers into one database which can be easily searched. The manuscripts are found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and USA.
The Music manuscript database is linked to three other databases providing additional information: Composer, Library Sigla and Bibliographic Citations. (Occasionally, these databases include information from other RISM series too.) Individual manuscript citations also include musical incipits of individual movements of the cited work.
Key resources include
- RISM A/II: Music Manuscripts After 1600
- RISM U.S. Libretto Database
- RISM Library Directory
- RISM Bibliographic Citations Database
- Coverage Dates: after 1600 (mainly 1600-1850)
- Updated: Semi-Annually
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=rism-uga1
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- RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. RISM (Repertoire International Des Sources Musicales) brings together more than 380,000 works by over 18,000 composers into one database which can be easily searched. The manuscripts are found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and USA.
Broader Databases
- Academic Search Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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- Humanities Index and Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Indexes articles from 1907-present
- This database searches both the Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984) and the Humanities Index (1983-present), providing high-quality indexing for articles and book reviews from major scholarly journals and specialized magazines. All areas of the social sciences and humanities are covered, and articles are primarily English language.
- Coverage Dates: 1907 to present
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: H.W. Wilson
- Online Access: 4 simultaneous users.
- 4 simultaneous users.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=humd-uga1
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- JSTOR
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.
- JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.
- Coverage Dates: 1800s- (dates vary)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: jstor
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xjst-uga1
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- Project Muse
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Full text archive of articles on literature and criticism, history, art, and social sciences.
- Project Muse is a full-text journal database for over 100 journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
Database provider: Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: johns_hopkins
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xpmu-uga1
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- Project Muse is a full-text journal database for over 100 journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
- Web of Knowledge
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Provides access to the Web of Science suite, Current Contents Connect, and Journal Citation Reports.
- Web of Knowledge contains a suite of research tools, including:
- Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index)
- Current Contents Connect (last 5 years)
- Journal Citation Reports (1999-)
- Coverage Dates: Last 5 years (Current Contents Connect); 1999- (Journal Citation Reports); 1945- (Science Citation Index); 1956- (Social Science Citation Index); 1975- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: isi
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=webf-uga1
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- Web of Knowledge contains a suite of research tools, including:
Bibliographies
- Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography
Call Number: Main Ref 113 .D83 1997- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
Biographical Sources
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians
Call Number: Main Ref ML 105 .B16 2001- The standard biographical dictionary in English providing useful and reliable compact biographies of musicians of all ages and nations. Includes selective lists of composers' works and bibliographies. Indicates pronunciation of foreign names.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (in Literature Resource Center)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index to printed sources of biographical information on people worldwide from all time periods.
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index is an index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. It indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.
It is included in the Literature Resource Center. Once you are on the LRC search page, click the link for Gale Group Databases. Scroll down to select Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Once on the search page, click the Sources Indexed link to see the extensive list of print publications indexed by BGMI.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Updated: Ongoing
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Gale Group
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=biop-uga1
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- Biography and Genealogy Master Index is an index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. It indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.
- Classical Composers Database
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This web site allows you to search by composers resulting in a list of links to dedicated pages.
- URL: http://www.classical-composers.org
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- The Classical Music Navigator
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Information on 444 classical composers.
- URL: http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music
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- Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This online biographical source contains: 1) basic and accurate biographical information on hundreds of composers; 2) a growing number of biographical essays; 3) links to additional information at other web sites; 4) links to books and CDs about composers; and 5) links to sheet music.
- URL: http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/
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- Who's Who on the Web
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Biographies from various Who's Who publications.
- Current biographies of all individuals who appeared in any one of the following Marquis print titles since 1985: Who�s Who in America, Who�s Who in the East, Who Was Who in America, Who�s Who in the Midwest, Who�s Who in the World, Who�s Who in the South & Southwest, Who�s Who of American Women, Who�s Who in the West, Who�s Who in Science & Engineering, Who�s Who in Media & Communications, Who�s Who in American Law, Who�s Who in Entertainment, Who�s Who in Medicine & Healthcare, Who�s Who in American Education, Who�s Who in Finance & Business (Formerly Who's Who in Finance & Industry), Who�s Who in American Nursing, Who�s Who in Religion, Who�s Who in 20th Century America, Who�s Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who�s Who Among Human Services Professionals; profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
- Coverage Dates: 1985-
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Marquis
- One user allowed at a time.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=whos-uga1
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Books
- GIL Library Catalog
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Search the UGA Libraries catalog for books, journals, CD-ROMs, and other media. Use title, author or subject searches, or perform a keyword search.
- URL: http://gil.uga.edu
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- NetLibrary (full-text electronic books)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.A collection of electronic books (eBooks) on most topics, including computers and technology.
- NetLibrary provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. There is no checkout period for NetLibrary eBooks.
Users can create an account in order to use personalization tools, including creating a Favorites list, but a personal account is not required for accessing eBooks through the GALILEO interface. A personal login is required when accessing through library catalogs and through the NetLibrary web site.
NetLibrary Titles Index for Shared Collections 1 and 2 (at SOLINET).
Database provider: NetLibrary, a Division of OCLC.
- Coverage Dates: Currently available
- Updated: Collections are closed.
- Database Provider: netlibrary
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zmnl
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- NetLibrary provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. There is no checkout period for NetLibrary eBooks.
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians
Call Number: Main Ref ML 105 .B16 2001- The standard biographical dictionary in English providing useful and reliable compact biographies of musicians of all ages and nations. Includes selective lists of composers' works and bibliographies. Indicates pronunciation of foreign names.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Essentials of Music
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site provides basic information about classical music. Biographies of seventy composers, overview of the six main periods in Western music (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century), and a glossary of terms.
- URL: http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
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- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Major resources for the operas, plays, and other Gilbert and Sullivan works, including: librettos or scripts, plot summaries, MIDI files, articles and more.
- URL: http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas
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- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Online Access: On/Off Campus- An illustrated guide to many early instruments enhanced with sound clips, photographs and bibliographies.
- URL: http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
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- Instrument Encyclopedia
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Over 140 instruments from the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments at Michigan are described on this web site, including the name of the instrument, its origin, maker, and description. Entries may be searched or browsed by the Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme, by geographic origin, or by instrument type.
- URL: http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
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- Multimedia Music Dictionary
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Virginia Tech maintains this online dictionary. All of the musical terms in the glossary have AIFF files associated with them to assist with each term's pronunciation. Your computer needs to have sound capabilities and a browser "plug-in" that can read the AIFF sound format.
- URL: http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/
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- Music History 102
Online Access: On/Off Campus- "A Guide to Western Composers and their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present" from Internet Public Library features a narrative filled with hyperlinks to composers, styles, eras, and more. Sound files use RealAudio.
- URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist
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- Opera Glass
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Opera resources on this academic site include performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies and pictures. The site is maintained and housed at Stanford University.
- URL: http://rick.stanford.edu/opera//main.html
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Directories
- International Directory of Music Organizations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The College Music Society maintains a database of international music organizations that serve the field of music. The database includes over 360 organizations.
- URL: http://www.music.org/cgi-bin/showpage.pl?tmpl=/infoserv/imo/imohome&h=62
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- MPA Directory of Music Publishers
Online Access: On/Off Campus- A directory of music publishers and an index of publishers' imprints with hypertext links to contact information and other resources. From the Music Publishers' Association.
- URL: http://www.mpa.org/agency/pal.html
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- Music Institutes, Music Schools, Music Departments
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Maintained by Sibelius Academy. An index of international music institutes, schools, and university departments organized by country.
- URL: http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/institutes.html
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- Music Libraries and Library Associations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Maintained by Indiana University School of Music. Lists of music libraries arranged alphabetically and by location, music library associations, and music library services.
- URL: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/musiclib.html
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Guides/Handbooks
- Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography
Call Number: Main Ref 113 .D83 1997- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
Manuscripts/Documents
- Historic American Sheet Music Database
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This database offers digital images of 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. The site includes a chronology of representative music in context of major events in government, international affairs, inventions, and other period information.
- URL: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic
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Organizations/Associations
- The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The site includes legislative, licensing, and copyright information; databases of song titles and works restored to copyright protection; music news and articles; and Playback magazine online.
- URL: http://www.ascap.com
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- Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Resources include legislation information, online magazines, and information on genres and artists.
- URL: http://www.bmi.com
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- Music Library Association
Online Access: On/Off Campus- A professional organization devoted to all aspects of music materials in libraries. Site includes job listings, a school directory, awards and grants information, and "A Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians."
- URL: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org
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- National Association for Music Education
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.menc.org
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- National Network for Women In Music
Online Access: On/Off Campus- A non-profit organization that promotes the recognition of women in music through education and networking resources.
- URL: http://www.womeninmusic.com
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Web Subject Guides
- American Memory Project -- Performing Arts, Music
Online Access: On Campus Only- This project features digitized versions of documents held by the Library of Congress, including sheet music, sound files, photographs, and more.
- URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Performing%20Arts,%20Music
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- Classical Music Resources
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Duke University maintains this web subject guide. The site's searchable resources include narratives that guide the user through annotated links to more than 2000 resources, including 50 databases relating to musicology, music theory, performance, opera libretti and vocal texts, and record and book reviews. Includes multilingual and multimedia sites.
- URL: http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html
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- Essentials of Music
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site provides basic information about classical music. Biographies of seventy composers, overview of the six main periods in Western music (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century), and a glossary of terms.
- URL: http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
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- Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This gateway site includes sections devoted to organizations, periodicals, recordings, and geographical regions. Links are not annotated but are extensive. Maintained by the University of Washington.
- URL: http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/world.html
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- HyperMusic
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Introduction to main periods of music, selected subtopics, forms, composers, and links. Key resources include
- History of Classical Music
- History of Jazz
- Musical Instruments
- URL: http://www.hypermusic.ca
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- Introduction to main periods of music, selected subtopics, forms, composers, and links. Key resources include
- Internet Links for Music Research
Online Access: On/Off Campus- University of North Texas' site offers links to large, web-based pages for music research. Links include sites with a comprehensive focus, as well as sites specialized focuses. Additionally, users can choose a research site by genre.
- URL: http://www.library.unt.edu/music/music-resources/music-research-links/?searchterm=internet%20links%20for%20music%20research
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- Operabase
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site includes general opera history, performance and tour information, synopses, biographies, broadcast schedules, and reviews. Data may be searched by performance, artist, composer, location, and more.
- URL: http://www.operabase.com/en/
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- The Symphony: An Interactive Guide
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This introduction includes information on composers, a timeline, symphonies, orchestra instruments, and a crash course in symphonic sound.
- URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0423
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- Web Links
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Maintained by the University of Tennessee. "A Guide to Finding Music Information Online" includes categories in Downloadable Software and Scores and Music Hardware and Software, in addition to the expected music resources.
- URL: http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/weblinks.html
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- World Music Portal
Online Access: On/Off Campus- An extensive collection of news, features, articles and tour schedules of world music artists and events.
- URL: http://www.worldmusiccentral.org
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- Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Maintained by Indiana University, this extensive directory of music resources is organized by genres of performers, composers, compositions, and music-related organizations. Resources include a searchable database of composers, manuscripts, and repertoire.
- URL: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
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