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Paley
Library Research Guide: Music
The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of resources that are useful for researching the existing literature in the field of music. The lists of specific titles are intended to suggest areas for more thorough study and research, and are by no means comprehensive.
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I.
Research Guides
II.
Library of Congress Call Numbers for Music
III.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
IV.
Handbooks and Directories
V.
Bibliographic Indexes
VI.
Bibliographic Utilities
VII.
Dissertations
VIII.
Web Resources
Duckles, Vincent H. Music Reference and Research Materials: an annotated bibliography. New York: Schirmer, 1997. Paley Ref Desk ML113 .D83 1997.
There are also research guides on individual composers.
M – Music ScoresML – Books, information about music
MT – Music Education
Boccagna, David L. Musical terminology : a practical compendium in four languages. Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon, 1999. Paley Ref Desk ML108 .B55 1999
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians. New York : Schirmer Books, c2001. Paley Ref. ML105 .B16 2001.
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Colin Larkin, ed. London : Muze UK ; New York : Grove's Dictionaries, 1998. Paley Ref ML102.P66G84 1998
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone, eds. New York : Garland Pub., 1998- Paley Ref ML100.G16 1998
The Harvard biographical dictionary of music. Edited by Don Michael Randel. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996. Paley Ref. Desk ML105.H38 1996
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Stanley Sadie, ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001. Paley Ref Stacks ML100 .G884 2001, also *Full-Text Databases.
The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Julie Anne Sadie & Rhian Samuel, eds. New York ; London : W.W. Norton, c1995. Paley Ref ML105.N67x 1995
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Barry Kernfeld, ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994. Paley Ref ML102.J3N48 1994
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski, eds. New York : Fireside, c2001. Paley Stacks ML102.R6 R64 2001
Directory of music faculties in colleges and universities, U. S. and Canada. [Binghamton, N.Y.] College Music Society, 1999-2000. Paley Ref. ML13.D57
Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich. Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie. Wiesbaden, F. Steiner [c1972- Paley Ref. ML108.E29
Musical America. International
directory of the performing arts. Great Barrington, Mass. : ABC Leisure
Magazines. Paley Ref. ML12.M88 Library has latest ed. only.
*Academic Search Premier - Useful, general database,
ERIC – Education Database
*IIMP – International Index to Music Periodicals
*IIPA – International Index to the Performing Arts
*Project Muse – Full-text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Philosophy of Music Education Review
*RILM – Répertoire Internationale de la Litterature de la Musique.
VI. Bibliographic Utilities – large databases which include the holdings of many libraries
*Research Libraries Group (RLG)
VII. Dissertations - A good way to find dissertations in Paley library is to do a keyword search with terms from your topic and add the word "theses" to the search. For dissertations not at Paley Library, try the database *Dissertation Abstracts or the index Dissertation Abstracts International (Paley Reference Index Table 23).
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/
Internet
Resources for Music Scholars - from Harvard University
http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/online-ir-intro.html
Music
Information Sources - at the University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/music.html
Music
Resources - from the Sibelius Academy
http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
Music
Resources on the World-Wide-Web - from Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm
Temple
University Library Selected Internet Resources – Music
http://www.library.temple.edu/ELECRES/cdmusic.htm
Temple
University Esther Boyer College of Music
http://www.temple.edu/music/
Worldwide
Internet Music Resources - from Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
WWW
Sites of Interest to Musicologists - from the American Musicological
Society
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/music/ams/musicology_www.html
Anne Harlow, Performing Arts Subject Specialist, Temple University Paley Library 8/26/03
aharlow@temple.edu