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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an index to multilingual publications on music theory, instruments, voice, folk, jazz (and more) and is international in scope. RILM covers publications back to 1967. The acronym stands for "Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale."
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Reference Materials
American Musical Traditions - ML3551 .A53 2002
A five-volume work covering six topic areas of folk music: Native American, African American, British Isles, European American, Latino American, and Asian American.
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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 - ML102 .P66 B35 2004
Includes more than 550 entries focusing on artists and groups active from 1990-2003 in all popular styles.
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Cayvan Recorded Media
The Cayvan Recorded Media oversees the Hekman Library's audio and audiovisual collections, provides a reserve for all types of recorded media, and houses the Cayvan Choral Music Collection.
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Contemporary Composers - ML390 .C68 1992
Includes entries for 500 composers from around the world. Entries include biographical information, a list of works, and critical analysis.
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From Convent to Concert Hall : a Guide to Women Composers - ML82 .F76 2003
Women composers, beginning with medieval times and going through the 20th century.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - ML100 .G16 1998
Multi-volume work (10 vols.) that features in-depth articles about the musical practices of regions around the world.
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Great Composers and Their Works - ML160 .S48 2000
A 2-volume work which is organized chronologically, beginning with the baroque period and ending with modernism. Each chapter begins with a short biographical essay on the composer along with a timeline.
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Grove Dictionary of Opera - ML102 .O6 N5 1997
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Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers - ML102.P5 D44 2002
An annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century.
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Music Since 1900 - ML197 .S634 2001
A chronology of musical events from January 1, 1900, to the end of the century, including significant musical documents highlighting interesting themes, a dictionary of terms, and much more.
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New Grove Dictionary of American Music - ML101.U6 N48 1986
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New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - ML100 .N48 2000
An expanded second edition of the most comprehensive music encyclopedia in English.
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New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments - ML102 .I5 N48 1984
Multi-volume work (3 vols.) which offers encyclopedic coverage of musical instruments from around the world.
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New Oxford History of Music - ML160 .N44
A 10-volume work which covers the time periods from ancient all the way through modern. Each volume features a different time period in music history, such as Early Middle Ages, Ars Nova and the Renaissance, The Age of Beethoven, and Romanticism.
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Oxford Dictionary of Music - ML100 .K35 1994
Over 11,000 entries define and identify all facets of music from titles of individual works to performers.
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Oxford History of Western Music - ML160 .T18 2005
Indepth survey of the history of music from 750 A.D. through the end of the Millennium in 6 volumes. Ties the history and analysis of music to social, political, economic, and cultural developments in Europe and North America, primarily.
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Piano: An Encyclopedia - ML102 .P5 E53 2003
A guide to all aspects of the piano as an instrument, including articles on the structure, history, science, innovations, and builders of pianos.
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Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia - ML82 .W625 2002
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Web Sources
DW3: Classical Music Resources
A comprehensive collection of classical music links, including over 2,000 well-organized links to noncommercial sites on composers and national and regional musical traditions; includes its own search engine.
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Intute: Arts and Humanities
A major UK web portal for the finest Arts and Humanities web resources for education and research. More than 18,000 sites have been selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists and made available through an intuitive search interface.
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Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Comprehensive list of research databases compiled by librarians at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music.
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Periodicals
Early Music History
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ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
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Music & Anthropology
Published by the International Council for Traditional Music. An Open Access e-journal (free to all on the web).
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