Selected Resources for:
Music

Canadian Music Periodical Index  

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cmpi-ipmc/index-e.html

Index to Canadian music periodical literature published by the National Library of Canada. Provides bibliographic sources for information on all aspects of musical activity in Canada.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective   

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HSR

1907-1984.

Provides citations to the major scholarly English-language journals in humanistic disciplines, including music. Indexes feature articles, interviews, and reviews of operas, ballets, dance, and musicals.

Humanities Full Text   

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HUMFT

1984- .

Provides citations to the major scholarly English-language journals in humanistic disciplines, including music. Indexes feature articles, interviews, and reviews of operas, ballets, dance, and musicals.

International Index to Music Periodicals   

http://0-iimpft.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

1874- .

Covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Current content from more than 300 scholarly and popular music periodicals from over 20 countries. Indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in New York Times and Washington Post. Records from 1996 forward contain abstracts.

RILM (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)  

http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=rilm-set-c&adv=1

1969- .

Draws from periodical articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, and conference proceedings. Corresponds to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.

Location: RILM Abstracts: Lau Periodical Stacks v. 11 (1977), 14 (1980)

Academic Search Premier   

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph

1965- (varies).

Provides full text for 4,486 publications (3,718 peer-reviewed) covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. A total of 8,224 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which 7,132 are peer-reviewed.

International Index to the Performing Arts   

http://0-iipaft.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

1864- .

Index to more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, includes some full text articles. Also indexes biographical profiles, conference papers, interviews, discographies, reviews, events, and obituaries appearing in New York Times and Washington Post. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, and magic. Records from 1998 forward contain an abstract.

JSTOR   

http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Provides full-text access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Includes the back issues of over thirty music periodicals.

LexisNexis Academic   

http://0-www.lexisnexis.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/us/lnacademic

Varies by publication.

News database that provides full-text for a few music and entertainment periodical titles such as Music Business International, Music Week, and Variety. Also a good source for reviews.

Project Muse   

http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/

Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).

This collection of full text journals published by university presses includes some music journals and is searchable. GEORGE, the online catalog, lists and links to individual Project Muse titles.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians  

Biographical sketches are for most notable performers, composers, and patrons of music. Includes non-European musicians. Entries for composers include list of works composed and sometimes a brief bibliography. See also Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 (Ref. Biog. ML 102 .P66 B35 2004).

Location: Ref. Biog. ML 105 .B16 2001

Dictionary of American Classical Composers  

Covers over 650 American classical composers from the 18th century to the present. Each entry contains basic biographical information and a critical analysis of the composer's key works and ideas.

Location: Ref. ML 106 .U3 B87 2005

Chambers Dictionary of Music  

Over 6,500 entries covering various music genres and forms. A separate chronology charts the development of music since the Middle Ages, putting composers and works into context.

Location: Ref ML 100 .C43 2006

New Grove Dictionary of Jazz  

http://0-www.grovemusic.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/index.html

Includes everything to do with jazz -- its terminology, musicians, instruments and history. Available online as part of Grove Music Online.

Location: Ref. ML 102 .J3 N48 2002

New Grove Dictionary of Opera  

http://0-www.grovemusic.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/index.html

Four volumes cover operatic terminology, composers and performers of opera. Available online as part of Grove Music Online.

Location: Ref. ML 102 .O6 N5 1992

Oxford Companion to Music  

This latest update is still international in scope, but refers to non-Western and popular musics "in so far as they have had an impact on the Western classical tradition." Contributors strove to consider the 21st century, relating music to politics, religion, computers, semiotics, and so on. Paragraph entries cover music terminology, musical instruments, and music history. Some entries provide a list for further reading.

Location: Ref. ML 100 .S37 2002

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary  

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/

Alphabetical music glossary created by Richard Cole and Ed Schwartz from Virginia Tech. Brief entries contain pronunciation sound files; some entries contain illustrations.

Hollywood Music Industry Directory  

Describes itself as a "phone book to the music business," provides contact information for record companies, agents, managers, attorneys, studios/networks, music supervisors, companies involved in clearance and licensing, composers, music publishers, and recording studios.

Location: Ref. ML 18 .H65 2004

American Musical Traditions  

Published in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folkways Archive, each of the five volumes covers different aspects of American music: Native American, African American, British Isles, Irish American, European American, Latino American, and Asian American. Each volume includes a bibliography/discography/videography, glossary, and index.

Location: Ref. ML 3551 .A53 2002

Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock  

Provides essential facts about songwriters, musicians and producers. Covers over 1,700 artists.

Location: Ref. ML 102.R6 B55 2003

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music  

Seven volumes. Volumes III-VI are organized by geographical region while volumes I and II contain in-depth articles about topics related to popular music such as social phenomena, types of performing groups, musical instruments, and the music industry.

Location: Ref. ML 102 .P66 C66 2003

Diccionario de la musica: Espanola e Hispanoamericana  

An eight-volume encyclopedia on every aspect of music and musical culture in Spain and Spanish-America, written in Spanish. Most entries include short bibliographies and, in some cases, brief discographies or lists of works.

Location: Ref. ML 101 .S7 D53 1999

Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music  

Organized alphabetically, articles cover biographies of early and contemporary performers and groups, significant events, radio stations, record and publishing companies, publications, and instruments. Includes both African-American and white gospel music

Location: Ref. 102 .G6 E63 2005

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music  

Alphabetically arranged entries of artists associated with Christian music; comprehensive in scope.

Location: Ref. ML 102 .C66 P68 2002

Encyclopedia of the Blues  

Two volumes. More than 2,000 entries on the blues, its history, culture, roots, contemporary styles, artists, historians, instruments, songs, regions, record labels, and forms.

Location: Ref. ML 102 .B6 E53 2006

Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre  

A wealth of information on individuals and shows. Three volumes.

Location: Ref. ML 102 .M88 G3 2001

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music  

Volumes cover the regions of the world. Articles by researchers discuss general information regarding a particular region, its music, music culture and how music evolved in that region. Music for major religions of an area is also discussed. Each volume includes a glossary of musical terms for that particular area. Accompanying CDs of representative music are kept in the Gelardin New Media Center, 1st floor, Lauinger Library.

Location: Ref. ML 100 .G16 1998

African American Music Reference  

http://0-aamr.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

African American Music Reference chronicles the history of African-American music through 1970, offering electronic access to coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, early slave spirituals, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. It brings together reference texts in this subject area (discographies, biographies, encyclopedias, bibliographies, chronologies, editorially selected Web resources) with songsheets, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), sheet music covers, and manuscripts. Rare and previously unpublished items are included. The reference citations link to musical tracks and performances so that users can then listen to the music.

Oxford Music Online  

http://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of music worldwide, from ancient music to the popular music of today. Formerly known as Grove Music Online.

Location: Ref. ML100 .N48

Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C. for Audio Resources  

A guide to research facilities in the Washington, D.C. area. A descriptive and evaluative survey accompanies each entry for a library. Refer to subject index in back to see sound recordings related to music.

Location: LAU Stacks ML 15 .W2 H44 1985

Sourcebook for Research in Music  

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/georgetown/Top?channelName=georgetown&cpage=1&d=all&docID=10149912&f00=title&f01=subject&frm=adv.x&hitsPerPage=10&l=all&layout=document&p00=sourcebook+for+research+in+music&p01=&sch=%A0%A0%A0%A0%A0Search%A0%A0%A0%A0%A0&sortBy=score&sortOrder=desc

Contains basic bibliographical tools for research in music, including area bibliographies and other reference sources, dictionaries and encyclopedias of music, sources treating the history of music, and current research journals in music. Also contains editions of music and miscellaneous sources. Also available in e-brary (search by title).

Location: Ref. ML 113 .C68 2005

New Oxford History of Music  

This ten volume set covers music history from ancient times to the modern age (1890-1960). Each volume covers a particular time period -- middle ages, renaissance, enlightenment, etc. Article entries, written by scholars, include the history of music for different cultures and religions.

Location: Ref. ML 160 .N44

Jazz Scholarship and Pedagogy: a Research and Information Guide  

An annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz.

Location: Ref. ML 128 .J3 M34 2006

Music Analyses  

An annotated bibliography arranged by composer. Entries feature general articles or books on the composer; then articles or books on specific works.

Location: Ref. ML 128 .A7 D5 1991

Music Reference and Research Materials: an Annotated Bibliography  

This source surveys the research literature in music. It details dictionaries, encyclopedias, histories of music, music chronologies and catalogs of musical library collections. This volume does not cover biographical sources for musicians.

Location: Ref. ML 113 .D83 1997

GEORGE   

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/

Check for books on your topic in GEORGE, the Georgetown Library's catalog. Search by keyword, author/artist/composer, title, or subject heading. After finding a book of relevant interest, click on "Find Similar Items" to search by the subject headings listed in the book's catalog record.

To find music CDs or other recordings, limit your search results to material type "music & audio" or to location "Gelardin Center." Music CD's are kept in the Gelardin Center.

To find sheet music or scores, search by author in GEORGE. Lauinger Library is more likely to have books containing musical pieces rather than individual sheet music.

Library of Congress Catalog  

http://catalog.loc.gov/

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world. An unparalleled world resource, the collection holds more than 138 million items, including more than 32 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 61 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings. The Library of Congress occupies three buildings on Capitol Hill. To make use of its resources as a Georgetown affiliate, consult GU-LC Connection. General information for researchers appears at LC's Researchers page.

WorldCat   

http://0-newfirstsearch.oclc.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/autho=100161383;dbname=WorldCat;screen=advanced;done=http://www.library.georgetown.edu;FSIP

WorldCat is a catalog consisting of over 100 million records for books and other materials in over 60,000 libraries. NOTE: Available only to Georgetown University students, faculty, and staff. A publicly accessible version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/.

WRLC Catalog  

http://catalog.wrlc.org/

The catalog of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC): George Washington, American, Catholic, George Mason, Gallaudet, and Marymount Universities, the University of the District of Columbia, and Georgetown University. Georgetown students may borrow directly from WRLC libraries or request items via the WRLC Catalog. Note that Catholic University has a Music Library.

Digital Sheet Music Collection  

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/music/smp/index.html

The University of Colorado at Boulder Music Library has a large sheet music collection with approximately 150,000 items including examples from the late 18th through the 20th centuries. This web site provides access to digital versions of some of the categories of sheet music within the physical collections.

I Hear America Singing  

http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/

This excellent digital resource from the Library of Congress' Music, Dance, and Theater Collection. Presents various specialized collections, including links to other historic sheet music projects. Note: The Library of Congress' American Memory collection also contains online images of sheet music.

Indiana University Sheet Music Collection  

http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/s/sheetmusic/

This website allows you to search holdings from Lilly Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music  

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

Over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but it is strongest in nineteenth-century American popular music, music of military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I, and minstrel music.

New York Public Library's Sheet Music and Song Sheets Available on the Web  

http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/internet/lpa.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1077&d3=Sheet%20Music%20and%20Song%20Sheets%20Available%20on%20the%20Web

Organized by subject. Includes Performing Arts in America project, African American music, Band Music from the Civil War era, Ragtime, the Choral Public Domain library, Historic Sheet Music, and others.

Sheet Music Collection from the Music Library, University of South Carolina  

http://sheetmusic.library.sc.edu/

Database of bibliographic records of sheet music in the University of South Carolina's Music Library. For pieces of music that are in the public domain, images of the cover and each page of music are provided.

Sheet Music Consortium  

http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/

Collaborative effort between UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University that includes links their online sheet music projects (some with images of sheet music) as well as links to other sheet music projects on the Web.

All Music Guide  

http://www.allmusic.com/

Index to recorded music -- from popular to classical -- compiled by free-lance writers in the music industry. Includes biographies of musicians, labels they record(ed) under, list of albums produced and other musicians performed with. "Music maps" trace the roots of different music genres including folk, new age, rap, rock, etc. See also print titles, such as: All Music Guide to Classical (Ref. ML 156.9 .A385 2005), All Music Guide to Country (Ref. ML 156.4 .C7 A45 2003), All Music Guide to Jazz (Stacks ML 156.4 .J3 A45 2002), All Music Guide to Rock (Ref. ML 156 .A39 2002), All Music Guide to Soul (Stacks ML 156.4 .S6 A45 2003), and All Music Guide to the Blues (Ref. ML 156.4 .B6 A45 2003).

Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments (EUCHMI)  

http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/index.html#u

Catalog of all the instruments in the collection accompanied by an electronic picture gallery with descriptions of the instruments, list of publications of the EUCHMI, description of some of the research being done at the University, and links to related Web sites.

Music Awards and Prizes  

http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/awards.html

University of Washington Music Library web page with listing of major music awards and prizes. Also includes links to lists of prize winners or home page of organization sponsoring the award.

Music: A Survey of Some Quality Resources  

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2005/december05/music.htm

Article by Valerie King surveying music websites by type and genre. Includes links to the websites discussed.

African American Song  

http://0-georgetown4.classical.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Online collection of over 16,000 music tracks from the first half of the 20th century. Includes a variety of styles including ragtime, blues, gospel, jazz, folk songs and narratives.

American Song  

http://0-amso.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

A history database with 50,000 tracks, allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. 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"

Classical Music Library  

http://0-clmu.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Classical Music Library is a fully searchable database of classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to online. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. The database includes licensed multiple versions of some works to enable comparative listening.

Live Music Archive  

http://www.archive.org/details/etree

Live recordings by artists that allow taping and/or free trading of their performances.

Smithsonian Global Sound  

http://0-georgetown2.classical.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Electronic collection of music, songs, and aural traditions produced with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. It includes a variety of styles including folk, blues, bluegrass, old time country, American Indian, international, jazz, classical, Broadway, children's, and spoken words and sounds.

Music Publishers' Association  

http://www.mpa.org/

Contains Directory of Music Publishers, copyright information, and links to many Internet music sources (Music Links).

Virtual Instrument Museum  

http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim/

Wesleyan University's Music Department's online World Music Collection. Alphabetical list of instruments as well as listings by material, geographic region or instrument type. Videos available of some of the instruments.

Georgetown University Libraries Special Collections  

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/special-collections

Georgetown University Library has a number of music related collections in the Special Collections division. For listings and descriptions of these collections please see the Music Collections section of the Visual & Performing Arts Special Collections Subject Guide.

Citing Music Sources  

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/music/citemus.html

How to cite sources for music papers based on the Turabian style manual.