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    Music Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books in Music: 780-789; Dance, 792.7-792.8

    Music Criticism and Reviews - Full-Text Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Music reviews from newspapers. Roughly from 1980s on.
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • FindArticles.com
      • Search for articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
      • Note: Text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc. Nor does it provide volume, issue, or page numbers.
    • IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals
      • Indexes over 370 journals and magazines with about 50 in full text.
      • Covers nearly all aspects of the world of music.
      • Dates variable.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.

    Music Periodicals with Full Text

    Music Criticism and Reviews - Indexes with Citations

    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • Humanities Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes about 500 journals and magazines in archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
      • Citations only.
      • 2/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format:  4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 001.3 H918)
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.
    • Music Index  1949 to 1973 only
      • (Call number: Index 780 M987)
    • RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
      • Citations and abstracts of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. Includes periodical articles, essays, festschriften, dissertations, books, scholarly reviews, etc. Broad, international coverage, including non-English language.
      • paper format  1973 to 1982 only
        (Call number: Index 780.016 I61)

    Composers

    • International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Ed. Aaron I. Cohen. New York: Books & Music (U.S.A.), 1987.
      • (Call number: R 780.922 C678)
    • New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed. 29 vols. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 2001.
      • (Call number: R 780.3 N532)
      • Best general reference work on music.
    • Women Hymn Composers Before 1900 (Donald McKillican)
      • Biographical information or listing of hymns by the person.
    • Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Composers (Indiana University School of Music)
      • Numerous links.

    Musical Instruments
    Dewey call numbers for books on musical Instruments: 786-788

    • New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 3 vols. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1984.
      • (Call number: R 781.91 N532)
    • Smithsonian: Musical History
      • Links to sites on hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations on Performances and Recordings, Artists and Exhibitions, and Musical Instruments.

    Jazz
    Dewey call numbers for books on Jazz: 781.65

    Lyrics

    Medieval Music

    Sheet Music

    • 19th-century California Sheet Music (Mary Kay Duggan, Univ. of California, Berkeley)
      • Images of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials. Searchable.
    • African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Brown University, American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
      • Twentieth century titles also have many photographs of African-American musical performers, often in costume. Searchable. Excellent site.
    • Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)
      • Images of music sheets published in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920. Timeline also available. Searchable. Excellent site.
    • Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins University)
      • Popular American music from 1780 to 1960, but will only display images of sheet music that is before 1923 (i.e. in the public domain). For more recent material, will give the bibliographic record. Searchable.
    • Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
      • Includes popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
    • Sheet Music Plus
      • Shop for sheet music.

    Opera
    Dewey call numbers for books on Operas: 782.1

    Dance
    Dewey call numbers for books on Dance: 792.7-792.8