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Research Guide for: Music
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General Music Sources
General Music Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians -- On our shelves at:
Ref ML105 .B16 (Main Floor)
- "Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with
better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional
concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995,
coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new
entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty
introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers
and musicians."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002.
- Dictionary of Music Titles -- On our shelves at: Ref ML102 .T58 R66 2000 (Main Floor)
- "This dictionary collects 3,500 titles of musical compositions and the histories of
their creation. It includes symphonies, operas, oratorios, ballets, orchestral and choral
works, chamber music, keyboard compositions, and songs ranging from the popular to the
obscure. Titles are arranged alphabetically by most common form, English or other
language (with French, German, Italian and Spanish titles usually given in those
languages). Each entry includes alternate and non-English language versions of the title
where appropriate, the composer's name, date of composition and first performance, opus
number, a factual description of the work, and the origin of the title or any story
behind it" (booknews.com).
- Dictionary of Musical Themes -- On our shelves at:
Ref ML 128 I65 B3 1979 (Main
Floor)
- Contains the first note entries of more than 10,000 orchestral pieces. The notation
index is based on the key C major or C minor. If you can read music, you can use this
volume to identify melodies that occur in classical compositions.
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians -- On our shelves at:
Ref ML 100 .N48 (Main Floor)
- In 29 volumes, includes 29,000 articles, over 20,000 biographies, over 10,000
cross-references, over 5,000 illustrations, & articles by over 6,000 of the world's
leading music scholars.
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music -- On our shelves at:
Ref ML100 .G16 1998 (Main Floor)
- This 10-volume set provides a thorough guide to world music, contributing to
knowledge of the world's heritage and musical knowledge. Each volume includes an
overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and
a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances.
- New Harvard Dictionary of Music -- On our shelves at:
Ref ML100 .R3 2003 (Main Floor)
- Contains nearly 6000 entries, authored by over 70 top musicologists. Provides
compact information for all periods in music history. The core biographical material
covers over 2,000 composers from the Middle Ages to the present. Descriptions of the
composers' work is presented, with lists of principal compositions.
Also includes: descriptions of instruments used in western music, as well as
instruments from other parts of the world; definitions of musical terms;
cross-referencing to other entries in the dictionary; 12 pages of illustrations and
over 100 musical examples.
- Oxford History of Western Music / Richard Taruskin -- On our shelves at:
Ref. ML160 .T18 2005 (Main Floor)
- "The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with
respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and
remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of
relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and
how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the context of each
stylistic period-key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific
events-influenced and directed compositional choices." -- Oxford University Press.
Subject Specific Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias
- New Grove Dictionary of American Music -- On our shelves at:
Ref ML 101. U6 N48 1986 (Main Floor)
- Covers American music and musicians broadly considered, with concise articles
summarizing works for lesser known persons, and broad, illustrated pieces with works
lists and lengthy bibliographies for well-known persons.
- New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- On our shelves at: Ref ML102 .O6 N5 1992 (Main Floor)
- 4 volumes. Includes composers, singers (with numerous but brief entries), conductors, poets, stage
designers, producers, directors, dancers, managers, patrons, impresarios, etc. Also, entries on opera houses,
terminology, opera traditions, etc. are included. 1300 contributors, signed articles.
- Language of Twentieth Century Music: A Dictionary of Terms -- On our shelves at:
Ref. ML100 .F55 (Main Floor)
- Presents the basic terminologies of chance music, computer music, electronic music, film music, jazz,
musique concrète, multimedia rock, twelve-tone music and other more traditional styles of composition, as
well as descriptions of instruments and performance practices specific to twentieth-century music
performance practice.
- Medieval Music: The Sixth Liberal Art / Andrew Hughes -- On our
shelves at: Ref. ML114 .H8 (Main Floor)
- New Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers -- On our shelves at:
Ref ML105 .N66 1994 (Main Floor)
- "Chronicles the lives and works of 875 women composers of Western classical music. Most entries in this
Dictionary include a detailed biography, an evaluation of the subject's music and her career, and a comprehensive
list of her published and unpublished works."
- Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia -- On our shelves at: Ref ML82 .W625 2002 (Main Floor)
- "This two-volume reference set describes the role of women in all types of music in the U.S. since 1900.
The alphabetically-arranged entries cover important individuals (chosen for the significance of their
contributions rather than for their popularity), biographical overviews, gender issues, education, music
genres, honors and awards, organizations and professions. Entries (ranging from half a page to several pages
in length) conclude with a short list of further readings, and about 100 are accompanied by a b&w
photograph. A historical overview and a chronology are also included."
Instrument Sources
- Dictionary of Percussion Terms -- On our shelves at: Ref ML102.P4 L36x 2000 (Main Floor)
- Contains an alphabetical listing of terms found in the classical symphonic repertoire. Terms used in
English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, African, Spanish, Latin American, Polish, Dutch, Danish and
Russian works are included. There are sections devoted to standard abbreviations, phrases from famous
symphonic, choral and operatic works and an appendix for mallet instrument ranges.
- Encyclopedia of the Piano -- On our shelves at: Ref ML102 .P5 E53 1996 (Main Floor)
- Includes over 600 alphabetically-arranged articles covering artisans, composers, events, companies,
instrument construction, culture and history, research discoveries, and future trends.
- Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia -- On
our shelves at: Ref ML102 .I5 D5 1976 (Main Floor)
- Showcases the development of musical instruments from from primitive whistles to
electric guitars. Includes information on orchestral, popular, classical, ancient, and folk
instruments. Classed by family groups, they are cross-referenced with material on
geographical distribution and historical periods.
- Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments -- On our shelves at: Ref ML102 .I5 B34 1992 (Main Floor)
- "Alphabetical guide to Western and non-Western acoustic musical instruments (electric and electronic
instruments are not included). Each entry offers a description of the instrument, as well as
information on as playing techniques, harmonics and circular breathing, the sound of an instrument,
acoustics, pitch, an instrument's use within the orchestral repertoire or, for ethnomusicological
instruments, within ritual, and significant developments in its history."
- Practical Percussion: A Guide to the Instruments and Their Sources -- On our shelves
at: Ref ML1030 .H65 2003 (Main Floor)
- An illustrated encyclopedia of more than two hundred percussion instruments. Each
instrument's physical, musical, and historical attributes are described. Additional sections focus on
writing and publishing music for percussion instruments, percussion education, the Percussive Arts Society,
the percussion soloist, and manufacturers and distributors of percussion instruments. A list of works for
percussion is included, with required players and instruments.
- University of Michigan Instrument Encyclopedia
- Text, image, and sound of instruments housed in the University of Michigan Stearns
Collection of Musical Instruments.
Journals
- UWG Electronic Journals List for Music
- A
list of full-text
music and music related electronic journals available from various
sources subscribed to by Ingram Library.
- UWG Print Journals
List
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- A list of music related journals and periodicals currently
subscribed to in
print format available in our Periodical Stacks on the Main Floor of the
Library.
- Music Journals and Magazines, Newspapers and
Periodicals -- Indiana University
- An alphabetical hyperlinked list of free and subscription journals available on
the web.
- Amazing
Sounds: The
Alternative Music e-Magazine
- An online magazine concentrating on "new contemporary, instrumental, traditional,
cosmic and electronic, avant-garde, ambient and meditative musics,
fusions..."; interviews with musicians in these various areas; recording reviews;
and feature articles; international coverage; available in Spanish and English.
Free.
- Music Theory
Online
- The peer-reviewed electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory publishes
feature articles, book reviews, abstracts of dissertations, and conference and job
announcements; since 1993.
- Piano
Pedagogy Forum -- From the Keyboard Studies Department at the
University of South Carolina
- "Piano Pedagogy Forum is intended to be an arena
for the expression of learned opinions as they focus on the issues that shape the field
of Piano Pedagogy today and into the next millennium."
Literature &
Bibliographic Sources
- Bibliographic Guide to Music -- On our shelves at: Ref ML136 .N5 N5732 (Main Floor)
- Produced from cataloging
information by the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress. This catalog and
its supplements reproduce the catalog cards for music books and scores of one of the
largest music research libraries in the United States. It is most useful in identifying
publication information for material not owned by UWG. Once you know who published an
item and when, you can more easily find out if the item is currently available for
purchase or on inter-library loan, even though the New York Public Library itself does
not loan material. It is also possible to scan a particular subject heading and learn of
items which might otherwise not be discovered.
- A Basic Music Library: Essential Scores and Sound Recordings --
On our shelves at: Ref ML113 .B3 1997 (Main Floor)
- Although a number of its listings are now out of print, it's
still useful as a guide to popular artists and classical works.
- Collected Editions, Historical Series and
Sets and Monuments of Music -- On our shelves at: Ref ML113 .H55 1997 (Main Floor)
- Useful in indentifying bibliographies of collected sets. Entries are by composer, as
are sets. Cross references within the entry are noted. Entries have complete
bibliographies. Major composers have extended series listings. Each entry shows what is
contained in that catalog. Works are listed only by the first composer in the
collection.
- Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire -- On our shelves at: Ref ML128 .P3 H5 1987 (Main Floor)
- An alphabetical listing by composer's name of selected piano music
of some 1,800 composers. Each entry includes the publisher(s) of the piece,
the number of pages, the performance time, a description of the style and any
individual characteristics, and the level of difficulty.
- Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music 3rd ed.
-- On our shelves at:
Ref ML113 .H52 1980 (Main Floor)
- Lists the contents and bibliographical information for the complete editions of
the music of individual composers and the major collections of music; vol. 1
contains text, vol.2, index; 1300 entries
- Sacred Choral Music in Print -- On our shelves at: Ref ML128 .V7 N32 (Main Floor)
- A listing of published sacred choral music. Each entry offers the following
information, as available from the publisher's catalog: title and translated
title, composer and arranger or editor, instrumentation, language, publisher,
duration, publisher's number, contents of collections, and additional remarks. Entries in
the two main volumes and in the supplements are arranged
by composer; if you look up a title, you will be referred to the composer's name.
Career Sources
Choosing a Career in Music [computer file] --
ML3790 .G515 1999
- Available as an E-book through netLibrary. Offers an overview of careers in the field of music, from
singing to songwriting to recording.
- Great Jobs for Music Majors [computer file] -- ML3705 .G74 1997
- Available as an E-book through netLibrary. Provides information on career paths for music majors as
well as guidance in how to conduct a job search in the path of your choice.
- Opportunities in Entertainment Careers [computer file] -- PN1580 .G5688 1999
- Provides information for job seekers on getting started, obtaining training, education,
advancement, salaries, job responsibilities, and more.
- The Touring Musician: A Small-business Approach to Booking Your Band on the Road --
On our shelves at: ML3795 .G245 2000 (Third Floor)
- Guides musicians in applying sound business practices to band travel by evaluating assets; creating an
action plan; researching, negotiating, and booking venues; arranging transportation and lodgings;
managing personal and tour finances; and getting publicity.
Organizations
- American Choral
Directors Association (ACDA)
- A nonprofit music-education organization whose purpose is to promote excellence
in choral music via performance, composition, publication, research, and teaching.
- American
Federation of Musicians
- The largest organization in the world representing the interests of
professional musicians.
- American Music Center, The
- Provides programs and services for composers of contemporary classical and jazz
music.
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American Musicological Society
- The current web location for the American Musicological Association.
- American Society of
Composers, Authors and
Publishers (ASCAP)
- Music membership association of composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music
publishers of every kind of music.
- Atlanta Federation of Musicians
- Website of Local 148-462 of the American Federation of Musicians.
- International Society for
Music Education.
- Promotes music education world-wide with members in over 60 countries.
- Internet
Resources for Music Scholars
- Links to the music library at Harvard University.
- MENC: The National Association
for Music Education
- Advances music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all.
- MusicalOnline
An online directory of classical competitions, festivals, and academic
research resources.
- Music Publishers'
Association
- Formed to support and advance compliance with the copyright law, combat
copyright infringement, and explore the need for further reform.
- National Music
Foundation
- Not-for-profit organization dedicated to American music and its advancement in
music education. Includes programs, aims and application information.
- Percussive Arts
Society
- A professional organization promoting information, communication and education for
the percussion community.
- Recording Industry
Association
of America (RIAA)
- Works to protect intellectual property rights worldwide and the First Amendment
rights of artists; conducts consumer, industry and technical research; and monitors,
reviews, and influences state and federal laws, regulations, and policies.
- Society for
Ethnomusicology
- Promotes the research, study, and performance of music in all historical
periods and cultural contexts.
- World Association for
Symphonic
Bands and Ensembles
- International organization of wind band conductors, composers, performers,
publishers, teachers, instrument makers and friends of wind music.
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