MUS 229: Music in Cultural Perspective

Print Resources

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Ref ML100 .G16 1998

Concise Dictionary of Music

Ref ML100 .H897

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Ref ML100 .N48

New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

Ref ML102 .I5N48

Garland Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Ref ML102 .P66 G84

The Harvard biographical dictionary of music

Ref ML105 .H38 1996

American musical traditions

ML3551 .A53 2002

Current Biography

Ref CT100 .C8

journals in our collection.....

Ethnomusicology, Perspective in New Music, 19TH Century Music, College Music Symposium, Rolling Stone ...

Online Resources

Grove Music Online

Online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music, this online resource is updated quarterly and is considered to be the premier authority on music. It now also includes New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

Library Catalog

Catalog may be a good to look for criticism, scores and recordings.

JStor

A collection of abstracts and articles from over 100 scholarly journals, many dating from the nineteenth-century to the last 4 or 5 years. JStor has a reasonably strong music collection.

Classical Music Library

Classical Music Library offers an impressive classical music collection enabling you to listen to a continually growing collection - currently over 20,000 titles. This Classical Music Library service is a complete collection of recordings, accompanied by a vast reference database. Limited to 3 Simultaneous Users.

Lexis-Nexis

Excellent source for full-text, to-date reviews and critiques of musicians and performances.

Readers' Guide Full Text

Indexes over 200 popular U.S. general interest periodicals. Covers 1983 to the present.

Readers' Guide Retrospective

Comprehensive indexing of 500 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.

Amazon

Search for recordings, under Popular and Classical Music. You may even find fan reviews.

Yahoo!

Try the Arts & Humanites or Society & Culture. Musicians may have their own websites.

Music Literature (RILM)

Over 200,000 citations on international music describing books, articles, and dissertations. Produced by the Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale. Covers 1969 to the present.