MUS 230: Music History: Atiquity to 1750
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- MUS 230: Music History: Atiquity to 1750
- Finding Sources
Recommended Sources
Singing in Style by Call Number: MT892 .E45 2006
A History of Opera by Call Number: ML1700 .A22 2012
The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music by Call Number: ML172 .C33 2015
Eighteenth-Century Music by Call Number: ML195 .C35 2014
The Cambridge History of Musical Performance by Call Number: ML457 .C35 2012
Performance practices in the Baroque era : as related by primary sources by Call Number: ML457 .S53 2013
Music in the Baroque by Call Number: ML193 .H45 2014
Music in the Eighteenth Century by Call Number: ML195 .R53 2013
Music in the Renaissance by Call Number: ML172 .F74 2013
Music in the Medieval West by Call Number: ML172 .F37 2014
Music of the Baroque by Call Number: ML193 .S38 2014
The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Call Number: ML1700 .O916 2014
Find Background Informaiton
This is the first place you should search when doing music research. Use it to find background information about your topic, and pay particular attention to the bibliographies at the end of each entry. They can provide you with great sources!
- Oxford Music Online (contains Grove Music Online) This link opens in a new windowOxford Music Online, home of Grove Music Online, the world’s premier online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. This resource includes: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowDeveloped cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource directs researchers to the best available scholarships. F&M subscribes only to the following subject areas: Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, and Music.
Find Books
Sample searches:
mozart AND "piano concerto" AND (analysis OR criticism OR interpretation)
mozart AND (society OR culture OR politics OR philosophy)
"elizabethan melancholy"
Recommended Databases
Use these databases to find articles on your topic as well as music recordings in the classical music library.
- RILM Music Literature Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProduced by the Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale, RILM indexes dozens of information formats produced all over the world. Features works published from 1967 to the present.
- JStor This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the core scholarly journals in many fields of study. The Advanced Search feature allows you to search solely within Music journals. Be aware that most JStor journal coverage ends 4-6 years prior to the current year.
- Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowAn online listening library, featuring music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
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Use EZBorrow (EZB)/Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request articles, book chapters, books, and other materials not available at F&M.
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Journal Examples
Disciplinary Journals that contain articles on all aspects of music history or music theory, and that usually concern general issues of interest to all musicologists:
- Journal of Musicology
- Journal of the American Musicological Society
- Journal of Music Theory
- Music Theory Spectrum
- Music Analysis
- Music & Letters
- Musical Quarterly
More narrowly focused journals:
- Early Music
- Cambridge Opera Journal
- Opera Quarterly
- Journal of the Society for American Music
- American Music
