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Subject Guide: Music INDEXES  |  SPECIAL MUSIC SOURCES   |  REFERENCE WORKS   |  WEB LINKS  |  PERIODICALS This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for the study of Music. INDEXES Academic Search Complete A multi-disciplinary, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions that includes full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications abstracts and indexing for nearly 3,930 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984. Full-page images, as well as color embedded images are included. Arts & Humanities Search Citations for over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected articles from social science and science journals. Covers 1980 to the present. Updated weekly. ARTstor The ARTstor image database is a searchable collection of downloadable high quality digital images for education and scholarship. The database documents artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. ARTstor is designed for researchers, teachers and students. Users can download individual images or use the ARTstor Online Image Viewer to build a presentation using ARTstor images, arrange and caption the images, and deliver the presentation in the classroom. International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) IIPA draws its content from more than 210 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. The database 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, magic and more. Includes abstracts. Citations from 1864-present. JSTOR Full text online for 32 scholarly journal articles in music as well as journals in other disciplines. Music journal titles include Ethnomusicology, Musical Times, Journal of Music Theory, and more. The Music Index REFERENCE, 1st Floor, Index Tables A print index useful for locating articles in the music literature. The library holds the index from 1971 to 2001. Project MUSE Provides full image journal articles in the humanities and social sciences. Music journals include Women in Music, Asian Music, Computer Music Journal, and more. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Published by Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, New York, contains records in many languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. The majority of citations include abstracts. Over 500 scholarly journals are represented. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals are indexed if they are of scholarly interest. Over 20,000 new records are added to the database each year. 1969-present. Updated monthly. SPECIAL MUSIC RESOURCES African American Song Searchable resource for African American music. Licensed digital recordings that users can listen to over the Internet including over 50,000 tracks of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms. (See also Classical Music Library and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries for other digital recordings.) Classical Music Library Searchable classical music resource. Licensed digital recordings that users can listen to over the Internet from 40 music labels. Includes links to images and to biographical information in Grove Music Online. (See also Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries and African American Song for other digital recordings.) Grove Music Online Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Search the full text of articles and locate related materials. Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries Searchable world music resource. Licensed digital recordings that users can listen to over the Internet; more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Includes American folk, American Indian, world traditions, children's, etc. Includes digital archives of Folkways Records as well as International Library of African Music, Indian music from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Available on campus only. (See also Classical Music Library and African American Song for other digital recordings.) REFERENCE WORKS To find printed reference material relevant to your topic start with the library's online catalog. Do a Reference Materials search using keywords to describe your topic. You can also check the library's Web pages for subject guides for specific topics to find other suggested sources. Below are a few titles to get you started. To check call number and location information, search the online catalog. Choral Music : A Research and Information Guide REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 782.5 Sh23c The Encyclopedia of Country Music REFERENCE, 1st floor 781.642 En19 Garland Encyclopedia of World Music REFERENCE, 1st floor 780.9 G183 v.1-10 Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music REFERENCE, 1st floor 781.64 En19 1998 v.1-8 Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music REFERENCE, 1st floor 780.922 H261 Music Reference and Research Materials (Duckles, 5th ed.) REFERENCE, 1st floor 780.16 D858m 1997 New Grove Dictionary of American Music REFERENCE, 1st floor 781.773 N456 v.1-4 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. REFERENCE, 1st floor 780.3 N418 v.1-29 Random House Encyclopedic Dictionary of Classical Music REFERENCE, 1st floor 781.68 R159 Song Finder: a Title Index to 32,000 Popular Songs in Collections, 1854-1992 REFERENCE, 1st floor 782.42 F381s SongCite : an index to popular songs REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 782.42 G616s 1999 The Story of Rock n Roll: the Year-by-Year Illustrated Chronicle REFERENCE, 1st floor 781.66 St76 WEB LINKS Music Metasites All Music Guide Citing Music Sources in Your Essay and Bibliography (from University of Western Ontario) Classical Music Pages Classical Net Classical USA DW3 Classical Music Resources Online Resources for Music Scholars MusicalOnline Classical Music Directory Operabase WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists Digital Scores Digital Scores Collection--Loeb Music Library, Harvard University International Music Score Library Project Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version Associations and Organizations American Musicological Society Searchable website that includes musicology links, AMS event listings, the AMS Newsletter, information about the Journal of the AMS, etc.   National Association of Schools of Music NASM, founded in 1924, is an organization of schools, conservatories, colleges and universities. It has approximately 600 accredited institutional members. It establishes national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials. Southwestern University's Music Department is accredited by the NASM.   OPERA America A membership organization which "serves and strengthens the world of opera by providing a variety of informational, technical, and administrative resources to the greater opera community." The A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center no longer holds a library membership with OPERA America, so some features of the website may not be accessible.   Society for Music Theory Includes conference and other event information, links to regional societies, the SMT Newsletter, full text articles in Music Theory Online, and links to music theory resources. Austin and Georgetown Music Austin Civic Orchestra Austin Lyric Opera Austin Symphony Chorus Austin Online Georgetown Symphony Society PERIODICALS To find holdings and location information for specific periodical titles (both print and online), search the Voyager catalog.   To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals on your topic, try the resources listed above under Indexes.

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