Selected Resources for: Music


Subject Librarian: Timothy Maloney
E-Mail: tmaloney@umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: all aspects of the performance and study of music. Other related topics are Dance, Education, Psychology, and Theatre Arts.


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Authentication Required
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided.
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IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Articles in over 350 international music journals, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Coverage also includes reviews, letters, and editorials.
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Music Index Online Authentication Required
Bibliographic citations from more than 690 international music periodicals covering a broad range of subjects, including music history, forms and types of music, musical instruments from ancient to modern, and electro-acoustic and computer-produced music. Book reviews, reviews of music recordings, tapes, and performances, first performances, and obituaries are also indexed.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Effective July 1, 2004, this database is now available via the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts interface
RILM indexes scholarly writings on music and related disciplines, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, music therapy, music librarianship, the physics of music, and other fields as they relate to music.
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RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RISM (the International Inventory of Music Sources) is a database of musical sources, such as manuscripts & printed music, works of music theory, and opera libretti which are preserved in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections around the world.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
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MasterFile Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975.
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Indexes, Other
FolkLib Index
This site indexes information on the World Wide Web that relates to the fields of Folk Music, Bluegrass and Old-Time Music, Acoustic Blues, Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar, and Harp Players. There's not much for interior design of this site but it contains very useful information.
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Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series Authentication Required
IPM is a database created to facilitate on-line searching for individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. IPM will eventually contain detailed information on all music listed in "Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography," by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens. Additional titles will be added, as appropriate. IPM is searchable by composer, title, and series name and number.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Catalogs
MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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General Reference Sources

Biographical Sources

Baker's biographical dictionary of popular musicians since 1990[electronic resource]
This biographical reference includes more than 550 entries focusing on artists active from 1990-2003. Individual artists and groups in all popular styles are covered, including those in rock, rhythm and blues, rap, country, electronica, jazz, vocal and crossover classical. Features include select discographies, bibliographies, a glossary of music terms, a table of best-selling music since 1990 and more.
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International who's who in music and musicians' direct

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Dictionaries
Classical Music Reference Library Authentication Required
Classical Music Reference Library contains most of the the Baker music dictionaries: Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 is available separately (above). The Classical Music Reference Library unites in a single on-line database over 30,000 pages of basic reference materials spanning the history of Western classical music.
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Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Authentication Required
Available in print and online versions. NB: The Grove Dictionary has been taken over by Oxford University Press, and "Grove Music Online" is now found under "Oxford Music Online" (below), along with other Oxford music dictionaries.
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New Harvard dictionary of music

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Oxford Music Online Authentication Required
Oxford Music Online contains the Oxford group of music reference texts, including the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Companion to Music, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, and Grove Music Online. Users can cross-search all these resources in one on-line database. Grove Music Online has recently been redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.
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Directories
Musical America: directory issue.

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Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Popular Music Authentication Required
Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.
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Encyclopedia of popular music, 3rd ed.
This 8 volume encyclopedia, published in 1998 provides broad coverage of popular music: v. 1. A Band of angels-Burnel, Jean Jacques -- v. 2. Burnett, Carol-Dusty, Slim -- v. 3. Dutch swing college band-Heptones -- v. 4. Herbal mixture-Louvin brothers -- v. 5. Louvin, Charlie-Paul, Clarence -- v. 6. Paul, Emmmanuel-Smith, Larry -- v. 7. Smith, Leo-Wildchild -- v. 8. Wilde, Kim-ZZ top.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Authentication Required
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online contains over 9,000 pages of material, the full text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia (more than 700 articles) with links to associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings; song texts and score examples; and charts and maps of world regions.
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General Reference Works
African American Music Reference Authentication Required
African American Music Reference aims to offer comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression by bringing together materials from reference works, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies to chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The first release of African American Music Reference includes over 3,900 pages of reference, including a comprehensive set of biographies on the top 185 African American composers, edited by Samuel Floyd, Jr., as well as 5,000 pages of liner notes from Document Records. Other materials in this release include African American iconography, collections of spirituals and slave lyrics, and reference on important ensembles and musicians such as the Fisk Jubilee Singers,Jelly Roll Morton, Wynton Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, and more. As the database grows, this material will be supplemented with other reference titles covering the histories of jazz, blues, bebop, hip hop, ragtime, gospel, and rhythm and blues, as well as a detailed chronology of African American events in music, links to Web resources, searchable sheet music, and new reference titles such as Mingus: A Critical Biography (Brian Priestley), Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon (Donald Clarke), Jazzwomen: Conversations with 21 Musicians (Indiana University Press), Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker (Gary Giddens), The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music (Theresa L. Reed), Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life (Wynton Marsalis), and more.
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Orchestral Music Online Authentication Required
The classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists throughout the world. Based on the critically acclaimed fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook, it provides greater and easier access to information on more than 6700 works by some 900 composers.
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Handbooks and Manuals


Internet Resources

Electronic Texts
Oxford Scholarship Online - Music Collection Authentication Required
Oxford Scholarship Online - Music Collection gathers into a single database numerous monographs published by Oxford University Press covering musicology, music history, ethnomusicology, and music theory. It includes both older works and more recent titles.
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Internet Directory
Aria Database
The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.
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Classical Music Resources
This Duke University website offers information and links to: composer homepages; chronologies and necrologies; organizations and centers for scholarly research; electronic journals and newletters; and more.
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Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
This comprehensive web site by the University of Washington has links to over 200 sites covering Institutions and Research Centers, Periodicals, Recordings, Dance, and Demographic listings on the topics of Enthnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music.
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IPA Source Authentication Required
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
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Lied and Song Texts Page
An archive of texts to Lieder and other Classical Art Songs as well as many other types of classical vocal pieces.
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Search Engines
Themefinder
Music recognition database let's you search Themes in instrumental music.
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Web Sites
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
This web site is sponsored by the Music Divison of the Library of Congress. It consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870-1885.
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Rhythmweb
This is an interactive web site that offers information on rhythm and percussion based music including jazz, reggae, African pop, samba, and more. Contents can be explored by culture or by type of instrument. Also, this site offers sound files called Rhythmweb Radio.
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Symphony: An Interactive Guide, The
This is a searchable web site of composer biographies, a time line, and guides to musical instruments, forms, and structures. There are quizzes, surveys, discussion boards, and sound files. This is a good introductory resource for students.
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Multimedia Materials

Audio Resources
African American Song Authentication Required
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. This release features some 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records. This great collection features recordings from the first half of the 20th century and includes iconic artists such as The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie McTell and Huddie Ledbetter. It provides a rich source of Blues and early Jazz recordings as well as a lot of sacred music.
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American Song Authentication Required
American Song is a history database that contains ~12,00 tracks that allow people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 763 albums, equaling 12,542 tracks.
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Classical Music Library Authentication Required
Classical Music Library is an extensive collection of recordings with a supplementary reference database that users may search and listen to music delivered to their desktop. Classical Music Library is cross-referenced to a database of supplementary information and features fully licensed recordings, thousands of program notes and composer biographies, advanced searching, and hundreds of recommended play lists themed by genres.

Browser Requirements

PC users: IE 6+, Netscape 8+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+
Mac users: Netscape 7+, Safari 1+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+

Media player requirments

PC users: Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x; Microsoft Windows Media Player up to and including version 10.x
Mac users:Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x

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Contemporary World Music Authentication Required
Contains 50,000 tracks from genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
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Database of Recorded American Music Authentication Required
The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a collaboration between New World Records and New York University. DRAM facilitates research in American music by offering on-demand access to audio-streaming files of complete works by American composers. The 7,500 compositions currently in DRAM are drawn from the catalogues of the New World, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable record labels. Ranging from folk to opera, native American to jazz, 19th-century "classical" to early rock, and musical theater to contemporary, electronic, and more, DRAM's goal is to make available for educational use and scholarly research the widest possible spectrum of recorded American music.

Alongside the high-quality music streams, complete liner notes, scholarly essays, bibliographies, and discographies are available for viewing on the Database. Playlists can be created by faculty to address specific curriculum needs.

Browser Requirements

The Database is designed to be compatible with the following browsers:

  • Internet Explorer 5.2 (Macintosh users) or 6.0 (Windows users) higher
  • Netscape 7.2 (Macintosh) or 8.0 (Windows)
  • Firefox 1.0 or higher (Windows and Macintosh)
  • Safari 1.2.4 (Macintosh only)

Media Player Requirements

QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is the preferred player for DRAM streaming media.

If you do not already have QuickTime installed, you may download it free from Apple. Windows users click here to select the most current version for your operating system.

While you may be able to stream DRAM media using Windows Media Player or Real, display issues and/or performance interruptions may occur if an application other than QuickTime is used to listen to music files. If QuickTime is installed on your system but is not set as the default application handler for files of extension type *.smil and *.sml, you will need to alter your preferences to effect this change.

Windows Users

To set QuickTime as the default handler for smil files, you will need to access the default setting in within your Windows Folder Options (found under Control Panel in Windows XP and/or Settings in earlier iterations of the OS). From the list of extensions, you will need to locate file extensions *.smil and *.sml and specify QuickTime the default application handler for files of that type.


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Naxos Music Library Authentication Required
The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of recorded music in streaming audio-- primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz.

Browser requirments

PC users: Features are optimized through IE. May also use Mozilla based browsers (Firefox).
Mac users: Access via Mozilla, IE, or Safari

Media player requirments

PC users: Must have Windows Media Player 9 Series, downloadable through the Naxos site.
Mac users: Must download the correct version of Windows Media Player; Users with Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0 should download version 7.1; Users with Mac OS 10 or higher should download version 9.

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Naxos Music Library Jazz Authentication Required
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 22,600* tracks of jazz from over 2,300* albums. Over 500* jazz artists are represented. You will need to download the FreeHand Solero viewer at http://freehandmusic.com/DoDownloadViewer.aspx Note: Firefox 2.x not currently supported.
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Smithsonian Global Sounds Authentication Required
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
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Image Resources
Classical Scores Library Authentication Required
Scores from both copyrighted and public-domain editions by major and lesser-known composers and included, spanning the Renaissance to the 21st century, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
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Naxos Music Library Sheet Music Authentication Required
Over 45,000 sheet music titles in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part. You will need to download the FreeHand Solero viewer at http://freehandmusic.com/DoDownloadViewer.aspx
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Videos and Films
Opera in Video Authentication Required
Contains ~250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

Electronic Journal Collections
JSTOR Authentication Required
JSTOR ("journal storage") is a database currently containing the complete texts of 56 music journals in multiple languages covering musicology, music history, ethnomusicology, music theory, and music education. In each case JSTOR provides complete journal back-runs from the date of initial publication up to a a period of 2-5 years from the most recently published issue. Work continues constantly to update the database with more recent texts.
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Journal Titles
Computer Music Journal
Computer Music Journal is a quarterly printed journal with an annual music CD. It is the only publication to concentrate fully on the skills, technologies, and promises of digital sound and all musical applications of computers. This makes it an essential resource for musicians, composers, scientists, engineers, computer enthusiasts interested in contemporary and electronic music, and anyone exploring the wonders of computer-generated sound.
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News Sources
University Library News Sources Links
Electronic Full-Text News Sources; Online newspapers; United States and international; Online Collections of Newspaper Links; Online News Services; Newspapers on CD-ROM; Newspapers in Wilson Library(print);Indexes to News Sources; Online Indexes to Articles in Newspapers and News Magazines; Guides to More Information on News Sources. (Some resources linked from this page are available only to students, faculty, and staff of the U of M unless accessing from a U of M campus library.)
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Primary Source Materials

Archival Materials
Red Hot Jazz
The Red Hot Archive is a place to study and enjoy music from the early Jazzmen
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University of Minnesota, Performing Arts Archives
The Performing Arts Archives was established by the University of Minnesota Libraries for the preservation and study of the records relating to the history of theatre, music, dance, and associated organizations in Minnesota. Its goal is to document as fully as possible the activities of individuals and groups in both professional and amateur performing arts throughout the state. The collections include the most important companies in each of the major arts fields.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Research Guides
Introduction to Music Research

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Writing Guides
QuickStudy -- Citing Sources
QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources.
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Library Information

Primary Subject Location


Books, periodicals, scores, sheet music; limited circulation of recordings on compactdisc, lp record, cassette tape, and videocassette; listening stations available.
Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: 70 Ferguson Hall
Telephone: 612-624-5890
Main URL: http://music.lib.umn.edu
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