Selected Resources for: Music Education
| Subject Librarian: Timothy Maloney E-Mail: tmaloney@umn.edu Subject Description:Music education and instruction. |
Abstracts and Indexes
* Premier Resources *IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals   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. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Music Index Online 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Digital Dissertations Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ERIC (Access via CSA) United States and Other Countries: For Education Topics use ERIC CSA for Find It access to U of MN e-journals; ERIC is the Education Resources Information Center. It provides access to education-related journal and non-journal literature. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, it provides full citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, curricula, government documents, dissertations, reports, and other educational materials. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Bibliographies| Music Education: A Guide to Information Sources [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Music in American Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dictionaries
| Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Available in print and online versions. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Directories
| International Directory of Approved Music Education Doctoral Dissertations in progress. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Musical America: directory issue. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| African American Music Reference 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Classical Music Reference Library 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. This database makes available for the first time in electronic form such reference titles as Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Music in American Education/Music Educators' National Conference [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Writing about Music : a guide to publishing opportunities for authors and reviewers [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Writing about Music: A Style Sheet from the editors of "19th-Century Music" [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Multimedia Materials
Audio Resources| African American Song 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| American Song 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Classical Music Library 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 RequirementsPC users: IE 6+, Netscape 8+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+Mac users: Netscape 7+, Safari 1+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+ Media player requirmentsPC users: Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x; Microsoft Windows Media Player up to and including version 10.xMac users:Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Contemporary World Music 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Database of Recorded American Music 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 RequirementsThe Database is designed to be compatible with the following browsers:
Media Player RequirementsQuickTime 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 UsersTo 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Naxos Music Library 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 requirmentsPC users: Features are optimized through IE. May also use Mozilla based browsers (Firefox).Mac users: Access via Mozilla, IE, or Safari Media player requirmentsPC 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Smithsonian Global Sounds 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites| History of Music Education Site International links and source materials relating to the history of music teaching and learning. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| International Society for Music Education Serving music educators and promoting music education world-wide. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager 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.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Research Guides
| Research in Music Education: An Introduction to Systematic Inquiry [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals
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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
University of Minnesota
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Primary Subject LocationBooks, periodicals, scores, sheet music; limited circulation of recordings on compactdisc, lp record, cassette tape, and videocassette; listening stations available.
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