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Academic Search Complete
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Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Classical Music Library
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Description: Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers.
Date Coverage: Medieval to contemporary
Note: Alexander Street Press has launched mobile access to its complete line of streaming music collections.
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Date Coverage: Medieval to contemporary
Note: Alexander Street Press has launched mobile access to its complete line of streaming music collections.
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
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Description: An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
Creator: American Musicological Society
Creator: American Musicological Society
Music Index
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Description: A comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature. Contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Creator: Harmonie Park Press
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Creator: Harmonie Park Press
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Oxford Music Online
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Description: Oxford Music Online is the new gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. Oxford Music Online is the access point for Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music (2002),and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Oxford Music Online also features Colin Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th edition (2006). The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, EPM is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. (Source: Vendor website)
Includes: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Includes: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Vendor: Oxford University Press
RELATED DATABASES
Humanities International Complete
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Description: A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.
Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Description: As part of the Web of Science, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it. (source: Vendor website).
Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters
Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Description: Provides access to the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
Date Coverage: 400 - 1700
Vendor: University of Toronto Libraries
Date Coverage: 400 - 1700
Vendor: University of Toronto Libraries
JSTOR
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Description: JSTOR provides image and full text online access to important scholarly journal literature in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other humanities and social sciences disciplines. The collection provides the complete backfiles of many scholarly journals, starting with the first issues. JSTOR uses a "moving wall" of 3-5 years which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.
Creator: JSTOR
Creator: JSTOR
ENCYCLOPEDIAS & MORE
Credo Reference
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Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.
Vendor: Credo Publishing
Vendor: Credo Publishing
Oxford Music Online
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Description: Oxford Music Online is the new gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. Oxford Music Online is the access point for Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music (2002),and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Oxford Music Online also features Colin Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th edition (2006). The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, EPM is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. (Source: Vendor website)
Includes: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Includes: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Selected print Music Reference Sources
- The New Oxford Companion to Music R 780.3 Sch6o2 (2 vols)
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music R 781.6403 En1 (8 vols)
- Harvard Dictionary of Music Mu R 780.3 Ap2h
- Word by Word Translations of Songs & Arias Mu R 781.96 W89 pt.1 & 2
- Music Reference and Research Materials Mu R 016.78 D85mu 1997
SCORES & PRINT MUSIC
Scores are shelved on the ground floor.
To browse the Music collection shelves for scores/print music go to:
- Mu 780 Collected editions and historical research
- Digital Scores and Libretti (Harvard Digital Collection)
- Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)
Provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
AUDIO RECORDINGS
To find recordings by a particular artist or topic, select the tab Books & Media on the Library website, select Advanced search and limit your search by Material type: Music Recording
Classical Music Library
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Description: Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers.
Date Coverage: Medieval to contemporary
Note: Alexander Street Press has launched mobile access to its complete line of streaming music collections.
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Date Coverage: Medieval to contemporary
Note: Alexander Street Press has launched mobile access to its complete line of streaming music collections.
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, select the tab Books & Media on the Library website.
To browse the stacks for music books, go to:
- 016.78 Bibliographies - Music
- 780 Music
- 781 General principles and musical forms
- 782 Vocal Music
- 783 Music for single voices
- 784 Instruments and instrumental ensembles and their music
- 785 Ensembles with only one instrument per part
- 786 Keyboard, mechanical, electrophonic, percussion instruments
- 786.2 Pianos
- 786.5 Organ
- 787 Stringed instruments
- 788 Wind instruments
Books & more from the Meredith library & beyond
WorldCat
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Description: WorldCat is a catalog of the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and includes over a billion records. The database includes bibiographic records for books, dissertations, manuscripts, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books, music, digital objects, websites and more. WorldCat can serve as an invaluable research tool to facilitate comprehensive searches for resources on a particular subject or by a particular author, allowing you to identify relevant works beyond your local library. Resources not available at your library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Contact the Reference Department if you have any questions about using WorldCat.
Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch
Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch
WorldCat Local
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Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.
Vendor: OCLC
Vendor: OCLC
E-BOOKS
Many books are available electronically. You may identify them by selecting the Books & Media tab on the Library website and selecting the e-books link, or by using one of the following collections of e-books.
eBook Collection
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Description: eBook Collection from EBSCOhost provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. In many cases, the eBook copy is the only copy of the book owned by the library although in some cases a local print copy is also available.
Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. Vendor: EBSCOhost
Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. Vendor: EBSCOhost
ebrary
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Description: Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas.
MyiLibrary e-Books
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Description: MyiLibrary contains over 350 books that can be read online. Books are available on a variety of topics, including language learning, medical, health, history, project management, classic literature, art, criminology and many others.
Vendor: Ingram
Vendor: Ingram
American Musicological Society
Library of Congress American Memory Collections
- Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990
- African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920 (from Brown University)
- America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
- Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
- Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920 (from Duke University)
- Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- Irving Fine Collection
- Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885
- "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
- Omaha Indian Music
- The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial : Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
- The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
All-Music Guide
Includes recordings, song titles, biographies, and reviews
Classical Voice of North Carolina
An online arts journal in NC including Classical Music, Opera, Theater, and Dance
International Alliance for Women in Music
A resource on women composers and women in music topics
Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance
A Performing Arts Digital Library
MLA Copyright for Music Librarians
UNC-Chapel Hill: Music Library
Voice of the Shuttle: Music and Dance Page
Web pages for scholarly research. Internet sites include general music resources, music resources classified by century and much more.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Subject directory to internet music resources from Indiana University Music Library