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Research Guide for
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These databases will help you locate information published in journals, magazines, newspapers
and a variety of other sources.
Expanded Academic
ASAP
General Reference
Center Gold
JSTOR
Project Muse
RILM:
Repertoire Internationale de la Litterature Musique
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Albion College Library Online Catalog will help you find books, videos, government documents, journals, newspapers,
and other materials owned by the Albion College Library.
MeLCat Online Catalog
will help you find books owned by dozens of libraries in Michigan (including Albion College,
Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, Albion Public Library, East Lansing Public Library,
Grand Rapids Community College, Southfield Public Library, and many others). Books may be borrowed by using the online request form.
WorldCat provides access to the
library records of books and any other types of material owned worldwide. In
some cases these materials can be borrowed through
interlibrary loan.
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REFERENCE SOURCES
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Identifying and Locating Musical Sources
Music Index is a very basic index to more
than 690 international music periodicals, covering every aspect of the classical
and popular world of music. A broad range of information is indexed, including
musicological topics, book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and
obituaries. 1949-1982 Storage, 1981-1985 Microfilm.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians, 20 vols. is an exhaustive resource of information
on people, places, instruments, techniques, genres, and styles.
The most important English language encyclopedia on music. It is also
referred to as the Sadie, after editor Stanley Sadie, or the
Groves. ML100.N48 Reference.
The New Harvard Dictionary of Musicc.
is the latest edition of thus most widely-used one-volume English language
dictionary of music. It has exhaustive coverage of the western classical
tradition and basic coverage of world music, but little coverage of popular
idioms. There are no biographies of musicians and composers. ML100.A64 2003
Reference.
Bibliographies of Music Literature
Music Analyses: An Annotated Guide to the
Literature provides the researcher with a one volume source for
identifying analyses of specific works from all historical periods. ML128.A7
D5 1991 Stockwell 308.
Music Reference and Research Materials: An
Annotated Bibliography, 4th ed. is the standard bibliography of
reference resources in music. Citations are classified by type of reference
tool; i.e., dictionaries and encyclopedias, histories and chronologies,
etc. It includes a comprehensive index, and is also referred to as the
Duckles, after editor Vincent Duckles. ML113.D83 1988 Reference.
Thematic Catalogues in Music: An Annotated
Bibliography, 2nd ed. is a comprehensive guide to thematic
catalogues, many of which are not included in Duckles. ML113.B86 1997
Stockwell 308.
Sourcebook for Research in Music
includes only the basic music reference sources, but also covers general
non-reference literature. It provides useful glossaries of music
bibliographical terminology in English, French, and German. ML113.C68 1999
Stockwell 308.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
International Dictionary of Black
Composers, 2 vols. contains
biographical data, bibliographies, discographies, and critical essays,
providing information on composers of African heritage from around the
world--included are classical composers and some ragtime, jazz, concert,
theatre, and gospel composers. ML105 .I5 1999 Reference.
The Guinness Encyclopedia of
Popular Music, 2nd ed. 6 vols. includes
biographies of composers, lyricists, and performers, as well as
background information on performing groups and hit songs. ML102.P66 G84
1995 Stockwell 308.
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary
of Music contains short biographical sketches of composers and
musicians, covering primarily figures in the western classical tradition,
but including some popular and jazz figures as well. ML105 .H38 1996
Reference.
Die Musik in Geschichte und
Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopedie der Musik,
15 vols. is the standard German language music encyclopedia and a
reference work of the highest scholarly quality. Available only in German
but still useful even for those with a rudimentary command of the
language. Also referred to as the Blume, after editor, Friedrich
Blume. ML100.M92 Stockwell 308.
The New Grove Dictionary of
American Music, 4 vols. is an offshoot of The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians. It includes bibliographies. ML101.U6
N48 1986 Reference.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2
vols. Offshoot of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians. It includes discographies and bibliographies. ML102.J3 N48
1988 Reference.
Discographies & Sources Related to Recorded Sound
Check-list of Recorded Songs in the English
Language in the Archive of American Folk Song to July, 1940, 3 vols.
is the result of the "collaborative handiwork" of the Library of
Congress and the Work Projects Administration. Alphabetical list with
geographical index.
Naxos Music Library A database of over 75,000 music tracks covering
opera, vocal, choral, orchestral, chamber music, Bhangra, folk, Hindustani,
Cuban jazz, or acid jazz. Naxos can be searched by genre: classical, jazz
contemporary, world/folk, new age, or Chinese; or by category: ballet,
chamber music, educational, film music, collections, etc. There is also
textual information included in the database, such as a glossary,
pronunciation guide, opera synopses and libretti, and composer biographies.
The standard search in Naxos allows for browsing either the entire library
by genre from A-Z or the classical genre by category (i.e., concertos,
ballets, minuets) and letter of the alphabet, or searching by composer. The
advanced search allows for searching by genre, instrument, period,
composer/arranger/lyricist, catalog no./disc title/composition title,
country, artists (soloists/conductor) or performing group
(choir/ensemble/orchestra), year composed, moods and scenarios. The database
also lists pieces to be released in the future and what is currently in the
user's playlist. The World's Encyclopedia of
Recorded Musicccc is an historical discographical survey of all
classical sound recordings through the 1950s. Referred to as WERM by
afficionados. Arranged alphabetically by composer. ML156.2 .C6 Stockwell
308.
Song Indexes
Popular Song Index indexes published
anthologies of traditional popular and folk songs by title, first line,
first line of chorus, and composer. ML128.S3 H4 Reference.
Bibliographies of Music & Catalogues of Music Collections
The Book of World-Famous Music :
Classical, Popular, and Folk, 5th ed. is one of the finest
bibliographies of music ever created despite its commonplace title. Traces
the publication history of well-known works. ML113 .F8 2000 Stockwell 308.
A Handbook of Music and Music
Literature in Sets and Series is a bibliography of and index to
continuations in the field of music. Includes both printed music and
literature about music. ML113 .C45 Stockwell 308.
Historical Sets, Collected
Editions, and Monuments of Music; A Guide to their Contents
provides information to help you locate individual works in historical sets,
collected works of composers, and national monuments. The composer work
lists in the Grove are also good for identifying pieces in collected
editions. ML128.S3 H4 Reference.
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INTERNET
RESOURCES
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Discographies & Sources Related to
Recorded Sound
BMI: Broadcast Media, Inc. includes
a large popular song database, searchable by composer, title or publisher.
Louis Armstrong Discography contains
numerous published and out-of-print sources, along with liner notes of
Armstrong's recordings, to create a comprehensive list of recordings.
Reference Works
All Music
Guide provides access to extensive and interconnected databases of
data on hundreds of thousands of albums and more than a million performance
artists, composers, songwriters, and other key individuals. The site
provides reviews, biographies, descriptive content on music styles and
genres, relational data on similar artists and albums, co-performers, and
information on the roots and influences of different artists and styles.
American
Music Resource provides references to information on all types of
music indigenous to the Western Hemisphere. The AMR also contains
tips for beginning researchers of American music, with emphasis on print and
primary resources.
Aria Database contains
information on over 1000 operatic arias.
DDM: Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology On-Line is a 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.
Early American Secular
Music and its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index contains data
describing more than 75,000 pieces of music found in some 1,200 sources,
compiled from primary sources from the first 250 years of initial
exploration and settlement of the United States.
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 is a project by Duke
University's Digital Scriptorium and a subsite to the Library of Congress'
American Memory project. HASM presents images of 3,042 pieces
from Duke's extensive holdings, which cover a variety of song styles
including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs,
patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, spirituals, dance music,
songs from vaudeville and musicals, Tin Pan Alley songs, and songs from WWI.
Electronic Journals
Music Theory Online: A
Journal of Criticism, Commentary, Research, and
Scholarship issues typically contain articles of interest to the
music theory community, commentaries on articles from previous issues,
reviews, notices of job vacancies in the field of music theory, notices of
new dissertations (both completed and in progress), and announcements of
conferences and calls for papers.
Musical America International
Directory of the Performing Arts is an important trade publication
providing basic information on the business of music. Includes names and
addresses of artists, symphony orchestras, opera, theater, and ballet
companies, etc. International coverage.
Albion College Resources
Albion College Library: CD Collection These CDs can also be
located by searching the library's
online catalog.
Albion College Library: Research Guide for
Music Albion
College Music Department
Albion
College Student Ensembles
Other Resources
American Musicological Society
(AMS) was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance research
in the field of music. Presently the Society includes 3,600 individual
members and 1,200 institutional members from over forty nations. The site
provides information on membership, schools with graduate programs in
musicology, allows you to search Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
(DDM) as well as submit information on your own dissertation, links you to
E-mail discussion lists of interest, news events, copies of past
newsletters, legal advice for work in the field, etc.
Lester S. Levy Collection of
Sheet Music
Part
of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of
the
Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and
focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All
pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve
a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of
music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is
in the public domain.
Performing
Arts Encyclopedia Integrates the collections, commissions and live
concerts of the Library of Congress, allowing users to search the Library's
music and performing arts collections through a single gateway. The site
brings together thousands of digitized materials from the Library's vast
collections of sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts,
photographs, etc. Forthcoming additions will include Civil War sheet music,
African-American popular music from the early twentieth century, and K-12
content.
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MLA Style: The Humanities
In most humanities courses, you will be asked to
document your sources using the MLA (Modern Language Association) style guide,
which is located in the
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers,
6th ed. (New York: MLA, 2003).
MLA recommends in-text
citations that refer readers to a list of works cited.
In-Text Citation
In 1870, South Hall was finally
dedicated as the college chapel, after sitting vacant and unfinished for 14
years. When it was finally opened it was described as thus, “Entering at the
door, we see a hall running through from west to east. On the south side of the
hall is...the library, the other the reading-room... On the north side of the
hall are also two rooms, the first being intended for the college office and the
other for a recitation room for the President of the College" (1).
Entry in the List of Works Cited
Louderman, George. "Fourteen Year-Old Building is Finally Complete." Detroit Free Press.
Dec. 14,
1870. 3 pp. 9 Sept. 2004 <http://www.freep.com/news/archives/1870_1214>.
Links to More Examples
& Information
Evaluating Information
Journals and magazines are important sources for up-to-date
information in all disciplines, but it is often difficult to distinguish between
the various levels of scholarship found in the collection. In this guide we have
divided the criteria for periodical literature into four categories: Scholarly,
Substantive News/General Interest, Popular, Sensational.
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What is an Annotated Bibliography?
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to
books, reference materials, journal articles, Internet resources, etc. Each
citation is followed by the annotation, a brief (approx. 150 words) descriptive
and evaluative paragraph. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is usually to
impart the relevance, reliability, and quality of the sources cited. Sometimes
an annotation can merely summarize the source.
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Please send questions, comments, etc. to library@albion.edu
Updated 4/1/2008 JAT
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