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Click here for Humanties databases (includes Music).
The best starting point for any sort of research, databases are large collections of information which may include citations, abstracts, ebooks, fulltext articles from scholarly journals or magazines, images, multi-media files and more.
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Find Journals
on Music.
Journals found here are available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases. Look for the name of the journal you are interested in, for example:
- american music teacher
- electronic music
- music week
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Choral masterworks: A listener's guide (2005), EBSCO ebook.
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Faber companion to 20th-century popular music (2001), Credo ebook.
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Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (1996), Credo ebook.
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The Metropolitan Opera encyclopedia: a comprehensive guide to the world of opera,(1987), Credo ebook.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1989), R780.3 N48.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002), R781.65 N48.
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The Oxford companion to music. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. R780 O9.
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Women and music in America since 1900: an encyclopedia. (2002),
R780 W625
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General
AMG All-Music Guide: Encyclopedic music reference site searchable by song title, album, artist, style, or record label.
Classical Net: Site for finding biographical information on composers, recommended recordings of standard repertoire, and articles and reviews.
Cyber Hymnal:
7,900+ Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations; includes sheet music, audio, pictures, biographies, history, more.
MuseData: Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores: From Stanford University.
NetHymnal: 10,000+ Christian hymns and Gospel songs, with author and composer biographies, hymn histories from many denominations
Pianopedia: Index to piano music scores.
Petrucci Music Library: Free library of sheet music and scores in the public domain--over 30,000 works available. Includes 1200 recordings.
Public Domain Music: Reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music.
Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: Database of information on printed worship books pre-1601.
WolframAlpha Music: Indentify intervals, find properties of notes, get information about scales, and more. (TIP: anywhere you see a >>, you can click on it for more examples.)
Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Online resource list from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.
Choral Music
Cantus: Database of Latin ecclesiastical chant.
ChoralNet: Central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community.
Database of the Choral Music Repertoire of the World: virtual library of 150,000 pieces of choral music, with descriptions and multimedia links; includes information on 27,000 composers.
Texts of Art Songs and Other Classical Vocal Pieces: archive of texts used in 74,000+ Lieder and other classical art songs.
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Music Theory
Dissertations in Musical Theory: Index to dissertations; includes abstracts and tables of contents.
saggi musicali italiani: Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics: From Indiana University; public domain
texts on music theory and aesthetics.
Texts on Music in English: Electronic texts on music theory and aesthetics.
Opera
The Aria Database: Information, translation, and MIDIs of famous opera arias.
MetOpera Database: Database of performances at the Metropolitan Opera.
Opera Glass Opera Resources: From Stanford University.
Opera Memphis: The company's website.
Audio Clips & Radio
Classic Cat: A directory with links to over 1500 free-to-download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work.
Classical Live Online Radio: Collection of over 90 classical music radio stations, broadcasting live on the Web.
Classical Music Mobile: Pay-Per-Download Classical MP3s
Publications
MuSICA: Music & Science Information Computer Archive: Provides all issues of MuSICA Research Notes. MRN is a newsletter of analysis and commentary on the broad field of research on music and behavior, including evolution, brain mechanisms, child development, perception, learning, memory, performance, health and related topics.
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