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Indexes

   General

Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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   Subject

Music Index Online Topics cover both the popular and classical worlds of music.

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location.

E-Sources

   Journals

Project Muse Index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.

JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including journals covering music, both traditional and contemporary, classical and modern, theory and performance.  Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

Music Journals in JSTOR

   Reference Works

Credo Reference Center Credo Reference is a leading provider of reference services for libraries and information centers. By using unique proprietary technology that integrates information through a network of intelligent, multi-dimensional cross-references, Credo Reference delivers real added value to students, researchers, businesses and reference help desks worldwide.

   Books

netLibrarycollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

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About the Catalog

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Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.

Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
• Music--Theory
• Music--United States--History and criticism
• Symphonies

Internet Sites

• Bach Bibliography is maintained by Yo Tomita of the School of Music, Queen's University, Belfast.

• Ethnomusicology, folkmusic, and world music is a gateway site created by the University of Washington Music Library.

• Ever Expanding Web Music Listing music sites organized into categories.

• The Hiphop Archive is an archive and provider of information about hip-hop. You will find information, audio-visuals, album covers, sample courses on hip-hop at colleges and universities across the US with links to course syllabi, and videos with music. This site is kept well up to date.

• Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. This selection is part of the American Memory project of the Library of Congress.

• Journal for Seventeenth-Century Music provides a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century, including historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance, and theater.

• Music Theory Online is a refereed, electronic journal published several times a year. Each issue contains articles, reports, and book reviews.

• Sheet Music Consortium facilitates access to a wide gathering of digitized sheet music collections. Use basic or advanced search options to search by keyword, composer/lyricist, title, subject or publisher.

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources a well-organized collection of music sites from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.

• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Classical Music

• Yahoo's Music Directory

About the Department

Music Department

   Citing Sources

Refer to the following book on Reserve:
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition (LB2369 .G53 2003)

or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct MLA citation format.