- Academic search premier (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1975-
"multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles."--Provider description.
Indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 journals. Search can be limited to book reviews.
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- African American music reference
Provides access to "... text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse
history and culture of the African American experience through music." Covers "... blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression."--About the database.
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- AllMusic.com
Provides music reviews, blogs, and business updates for multiple genres.
- American humanities index (see: Humanities international index)
"...provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals ... includes deep backfiles for some of the most important journals in the
area of humanities. ... includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works." -- EBSCOhost database description
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- American song
Online music audio collection of songs from America's past, including "songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers,
and cowboys... songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more."--Publisher's description.
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- Aria database
A collection of information about opera and operatic arias and provides access to a collection of operatic sound files to give visitors an idea of what
each aria sounds like.
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- Bach Bibliography
An international listing of books, articles, research papers, theses and dissertations, websites,and other information about Johann Sebastian Bach.
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- Bach-Archiv, Leipzig
Describes the reources of the Arch-Archiv in Leipzig (Research, Library, Museum).
- Baxter's database of violin & bow makers
Searchable database of 18,000+ makers of violins, violas, cellos, basses, bows, and lutes; viols and other older bowed instruments. Search terms include
names, dates, teachers, places, and values where available.
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- Beethoven Bibliography Database
The Ira C. Brillant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University (California) has the largest and most comprehensive collection of materials
about Beethoven in the Western hemisphere. This database is a catalog of books, articles, reviews, recordings, scores, and other materials about Beethoven and his music and is easily accessible to all.
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- Beethoven-Haus Collection
A guide to the complete collection of books, scores, manuscripts, artifacts, etc. at the Beethoven-Haus in Berlin.
- Bibliographie de civilisation medievale
Coverage: 1958-
A comprehensive, current bibliography of monographs worldwide relating to the medieval period of the Western, Byzantine and Islamic world. Covers history,
language and literature, philosophy and theology, art history, archaeology, and more. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select Bibliographie de civilisation medievale
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- Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums
Coverage: 1986-
Searchable database of bibliographic citations to literature on music (including books, articles, anthologies, reviews, etc.), continuing the printed version
which ceased with report year 1988. Data from earlier in the print version is being converted for inclusion.
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- Billboard.com
Music news, articles, reviews, and information about the music business.
- Brockhaus Musik :
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 100 .B76 2001
A superb and comprehensive dictionary of music (in German). It also includes biographies of both major and some minor composers.
- Canadian pop music encyclopedia
The Canadian pop music encyclopedia For Canadian popular music, by the same people who created the Encyclopedia of music in Canada
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- CANTUS
Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the Liturgical Office.
- Carnegie Hall Website
- Choral public domain library
An Internet-based free sheet music website which specializes in choral music that is in the public domain and can be freely downloade. Musical scores are
available in PDF format, with some titles available in other formats including Midi, Finale, Encore, and Noteworthy. Site also includes MIDI sound files and texts and lyrics, translations, and information about composers--all in the public domain and free to use.
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- Classical music in video
Searchable database containing performances and masterclasses captured on video in all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances
by leading orchestras, chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.
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- Classical music library
Online music audio collection "includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers.
Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera."--About.
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- Classical music reference library
"reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are ... Baker's Dictionary of Music,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music ... coverage of all classical genres ... definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists."--About.
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- Classical Net
This index lists those composers for which there is a dedicated page at this site that may include a biography, recommended works, recommended recordings,
and other related reviews and articles. It is not meant to be a comprehensive index of every occurance of a certain composers name at the site, nor is every composer represented in some manner at this site listed here.
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- Classical scores library
"... database of classical scores, representing the major composers output, spanning all genres and time periods from the Western classical canon." "...
indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period; as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher."--About.
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- Complete Italian treatises
Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
- Contemporary world music
Online music audio collection containing "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."--Homepage.
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- Dissertation abstracts online (see Dissertations and theses)
- Dissertations and theses, full text
Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting dissertations), 1988- (Abstracting theses), 1997- (Full-text dissertations, where available)
Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted
at an accredited institution since 1861. Offers full text for most dissertations (Notre Dame and other) added since 1997. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs.
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- Doctoral dissertations in musicology
Coverage: Description based on Nov. 6, 1997 version.
Index to dissertations in progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995.
- DRAM : database of recorded American music
"on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner notes and essays ... contains more than 3,000 albums worth of recordings
from ... independent labels ... [including] American music recordings by New World Records."--About DRAM.
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- emusicquest
Created from the former Music-in-Print series, this is a searchable online database of information about published music in print. Includes "Choral Music
In Print,'" "Classical Guitar Music in Print," "Classical Vocal Music in Print," "Orchestral Music in Print," "Sacred Choral music in Print," "Secular Choral Music in Print;" "String Music in Print;" and "Woodwind Music in Print." The listings are dependent on reporting by publishers, and it is estimated that the database actually includes about 25% of what is available in U.S. music stores and that about 20% of what is listed is actually "out-of-print." Use with great caution.
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- Encyclopedia of music in Canada
The National Library of Canada presents an online version of the 1992 second edition of "The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada." The encyclopedia is offered
in English and French. The work includes bibliographies, lists, and discographies on Canadian musicians and music. A list of contributors' names and abbreviations used in the encyclopedia is available.
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- Encyclopedia of popular music
"... all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
... entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. ... along with complete discographies ..."--Home page.
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- Expanded academic ASAP
Coverage: 1980-
Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines
(citations only for The New York Times). Search can be limited to book reviews.
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- Garland encyclopedia of world music online
Music research of all the world's peoples. Searchable full text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997). Provides overview of
a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Includes images and audio examples.
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- Gramophone.co.uk
Provides over 30,000 music reviews and adds over 100 new reviews monthly. Does require free registration to access the reviews.
- Grosses Sangerlexikon /
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 105 .K83 1997
Coverage: Bd.1-Bd.6
This is the finest and most complete biographical index for singers of all ages. Although it is in German, the text is useful for everyone.
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- Grove music online (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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- Handworterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie.
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 108 .E29
Coverage: Ordner 1-Ordner 6
In German. This work is issued in small segments, but each word, idea, or concept has an extended and highly scholarly description and definition. This
is essential for any research involving a term or concept that has been written about yet.
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- HathiTrust Digital Library.
A digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. It was initially
conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
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- Humanities international index (EBSCO)
Coverage: As far back as 1929 to the present
"...provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals ... includes deep backfiles for some of the most important journals in the
area of humanities. ... includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works." -- EBSCOhost database description
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- In Mozart's Words
- Index of Gregorian chant
Call Number: MUSRF GEN ML 102 .C45B8 REF GEN ML 102 .C45B8
An index of Gregorian chant / compiled by John R. Bryden and David G. Hughes.--Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1969.--2 v REF GEN ML 102 .C45B8 MUSRF
ML 102 .C45B8
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- Index to printed music (EBSCO)
"IPM is ... for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions... content is searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre,
language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation ..."--Provider's description.
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- Information on music;
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .M33 H23 1975
Coverage: v.1-v.3
This work is an older and less comprehensive work than Music Reference and Research Materials, but it has a wider scope of materials from which to choose.
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- International Bachakademie Stuttgart
Official webstite of the school and publisher. Lists courses, seminars, publications and news about J.S. Bach.
- International directory of contemporary music. Instrumentation.
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 118 .I45
Coverage: 1996/1997
Includes complete lists of works by composers who have joined the Contemporary Music International Information Service arranged by medium of performance.
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- International index to music periodicals, full text
Coverage: 1874-
"provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed
journals... Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition."--Search page.
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- Internationaler biographischer Index der Musik :
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 105 .In96 1995
Coverage: [Bd.]1-[Bd.]2
In German. This is perhaps the most extensive index to short biographies about living musicians of all types.
- IPA source
Provides access to a growing collection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and solo art songs.
Search by composer, poet, or title; browse by opera aria or Latin text.
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- Jazz discography
Coverage: 1896-
General discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today. Covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including
Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc. Usage info: Licensed for 2 simultaneous users.
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- Jazz music library
Online music audio collection of jazz recordings from thousands of artists around the world, from the beginnings of jazz to today. Useful for study and
teaching of jazz history, performance, theory, or appreciation.
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- Jazztimes.com
Contains concert and CD reviews of Jazz musicians and access to MP3s.
- Juilliard manuscript collection
A collection of autograph and working manuscripts, sketches, engraver's proofs and first editions. The collection comprises 138 items, including printed
editions with extensive composer markings.
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- Library of Congress music catalog (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1960-
Searchable database of "... annotated bibliographic records created or edited by the Library of Congress for printed and manuscript music and for music
and non-music sound recordings in all languages ... including musical scores, monographs, books, serials, [and] audiovisual materials on music ..."--About the database.
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- LibraryMusicSource.com
Downloadable "sheet music from over 35,000 works"--Library Music Source homepage.
- Media History Digital Library
A conservation and access project for historical printed materials related to cinema, broadcasting and recorded sound.
- Medici.tv
Streaming video of 600+ performances of orchestral and chamber music, operas, and more, from leading festivals and music venues.
- Metacritic.com
Metacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for movies, DVDs, music, television and games.
- Mozart Portal
Provides information about all Mozart titles published by Barenreiter, the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and information on the New Mozart Edition.
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- Music index online (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1972-
Searchable database that indexes journal articles on classical, popular, and all styles and genres of music from more than 800 international music periodicals.
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- Music Library Digital Scores Collection
Contains manuscript musical scores dating from the 17th through 19th centuries. The majority of the collection is comprised of 17th and 18th century operas,
opera excerpts, and other vocal music. The original manuscripts reside in the Music Library's Rare Book Collection.
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- Music Library Letters Database
Includes unique letters from/to composers and musical performers, acquired by the Gilmore Music Library through purchase and gift. The collection constitutes
of manuscript letters from many of the greatest names of the classical music canon such as Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky as well as famed American composers like Elliott Carter, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and many others.
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- Music online
Cross-searches audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content: African American music reference; American song; Classical music in video; Classical
music library; Classical music reference library; Classical scores library; Contemporary world music; Dance in video; Garland encyclopedia of world music online; Jazz music library; Opera in video; and Smithsonian global sound for libraries.
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- Music reference and research materials :
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 113 .D83 1997
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .D83 1997
This work is the standard for research resources about music. Each item has an extensive annotation reviewing and rating the type of information included
and its usefulness and rating the work against similar works. It is essential for any scholarship in music.
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- Music titles in translation :
Call Number: REF GEN ML 111 .H7
This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
- National jukebox
Includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries
and archives.
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- Naxos music library
Streaming access to thousands of classical music CDs, with access to the catalogs of various music labels. Includes jazz, film music, and opera libretti
and synopses. Search by composer, work, label, and keywords.
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- Naxos music library. Jazz
Streaming access to recordings of jazz legends and contemporary jazz from thousands of CDs. Search by artist, composer, work, and keywords.
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- Naxos spoken word library
Online collection of classic audiobook material. Coverage includes literary classics and items with educational themes.
- Naxos video library
A performing arts video collection with over 1,100 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. Includes the Naxos
DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others.
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- New York Philharmonic Digital Archives
Serves as a repository for more than 165 years of Philharmonic history, is one of the oldest and most important orchestral research collections in the
world. It traces the entire history of the Philharmonic and its more than 14,000 performances around the world and is an important record of cultural history in New York City.
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- Opera in video
"... will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. ...browse
by composer, genre, performer, ensemble, time period, and role. ... searchable narration and transcripts; embeddable links..."--About. Usage info: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
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- Orchestral music online
The online version of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists. Information on more
than 6700 works by some 900 composers. Allows searching by composer, title, keyword, duration, instrumentation, chorus type, and soloists.
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- Oxford companion to music (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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- Oxford dictionary of music (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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- Oxford history of western music
A survey of the traditions of western music, this book illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents
that give shape and direction to each musical age.
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- Oxford music online
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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- Oxford scholarship online
Cross-searchable collection containing full text for thousands of books published by Oxford University Press. Subject areas include biology, business and
management, classical studies, economics and finance, history, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, and religion.
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- Popular titles and subtitles of musical compositions /
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .B39 P663 1975
This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
- PRIMMUS
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic M 2 .I825 1999
Call Number: HESB MUSOF M 2 .I825 1999 User's Manual
"... a reference source indexing, at item-level, the full contents of the following Primary Source Microfilm music manuscript collections: Music manuscripts
from the great English collections ; Italian music manuscripts from the British Library, London ; Twentieth century composers : Tippett, Bliss and Finzi" --User's manual. Accompanied by user's manual, shelved in Music Seminar Room.
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- Recent Acquisitions in Music
Music acquisitions cataloged in the last 30 days.
- Research chronicle.
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 118 .R888
Coverage: 14(1978)-43(2010)
Prepared by the Royal Musical Association, this includes abstracts of the most important musical scholarship (music history and theory) in Britain.
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- RILM abstracts of music literature (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1967-
"a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes ... on traditional music, popular music, and classical music ... [B]ooks,
conference proceedings ..., journal articles, dissertations as well as internet resources, sound recordings and motion pictures are included."--EBSCO description.
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- RIPM, retrospective index to music periodicals (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1800-1950
Contains citations and indexing to the contents of music journals published between approximately 1800 and 1950. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous
user.
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- RISM. Series A/II. Music manuscripts after 1600 (EBSCO)
"an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts ... produced after 1600 ... found in over
750 libraries and archives in 31 countries."--EBSCO description. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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- Rock's backpages
A rock & roll library online: interviews, features, and reviews.
- Saggi musicali italiani
Texts on Italian music theory and aesthetics designed to extend Thesaurus musicarum Latinarum, including scanned images of all musical examples, Table
of codes and noteshapes for mensural notation, and Principles of orthography for the TML.
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- Schumann-Autographen
Coverage: site-wide
Digitized versions of the Schumann manuscripts available at the Universität-Bonn.
- Sheet Music Consortium
Searchable list of digitized sheet music in consortium music libraries and archives.
- Smithsonian global sound for libraries
Online music audio collection "produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, ... a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural
traditions."--Homepage.
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- Soviet composers
Composers who lived and worked in the former Soviet Union in the period 1918-1990 (Internet Edition compiled [privately] by Onno van Rijen). Entries include
photo, biographical data, and lists of compositions.
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- Terminorum musicae index septem linguis redactus =
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 108 .T4 1978
This work is very useful for translating any musical term to English or for finding the equivalent of a term in English. Compares terms in Latin, German,
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and Russian.
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- Wiesbaden ("Giant") Codex
- WolfgangsVault.com :
One of the finest sources of free streaming concert recordings available, documenting live performances by many of rock's biggest and most successful acts.
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- Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary
Call Number: REF GEN ML 105 .C593 1996
Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary / Gene Claghorn.--Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c1996. This work lists only women
composers and lyricists and includes some persons omitted in American song lyricists, 1920-1960
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- World biographical index of music : composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers
Call Number: MUSRF ML 105 .In96 1995
Internationaler biographischer Index der Musik :Komponisten, Dirigenten, Instrumentalisten und Sänger = World biographical index of music : composers,
conductors, instrumentalists and singers / mit einem Geleitwort von Kurt Dorfmüller.--München ; New Providence : K.G. Saur, 1995.--2 v. In German; an extensive index to biographies about musicians of all types.
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- Worship music : a concise dictionary
Call Number: REF GEN ML 102 .C5W67 2000
Worship music : a concise dictionary / Edward Foley, editor ; Mark Bangert ... [et al.], consultants.--Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2000.
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