Resource Guide:
Music
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Music Societies (Scholarly Societies Project)
- American Musicological Society
- American Music Therapy Association
- American Musical Instrument Society
- Society for Music Theory
- National Jukebox (Library of Congress)
- J.S. Bach Home Page
- Mutopia Project (Sheet Music)
- Choral Public Domain Library
- Sheet Music World Center
- Music Treasures Consortium
- Hamilton College Jazz Archive
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Arrangement (Music)
- Composition (Music)
- Ear Training
- Harmony
- Keyboard Harmony
- Music
- Music – Periodicals
- Music History and Criticism
- Music in Education
- Music Instruction and Study
- Music Interpretation
- Music Intervals and Scales
- Music Meter and Rhythm
- Music Notation
- Music Performance
- Music Therapy
- Musical Form
- Musical Instruments
- Musicians
- Oboe
- Piano
- Saxophone
- School Music
- Song Improvisation
- Tonality
- Viola
- Violin
- Voice
- Woodwind Instruments
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- ArchiveGrid
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
- Credo Reference
- Education Research Complete
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- ERIC
- Humanities International Complete
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
- JSTOR
- MasterFILE Premier
- OAISter
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Teacher Reference Center
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning
- Journal of Music Theory
- Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
- Journal of the American Musicological Society
- Journal of the Royal Musical Association
- Music and Letters
- Music Theory Spectrum
- Women & Music: A History
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians | REF ML 100 .N48 2001 |
| Harvard Dictionary of Music | REF ML 100 .A64 |
| Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | REF ML 100 .S367 |
| Composers since 1900; a Biographical and Critical Guide | REF ML 390 .E833 |
| Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | REF ML 105 .B16 |
| Cultural codes : makings of a Black music philosophy | ML 3479 .B364 2010 |
| Stephen Foster & Co. : lyrics of America’s first great popular songs | ML 546 .F69 S84 2010 |
| Music in words : a guide to researching and writing about music | ML 3793 .H537 2009 |
| Singing in musical theatre : the training of singers and actors | MT 956 .M45 2007 |
| Late thoughts: reflections on artists and composers at work | NX 160 .L38 2006 |
| Hearing Bach’s Passions | MT 115 .B2 M43 2005 |
| Wicked: Vocal Selections: Music and Lyrics | M 1570 .S25 2005 |
| America’s musical life: a history | ML 200 .C856 2000 |