Resource Guide:
Music Composition 1
Digital Open Education Resources
Websites and Digital Archives
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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.
- Composition (Music)
- Musical composition
- Musical composition mechanical aids
- Music Theory
- Musical composition -- 21st Century
- Music -- Instruction and Study -- Composition
- Computer composition (music)
- Written composition
- Composers
- Music -- Manuscripts
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
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.
- University of Illinois Press
- Oxford University Press
- Nova Science Publishers Incorporated
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Packt Publishing
- Taylor & Francis
- MIT Press
- Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
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 |
|---|---|
| Mathematics and music : composition, perception, and performance | ML 3805 .W25 2013 |
| Serial composition and atonality; an introduction to the music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern | MT 40 .P45 1968 |
| Techniques of twentieth century composition; a guide to the materials of modern music | MT 40 .D22 1974 |
| Counterpoint in composition; the study of voice leading | MT 55 .S217 1969 |
| The craft of musical composition | MT 40 .H523 1945 |
| Learning to compose : modes, materials, and models of musical invention | MT 40 .A9 1989 |