Resource Guide:
Music History

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• LoC Performing Arts Encyclopedia
• LoC Music History Primary Source Collection
• MusicMap Online Graphic
• Oxford University Press Music History Research Guide
• Soundpiper Online Music History Timeline

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.

• Music
• Music -- History and criticism
• Music -- Social aspects
• African Americans -- Music
• Composers -- Austria
• National socialism and music

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
• JSTOR
• Naxos Music Library
• http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rft
• http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.worldcat.org/

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

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.