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Shortcuts for researching a topic: online and print resources
Last update: Aug 11, 2009 URL: http://libguides.mit.edu/classical-music  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Classical Music

Shortcuts for Researching a Topic: Online and Print Resources

Music Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Directories

Finding Books and Articles

  • Barton (to find materials owned by MIT)

  • Music index.
    Ref ML118.M987 and online (MIT only)
    An index to music articles published in journals from 1949-1974 (print) and 1974-present (online).

  • RILM (Répertoire International de la Littérature Musicale) Abstracts of music literature. (MIT only)
    Contains abstracts of music research (articles, books, dissertations) from 1967 on.


  • WorldCat (MIT only)
    Contains over one billion library records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including books, scores, CDs, and videos/DVDs
    .

  • Doctoral dissertations in musicology online
    Free web access from the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, Indiana University.
    An index of music dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed music dissertations.

  • Google Scholar.
    Includes scholarly literature at MIT and beyond.

To broaden your music search, use Vera Multi-Search

Finding Full-text Journal Articles

  • To get the articles found in indexes, click the sfx button in the citation

Indexes and Lists of Works

  • Thematic catalogs listing composers’ works may be found in Ref ML134, arranged alphabetically by composer. Examples:
    • for J.S. Bach, see Ref ML134.B118
    • for W.A. Mozart, see Ref ML134.M939
    • for F. Schubert, see Ref ML134.S384

Writing Tips

Finding Music Scores

Finding CDs and DVDs

  • For CDs in the Lewis Music Library, use Barton Advanced Search and select CDs from the pulldown menu under Formats/Types.

  • For DVDs in the Lewis Music Library, use Barton Advanced Search and select DVDs from the pulldown menu under Formats/Types.

Streaming Audio

  • Naxos Music Library (MIT only)
    More than 500,000 tracks of music, representing 35,200 CDs.

  • DRAM  [Database of Recorded American Music].  (MIT only)
    Over 9,800 compositions by American composers and artists from New World, CRI, and other important labels.

Online Resources

 
 

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Lewis Music Librarian
pmunsted@mit.edu

 

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