Music Quick Guide: World Music 

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Music Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Directories

• Garland encyclopedia of world music.
  Ref ML100.G16 1998 v.1-10 and online
  Audio CDs accompany v.1-9 of the print edition.
  

• Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world / edited by John Shepherd... [et al.].
  Ref ML102.P66.C66 2003 v.1-7
  
  

• The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians / edited by Stanley Sadie. 2nd edition.
  Ref ML100.G883 2001 v.1-29; Grove Music Online is available as part of Oxford Music Online (MIT only)
  

• Hartong, Jan Laurens. Musical terms worldwide: a companion for the musical explorer.
  Ref ML102.W67.H37 2006

Finding Books and Articles

• Barton (to find materials owned by MIT)
  For a particular country, change one of the keyword searches to Subject Words and enter the country name.
  
  
• Music index.
  Ref ML118.M987 and online (MIT only)
  Indexes 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.

• Research Guide: Anthropology & Archeology
  Databases in these fields contain a great deal of information regarding world music.
  

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

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Music of a Country or Region

Bibliographies of the music of various countries and regions are found in the Lewis Music Library's Ref ML120 section, arranged alphabetically by country. Examples:

• for Africa, see Ref ML120.A35
• for China, see Ref ML120.C5
• for Latin America, see Ref ML120.L357

Finding Full-text Journal Articles

• To get the articles found in indexes, click the button in the citation
  
  
• To search for e-journals and databases by title, use Vera

Finding Music Scores

• For scores in the Lewis Music Library, use Barton Advanced Search and select Scores from the pulldown menu under Formats/Types. Change one of the keyword searches to Subject Words and enter a country name.
  
  
• For online public domain scores, see Public Domain Music Scores

Finding CDs and DVDs

• For CDs and DVDs in the Lewis Music Library, use Barton Advanced Search and select CDs or DVDs from the pulldown menu under Formats/Types. Change one of the keyword searches to Subject Words and enter a country name.

Streaming Audio

• Contemporary World Music
  MIT only; allows 3 simultaneous users
  
  
• Naxos Music Library
  MIT only; includes world music recordings.
  
  
• Archival Sound Recordings
  Rare audio tracks from the British Library.
  
  

• Internet Archive (audio)
  A source for free digital recordings.

Internet Resources

• National, International, and World Music
  From the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at the Indiana University School of Music.
  
  
• Ethnomusicology - World Music
  From the Music Library, University of Washington.
  
  
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music and World Music
  From the Sibelius Academy.
  
  

Peter Munstedt
Lewis Music Librarian
pmunsted@mit.edu

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