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African American Music Reference    Provides a comprehensive reference collection to chronicle the history of African American music through 1970. It brings together the most important reference texts in this subject area, including discographies, and bibliographies—together with songsheets, images, and other print resources.

    Academic or Scholarly

Arts & Humanities Citation Index - Web of Science        1975 - present Indexes major journals in the arts and humanities disciplines. Search for articles by topic, author, source title, or author address. Includes Cited Reference Search that finds articles that have cited specific works by an author.

CAIRSS for Music     Varies by journal title Includes citations from over 1300 journal titles in the areas of music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine; in addition 18 of these journals are considered primary resources. Site provided since 1992 by the Institute for Music Research, University of Texas, San Antonio.

Music Index Online        1975 - present Indexes international music periodicals, covering a broad range of subjects from all aspects of classical and popular music. Includes book reviews, record reviews, first performances, obituaries, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature        1967 - present Provides a comprehensive index to publications on music from all over the world, covering all document types: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more. As of 7/1/08 EBSCOhost is our provider for RILM, formerly available through BiblioLine.

    Discipline Specific

Music Theory Online Serves as the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, Inc. Includes features such as articles, book reviews and reports from a distinguished panel of International Correspondents.

Opera News Online   Focuses on opera being produced today and its stars. Produced by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. RESTRICTED TO STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF OF OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY.

    Catalogs

ODU Library Catalog The library's online catalog includes information on books, media, periodical subscriptions, and a variety of U.S. government publications. In using the online catalog, you may search by author, title, or keyword, in addition to other ways. The Library of Congress classification for music is M. The breakdown is as follows: M Music (scores and recordings) ML Literature of music MT Music instruction and study Browsing in any of these areas may lead to the discovery of valuable material in addition to the specific items listed in this guide.

    Dissertations and Theses

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online Presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995. Includes all records previously published in earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, still available for sale.

    Almanacs and Encyclopedias

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music Available in print in the Perry Library reference room. REF ML 102.P66 C66 2003

Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound Available in print in the Perry Library reference room. REF ML 102.S67 E5 2005

    Careers and Employment

MusicalAmerica.com       Coverage varies Includes industry articles, agent search, artist search, press releases, calendar of events and a career center.

    Agency or Organization Web Sites

American Musicological Society Offers a wide variety of scholarly links of interest to music scholars, including academic job listings, music dissertations, music publishers on the web, e-journals in music, listings of music genres and various instrumentation.

Music Department, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University Links to the department's home page, which has information about music degrees, courses, faculty and more.

Music History 102 This web guide is compiled by the Internet Public Library. Emphasizes the works of great composers and stylistic trends in music from the Renaissance to the present and includes links to musical eras(including modern music), sound files and a bibliography of sources.

Music Publishers Association Links to the Music Publishers Sales Agency List and the Copyright Resource Center make this a valuable resource to performing artists.

    eBooks

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians since 1990 Available electronically in the library catalog. Internet ML 102.J3 N48 2001

Classical Music Reference Library    Provides electronic access to essential reference materials, including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. In addition to the Baker's resources, there are biographies, chronologies, primary source readings, critical texts, full text from other major reference works, biographical information, score and lyric excerpts, musical and notational terms, and photographs and images.

Garland Encyclopedia of Music    Provides a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. It includes the entire set of 10 print volumes, with additional features from Alexander Street Press.

Grove Music Online       Prehistory - present Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Contains illustrations and musical examples, including sound examples, and links to related sites. Allows a maximum of 3 users at a time.

    Portal

Heart and Soul: A Celebration of African American Music World Book editors provide information on some of the most famous African American musicians and the impact they have made on different forms of music. Includes auto samples, photos and related web site links.

US Opera Focuses on the production of American opera with detailed pages on individual composers and their operas. A great place to start to explore American opera.

    Scholarly Work

Musica Viva's Encyclopedia of Music Includes sheet music in the public domain for downloading, and information about music notation, midi files and ABC.

The Classical Music Navigator This project was conceived by Charles H. Smith (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M.L.S.; currently Professor of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University. The website lists 444 composers by geographic location, giving notable works and pertinent information for each.

    Mixed

African American Song       1900's Documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

American Song       Pre-1960 Provides a definitive source of American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music, including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. It includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, as well as the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

Classical Music Library       Current Provides a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings, from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. There are multiple versions of licensed works to enable comparative listening. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information.

Contemporary World Music        Coverage varies Contains sounds of all regions from every continent, such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat, but also includes other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. It is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.

Jazz Music Library   Provides the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. Artists range from past greats to musicians performing and recording today. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database.

Music Online    Provides a comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. The new interface cross-searches the following Alexander Street products—African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, and Jazz Music Library. African American Music and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries will be added in early summer 2009.

New Music Box Includes in depth articles, interviews, media releases and sound files; created by the American Music Center to promote all types of American music.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries       Coverage varies Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of other legendary labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent. It is an educational resource that delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media.

    Scores

Classical Scores Library        Historic & current Provides access to multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so users can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score.

International Music Score Library Project The IMSLP holds approximately 29,110 public domain scores that are available for download. Primarily the website includes instrumental music issued in the 19th and early 20th century. Also contains some vocal music, particularly the lieder of Liszt, Schoenberg and Schumann.

    Historical Materials

American Memory Provides full text documents, books, images, audio files, and other resources on American history from the Library of Congress.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project   Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries have created a digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by their Department of Special Collections.

Global Music Archive A multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas. The archive is housed within the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library in Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.

Sheet Music Collections   A list of links to sheet music collections organized by Duke University Libraries.

Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database Includes 925 records of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts. This database is an on-going research project developed in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program and retired IU faculty member, Herbert Seltz.

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music Contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. Site created by Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University.

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