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Subject
Guide: Music
| The music subject guide provides information on resources available from the Alvin Sherman Library, both in the library and online, related to music, including music history, musical scores, literature on music, music instruction and study, and musical theater. The subject guide covers subject headings, reference sources, books, periodicals, databases, Web sites, and style guides. |
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Subject Headings |
Scores |
Web Sites |
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Reference Sources |
Periodicals |
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Books |
Databases |
Subject Headings
You can find books and other materials in the library by searching NovaCat, the NSU Libraries online catalog. How to search NovaCat. To locate books and materials at other libraries, see Catalogs.
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Reference Sources
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
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Title |
Location & Call Number |
| Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | Sherman Library Reference - 2nd floor ML105 .B16 2001 |
| Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World | Sherman Library - 2nd floor ML102.P66 C66 2003 |
| A Dictionary of Music Titles: The Origins of the Names and Titles of 3,500 Musical Compositions | Sherman Library Reference - 2nd floor ML102.T58 R66 2000 |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | Sherman Library - 2nd floor ML102.P66 G84 1998 |
| Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001 | Available Online |
| The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | Available Online |
| The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History | Sherman Library Reference - 2nd floor ML3534 .G754 2006 |
| The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music | Available Online |
| Harvard Dictionary of Music | Available Online |
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| Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Classical Music | Available Online |
| The New Grove Dictionary of American Music | Sherman Library Reference - 2nd floor ML101.U6 N48 1986 |
| The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Sherman Library Reference - 2nd floor ML100 .N48 2001 |
| Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia | Sherman Library - 2nd floor ML82 .W625 2002 |
Books
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E-books
E-books, or electronic books, may be accessed via NovaCat.
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| Title | Author / Editor |
| Analyzing Popular Music | Allan F. Moore |
| The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music | Jim Samson |
| The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music | Olsen and Sheehy |
| The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music | Miller and Williams |
| A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers. Volume I, Composers Born Before 1900 | Pamela Youngdahl Dees |
| The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction | Lawson and Stowell |
| The History of Classical Music | Stuart A. Kallen |
| Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever | Schinder and Schwartz |
| The Instruments of Music | Kallen |
| Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook | Larry Sitsky |
| Music Therapy: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References | Parker and Parker |
| Popular Music Studies | Hesmondhalgh and Negus |
Circulating Books
Circulating books may be checked out by visiting the library. Distance students may also request books via Document Delivery.
| Title | Author | Location |
| A Concise History of American Music Education | Michael L. Mark | Sherman Library - 3rd floor MT3.U5 M317 2008 |
| The Grove Book of Opera Singers | Laura Macy | Sherman Library - 3rd floor ML102.O6 G76 2008 |
| A Handbook of Diction for Singers: Italian, German, French | David Adams | Sherman Library - 3rd floor MT883 .A23 2008 |
| Modus Novus: Studies In Reading Atonal Melodies | Lars Edlund | Sherman Library - 3rd floor MT870 .E27 |
| Modus Vetus: Sight Singing And Ear-Training In Major/Minor Tonality | Lars Edlund | Sherman Library - 3rd floor MT870 .E29 |
| Music Research: A Handbook | Laurie J. Sampsel | Sherman Library - 3rd floor ML113 .S28 2009 |
| Norton Anthology of Western Music | Burkholder and Palisca | Sherman Library - 3rd floor ML160 .N67 2009 |
| Orchestral Music: A Handbook | David Daniels | Sherman Library - 3rd floor ML128.O5 D3 2005 |
| Reading Lyrics | Gottlieb and Kimball | Sherman Library - 3rd floor |
| Researching the Song: A Lexicon | Emmons and Lewis | Sherman Library - 3rd floor |
| Wind Chamber Music: For Two to Sixteen Winds: An Annotated Guide | Barbera Secrist-Schmedes | Sherman Library - 3rd floor |
Scores
Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
Other Score Sources
| American Memory Collection - Performing Arts & Music American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Performing%20Arts,%20Music |
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Art Song Central |
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Choral Public Domain Library |
| Historic American Sheet Music The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/ |
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IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library |
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Julliard Manuscript Collection |
| Levy Sheet Music Collection The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its throrough documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/index.html |
| Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/ |
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Online Music Scores List |
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Sheet Music Consortium |
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Sheet Music World Center |
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Virtual Music Rare Book Room |
Periodicals
Periodicals include journals, magazines, newspapers and other serial publications. Many periodicals are available with full-text (or full image) online in the databases. Search the Journal Finder for specific titles.
| Title | Location |
| 19th-Century Music | Available online |
| American Choral Review | Available online |
| American Music | Available online |
| The American Music Teacher | Available online |
| Cambridge Opera Journal | Available online |
| Computer Music Journal | Available online |
| Current Musicology | Available online |
| Early Music | Available online |
| Journal of Music Theory | Available online |
| Journal of Music Therapy | Available online |
| The Journal of Musicology : JM | Available online |
| Journal of Popular Music Studies | Available online |
| Journal of Research in Music Education | Available online |
| Journal of the American Musicological Society | Available online |
| Journal of the Royal Musical Association | Available online |
| Music Analysis | Available online |
| Music and Letters | Available online |
| Music Educators Journal | Available online |
| Music Perception | Available online |
| The Musical Quarterly | Available online |
| Musical Times | Available online |
| Notes (Music Library Association) | Available online |
| Popular Music | Available online |
| Psychomusicology | Available online |
| Revista de Musica Latinoamericana | Available online |
| Tempo: A Quarterly Review of Modern Music | Available online |
Databases
These online databases serve as indexes to the literature, primarily
periodicals. They include citations, abstracts and, sometimes, full-text depending
on the type of database. Click on 
More Info icon for a complete description of the database. To access the databases,
go to the Electronic Resources.
Top Picks
| Title of Database | Type |
| Music Online | Full-Text, Scores, Audio Recordings, Video Recordings |
| International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text |
Full-Text |
| JSTOR |
Full Text | Classical Music Library | Audio Recordings |
| Classical Scores Library | Musical Scores |
| Opera in Video | Video Recordings |
Also Recommended
| Title of Database | Type |
| African American Music Reference | Full-Text |
| Classical Music Reference Library | Full-Text |
| Dance in Video | Video Recordings |
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online | Full-Text |
| International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text | Full-Text |
Web Sites
Many useful information resources are available on the Internet. But, remember to evaluate any Web site before using it for research.
Associations | Music and Musicians | Scores | Vocal Music
Associations
| American Music Therapy Society http://www.musictherapy.org/ |
| American Musicological Society http://www.ams-net.org/ |
| American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) http://www.ascap.com/ |
| Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) http://www.bmi.com/ |
| Center for Black Music Research http://www.cbmr.org/ |
| College Music Society http://www.music.org/ |
| International Alliance for Women in Music http://www.iawm.org/ |
| International Association for the Study of Popular Music http://www.iaspm.net/ |
| International Bluegrass Music Association http://ibma.org/ |
| International Computer Music Association http://www.computermusic.org/ |
| Music Library Association http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/ |
| Music Publishers Association of the United States http://mpa.org/ |
| North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance http://www.folk.org/ |
| Society for American Music http://american-music.org/ |
| Society for Ethnomusicology http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/ |
| Society for Music Theory http://www.societymusictheory.org/ |
Music and Musicians
| Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/ |
| Encyclopedia of Music in Canada The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada describes the full breadth and depth of Canada’s musical culture, including the historical and current aspects of popular, folk, religious, concert and other forms of music. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=EMCSubjects&Params=U2 |
| Essentials of Music This web has been created by the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, and contains music information in three categories: eras, composers, and glossary. http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ |
| Gaylord Music Necrology Updated daily. Since death notices often contain conflicting dates, ages, and name forms, all are reported. Alternate name spellings are listed in square brackets. Citations follow the data they have provided. http://library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/ |
| Gramophone Classical music reviews, interviews, analysis, and audio equipment news and reviews. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/ |
| Information Resources for Music A list of music resources maintained by the Arts Library UC Santa Barbara. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/music.html |
| Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance: A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
List of links compiled by the Library of Congress for freely-available online sources in music, theatre, and dance. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/perform/new.internet.resources.html |
| Librarians' Internet Index: Music Featuring Music resources selected by Librarians http://lii.org/pub/topic/music |
| Music Theory & History Online Resources compiled by Dolmetsch about musical theory and other related topics. http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm |
| Musicals101: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Music Theater, TV and Film This site has general information for musical theater enthusiasts. http://www.musicals101.com/ |
| Peforming Arts Encyclopedia (Library of Congress) The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. The PAE provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits. (In the latter, each entry describes the resource and provides a link to it if there is an online finding aid or Web site available. http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/index.html |
| Selected Music Resources on the Internet Music resources compiled by the New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/mus.resources.html |
| Themefinder Themefinder is a non-profit collaborative project of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University and the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at the Ohio State University. This website allows users to identify a piece of music based on the theme. http://www.themefinder.org/ |
| Voice of the Shuttle: Music and Dance Music resources compiled by time period. http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ |
Vocal Music
| American Choral Directors Association http://www.acdaonline.org/ |
| The Aria Database The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic MIDI files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. Currently, the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers. http://www.aria-database.com/index2.html |
| ChoralNet ChoralNet's extensive resources and links include repertoire lists, reference materials, rehearsal tips, choral accessories and technology, and specialized sections for Church Music and choirs in educational institutions. http://www.choralnet.org/ |
| Libretto Index This is an index of known libretto pages, arranged by composer and name of the opera. In some cases also texts of other vocal pieces are included. http://wwwsys.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/weber1/opera/lib.htm |
| The Lied and Art Song Texts Page The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of texts used in 64,970 Lieder and other classical art songs as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The collection currently indexes 39,463 texts and includes 8,025 translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ |
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