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This subject guide is a good starting place for researching general topics in Music; however, you might also look at Anthropology or American Cultural Studies. To access sound recording databases, please see the Online Audio & Video page.

Full Text Journals & Indexes

 

Sound Recordings & Reference

  International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
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Online Audio & Video Includes links for all the sound recording databases to which Bates College subscribes.

  Grove Music Online
ABOUT     Oxford Reference Online - Performing Arts Includes searchable reference works on theater, dance, music, and Shakespeare from Oxford University Press. Also features links to select high-quality online resources.
  RILM (select from list)
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  RIPM (select from list)
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  RISM (select from list)
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Special Collections       International Music Score Library Project
  Alice Esty Papers       Variations 2 (Indiana University Digital Music Library)

Multi-Database Search : Music

Web Resources

Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
Comprehensive directory of Internet resources in ethnomusicology, maintained by the University of Washington Libraries. Includes sections devoted to organizations, institutions, and archives; bibliography, periodicals and online publications; recordings (including labels and distributors); and sites by geographical region. A brief general section provides links to festival and seminars, and a small section is devoted to dancing and dance music.

DW3 Classical Music Resources.
From Duke University; accurate, eclectic, scholarly, well organized and easy to navigate; all periods are covered.

All Music Guide

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
"A history of Jazz before 1930." Site includes sound recordings, films, biographical material, and essays. Requires Real Player.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1885
"Contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright...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."

Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges.

Music Reference Works

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.
Reference ML 100 .N48 2001 (a copy of the 1980 ed. is in Audio)
Online version

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
Reference ML101.U6 N48 1986

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Reference ML 100 .G16 1997

Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Reference ML 102 .P66 G84 1995

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Reference ML 105.B16 2001

MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart : allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik)
Reference ML 100 .M987 1994

Library contact:

For more information, contact:

Christopher P. Schiff
Music and Arts Librarian
207-786-6274
e-mail: cschiff AT bates.edu

The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College
48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240
(207) 786-6263


Page author: Christopher P. Schiff
Date: 8/30/07


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