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Reference Information
Magazine and journal indexes and other reference databases.
Online Indexes to Articles
Music
Index
Produced by Harmonie Park Press, Music Index Online coverage spans from 1976 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. Some backfile data from the period 1962-1975 is also included. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are carefully categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal subject classification system. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
RILM
Abstracts of Music Literature
Compiled by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is the world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 100 languages from 5,200 journals. Containing nearly 400,000 entries, RILM now has direct EBSCO links to 370 full text sources in Academic Search Premier. Approximately 30,000 new records are added every year, 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. The RILM Abstracts of Music Literature includes coverage from 1967 to the present.
Online Reference Databases (e-Reference Books
Grove
Music Online (5 user limit)
Grove Music Online, the "cornerstone" of Oxford Music Online, is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd. ed., 2001), the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992 ed.), and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd. ed., 2002), "as well as all subsequent updates and emendations, including 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world." Our subscription to Grove Music Online "also includes the Oxford Companion to Music (2002 ed.), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres" and the Oxford Dictionary of Music (2nd. rev. ed., 2006) which "will similarly supplement Grove's more extensive coverage with content geared toward undergraduates and general users." Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen. Grove Music Online will be updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet. Key features are: full-text searching (across all five titles above) with advanced capabilities; over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations; and annual updates by the Grove editorial advisory board.
Oxford
Reference Online: Performing Arts
Oxford Reference Online contains over 1.3 million entries, including definitions, facts, figures, people, places, sayings, and dates from over 185 of Oxford University Press's central English and bilingual dictionaries, usage, quotations, and subject reference books. These are all combined in this online service to create one integrated and searchable e-reference book collection. Subjects covered include art and architecture, bilingual dictionaries, biological sciences, classics, computing, earth and environmental sciences, economics and business, English dictionaries and thesauri, English language reference, food and drink, history, law, literature, medicine, military history, mythology and folklore, names and places, performing arts, physical sciences and mathematics, politics and social sciences, quotations, religion and philosophy, and science. A complete list of subjects and books covered by Oxford Reference Online is available.
Print Indexes in the Meyer Library Reference Collection
The title links here will show you the SWAN library catalog record which
gives the Meyer Library holdings of the print title.
Arts and humanities
citation index
MSU Meyer Ref A 13 .A63
Education index
MSU Meyer Ref L 11.E39x
Guide to the performing
arts
MSU Music Ref ML 118.G8
Music
in print. master composer index, 1995
MSU Music Ref ML113 .M8825 1995
Music
index
MSU Music Ref ML 118 .M84
Music
psychology index
MSU Music Ref ML 128.M77 M9
General/All Purpose Indexes & Full
Text Databases:
The following indexes and databases do not provide the in-depth
coverage for studying Music as the indexes above. They do cover a variety
of subjects and topics across multiple disciplines and provide good general
indexing of magazines, newspapers, and core academic journals. In addition
they provide full text articles from many of the sources cited.
EBSCOhost.
Enter EBSCOhost Web and select the appropriate database for your research.
FirstSearch.
Either jump to the database you need to search, or under Databases on the
menu bar to the left click “List All” and select the appropriate database
for your research.
LexisNexis
Academic. Full-text newspapers! Also includes business, legal research,
and reference areas.
Oxford
Reference Online. An e-reference book collection of over 175 of Oxford
University Press’s central English and bilingual dictionaries, usage, quotations,
and subject reference books.
CQ
Researcher,
FACTS.com, SIRS
Researcher, JSTOR, Project Muse
Selected Journals in
the Library
The title links will take you to TDNet
which is the Libraries' tool for locating journals regardless of their format—electronic,
print, or microform. Once in TDNet, click on the links to locate journals online,
or click on the check box to locate journals in print and microform. This
is NOT a complete list of all relevant journals in the Missouri State University
Libraries’ collection for this field. If you are looking for a particular
title, then use TDNet
as your starting point.
American
Music
American
Music Teacher
Beethoven
Journal
College Music
Symposium
Computer
Music Journal
Early Music
Fontes Artis
Musicae
Gramophone
Journal of
Music Theory
Journal
of Musicological Research
Journal of
Singing
Missouri
Journal of Research in Music Education
Opera Quarterly
Percussive
Notes
Recent Books in the
Meyer Library Collection
The title links will take you into SWAN, the Missouri State
Libraries catalog, to view publishing information and complete citation. The
citation record will also display the Library of Congress call number used to
arrange many of the books in this subject area. You can use the call number
to browse the shelf for similar materials.
Composing and
arranging : standard 4 benchmarks / edited by Carroll
Rinehart. Reston, Virgina : National Association for Music Education, 2002.
MSU Meyer Music General MT40
.C7 2002
Crowe, Barbara J. Music
and soulmaking : toward a new theory of music therapy. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow
Press, 2004.
MSU Meyer Music General ML3920 .C898 2004
Davies, Peter J. The
character of a genius : Beethoven in perspective. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood
Press, 2002.
MSU Meyer Music General ML410.B4 D29 2002
Gordon, Stewart. Mastering
the art of performance : a primer for musicians. New York : Oxford University
Press, 2006.
MSU Meyer Music General ML457 .G66 2006
Haroutounian, Joanne. Kindling
the spark : recognizing and developing musical talent. Oxford ; New York
: Oxford University Press, 2002.
MSU Meyer Music General ML3838 .H27 2002
Krasilovsky, M. William. This
business of music : the definitive guide to the music industry. New York
: Billboard Books, 2003.
MSU Meyer Music General ML3790 .S5 2003
Lewin, David. Studies
in music with text. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
MSU Meyer Music General ML1400 .L48 2006
Macarthur, Sally. Feminist
aesthetics in music. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
MSU Meyer Music General ML82 .M22 2002
MENC handbook
of musical cognition and development / edited by Richard Colwell. New York
: Oxford University Press, 2006.
MSU Meyer Music General MT1 .M98736 2006
Ord, Alan J. Songs
for beginning bass voice : with annotated guide to works for beginning bass
voice. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.
MSU Meyer Music General ML132.S6 O74 2002
Spitzer, Michael. Metaphor
and musical thought. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
MSU Meyer Music General ML3845 .S684 2004
Worlds of music
: an introduction to the music of the world's peoples / edited by Jeff Todd
Titon. Belmont, Calif : Schirmer/Thomson Learning, c2002.
MSU Meyer Music General ML3545 .W67 2002
Reference Books at
Meyer Library
The title links will take you into SWAN, the Missouri State Libraries
catalog, to view publishing information and obtain the Library of Congress call
number used by Meyer Library to arrange reference materials. Reference materials
are non-circulating items.
American song
lyricists, 1920-1960
MSU Meyer Ref PN41 .D45x vol.265
Arts in America
: a bibliography
MSU Meyer Ref NX503.A1 Z5 1979
Chronology of
Western classical music
MSU Music Ref ML161 .H227 2002
Encyclopedia of folk,
country, & western music
MSU Meyer Ref ML102.F66 S7 1983
Encyclopaedia of the
musical film
MSU Meyer Ref PN1995.9 .M86 G7
Grey House performing arts directory
MSU Meyer Ref PN1561
.G74 2005
Hip hoptionary : the dictionary of hip-hop terminology
MSU Music Ref ML3531
.W47 2002
International
cyclopedia of music and musicians
MSU
Music Ref ML100 .T47 1975
New Grove dictionary
of American music
MSU Meyer Ref ML101.U6 N48 1986
New Grove dictionary
of jazz
MSU Music Ref
ML102.J3 N48 2002
Oxford companion to music
MSU Meyer Ref ML100 .S37 1970
Rolling stone index : twenty-five years of popular culture, 1967-1991
MSU Meyer Ref News Index ML3533.8
.R65x 1993
Vocal compositions
in German organ tablatures, 1550-1650 : a catalogue and commentary
MSU Music Ref ML128.O6 J63 1989
Webster's new world
dictionary of music
MSU Music Ref ML100
.S639 1998
Government Sources
& Publications
Key government departments and agencies and publications in
the Meyer Library Government Documents Department.
DocLinks - directory of national, state, local, and international
government web sites from the Reference and Government Department at Missouri
State University Libraries.
http://library.missouristate.edu/reference/govinfo.htm
USA.gov - the United States government's official web portal.
http://www.usa.gov
GPO Access
GPO Access disseminates official information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. It indexes government publications and offers core documents of U.S. democracy (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Gettysburg Address, etc.) along with a variety of other Federal-wide resources.
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov
Government Sources
http://www.copyright.gov/
In answer to your query
: copyright registration of music
MSU Meyer Gov Docs LC 3.4/2:FL
105/999
Labels and lyrics :
do parental advisory labels inform consumers and parents?
MSU Meyer Gov Docs Y 4.C 73/7:S.HRG.105-1060
Music on the internet
MSU Meyer Gov Docs Y 4.J 89/1:107/12
Associations
Organizations of experts, policy makers, and researchers.
General Directory
Scholarly Societies Project from the University of Waterloo Library
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/
American Composers Alliance
http://www.composers.com/
Bands of America
http://www.bands.org
International Federation for Choral Music
http://www.choralnet.org
National
Association for Music Education
http://www.menc.org
National Association of Teachers of Singing
http://www.nats.org/
Society for Ethnomusicology
http://www.ethnomusicology.org/
Web Sites
Selected web directories to sources and a variety of information
on the Internet.
Missouri State University Music Library Web Site
Archive of Dissertation Abstracts
in Music
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/golden-pages/Archive/Disserts/index.html
Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology-Online
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/
Missouri State University Department of Music
http://www.missouristate.edu/music/
Scholarly Societies Project – Music
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/music_soc.html
compiled by Tammy
Stewart | Meyer Library
Missouri State University Libraries | Updated: August
2007