Music Guide  Tags: music  

These library services might be helpful:

Not sure where to start your research? Try here.

First, you need to know what tools you'll use. Then you'll need to know what you're looking for. So lets look at a few key points:

• Databases are ways of organizing and accessing many types and formats of information. Most of the databases the library offers contain articles from many different journals, magazines, and/or newspapers (though some also contain music audio files or scores) and are both searchable and browseable.

• So, what's the difference between journals, magazines, and articles and what do searchable and browseable mean?

• Journals are collections of articles on a particular subject - like magazines, except they're more specialized. They are written by scholars for scholars and frequently are peer-reviewed, which means that a group of scholars / experts in the field had to decide that the article was well enough written and researched to be published in the journal.

• Articles are sort of like the papers you write for class - except they're much longer, contain more in depth research, and are generally written by scholars.

• Searchable means you can search though all the articles in a database by Keyword (just like Google) or by Subject terms (sort of like tags in del.icio.us or amazon, but created by professionals / scholars in the specific field).

• Browseable means you can look through all the issues of a specific journal title within that database - sort of like pulling a copy off the shelf to look through, but electronically.

Need an Article? Start here.

• Music Index Online
  Classical and popular music in all styles and genres of music. Includes some fulltext of materials published from 1975 to the present.

Want to listen to a work for class (or fun)?

• Classical Music Library
  Audio recordings of classical works of music from the Gregorian Chant to the present.

Need a classical score?

• Classical Scores Library
  Full-text classical scores including major and many lesser well-known composers' works ranging in date from the 15th Century to the present.

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