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Introduction
Welcome to your Library Guide for Music 503. In this guide you will find some familiar resources from the music subject guide as well as information, resources and tips specifically geared toward graduate level music research. Please contact me, Anders Tobiason, with any questions or for help with any aspect of your research.
Academic Music Organizations
- National Association for Music Educationthe professional organization for American Music Educators. The website contains links and resources specifically curated for music education and has direct links to major music education journals as well as Standards.
- American Musicological SocietyThe American Musicological Society is the profession organization for Musicologists. The website has lots of great resources including a list of New Books in Musicology.
- Society for Music TheoryThe Society for Music Theory is the professional organization for Music Theorists. The website has links to lots of different resources including Music Theory Online, an Open Access online Journal.
- International Society for Music Education"The International Society for Music Education was formed at a conference convened by UNESCO in 1953 'to stimulate music education as an integral part of general education'. This has been ISME's main concern over the past decades and continues to be our most important motivation."
- The Society for Ethnomusicology"Founded in 1955, the Society for Ethnomusicology is a global, interdisciplinary network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of music across all cultural contexts and historical periods."
- College Music Society"The College Music Society promotes music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction. A consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music, the Society provides leadership and serves as an agent of change by addressing concerns facing music in higher education."
Guides to Music Research
Writing About Music
A Style and Usage Guide to Writing about Music by Call Number: ML3797 .D76 2010Publication Date: 2010
Music Reference Databases
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowSearches Grove Music Online which includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, the Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, and the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Provides access to search The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
- African American Music ReferenceContains full text from major reference works, biographies and personal narratives from oral histories, manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
- Classical Music Reference LibraryIncludes reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, biographical information on major composers and artists, score and lyric excerpts, plus musical and notational terms, photographs and images of people, instruments, and ensembles.
- Garland Encyclopedia of World MusicFull-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia (more than 9000 pages) plus 300+ associated audio examples and musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings.