Subject Guide: Music
Find Books, Printed Music and Audio-Visual
Materials:
Find Articles and Reviews:
- Use a Journal Index to find articles on a given topic.
- HELP: How do I search for articles?
Web Resources:
- A select list of resources available on the Web.
Citation Guides:
- Use these guides (Citing Music Resources in Your Essay and Bibliography, Other guides) to learn how to cite the materials you find and create a bibliography.
More Subject Guides:
Sheet Music & Mount Allison Music Recordings Collections (InMagic Databases)
The Alfred Whitehead Music Library has in its collections some materials which do not appear in the Libraries' catalogue. These include two growing collections of sheet music and non-commercial recordings indexed in online databases. The recordings and sheet music found in these databases are housed in the Whitehead Music Library and may be borrowed by students, staff, faculty and community borrowers from the music library circulation desk.
Mount Allison Music Recordings Index
An index to the music recorded since 1980 on audiocassette or compact disc of Department of Music concerts by faculty, guests, departmental ensembles, and students. Over 5000 works can be found in the Mount Allison Concert Recordings database. Concert programs are included with each recording.
Sheet Music Collection
An index to the 7000-piece collection of sheet music in the Music Library. Holdings, not entered into the Libraries’ catalogue, include choral sheet music, popular songs, and pieces of classical sheet music organized by type (either keyboard, solo vocal, or instrumental pieces).
Web Resources:
Oxford Music Online
Naxos Music Library
Classical Scores Library
Bibliographies
Music Libraries
Music Library Associations
Music in Canada
Recording Online Collections
Score Online Collections
Electronic Journals
Miscellaneous
Oxford Music Online:
- Access* from On-Campus or Off-Campus
The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, a new gateway for online music resources, is the former Grove Music Online. Redesigned with functional enhancements as well as new content, it also includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music with further enhancements planned.
*Restricted to authorized Mt. Allison University users
Naxos Music Library (Music Streaming)
- Access* from On-campus or Off-campus
Music streaming online service of over 87,000 tracks of the complete Naxos catalogue of classical, jazz, world-music and historical releases, the Marco Polo and da capo catalogues as well as new releases. The database is searchable by composer, composition, date of composition, instrument, etc.
*Restricted to authorized Mt. Allison University users
Classical Scores Library
- Access* from On-Campus or Off-Campus
This collection will eventually contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers are represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works; currently about 14,000 scores of 1000 composers. Includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
*Restricted to authorized Mt. Allison University users.
Bibliographies
American Music Resource
Relevant to styles of music indigenous to the Western Hemisphere this
site houses more than 800 bibliographies, lists and files, indexed
by TOPIC (genre and style subdivisions) and SUBJECT (individuals -
composers).
Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology
DDM-Online presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography
of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under
broad categories. Also includes records published in the earlier printed
editions of DDM.
RISM
The new catalogue of the International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) offers around 700,000 mainly manuscript sources, which are stored in hundreds of libraries and archives around the world. The catalogue entries include information about the composer, title, instrumentation, as well as references in the specialist literature. The manuscripts are described in detail in respect of scribe, and place and time of origin, and almost every work can also be unambiguously identified by means of a music incipit.
Music Libraries
Institute
of Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, Paris, Library
The Multimedia Library consists of the following collections, put
together by IRCAM and the CNRS - CID-RM: paper documents, multimedia
documents and (hyper)text documents.
Music
Division Library and Archives Canada
Includes electronic collections of the library, Music Division projects,
FAQ, virtual exhibitions, Canadian copyright revisions and preservation
of recorded sound materials.
Music Treasures Consortium
This alliance of several libraries’ (currently including the British Library, Harvard University’s Loeb Music Library, Library of Congress, Julliard School Wallace Library, Morgan Library, and the New York Public library) consortium web site exhibits holdings of unique music resources, including music manuscripts, prints, and first and early editions. The Web site which gives bibliographic information on each item and access to the digital items provided through links to the holding library’s own Web site.
Sibley
Music Library
Serving the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester,
the Sibley is the largest university music library in the United States
with nearly three-quarters of a million items and therefore a vast
resource for performance and historical research.
William
and Gayle Cook Music Library
The Cook Library at Indiana University is among the top academic music
libraries in the United States. The collections include more than
537,000 catalogued items. The site includes the Worldwide
Internet Music Resources.
Music Library Associations
Canadian Association
of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (CAML)
The Canadian branch of the International
Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). Founded in 1971 CAML draws together the interests of academic,
research, public, broadcasting, orchestra libraries, especially those
interested in Canadian music and music librarianship (see also the
listserv CANMUS-L).
Music
Library Association (MLA) Clearinghouse
The MLA Clearinghouse stores documents of interest to music librarians;
files included are about MLA, music librarianship, copyright, reference/collection
development, cataloguing, technology.
Music in Canada
Canadian Music
Centre (CMC)
The Canadian Music Centre is a source of scores, parts and recordings
of music by close to 500 Canadian composers; the website includes
enhanced catalogues of the holdings.
The
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.
Musican:
Repertory of Canadian Musical Works for Interpreters
Musican is an annotated bibliography of selected Canadian musical
works classified mainly by instrument or category, as well as by genre
and theme.
Sheet Music from Canada’s Past
Source of sheet music published in Canada before 1921, selected from the digitized portion of Library and Archives Canada’s historical collection.
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
Multimedia website of digital audio recordings, images, biographies of musicians, and histories of music and recorded sound in the Canadian 78-rpm era.
Recording Online Collections
National Jukebox
Streamed historic recordings from the Library of Congress including over 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925.
Score Online Collections
Bodleian
Library Broadside Ballads
Access to digitised copies of 30,000 ballads from the sixteenth- to
the twentieth-century.
Indiana
University Sheet Music Collections
From the sheet music held in several repositories at Indiana University,
this web site allows you to search some of the holdings from the Lilly
Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music, including those
for which digitized images are available.
Lester
S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Part of Special Collections at The Johns Hopkins University it contains
over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music
spanning the period 1780 to 1960. See also Music
for the Nation, American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 and the Historic
American Sheet Music 1850-1920.
The Petrucci Library: the International Music Score Library Project
This open access website aims to create a virtual collection of all public domain music, as well as music from composers willing to freely share their work. The growing downloadable collection currently includes almost 90,000 scores of over 5,000 composers as well as almost 2000 recordings.
Sheet
Music from Canada's Past
This website currently features sheet music published before Confederation
(1867) and during the era of the First World War (1914-1920), selected
from the over 20,000 items in the historical collection of the National
Library of Canada.
Sheet
Music Collections
Provides links to several MLA publically accessible sheet music databases
and collections available through libraries and archives.
Electronic Journals
Journal of Music and Meaning (JMM)
On-line peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal of research on conceptions of music and the notion of meaning through the study of musical phenomena.
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM)
A refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century including historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance, and theatre as well as reviews and listings of recently published materials.
Miscellaneous
allmusic
This site covers all genres and styles of music from the most commercially
popular to the most obscure and includes biographical information
of musicians, descriptions of musical styles, discographies, and details
and reviews of recordings.
Classical Net
Covers all aspects of classical music with over 4200 files and 2500
commercial and noncommercial links.
Gaylord
Music Library Necrology File
Reports death announcements and obituaries as they arrive through
the music media. Updated daily.
The Lied
and Song Texts Page
This site houses an extensive archive of thousands of texts to Kunstlieder
and other art songs in most European languages. Includes indexes of
texts by first line or title, by poet and by composer.
Music
Publishers and Vendors
This site has links to many music publishers and vendors from around
the world.