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Music History
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Lisa Rae PhilpottMusic Library519-661-2111 x82755
Articles
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Full-text articles, available online, from anywhere - by logging-on via "OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS" with your Western username and password. Articles will be a minimum of 3-7 years old, since each publisher negotiates its own "moving wall" for its content.
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Music citation index, begun in 1949; online version indexes 1974-2008, with link-outs to JSTOR, where available.
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Provides access to scholarly writings about music, via citations and abstracts. No full-text, so check the Western Libraries Catalogue by JOURNAL TITLE - for availability of articles, OR by TITLE - for availability of book chapters, etc.
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A multidisciplinary database covering the subject areas of Arts, Business, Health, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Over 1,800 periodicals are indexed (approximately half are full-text) and include newspapers, magazines and journals. Images have been included for selected articles. Use for MIT: general mass media studies including communications theory, media and society, media and politics, media and economics, popular music, and film studies. Use for Music: popular/world music studies.
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RIPM indexes music journals from 1800-1950. Full-text is not yet available: users must make their requests via the RACER (inter-library loans) system.
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Full-text articles. Coverage and availability can be confusing, as this product offers citations-only indexing, where full-text is not available.
Audio
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Helpful hints for finding recordings and videos located in the Western Libraries' Music Library.
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"Smithsonian Global Sound is a network of international cultural institutions working to preserve and distribute music from archives worldwide, and to foster appreciation for traditional roots music. Through its Web site, Global Sound will offer audio and video downloads, streaming media, educational resources, and detailed liner notes to music lovers, students, historians, teachers, and the academic community."
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The newest addition to our online subscriptions (i.e. use the Off-Campus Access link to input your WesterOne username and password), NAXOS Music Library offers streamed access to 55,000+ recordings and adds some 800 recordings each month. Genres include classical, blues, jazz, nostalgia, pop, rock and many more. You can search by composer, performer, label; create playlists for classes, find opera libretti and synopses, and analyses and details of works (available recordings, instrumentation, duration).
Bibliographies
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NGO bibliographies are an excellent resource; each and every article has a bibliography - organization is chronological. If the listed titles were useful to the author of the NGO article, rest assured that they will be worthwhile for you to consult, too!
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Well-worth consulting, especially when a dissertation is available as a full-text PDF: you will not only have access to the content, but also to the author's full bibliography.
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Contains citations and abstracts only. Provides access to published music literature in all languages of musical scholarship. Foreign-language titles and abstracts are often translated into English. Intended for the serious scholar.
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RIPM indexes 19th-century music periodicals, but only those for which they find complete runs. Intended to function as the precursor to the RILM project, RIPM will eventually offer a full-text component.
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Indexes nineteenth century literature, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and government publications.
Biographies
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Provides access to the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd. ed., 29 vols., published in 2001 (25 million words; 29,000 articles), PLUS the complete text of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) - but NOT the Appendices. Long considered to be the premier English-language resource for classical or Western art music, New Grove II contains information on popular music performers and genres, world music, jazz and 20th-century music. GROVEMUSIC.com contains cross-references, illustrations, bibliographies, extensive biographies, composers' works lists, and links to some sound-files.
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Excellent starting-point for finding information on CANADIAN musicians: composers, lyricists, performers, conductors, etc.
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Since death notices often contain conflicting dates, ages, and name forms, all are reported. Alternate name spellings are listed in square brackets. Citations follow the data they have provided. This file is maintained on a daily basis, and is the source from which the Music Library Association's annual Necrology Index is extracted.
Classic Texts
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ML160.G87 2006 - Music Library: 2-HR RESERVE
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ML 160.N44 - MUSIC stacks.
Multi-volume set, covering the history of music by historic period: v. 1. Ancient and oriental music -- v. 2. Early medieval music up to 1300 -- v. 3. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540 -- v. 4. The Age of Humanism, 1540-1630 -- v. 5. Opera and church music, 1630-1750 -- v.6. Concert music 1630-1750 -- v.7 The age of enlightenment, 1745-1790 -- v.8. The age of Beethoven, 1790-1830 -- v.9. Romanticism (1830-1890) -- v. 10. The modern age, 1890-1960.
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Encyclopedias
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ML 100.M88 1994 - Located at MUSIC - Reference.
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Contains information about ballad operas from ca. 1728-1760. Describes the attributes of the ballad opera and the societal context, with sections on "Theatre & dance history", "Cultural history", "Political history", and "Stars of ballad operas". Includes a searchable database of ballad operas and airs, and several audio samples.
Multimedia
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A streaming video database that will contain approximately 250 important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.
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A streaming video database that will contain approximately 250 important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.
Printed Music
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Part of the Alexander Street Press suite of databases, this subscription offers full scores in PDF format.
