Finding
Information about Music
SFCM LIBRARY
DATABASES (Off-campus
access: Login=sanfranmusic; Password=sanfranmusic)
Oxford Music Online (New Grove Dictionary) – use
bibliographies to find articles
RILM (Abstracts of Musical Literature) – cites
scholarly articles about music
Music Index – cites scholarly articles as well as music reviews.
SAN
FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
DATABASES
(accessible from home with library card)
JSTOR – searchable database of full text
scholarly articles, including music
WorldCat – world-wide
library catalog of journals, books, and scores; where to find them
New
York Times Historical (ProQuest) – NY Times articles, 1851-2006
Dissertations
Abstracts | (FirstSearch) – verifies the
existence and availability
of North American
and European dissertations, 1861-present.
Oxford
Music Online (New Grove Dictionary)
OTHER
Google Books – Online
access to books, in whole or in part. Keyword searchable.
Google Scholar – Searches
across a range of scholarly information including books, articles, and
citations.
Wikipedia
– Getting better all the time, but don't make Wikipedia your only source.
Project Gutenberg – Large
digital library of out-of-print books. Most useful when you already know title
of book you're looking for
GATEWAY SITES
Cook Music Library.
Internet Archive – Links to text,
audio, video online
Loeb Music Library.
FINDING
PRINTED MUSIC
Library
catalogs:
SFCM Library
Catalog (Advanced search screen)
University of
California library Catalog
WorldCat (OCLC) - WorldCat
is a union catalog of thousands of libraries.
Use it to get an idea of whether a piece exists and how many different
versions and editions there are. Also
available via SFPL "articles and databases."
Library of Congress - The Library of
Congress has a huge music collection.
You can use it like WorldCat to identify
editions.)
Catalogs
of works:
ML 134: Catalogs and thematic indexes of works by various
composers, arranged alphabetically. On reference reserve at SFCM library, more
at SFPL
Oxford Music
Online (New Grove Dictionary
– Works lists at end of articles about composers give publication info,
especially for collected works editions
Anna Harriet Heyer: Historical
sets, collected editions, and monuments of music ML113 .H61
Public
Domain music:
IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library – Large amounts of public domain
music to download
American Memory (Library
of Congress) – Digitized music from
Library collections
Art Song Central - public
domain art song scores
ChoralWiki – Library of public domain choral music
Lester Levy Collection (Johns
Hopkins University) = American song in sheet music
Neue Mozart Ausgabe –
Critical edition of all Mozart's music
Variations
(Indiana University) – Downloadable music from IU collection
Werner Icking Music Archive – Quirky collection of hsared music
Gateway
sites:
Duke University Music Library – Links to
various music resources
Gordon J. Callon – Links to music download websites
Harvard
University Music Library – Links to various music resources
AUDIO
AND VIDEO
Naxos Music Library – accessible via
SFCM databases or with password
Classical Music
Library (Alexander Street Press) – accessible with SFPL card
American
Song (Alexander Street Press) – accessible with SFPL card
Opera in Video (Alexander Street
Press) – available to everyone
Database of Recorded American Music (New World Records) (on-campus use only)
Cylinder Preservation and
Digitization Project (UC Santa Barbara)
American Memory (Library of Congress)