FINDING MUSIC IN PRINT
Plenary session, 1/25/2010
SFCM databases:
Go to SFCM Library Databases and Indexes; http://www.sfcm.edu/departments/library/databases.aspx
Oxford Music Online (Includes: New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
Use bibliographies and works lists
at end of articles about indiv composers.
RILM (Abstracts of Musical Literature) – info about pieces and
composers
Index to Printed Music (Use IPM for finding individual pieces of
music published in scholarly editions and anthologies.)
For off-campus access to any of the above use:
Login: sanfranmusic
Password: sanfranmusic
Outside resources
Catalogs
SFCM Library Catalog: http://wolfi.sfcm.edu )
FirstSearch (OCLC): www.worldcat.org (or use SFPL version: www.sfpl.org )
SF Public Library Catalog: www.sfpl.org (also see their “Articles and Databases”)
University of
California Catalog: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/
Stanford: http://socrates.stanford.edu/
Hints: Use "advanced" instead of "basic" search to search library catalogues
Restrict your search to "scores" or "printed music"
Public
domain sheet music
American Memory (Library of Congress): http://memory.loc.gov/
Art Song Central
(public domain art song scores) http://artsongcentral.com/
ChoralWiki (Public Domain Library) http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
IMSLP – Petrucci Music Library http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Indiana – Variations2
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores
Sibley https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewInstitutionalCollection.action?collectionId=63
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
http://icking-music-archive.org/index.php
Gateway sites:
Duke http://library.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html
Gordon J. Callon http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2273/scores.htm
Harvard http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/music/resources/digital.html
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