Finding Information in Print

Plenary session, August 30, 2010

Articles and Books:

SFCM LIBRARY DATABASES (For a complete list go to:

http://www.sfcm.edu/departments/library/databases.aspx)
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 (library card needed!)

(For a complete list go to: http://www.sfpl.org/sfplonline/dbcategories.htm)

JSTOR – full text scholarly articles, including music

WorldCat – citations for journals and books (and scores); where to find them

New York Times Historical (ProQuest)* – NY Times articles, 1851-2006

*primary source material!

Dissertations Abstracts | (FirstSearch) – verifies the existence and availability

of North American and European dissertations, 1861-present.

[To buy print copies of dissertations, go to: ProQuest dissertation ordering:

(http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/orderingres.shtml)]

OTHER

Google Books (books.google.com) – online access to books, in whole or in part.

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) – searches across a range of scholarly information including books, articles, and citations. Caution: At the moment Scholar is stronger in the sciences than in the humanities (incl. music).

Wikipedia – getting better all the time. Use with some caution.

Library call nrs. to know (Look in REFERENCE as well as GENERAL STACKS --

M=scores; ML = history and criticism; MT= Instruction and study)

ML 113 = bibliographies, general (e.g. Duckles: Music Reference and Research Materials)
ML 128 = bibliographies, topical (e.g. Hoek: Analyses of 19^th & 20^th C Music)
ML 134 = Thematic Indexes (Köchel nrs, BWV, etc.); + Guides to Research (i.e. composers)
ML 410 = Books about composers: life and works (i.e. some analysis)

ML 416+ = Books about performers

ML 1100+ = Genre studies (ML1100=chamber, ML1200=orchestral, ML1700=operas, etc.)

ML 3797 = Music research help (e.g. Sampsel: Music Research)
MT 92+ = Musical analysis (MT 100=opera; MT 125=symph; MT 145=keyboard, etc.)

Q 180.55 = General research help (e.g. Booth, et al.: The Craft of Research)

FINDING MUSIC IN PRINT

Plenary session, 9/13/2010

Library catalogs:

SFCM Library Catalog: http://wolfi.sfcm.edu/search/X (Advanced search screen)

SF Public Library Catalog: www.sfpl.org (also see their “Articles and Databases,” Use your SFPL library card for offline access)

University of California Catalog: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/

Stanford: http://searchworks.stanford.edu/advanced

WorldCat (OCLC): www.worldcat.org (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": www.sfpl.org )

Library of Congress: http://catalog.loc.gov/ (The Library of Congress has a huge music collection. You can use it like WorldCat to identify editions.)

Hints: Use "advanced" instead of "basic" search to search library catalogs. Restrict your search to "scores" or "printed music"

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 (Includes: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)

Find it at http://www.sfcm.edu/departments/library/databases.aspx

Works lists at end of articles about composers give publication info, especially for collected works editions

For off-campus access use: Login: sanfranmusic; Password: sanfranmusic

Heyer: Anna Harriet Historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music ML113 .H61

Public Domain music:

American Memory (Library of Congress): http://memory.loc.gov/

Art Song Central (public domain art song scores): http://artsongcentral.com/

Chopin Early Editions: http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/

ChoralWiki (Public Domain Library): http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Neue Mozart Ausgabe: http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/start.php?l=2

Indiana: Variations2 http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores

Sibley: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewInstitutionalCollection.action?collectionId=63

University of North Texas: http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/vrbr/

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