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MUSIC RESEARCH GUIDE

SELECTED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES

Books
Composers

Databases*

General Sources

Journals*
Music Theory
Musical Instruments
Reference

Tutorials

Audiovisual Materials

Books

Journals

* available only to CCM students, staff & faculty

SELECTED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

BOOKS

The electronic books listed below are available through the CCM Library Catalog

Clark, Mark Ross. Singing, Acting, and Movement in Opera: a Guide to Singer-Getics. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.
eBook MT956 .C65 2002eb

Godlovitch, Stanley. Musical Performance: a Philosophical Study. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

eBook ML3845 .G6 2002eb

Morrison, Simon Alexander. Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
eBook ML1737.5 .M67 2002eb

Shuker, Roy. Understanding Popular Music. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

eBook ML3470 .S54 2002eb

Young, Susan. Music in the Early Years. London ; Bristol, PA : Falmer Press, 2002.

eBook MT1 .Y66 2002eb

COMPOSERS

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
http://www.studio-mozart.com/mozart/

Includes online concerts, compositions, biographical sketches, and a media library.

DATABASES

Grove Music Online

GENERAL SOURCES

Historic American Sheet Music
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm
"The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920."

Internet Resources in Music
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/music.html
By University of California at Santa Barbara. Provides information on various aspects of music field (e.g. associations, copyright, folk, traditional, and Non-Western music, sheet music, etc.).

The Library of Congress Presents Music, Theater, & Dance
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/lcp-home.html
A performing arts digital library.

LSU Libraries Music Resources
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/music/musiccontents.html
Provides information on regional or national music, genres of music, the Academics of music, musical Instruments, musicians, music by time period, searching tools, and " Everything Else".

Music Resources on the World Wide Web
http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm#guides
Provided by the Yale University Music Library, this is the most extensive collection of meta sites on music.

Selected Internet Resources - Music
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/mus.resources.html
By the New York Public Library. Provides information on Music Licensing and Publishing, Music Libraries and Archives, Professional Organizations and Societies, Concert Venues and Performance Schedules in the New York City Area, and Other Music Resources.

SoundJunction
http://www.soundjunction.org/default.aspa
Multimedia source that examines instruments, composers, and music in general.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
By Indiana University. Provides information on individual musicians (all genres) and popular groups, composers and composition, groups and ensembles (except popular), journals and magazines, general and miscellaneous.

JOURNALS

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

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MUSIC
THEORY

Basic Music Theory
http://www.alcorn.edu/musictheory/Version2/index.htm
"...provides brief instruction and exercises to aid prospective students in learning basic music theory."

Music Theory & History Online
http://www.dolmetsch.com/introduction.htm
Includes music resources and a dictionary.

Theory on the Web
http://www.smu.edu/totw/
"...intended to serve as an interactive, hypertext instruction method in basic music theory."

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/instrument/

Piano Page
http://www.ptg.org/

Virtual Instrument Museum
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim/
Online collection of the World Musical Instrument Collection of the Music Department of Wesleyan University. Arranged by instrument type, geographic region, and material.

REFERENCE

Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/golden-pages/Archive/Disserts/index.html
The abstracts relate both to completed dissertations and to those in progress.

The Classical Archives
http://www.classicalarchives.com
32,487 full length classical music files by 2,087 composers.

The Classical Music Navigator
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
Information on composers, notable works, and styles of music.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/author_index.html

Electronic Music Foundation
http://www.emf.org/ Ethnomusicology, Jazz and World Music Resources
http://library.wustl.edu/~music/internet/jazz_ethno.htm
By Gaylord Music Library at Washington University in St. Louis.

Genres and Types of Music
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html

Grammy Award Winners
http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/

Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/encyclopedia/
“…serves as a guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance” and includes online presentations and exhibitions.

The Pulitzer Prize in Music: 1943-2002
http://gurukul.american.edu/heintze/Pul1.htm

TUTORIALS

The Enjoyment of Music Online Tutor
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/enj9/shorter/index.htm
Includes timelines, composer biographies, and musical excerpts.

Reading Music
http://www.teoria.com/tutorials/index.htm
Includes exercises as well as tutorials.

SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

America : Broadway and Dramatic Realism. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.
DVD PN2266.5 .A43 2004

The American Folk Blues Festival, 1962-1969. Santa Monica, CA : Universal Music & Video Distribution : Hip-O Records, 2004.
DVD M1630.18 .A44 2004

Beethoven's Eroica. San Francisco, Calif. SFS Media, 2006.

DVD ML 410 .B42 B44 2006

Breath. New York : Insight Media, 2005.

DVD MT878 .B74 2005

Broadway's Lost Treasures III : the Best of the Tony Awards. Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, 2005.

DVD M1505 .B862 2005

Copland and the American Sound. San Francisco, CA : SFS Media, 2006.

DVD ML410.C756 C66 2006

Deep Blues : a Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads. Los Angeles : Shout Factory, 2003, c1991.
DVD ML3521 .D44 2003

The Grateful Dead Movie. United States : distributed by Monterey Media, Inc., 2004.

DVD M1630.18.G72 G72 2004

Great American Music : Broadway Musicals. Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2006.
DVD ML2054 .M477 2006

Hank Williams : Honky Tonk Blues. Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, 2004.
DVD ML420.W55 H36 2004

Les Paul : Chasing Sound! Port Washington, N.Y. : Koch Vision, 2007.

DVD ML419.P47 L47 2007

Live at Pompeii. The Director's Cut. Santa Monica, CA : Hip-O Records, 2003.

DVD ML3534 .P56 2003

Los Lobos : Live at the Fillmore. Burbank, CA : Mammoth Records/Hollywood Records, 2004. DVD ML128.R6 L6 2004

The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon. [New York] : Eagle Rock Entertainment, 2003.

DVD ML421.P6 M35 2003

Martin Scorsese Presents : the Blues : a Musical Journey. New York : Manufactured by Columbia Music Video ; [United States : Released by PBS], 2003.

DVD ML3521 .M37 2003

The Other Side of the Mirror : Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965. New York, NY : Sony BMG Music Entertainment : Distributed by Columbia Music Video, 2007.

DVD M1630.18.D95 O84 2007

The Pro Tools 002 InstantPro : Pro Tools Digi 002. Vallejo, CA : Artistpro.com : Bethesda, MD : BCI Media, 2004.

DVD TK7881.4 .P75 2004

Respect Yourself : the Stax Records Story. Beverly Hills, CA : Concord Music Group, 2007.

DVD ML3792 .R47 2007

Sessions for Robert J. Burbank, CA : Reprise Records, 2004.

DVD ML3521 .C56 2004

Soul Comes Home : a Celebration of Stax Records and Memphis Soul Music. [United States] : Sony Music Entertainment : Shout!, [2004].
DVD M1630.18 .S625 2004

Standing in the Shadows of Motown. Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.

DVD ML 419 .J355 S73 2003

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. San Francisco, Calif. : SFS Media, 2006.

DVD M1520.S9 R5 2006

Tom Dowd & the Language of Music. New York : Palm Pictures, 2004.

DVD ML427.D6 T6 2004

BOOKS

Bowman, Robert M. J. Soulsville, U.S.A. : the Story of Stax Records. New York : Schirmer Trade Books, 2003, c1997.

ML3792 .B69 2003

The Bristol Sessions : Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2005.

ML3524 .B73 2005

Brown, Mick. Tearing Down the Wall of Sound : the Rise and Fall of Phil Spector. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
ML429.S64 B76 2007

Clapton, Eric. Clapton : the Autobiography. New York : Broadway Books, 2007.
ML419.C58 A3 2007

Emerick, Geoff. Here, There, and Everywhere : My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, 2006.
ML429.E44 A3 2006

Glover, Jane. Mozart's Women : His Family, His Friends, His Music. New York : HarperCollins, 2005.

ML410.M9 G645 2004

Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound : How Technology Has Changed Music. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Reserve ML3790 .K277 2004

Ledgin, Stephanie P. Homegrown Music : Discovering Bluegrass. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

ML3520 .L43 2004

Prial, Dunstan. The Producer : John Hammond and the Soul of American Music.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
ML429.H26 P75 2006

Reid, Jan. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Derek and the Dominos. New York : Rodale, 2006.
ML419.C58 R45 2006

Streissguth, Michael. Johnny Cash : the Biography. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2006.
ML420.C265 S66 2006

JOURNALS

AMS Newsletter (2001-2005)
Billboard (1988-1997)
Down Beat (1984-1993)
Musical America (1988-1992)
The Musical Quarterly (1976-1993)
Notes (1987-1990)
Rolling Stone (1967-1995)

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