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RILM - Abstracts of Musical Literature
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Produced by the Repertorie International de Litterature Musicale International Center in cooperation with the Graduate School and University Center of City University of New York. Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. Also includes various other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosohy and physics. The index contains over 200,000 citations from 1969 to the present. Available on campus and to those with proxy accounts.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)

Academic Search Premier
[Available on campus and through proxy server.]

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Find articles from newspapers around the world. Find concert and other performance reviews.
[Available on campus and through proxy server]

Project Muse
Research different subjects in over 100 online journals. Whereas no titles in the Muse collection are dedicated exclusively to music, some cover the topic within its cultural context (e.g., Postmodern Culture).
[Available on campus only.]

netLibrary
         http://www.netlibrary.com/free_ebooks.asp
An electronic library containing hundereds of public domain (out of copyright) books.
[Available on and off campus.]

Organizations & Associations

American Institute of Musicology
         http://www.tempomusic.com/aim

Music Library Association
         http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org
Features include Directory of library school offerings in music librarianship; Placement service job list; Guide to copyright; links to local chapters including the "Greater New York" chapter.

Instruments

GSP
         http://www.gspguitar.com
Fine resource for guitar music.

Guitar Foundation of America
         http://www.guitarfoundation.org
Best resource for all classical guitar-related matters.

Web Sites

Band Music from the Civil War Era
         http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
From the Music Division of the Library of Congress, an online collection of musical scores, recordings, photographs and essays documenting an important but insufficiently explored part of our musical past.

Significant World Wide Web Resources in Music (Prof. Bruce C. MacIntyre)
         http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/music/inetmus/

The Symphony: An Interactive Guide
         http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/index.html
A substantive resource for those wanting to expand their knowledge of the symphony, which still holds its place as the most popular form for the composer with serious things to say. Features include a guide to instruments of the orchestra and extensive audio selections via RealAudio.

Composers

Bach Bibliography
         http://www.npj.com/bach
Contains references to more than 17,500 books, articles, facsimilies, dissertations and papers read at conferences and meetings.

Beethoven Bibliography Database
         http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/beethoven/database/database.html
Culled from materials in the collection of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose State University. Information on books, dissertations, articles and scores plus iconography, concert reviews, handbills, program notes, letters and bibliographies.

William Gedney Photographs and Writings
         http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney
Stunning digital collection from Duke University includes large number of images of 20th- century composers.

Jewish Music

Hebrew Songs
         http://www.hebrewsongs.com/
Features include hundreds of Hebrew songs transliterated & translated into English; links to Jewish music web sites around the world; an index to 150 Psalms in English translation & Hebrew transliteration.

Jewish Music Research Center (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
         http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/jmrc.htm

Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
         http://catalog.jtsa.edu
Site allows entree to the catalog of one of the world's great Judaica libraries. Another feature is "News about Jews," containing digitized images of 259 American newspapers from the Abraham & Deborah Karp Collection of Early American Judaica (1782-1898).

Yiddish-American Digital Archive
         http://yiddishsong.org/
Website of the Yiddish American Digital Archive. Includes some Real Audio versions of 78s available for listening.

New Music

Arlene Grocery website
         http://www.arlene-grocery.com/
Independent/unsigned bands showcase their artistry for fans and industry.

Opera

New York City Opera
         http://www.nycopera.com
In addition to offering a schedule of this adventuresome company's repertoire, there is a history of the organization, a listing of job opportunities, and "tips to fine-tune your opera skills".

Opera World
         http://www.operaworld.com
A worldwide mail-order company dedicated to opera whose site features much more than just sales info: opera broadcasts & news, live opera and education & online courses.

Popular Music

Billboard Online
         http://www.billboard.com/billboard/
Billboard Online is like its print version with charts in numerous categories (pop, jazz, rap, country, Latin, etc.). Also has news, features, Tunes on TV (a listing of musicians that are on TV in a given week), a new release roundup and a free search tool for artists' performance itineraries.

Frank Sinatra: The voice from Hoboken, NJ
         http://www.nj.com/sinatra/
A net documentary from New Jersey Online.

Printable Music

Free Printable Music on the Web
         http://www.libraries.wright.edu/libnet/subj/mus/printmusic.html
Site created by Martin Jenkins of Wright State University is about formats of printable music found on the web.

Sacred Music

Electronic Hymnal
         http://www.ehymnal.com

Writing about Music

Citing Music Sources in Your Essay and Bibliography
         http://www.lib.uwo.ca/music/citemus.html
Prepared by the Music Library, University of Western Ontario Library.