Music Bibliography at Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Music U700G: Bibliography and Research Techniques

Professor Bruce C. MacIntyre

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Saint Julian, woodcut by Albrecht Durer.

This no-frills website is under construction. It is currently used by graduate students taking Music 700 at Brooklyn College for locating significant websites in music research.

Comments about the site's content should go to Bruce MacIntyre:
bmacintyre@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Prof. Bruce C. MacIntyre
Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889
Tel. (718) 951-5286

Music U700G - Fall 1997
Prof. MacIntyre

Significant World Wide Web Resources in Music (August 1997)

INDEX OF SITE TYPES:
A. Useful Topical Indexes of Music-Related Sites ("first stops")
B. Libraries and/or Online Catalogues
C. Reference Sites (with special "search engines")
D. Publishing & Copyright
E. Music Scores Books/CDs/CD-ROMs/Dissertations Sales
F. Miscellaneous Other Sites (as assigned)

PLEASE NOTE: Most http addresses are CASE sensitive! Do not insert spaces between words.
To see a site, just click on the site name desired below. Enjoy!

A. Useful Topical Indexes of Music-Related Sites

(i.e. "first stops" with direct links to other sites)

1. American Musicological Society (AMS)

http://musdra.ucdavis.edu/Documents/AMS/AMS.html
[includes subpage "WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists"]

2. Indiana University (IU), Music Library

http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources
["World-Wide Internet Music Resources"]

3. Harvard Univ., Loeb Music Library, "I-net Resources for Music Scholars"

http://www.rism.harvard.edu/MusicLibrary/InternetResources.html

4. Music Publishers Association (MPA), "Music Information"

http://www.mpa.org
[see its "Music Info. Resources on the WWW" section]

5. College Music Society, "Music, Arts & Education Links"

http://www.music.org

6. American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Online Scholarly Resources

http://www.acls.org/resource.htm
[subpage "Other Online Scholarly Resources," with links to major libraries & archives]

7. Music Education Online, Larry Newman (Los Angeles; grades K-12)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2405/

8. Total Web Search, R. Alan Campbell (searches 23 "engines"!)

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rcampbel
[includes "Classical Music Refs.", "Other Classical Music Links"]

B. Libraries and/or Online Catalogues

British Library, Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

http://opac97.bl.uk
- - search/browse for specific music, documents, etc.

British Universities Online Library Catalog (COPAC)

http://copac.ac.uk/copac
(includes universities at Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Oxford, et al.)

Library of Congress (Washington, DC)

http://www.loc.gov

Loeb Music Library (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

http://www.rism.harvard.edu/MusicLibrary/

C. Reference Sites

(with "search engines")

Addresses & Telephone Numbers ("Switchboard")

http://switchboard.com

Addresses, UK ("Mailbase"), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/
[includes address lists of many scholarly organizations]

Concerts (by date or city), CultureFinder

http://www.culturefinder.com
[N.B. Comprehensiveness NOT guaranteed!]

Concerts, Music Events Calendar ("Automatrix")

http://www.automatrix.com/concerts/

Concerts (choral), Choral Concerts Around the World

http://www.choralnet.org/english.htm#events
[also has schedules for choral festivals and workshops; new & not comprehensive at all]

Concerts (choral), The Choir Links Page (John Wilund)

http://www.abc.se/~m9850/TheChoirLinksPage
[has programs from over 500 choirs; links to choir home pages]

Dissertations (recent), Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM) Online

http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm
[currently covers mid 1995-present; will add earlier dissertations at a later date]

E-mail Lists Searcher

http://www.liszt.com
("index" to 71,000+ discussion lists!)

MUSICA, online choral music database, Int'l Federation for Choral Music

http://musica.u-strasbg.fr]
[locates choral music by keywords; huge choral database in Strasbourg, France]

RILM, music-journal abstracts (1969-present; subscription needed)

http://rilm.cic.net
[RILM is available through OCLC, FirstSearch, and EPIC reference services. Ask your librarian about availability & authorization number.]
also try: http://www.ref.oclc.org:2000
or telnet to: fscat.oclc.org

RISM, music manuscript/printed sources

(you need to be a subscriber to search)

http://www.rism.harvard.edu/rism/Welcome.html

Sonances, selected arts periodicals (mostly 20thC. composers)

http://www.sonances.qc.ca
[international directory of recent musical and cultural press; mostly 20th-century composers; includes: Survey of Cultural Press, Dictionary of Composers, Reviews Pages]

"Style Sheet" for citing Internet resources (Modern Language Association)

University of California - Berkeley

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MLAStyleSheet.html

Writing style (English), Strunk and White's The Elements of Style:

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/index.html

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D. Publishing

Copyright Guide (Music Library Association)

http://www.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/legcom/copyhome.htm
[includes Current Issues in Copyright; FAQ; Copyright Guidelines; Statement on Copyright Law & Fair Use in Music; Bibliography; Related Internet Resources]

Music Publishers Association (MPA)

http://www.mpa.org
[This "MPA List" includes addresses, tel. nos., etc., of all publishers.]

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E. Music Scores/Books/CDs/CD-ROMs/Dissertations Sales

J.W. Pepper, online database

http://www.jwpepper.com
[claims to be the "world's largest music shop" on the WWW; ordering possible after you acquire a free Pepper ID number]

UMI Dissertation Services, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI

http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/DServices
[allows one to search & order copies of dissertations; links to Pro-Quest Digital Dissertations (abstracts) of last 3 months]