Music Resources
Finding ARTICLES
Music And Music History in General
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - Published by Rèpertoire International de Littèrature Musicale, contains records to books, journals and dissertations in many languages. Entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English. Links to full text periodical articles in other EBSCO databases. (Database Service: EBSCO)
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Art and Music - Electronic encyclopedias including Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 and Arts and Humanities Through the Eras.
See also other interdisciplinary indexes:
Academic Search Premier (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 79k)
ProQuest Research Library (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 82k)
Academic OneFile (Database Service: Thomson Gale) user guide (PDF 75k)
Music Therapy
PsycINFO - comprehensive resources in Psychology (Database Service: EBSCO)
Music Education
ERIC - Comprehensive Education resources. (Database Service: EBSCO)
ProQuest Education Journals - Full text education articles. (Database Service: ProQuest)
Finding BOOKS
Edgewood's Catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, more. See also new books.
Course Reserves - Search by course number or instructor
U.W. catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, etc.
WorldCat - for books, videos, etc from libraries nationwide
Music WEBSITES
Edgewood College Music Department
Edgewood Fine Arts Calendar (including Concerts)
DW3 Classical Music Resources - From Duke University.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia - A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress. Searchable by name or topic with a description of the various collections and links to the digitized resources in Music, Theater, Dance, & Film.
Link Collections from the Librarians' Internet Index
Music Theory
Musictheory.net is divided into three main content areas: Lessons, Trainers, and Utilities. Many aspects of basic music theory are covered in the Lessons section, and it includes sound. The Trainers section offers customizable drills in basic theory and aural skills, keyboard and guitar fret board pitch recognition, and basic brass instrument fingering and slide positioning. The Utilities section includes a printable staff paper generator, a chord calculator, and a 12-tone matrix generator.
teoria: Music Theory Web - Includes lessons in music theory and ear training with interactive exercises. Music theory lessons include: Reading Music, Intervals, Chords, Scales, Harmonic Functions. The Questions section includes questions and answers published at the web site in the past five years. An Articles section includes fascinating short articles on Analysis, Instruments, Music History and Music Theory. The site also includes an online reference service.
Sheet Music
Digital Mozart Edition - A reproduction of the collected edition of Mozart's works (the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe) in a digitized format.
Digital Scores Collection - Scanned images of rare and unique musical scores, from Harvard University.
Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 - A subset of the Library of Congress's American Memory, this collection contains images of 3,042 pieces owned by Duke University. Included are a wide range of song styles, but the site is particularly strong in Civil War songs and music. One feature is a time line presenting selected songs for each decade, along with political and social events of the time.
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - The Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. A special strength is music written during military conflicts, particularly the War of 1812 and World War I.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music - Containing over 100,000 pieces of historical sheet music, this archive is searchable by author, subject, and song title.
Popular American Music - Includes late 19th and early 20th century sheet music and recordings that are in the public domain as well as a subset of the UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular Music, which covers the history of popular music in the US from 1790 to present.