Music Research in Online Sources

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Music Research in Online Sources

• MU 242 Spring 2008
• By Margaret Ericson, Art and Music Librarian
• mericson_at_colby.edu x5662

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Bixler Art/Music Library Home Page
http//www.colby.edu/academics_cs/library/artmusic
/index.cfm

• Gateway to
• Colby Library Catalog (books, scores, CDs, DVDS,
  journals owned by CBY)
• Other catalogs to borrow materials MaineCat,
  NExpress, World Cat
• Licensed Research Resources Articles
  Databases, Grove Music Online
• Other online help Subject Guide (Music), Help
  With Assignments (Music).
• Citation Help in creating bibliographies
• Streaming Audio Classical Music Library, Naxos
  Music Library
• Connect to Online Help

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Catalog and Beyond

• Bixler Home Page / Library Main Home Page.
  Navigate in similar ways
• Catalog Subject Fanny Mendelssohn. Colby to
  Nexpress.
• World Cat. Limit to Thesis.
• See also Dissertations Abstracts Online in World
  Cat/First Search. Marlais, Michael
• Verifys existence of Dissertations and Theses
  from institutions in North America and Europe in
  all subjects, with an abstract.

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Colby Libraries Subject Guide to Music
http//www.colby.edu/academics_cs/library/helpwith
assignments/subject-guides/music.cfm

• Dictionaries e.g Harvard Dictionary of Music
  Online
• Grove Music Online
• Indexes to Music Articles, Dissertations
• Primary Sources RISM..guide to the series.
• Thematic Catalogs
• Song Indexes and Sheet Music
• Internet Metasites (AMS, Indiana U., University
  of Washington)

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Grove Music Online http//0-www.grovemusic.com.lib
rary.colby.edu
Background on life and works Works List How to
find all works, date composed, and location in
the Complete Works of the composer Bibliography
of sources on the composer or topic.
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Grove Music Typical Works List Thematic Catalog
Number, Title, Date composed, Find in Complete
Works.
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Databases of Literature about Music _at_
ColbyWhats the dif RILM, Music Index, JSTOR,
RIPM, IIMP

• Dates and Material Covered
• RILM (1967-present). Citations abstracts to
  books, articles in books and journals,
  dissertations, all types of publications
• Music Index (1979-). Citations to journal
  articles only.
• JSTOR. Does not include the most recent 5 years,
  but includes complete retrospective backfiles of
  the most important musicology journals all
  articles in full text.
• RIPM. 19th and early 20th century periodicals
  citations only to periodical articles.
• International Index to Music Periodicals IIMP.
  1878-present citations and some full text .

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Scholarly Music Databases _at_ ColbyWhats the dif
RILM, Music Index, JSTOR, RIPM, IIMP

• Searching
• in JSTOR and IIMP, when you search you can search
  the entire full text of the journal or just the
  citation
• in RILM you are searching the citation and a
  summary or abstract. Link from RILM to full text
  or to Colby Catalog.
• in Music Index Online and RIPM you are searching
  on the citation and/or brief descriptors. Link to
  full text or to Colby Catalog.
• RILM, Music Index, RIPM, and Academic Search
  Premiere are from the same database provider, and
  thus you can search all simulaneously with a
  single search.

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Music Index RILM Refining Search, Linking out,
Exporting Results
Pull down menu, can select RILM, Academic Search
Premiere
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RILM
RILM Abstracts Search example limit to English,
search Colby, save results
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JSTOR Full Text Journals http//0-www.jstor.or
g.library.colby.edu
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Finding Songs, Arias and Song Texts

• Scores there are not separate entries in the
  online catalog for each song or aria in a
  collection.
• Arias, however, can be found in their parent
  work.
• Songs require a tool called a song index in
  order to locate the song in a collected song
  edition or anthology.
• Song texts in translation IPA Source
• http//0-www.ipasource.com.library.colby.edu
• Song Indexes See Music Subject Guide
• University of Tennesee Online Song Index
  http//www.lib.utk.edu/music/songdb/
• Good Overall Guide University of Washington
  Finding Songs, Arias, Lyrics and Translations
  http//www.lib.washington.edu/music/finding.html