This guide will help you find books, articles, videos, and websites related to music. There are also links to tutorials that will help you with research. For additional help, use the links to the right to set up a One-On-One Personal Research Appointment or contact a librarian via chat, email, or phone.

• Books
• Databases
• Multimedia
• Websites

These books and recorded sound materials are available at the Lakeland Library.  Call numbers for music are found in the M, ML and MT sections of the library.

•   Music Appreciation
•   Music History and Criticism-United States
•   Music History and Criticism-20th Century
•   Jazz Music-History and Criticism
•   Rock Music-History and Criticism
•   Recording Arts and Technology
•   Compact Discs

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To find information on your topic in any of the databases listed below, search using relevant keywords such as "free form jazz" or improvisation AND jazz.

Databases require a few key search strategies to give you the best results:
1. Boolean Operators- AND, OR, NOT
composition AND concerto - narrows search by inclusion
Beethoven AND concerto OR symphony - expands search by inclusion
Chopin AND composer NOT author - narrows search by exclusion

2. Quotations- search for phrases using quotes
"chamber ensemble" searches for a specific music topic, instead of the database searching for the words "chamber" and "ensemble" separately, which would return much broader results.

3. Truncation- use * at the end of a root word to search for multiple endings; compos* retrieves results for composer, composed, composition

Electronic Book Center - Music
Full text e-books on various topics. Keyword searchable.

Humanities International Complete
Full text articles online. Search by topic or title of publication.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
Many full text articles online. Search by topic or title of publication.

Oxford Reference - Performing Arts
Performing arts reference dictionaries and encyclopedias for theater, dance and music.
      The Grove Book of Opera
      The Oxford Companion to Music
      Oxford Music Online

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Index and abstracts of articles, books, dissertations, conferences, and other music literature. Not full-text.

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Multimedia resources are especially helpful if you are compiling a presentation or PowerPoint slides and would like visual aids, or if you have a particularly visual or auditory learning style. These resources are made up of educational videos, photo collections and other online lessons presented in a digital format.

Free Music Archive
Free and legal audio download sharing archive.

Historic American Sheet Music
Duke University digital collection of over 3,000 pieces of music published in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920.

Music
Khan Academy's collection of educational videos on music.

Music History Videos
Educational videos on a wide variety of music styles.

OhioLINK Music Center
Database of tens of thousands of digital files available to students. Browse by keyword or category.

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Below are a few recommended websites. Remember that information you find on the web needs to be evaluated carefully. For more information on evaluating websites, check out the Evaluating Sources Research Guide.

IMSLP-Free public domain scores from the Petrucci Music Library
https://imslp.org/

Internet Public Library - Music Links
http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&cid=1&tid=10746&parent=6705

Library of Congress Music Collections
http://www.loc.gov/topics/content.php?subcat=25

Music Links
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/music/research_help/outsidelinks.html
Stanford University Music Library - everything from composers to styles of music.

Music Websites for Classical Music Researchers
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online

Musical America Worldwide
http://www.musicalamerica.com/
For over 100 years, Musical America Worldwide has been the voice of the performing arts industry.

National Jukebox
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives
http://library.rockhall.com/home
Archival Collections of Popular Music

Rock's Backpages
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Free
The ultimate archive of music journalism. This link takes you to the free section which doesn't require a subscription.
 

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