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MUSIC OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I (MUH 4211)
LIBRARIAN: Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding books and articles about music and composers from antiquity to the 18th century.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
 

• For books on music history, go to the "Basic Search" screen and choose "Subjects, All" from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu. Type in any of the following Library of Congress subject headings (with dashes for subheadings):
   

Music--History and criticism
Music--History and criticism--to 400
Music--History and criticism--Medieval, 400-1500
Music--History and criticism--16th century
Music--History and criticism--17th century
Music--History and criticism--18th century
Music--History and criticism--19^th century
 

• For books on composers, go to the “Basic Search” screen and choose “Subjects, All” from the “Browse Organized Lists” menu.  Type in the name of the composer (e.g. Beethoven or Mozart).

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Research Resources" or "Quick Links" and then "Indexes/Databases". When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the link for the "EZproxy" server.

• Expanded Academic ASAP
  This general index gives references to articles on the history of music and musicians in such publications as "19th Century Music", the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" and other music periodicals.
  
   

• Humanities Full Text
  Provides articles on subject areas that include music, dance, performing arts and many others. The full text of articles is available in this database beginning with January 1995.
  
   

• JSTOR
  This database gives access to full text articles from many scholarly journals in the area of music. It can be searched by using keywords or by "browsing" subject lists of journals and their contents.
  
  
   

• Music Index 1978-present
  Contains references to articles on music and musicians in 725 international music periodicals.
  
  
   

• New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  This is an excellent starting point for finding information about the life and works of a composer.
  
   

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 1967-present
  Provides references, with summaries, to articles, books, dissertations and other publications of scholarly interest on various music topics.

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the "Electronic Databases" listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of information?

2. How accurate is the information?

3. How reliable is the information?

4. How current is the information?

5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

• REF Z253.U69 1993  Chicago Manual of Style.  14th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

 

• MLA Style Electronic Formats (by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey)
  This "quick" guide to citing sources found on the Internet provides the important components of a citation, with examples.

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