SUBJECT HEADINGS
 

The following is a partial listing of subject headings that can be used to locate publications on music related subjects using the FAU Libraries Catalog.

Band	Jazz
Chamber music	Music
Chorus	Music theory
Composition (music)	Musical criticism
Conducting	Orchestra
Electronic music	Opera
Ethnomusicology	Scores
Instrumental music	Songs

To locate information about a particular composer or performer, do a subject search on their name (entering their last name first). To find works by a particular composer or performer, do an author search (also last name first). The advanced search option allows limiting by format, including scores and sound recordings.
 

ELECTRONIC DATABASES & REFERENCE BOOKS

Classical Music Library
Includes over 10,000 classical musical recordings for listening, composer and artist biographies, program notes on key works and movements, daily classical music news, a beginner's guide, timeline and glossary.

DRAM
DRAM provides on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond.
[Click here to see the "DRAM Requirements for Streaming."]

Grove Music Online
Authoritative resource on all aspects of music, comprising the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Humanities Full Text
Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Covers 1984 to the present, with full-text coverage beginning in January 1995.

Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective
Covers subject areas listed in Humanities Full Text above, as well as the social sciences, for the years 1907-1984.

JSTOR
Journal storage: includes back files of over 500 scholarly journals. JSTOR now contains the complete back runs of thirty-two scholarly journals dedicated to research and theory in the field of music, and includes journals published in the US, Great Britain, Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Germany and France.

Music Index
Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

Oxford Reference Online : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Providing thousands of entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras, the dictionary's coverage is exceptional, giving comprehensive work-lists for major composers, detailed entries on living composers and performers, important ballets and operas, as well as descriptions of musical instruments and their histories.

Oxford Reference Online : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera
Provides plot synopses and first performance details, bibliographies of works about opera, entries on singers (including their debuts and career highlights, with notes on voice type, style, and reputation), definitions and discussions of technical terms and operatic styles, and surveys of the history of opera worldwide are all included in a reference work that provides an enormous amount of information.

Oxford Reference Online : Who's Who in Opera
Containing over 2,500 operatic characters, this guide gives plot synopses for over 250 operas and operettas, and details full information on each operatic role, including its creator and notable performers.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM offers a broad international coverage base and it includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest.

 

GUIDES TO THE LITERATURE

REF ML113 .B3 1997	A Basic music library: essential scores and sound recordings. Chicago: Music Library Association, 1997.
REF ML128.B45 S6	Black music in America: a bibliography. Skowronski, JoAnn. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1981.
REF ML113 .P34 1987	Cross index title guide to classical music. Pallay, Steven G. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
REF ML113 .B85 1987	Music : A guide to the reference literature. Brockman, William S. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1987.
REF ML128.O4 M28 2001	Opera: a research and information guide. Marco, Guy A. New York : Garland Pub., 2001.
REF ML128.P63 P67 1997	Popular music studies: a select international bibliography. Shepherd, John, et al, ed. Washington, DC: Mansell, 1997.

 

DICTIONARIES

REF ML102.P66 T38 2004	The A to X of alternative music. Taylor, Steve. New York: Continuum, c2004.
REF ML102.O6 O8 2001	The dictionary of the opera. Osborne, Charles. New York: Welcome Rain Pub., 2001.
REF ML102.O6 I6 1993	International dictionary of opera. LaRue, C. Steven, ed. Detroit: St. James Press, c1993.
REF ML108 .G855 1978	Music translation dictionary : an English-Czech-Danish-Dutch-French-German-Hungarian-Italian-Polish-Portuguese-Russian-Spanish-Swedish vocabulary of musical terms, compiled by Carolyn Doub Grigg. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978.
REF ML101.U6 N48 1986	The New Grove dictionary of American music. Hitchcock, H.W. and Stanley Sadie, eds. New York, NY: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986.
REF ML100 .N48 2000	The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Stanley Sadie, ed. London: Macmillan Pub., 2000.
REF ML102.I5 N48 1984	The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments, Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Press, 1984.
REF ML100 .N485 1986	The New Harvard dictionary of music, Don Michael Randel. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.
REF ML102.O6 G74 1999	Operas in English: a dictionary. Griffel, Margaret Ross. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.
REF ML100 .K35 1994	The Oxford dictionary of music, Joyce Bourne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

  

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

REF ML 27 .U5 A83362 2005	American Musicological Society directory. Richmond: American Musicological Society, 2005.
REF ML 105 .B16 2001	Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians. Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.
REF ML105 .S612 1997	Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians. Slonimsky, Nicolas. New York, NY: Schirmer Books, c1997.
REF ML102.B6 S26 2001	The big book of blues: a biographical encyclopedia. Santelli, Robert. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
ML105 .S67 1982	Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians. Southern, Eileen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
REF ML102.J3 F4 1999	The biographical encyclopedia of jazz. Feather, Leonard G. & Ira Gitler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
REF ML105 .C75 1992	Contemporary composers. Morton, Brian and Pamela Collins, eds. Chicago: St. James Press, c1992.
REF ML 385 .C66 1989	Contemporary Musicians. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989- .
REF ML102.C7 C28 2003	Country music: a biographical dictionary. Carlin, Richard. New York: Routledge, 2003.
REF 106 .U3  B87 2005	Dictionary of American classical composers. Butterworth, Neil.   New York: Routledge, 2005.
REF ML105 .H38 1996	The Harvard biographical dictionary of music.  Randel, Don Michael, ed. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
REF ML105 .I5 1999	International dictionary of Black composers. Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, c1999.
REF ML105 .P66 1999	Popular musicians.  Hochman, Steve, ed. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, c1999.
REF ML102.P66 H47 1998	Songwriters: a biographical dictionary with discographies. Harrison, Nigel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF ML102.M68 H57 1999	The American musical film song encyclopedia. Hischak, ThomasS. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
REF ML 102 .M88 H59 1995	The American musical theatre song encyclopedia. Hischak, Thomas S. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995.
REF ML3551 .A53 2002	American musical traditions. Titon, Jeff Todd and  Bob Carlin, eds. New York: Schirmer Reference, c2002.
REF ML102.O6 B55 2004	The Billboard illustrated encyclopedia of opera. Sadie, Stanley, ed. New York, NY: Billboard Books, 2004.
REF ML102.P66 C66 2003	Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world. Shepherd, John, et al, eds. New York: Continuum, 2003.
REF ML102.C7 S7 1997	Country music: the encyclopedia. Stambler, Irwin and Grelun Landon. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
REF ML102.C7 E54 1998	The encyclopedia of country music: the ultimate guide to the music. Kingsbury, Paul, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
REF ML102.O6 N5 1997	Encyclopedia of opera on screen: a guide to more than 100 years of opera films, videos, and DVDs. Wlaschin, Ken. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2004.
REF ML102.P66 G84 1998	The encyclopedia of popular music. Larkin, Colin, ed. New York: Muze, 1998.
REF ML102.R27 B96 2006	Encyclopedia of rap and hip hop culture. Bynoe, Yvonne. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
REF ML102.B6 H413 1997	Encyclopedia of the blues.  Gerard Herzhaft. Fayetteville, AR : University of Arkansas Press, 1997.
REF ML102.P66 J44 2003	Encyclopedia of world pop music, 1980-2001. Jeffries, Stan.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
REF ML102.F66 S74 2001	Folk and blues: the encyclopedia. Stambler, Irwin and Lyndon Stambler. New York: St. Martin's, 2001.
REF ML102.J3 J46 2004	Free jazz and free improvisation: an encyclopedia. Jenkins, Todd S. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
REF ML100 .G16 1998	The Garland encyclopedia of world music. James Porter and Timothy Rice, eds. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
REF ML 105 .C7 1987	International encyclopedia of women composers. Cohen, Aaron I. New York: Books & Music USA, 1987.
REF ML100 .M92	Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart; allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Musik. Unter Mitarbeit zahlreicher Musikforscher des In- und Auslandes, hrsg. von Friedrich Blume. Kassel, Germany: Barenreiter-Verlag, 1949-1986.
REF ML102.R6 R64 2001	The Rolling stone encyclopedia of rock & roll. George-Warren, Holly and Patricia Romanowski, eds. New York: Fireside, c2001.
REF ML102.P66 H57 2002	The Tin Pan Alley song encyclopedia. Hischak, Thomas S. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
REF ML102.G6 C37 2005	Uncloudy days: the gospel music encyclopedia. Carpenter, Bil. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books, c2005.
REF ML3506 .V57 2004	The Virgin encyclopedia of jazz. Larkin, Colin, ed. London: Virgin in association with Muze UK Ltd., 2004.
REF ML102.P66 V57 2002	The Virgin encyclopedia of popular music. Larkin, Colin, ed. London: Virgin in association with Muze UK, 2002.
REF ML82.W625 2002	Women and music in America since 1900: an encyclopedia.  Burns, Kristine H., ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

HANDBOOKS & MANUALS

REF ML156.9 .A39 2002	All music guide to rock: the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul Bogdanov, Vladimir, Chris Woodstra, & Stephen Thomas Erlewine, eds. San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books, c2002.
REF ML156.4.B6 B6 1989	The Blackwell guide to blues records.  Oliver, Paul, ed. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Reference, 1989.
REF ML156.4.J3 B66 1995	The Blackwell guide to recorded jazz. Kernfeld, Barry, ed. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.
REF ML161 .H227 2002	Chronology of Western classical music. Hall, Charles J. New York: Routledge, 2002.
REF ML55 .C74 1992	Companion to contemporary musical thought. Paynter, John, et al., eds. New York: Routledge, 1992.
REF ML 102 O6 N5 1997	The New grove book of operas. Sadie, Stanley, ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
REF ML102.I5 B34 1992	The Oxford companion to musical instruments. Baines, Anthony. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
REF ML102.P66 G35 1991	The Oxford companion to popular music. Gammond, Peter. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
REF MT95 .M253 1999	Twentieth century opera: a guide. Martin, George Whitney. New York: Limelight Editions, 1999.
REF ML102.O6 B68 1998	Who's who in opera: a guide to opera characters. Bourne, Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

ML 113 .M8825 1999	Music in print master composer index. Philadelphia: Musicdata, 1999.
ML 113 .M8827 1999	Music in print master title index. Philadelphia: Musicdata, 1999.
REF ML120.U5 S5	Popular music; an annotated index of American popular songs. Shapiro, Nat, ed. New York: Adrian Press, 1964-2002.
REF ML113 .I6	RISM: International inventory of musical sources. Munich, Germany: G. Henle, 1960- .

SELECTED ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
The following are just a sampling of the many electronic music journal titles available
 

Electronic Journal Name	Vendor/Publisher	Years Covered
American Music	JSTOR	1983-3 years ago
Asian Music	Project Muse	2005-present
Black Music Research Journal	JSTOR	1980-4 years ago
Computer Music Journal	Project Muse	2001-present
Contemporary Music Review	Taylor & Francis	1984-present
Early Music	Oxford Journals	1996-present
Ethnomusicology	JSTOR	1953-5 years ago
International Journal of Music Education	SAGE Education	2004-present
Journal of Musicology	JSTOR	1982-4 years ago
Journal of Music Theory	JSTOR	1957-5 years ago
Journal of Popular Music Studies	Blackwell	1997-present
Journal of Research in Music Education	JSTOR	1953-1 year ago
Latin American Music Review	Project Muse	2001-present
Music and Letters	Oxford Journals	1996-present
Music Educators Journal	JSTOR	1934-1 year ago
Opera Quarterly	Oxford Journals	1996-present
Philosophy of Music Education Review	Project Muse	2003-present
Plainsong and Medieval Music	Cambridge Journals	2000-present
Popular Music	Cambridge Journals	2000-present
Popular Music and Society	Taylor & Francis	2003-present
Psychology of Music	SAGE Psychology	1973-present
Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture	Project Muse	2004-present

 

SELECTED WEB SITES

	allmusic.com
	American Music Center
	The American Musical Instrument Society
	American Musicological Association
	Bach Bibliography
	CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
	Center for Black Music Research
	Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
	The Conductors Guild
	Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
	DW3 Classical Music Resources
	Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
	Historic American Sheet Music Project
	Instrument Encyclopedia
	International Database of Choral Repertoire
	Internet Resources for Music Scholars
	Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
	MENC: The National Association for Music Education
	Music School Address Book
	Music Teachers National Association
	Operabase
	The Red Hot Jazz Archive
	Worldwide Internet Music Resources

 

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