Welcome!
This guide provides an overview of tools and basic strategies to search for books, journals, articles, scores, recordings, and other music resources.
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Best Bets
Start your music research and exploration with these resources.
- Music OnlineThe most comprehensive collection of online music recordings, video and reference on the web. You can access recordings as streaming files or on your mobile devices! Gatewaty to: Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, American Song, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, Smithsonian Global Sound, Classical Score Library, African American Music Reference (full text) and more.
- Oxford Music OnlineFrom Bach to the blues, this online resource provides authoritative information of all aspects of music world wide, with over 50,000 articles, 28,000 biographies, timelines, advanced search and browse features. Includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
- Music IndexGuide to articles and literature about music, musicians and the music industry for more than 650 periodicals. Includes reviews and notes first performances and obituaries.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Citations and abstracts to the international music literature. Indexes many foreign-language journals. Includes citations to dissertations and essays in books. Focuses on academic research.
Citations
- VCU Libraries Citation Guide, APA StyleAPA Style citation guide.
- Son of Citation MachineEasy-to-use web form for generating citations.
- RefWorks @ VCUEntry point for RefWorks, online citation management software available free to VCU students, staff, faculty, and members of the VCU Alumni Association.
- RefWorks Workshop on BlackboardOpen; no login or enrollment required.
- Citing Music Sources in Your Essay and Bibliographyby Lisa Rae Philpott, Music Reference Librarian, Western Libraries, Ontario, Canada
Books on Music Research
- Irvine's writing about music - Irvine, Demar
Call Number: Internet Resources ML3797.I79 1999ebISBN: 0585314489 - Writing about music: an introductory guide - Wingrell, Richard J.
Call Number: ML3797 .W54 2009ISBN: 0136157785 - Music library and research skills - Gottlieb, Jane
Call Number: Cabell Library ML3787 .G68 2009ISBN: 0131584340 - Sourcebook for research in music - Crabtree, Phillip
Call Number: ML113 .C68 2005ISBN: 0253346118Available as an e-book or from the book collection! - Music in words : a guide to researching and writing about music - Herbert, Trevor
Call Number: Cabell Library ML3797 .H537 2009ISBN: 0195373723
Media & Reserves Librarian |
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Newest Books on Music
See the New Titles link from the VCU Libraries Home Page or the VCU Libraries Catalog for new music material added within the last 3 months, including RSS feed options.
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