Class Help Page: Music 319, Spring 2008


Finding Articles [off campus access] [tips]

Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Grove) [more info]

International Index to Music Periodicals: IIMP [more info]

Naxos Music Library (requires pop-ups to be enabled) [more info]

Project Muse Full-text access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers [more...]

Academic Search Premier A great database for articles on just about any subject [more...]

JSTOR (Journal Storage) Full-text online database providing access to scholarly journal articles more than five years old [more...]

Already have a journal title? Use JournaLocator to determine if VU has a subscription.

Finding Books [off campus access] [tips]

GALILEO - VU Libraries Catalog Searches in GALILEO will display what resources VU owns in those areas. [more...]

WorldCat resources available for loan from other libraries worldwide [more...]

Recommended Reference Resources [off campus access] [tips]

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Ref. ML 100 .N48 2001 (also online)
New Grove Dictionary of American Music Ref. ML 101 .U6 N48 1986

Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed. Ref. ML 100 .A64 2003
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Classical Music Ref. ML 100 .R29 1997

Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning Ref. MT 1 .H138 1992
Music Reference and Research Materials, 5th ed. (Duckles/Reed) Ref. ML 113 .D83 1997
Sourcebook for Research in Music, 2nd ed. (Crabtree/Foster) Ref. ML 113 .C68 2005

Recommended Internet Resources [tips]

Selected Web Links: Music http://www.valpo.edu/library/www/mus.html

Doctoral Dissertations in Music: Online http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/

Worldwide Music Internet Resources (Indiana University) (see categories: "Composers & Composition" and "Genres & Types of Music") http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

Music Theory Online (journal; includes an index of Music Theory Dissertations) http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/

Selected Web Links--Music (UC Berkeley) http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MUSI/guides.html#links

Final Writing and Presentation

Writing About Music: A Style Sheet from the Editors of 19th Century Music Ref. ML 63 .W68 1988

Chicago manual of style, 15th ed. Reference, Reserve, Stacks Z 253 .U69 2003

Citing Resources: Chicago style: http://www.valpo.edu/library/citing.html#turabian

VU Writing Center: http://www.valpo.edu/writingcenter/

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