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Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online allows you search across the following reference resources:
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 50,000 topical articles and 30,000 biographies from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002), The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (8 vols., 2013), and The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition (5 vols., 2014). Included with Oxford Music Online.
- The Oxford Dictionary of MusicIncludes 12,500 entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics.
- The Oxford Companion to MusicIncludes 8000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres; from the study of music — theory, aesthetics, scholarship — to the way it is performed and disseminated.
Other Music Reference
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)This encyclopedia's 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
- Sala de audiciónA part of WorldBook's Spanish-language resource Banco de Contenidos: aulaPlaneta, Sala de Audicíon (Audition Room) allows users to access to more than 600 audio excerpts of classical music and learn everything they need to know about composers from Beethoven to Vivaldi.
Music Journal Articles
RILM is our sole music-specific articles database. Below are the music subject sections of other general academic and general periodical databases.
- EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete -- Music articlesAcademic Search Complete includes scholarly journals and popular publications like Rolling Stone and Billboard. Use the search limits on the databases left-hand side to narrow down your results by publication, date, and more.
- EBSCOhost Humanities International Complete -- Music articlesThis humanities database includes academic journals on musicology and popular culture, as well as popular magazines like Downbeat and No Depression.
- EBSCOHost International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance -- Music articlesThis database focuses on the performing arts and includes articles from academic journals and popular titles like Variety and New York. Here you find more on opera, musical theater, and other forms of music performance.
Ebook Collections
Below are links to collections on music theory, history, and technology available via our various ebook platforms.
- Safari O'Reilly Technical Books -- Music & AudioIncludes books and instructional videos on sound recording, audio engineering, music production, and the music business. Includes unofficial guides to ProTools, GarageBand, and MIDI.
Practical Recording Techniques by
This hands-on, practical guide covers all aspects of recording, perfect for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this book gives advice on equipping a home studio (both low-budget and advanced), suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also instructs how to judge recordings and improve them to produce maximum results. New in the sixth edition: * Complete update of digital media material, including updated equipment and microphone descriptions * Digital performers and computer DAWs *Additional material regarding ProTools ability to let owners choose other interfaces with their software * More information on how the hook-ups in a studio work, with more advice on setting up a home project studio, and expansion of location recording material * Further information on things like Auto-tune and multiband limiting, a useful plug-in round up * Further information on workflow, addressing issues like file formats, uploading & downloading of songs and materials, and use of a computer as a recording device * Expansion on Internet issues * Updated home studio setup information, including the workflow with Windows 7 and Mac OSX * Expansion of technicalities of MIDI, including data structure and controller codes Companion website can be found at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/cw/bartlett-9780240821535/.
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780240821535Publication Date: 2012-08-06
Pioneers of Jazz by
Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the20th century. The band's vaudeville routines were deeply rooted in the minstrel shows and plantation cliches of American show business in the late 19th century, but its instrumental music was central to its performance and distinctive and entrancing to audiences and reviewers.Pioneers of Jazz reveals at long last the link between New Orleans music and the jazz phenomenon that swept America in the 1920s. While they were the first important band from New Orleans to attain national exposure, The Creole Band has not heretofore been recognized for its unique importance. Butin his monumental, careful research, jazz scholar Lawrence Gushee firmly establishes the group's central role in jazz history.Gushee traces the troupe's activities and quotes the reaction of critics and audiences to their first encounters with this new musical phenomenon. While audiences often expected (and got) a kind of minstrel show, the group transcended expectations, taking pride in their music and facing down thetheatrical establishment with courage. Although they played the West Coast and Canada, most of their touring centered in the heartland. Most towns of any size in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana heard them, often repeatedly, and virtually all of their appearances were received with wild enthusiasm. Afterfour years of nearly incessant traveling, members of the band founded or joined groups in Chicago's South Side cabaret scene, igniting the craze for hot New Orleans music for which the Windy City was renowned in the early 1920s. The best-known musicians in the group--cornetist Freddie Keppard,clarinetist Jimmy Noone and string bassist Bill Johnson--would play a significant role in jazz, becoming famous for recordings in the 1920s. Gushee effectively brings to life each member of the band and discusses their individual contributions, while analyzing the music with precision, skillful andexacting documentation. Including many never before published photos and interviews, the book also provides an invaluable and colorful look at show business, especially vaudeville, in the 1910s.While some of the first jazz historians were aware of the band's importance, attempts to locate and interview surviving members (three died before 1935) were sporadic and did little or nothing to correct the mostly erroneous accounts of the band's career. The jazz world has long known aboutGushee's original work on this previously neglected subject, and the book represents an important event in jazz scholarship. Pioneers of Jazz brilliantly places this group's unique importance into a broad cultural and historical context, and provides the crucial link between jazz's origins in NewOrleans and the beginning of its dissemination across the country.
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780195161311Publication Date: 2005-05-12
Don Giovanni by
Mozart's Don giovanni has been considered an extraordinary work of genius, and possibly the most perfect opera ever written: "the opera of all operas."
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9781930841765Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Contemporary Film Music by
The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic and musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that focus on a particular feature of the composer's approach or style. These chapters are written by a fellow composer, musicologist, or film academic who specializes in that element of the composer's output. In the interview portions of this book, six major film composers discuss their work from the early 1980s to the present day: Carter Burwell, Mychael Danna, Dario Marianelli, Rachel Portman, Zbigniew Preisner, and A.R. Rahman. The focus is on the practical considerations of film composition, the relationship each composer has with the moving image, narrative, technical considerations, personal motivations in composing, the relationships composers have with their directors, and their own creative processes. Contemporary Film Music also explores the contemporary influence of electronic music, issues surrounding the mixing of soundtracks, music theory, and the evolution of each composer's musical voice.
Call Number: Online ResourcesISBN: 9781137573759Publication Date: 2017-02-01
Tracing Tangueros by
Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100years ago, authors Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland trace tango's historical and stylistic musical trajectory in Argentina, beginning with the guardia nueva's crystallization of the genre in the 1920s, moving through tango's Golden Age (1932-1955), and culminating with the "Music of Buenos Aires"today. Through the transmission, discussion, examination, and analysis of primary sources currently unavailable outside of Argentina, including scores, manuals of style, archival audio/video recordings, and live video footage of performances and demonstrations, Link and Wendland frame and defineArgentine tango music as a distinct expression possessing its own musical legacy and characteristic musical elements.Beginning by establishing a broad framework of the tango art form, the book proceeds to move through twelve in-depth profiles of representative tangueros (tango musicians) within the genre's historical and stylistic trajectory. Through this focused examination of tangueros and their music, Link andWendland show how the dynamic Argentine tango grows from one tanguero linked to another, and how the composition techniques and performance practices of each generation are informed by that of the past.
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780199348220Publication Date: 2016-03-03
Ethnomusicology by
Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the foremost ethnomusicologists, Timothy Rice, offers a compact and illuminating account of this growing discipline, showing how modern researchers go about studying music from around the world, looking for insights into both music and humanity. The reader discovers that ethnomusicologists today not only examine traditional forms of music-such as Japanese gagaku, Bulgarian folk music, Javanese gamelan, or Native American drumming and singing-but also explore more contemporary musical forms, from rap and reggae to Tex-Mex, Serbian turbofolk, and even the piped-in music at the Mall of America. To investigate these diverse musical forms, Rice shows, ethnomusicologists typically live in a community, participate in and observe and record musical events, interview the musicians, their patrons, and the audience, and learn to sing, play, and dance. It's important to establish rapport with musicians and community members, and obtain the permission of those they will work with closely over the course of many months and years. We see how the researcher analyzes the data to understand how a particular musical tradition works, what is distinctive about it, and how it bears the personal, social, and cultural meanings attributed to it. Rice also discusses how researchers may apply theories from anthropology and other social sciences, to shed further light on the nature of music as a human behavior and cultural practice. About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780199794379Publication Date: 2013-12-27
Artist/Recording/Work Databases
- IPA Source This link opens in a new windowProvides access to hundreds of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
- AllMusicComprehensive and in-depth resource that allows searching by albums, bands, musicians and songs
- Choral Public Domain LibraryWiki of free scores for choral works in multiple languages.
- DiscogsUser-built database of sound recordings including popular and classical titles.
- International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music LibraryIndex of digitized public domain scores.
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