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Music History & Literature
If your topic is brand-new to you, you might consider starting with one of the sources listed under Background Information to get basic facts, information, and an overall picture of your topic. Background sources may also list titles of individual books and articles written on your topic, as well as provide works lists for composers.
Also, do not overlook the usefulness of album covers or CD inserts for locating background information.
Background Information
The Classical Music Pages
Free Website: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (8 volumes)
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102.P66 G84
Music History 102: a Guide to Western Composers and their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present
Free Website: http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
From the Internet Public Library, this website is organized by eras in history.
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (4 volumes)
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML101 .U6N48 1986
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2 volumes)
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102 .J3N48 1988
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (UTSA subscription)
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML100 .N48 2001
Location: Downtown Library, Reference ML100 .N48 (1980)
The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102 .I5N48 1984
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102.O6 N5 1992
The New Oxford Companion to Music
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML100 .S375 1983
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Books
Books and Materials at the UTSA Library
UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
Search UCAT to locate books, journal titles (not articles), government documents, maps and multimedia materials available at the UTSA Library. Read the Search Tips to learn how to conduct a better search.
UCAT Basic Searches
| Find Items By |
Search Examples |
| find items by expert keyword |
"rock and roll" and history |
find items by author
(musician or composer) |
bach johann sebastian |
| find items by LC Subject Heading |
rock music--united states |
| find items by book or journal title |
journal of music teacher education |
Tips for using UCAT to locate music recordings and scores:
- Select either the Basic Search: Expert Keyword or Guided Keyword search.
- Click on Set Limits and then select from following options:
- Item Type: Music Score or Musical Recording
- Medium: Sound Recording
("Sound Recording" is much broader in scope than "Musical Recording"
--you may wish to select both in order to maximize your search results.)
- Location: JPL Multimedia Center
- After making your selection, click on Set Limits, which will return you to the search screen.
Books and Materials Elsewhere
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Databases & Article Searching
- Some databases provide full-text or full-image of articles.
- Some databases provide citations or abstracts only.
If you find articles in a citation-only database, search UCAT to see if the library owns or subscribes to the journal you need.
If the UTSA Library does not subscribe to the journal you need, either in print or an online format:
CAIRSS for Music
Free Website: http://ucairss.utsa.edu/
CAIRSS (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval System) for Music is a bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. CAIRSS contains citations to every article published in 18 primary journals, as well as citations from selected articles from more than one thousand additional journals. The database is a joint venture between faculty and staff at UTSA and SMU. Updated regularly. Citations Only
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) via Chadwyck-Healey (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/image access to 88 international, music-related journals, including both scholarly and popular titles. Indexes and abstracts an additional 300+ journals. Coverage is provided for various types of music: classical, popular, jazz, folk music, and others. Comprehensive treatment is provided for various music disciplines, such as musicology, theory, music education, ethnomusicology, and performance. Emphasis is on English-language material, but nearly twenty percent of citations are for non-English-language articles. The most thorough indexing (with abstracts) is for the period since 1996; less thorough indexing (without abstracts) extends back as far as 1874. Updated Monthly. Full Text/Full Image
The Music Index
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML118 .M84
Indexes articles from more than 500 music periodicals; includes book reviews and concert reviews. Coverage: 1949-current. Citations Only
Periodical Literature on American Music, 1620-1920 : a classified bibliography with annotations
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML120.U5 W18 1988
RILM (UTSA subscription)
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML1 .I83
Citations to items covering all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. Includes concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest. Coverage: Print 1967-1988, Online 1969-current. Updated quarterly. Citations Only
The Rolling Stone index : five more years of popular culture, 1992-1996
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML1 .R65 1992-96
The Rolling Stone Index: twenty-five years of popular culture, 1967-1991
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML1 .R65 1967-91
The following resources may also be useful for music research....
ERIC (via EBSCO) (UTSA subscription)
Provides citations and brief abstracts to a wide range of education related literature including journals, conference proceedings, books, federal and state documents, bibliographies, directories, curriculum guides, instructional resources, and audiovisual media, from 1966 to the present. Full Text
JSTOR (UTSA subscription)
Provides full image access to a comprehensive archive of nearly 800 scholarly journals, over 200 of which have complete backfiles, including many music jouranls. Nearly 40 subject areas are represented in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. New subjects and titles are added regularly. Links to the most recent issues of some journals are available through Project MUSE. Full image
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Provides citations and full-image access to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities. Abstracts are provided for dissertations beginning in 1980 and for master's theses beginning in 1988. Full-image PDFs are available for most titles published since 1997 and a limited number of titles previous to 1997. Coverage is from 1861 to the present. Print equivalent is Dissertation Abstracts. Citations Only
PsycINFO (via CSA) (UTSA subscription)
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Contains over two million citations and summaries of articles from journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. Includes links to full-text articles available from ProQuest Psychology Journals and PsycArticles. Citations Only
Web of Science (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 8,400 journals from 1989 to the present in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Citations Only
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Words & Phrases
A Dictionary of Musical Quotations
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML66 .C86 1985
A Dictionary of Musical Terms
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML108 .B165 1970
The Language of Twentieth Century Music : a Dictionary of Terms
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML100 .F55
The Oxford Companion to Popular Music
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102.P66 G35 1991
The Oxford Dictionary of Music
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML100 .K35 2004
Harvard Dictionary of Music
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML100 .A64 2003
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Biographies & Directories
Many of the resource listed under Background Information also contain biographies of composers and musicians.
AMS: American Musicological Society
Free Website: http://www.ams-net.org/
"The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship."
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML105 .B16 2001
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102 .P66 B35 2004
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML105 .S612 1997
also available througn netLibrary
Billboard Guide to Tejano and Regional Mexican Music
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102 .T45 B87 1999
Location: Downtown Library, Reference ML102 .T45 B87 1999
Blues Who's Who : a biographical dictionary of Blues singers
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML102 .B6H3
Contemporary Composers
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML105 .C75 1992
International Dictionary of Black Composers
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML105 .I5 1999
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML105 .C7 1987
Musical America : International Directory of the Performing Arts
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML12 .M88 (current)
The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML105 .N38 1995
The Society for American Music
Free Website: http://www.american-music.org/
Formerly known as the Sonneck Society, The Society for American Music is a "non-profit scholarly and educational organization, seeks to stimulate the appreciation, performance, creation, and study of American music in all its historical and contemporary styles and contexts."
Texas Music Industry Directory: a reference book for the Texas music industry
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML14 .T3 T55
See also: UTSA Library subject guide for Biographical Resources
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Almanacs & Rankings
Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML156.4 .P6 W44 2000
Billboard.com
Free Website: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/index.jsp
Review the charts, keep current with news, locate touring shows, and more!
The Book of Classical Music Lists
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML63 .K88 1985
Guinness Book of Music
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML160 .D27 1981
Rock Record : a Collectors' Directory of Rock Albums and Musicians
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML156.4 .R6H68 1987
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Themes & Song Titles
A dictionary of musical themes
Location: JPL Stacks ML128 .I65B3
A dictionary of opera and song themes, including cantatas, oratorios, lieder, and art songs
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML128 .V7B3 1950a
Great Song Thesaurus
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML128 .S3L4 1984
Popular Song Index
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML128 .S3H4
Song Finder : a title index to 32,000 popular songs in collections, 1854-1992
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML128.S3 F47 1995
Song Index; an index to more than 12,000 songs in 177 song collections
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML128 .S3S31 1966
Symphony Themes
Location: JPL Reference Stacks MT125 .B87S9
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Music Guides & Further Research
Early American Sheet Music, its lure and its lore, 1768-1889
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML112 .D53
Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and monuments of music : a guide to their contents
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML113 .H52 1980
Music Reference and Research Materials : an annotated bibliography
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML113 .D83 1997
Schwann Opus
Location: JPL Reference Stacks ML156.2 .O67
Sheet Music Collections
Free Website: http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html
Links to sheet music collections online. Compiled at Duke Music Library Association.
World War I Sheet Music
Free Website: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/ww1/index.html
Access to hundreds of examples of sheet music about World War I.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Free Website: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
From William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music.
Yahoo!: Entertainment : Music
Free Website: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/
Yahoo! web directory listing of internet music resources.
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