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LIS 598 Handout
Music Sources
Judy Tsou
Spring 2013 / with some updates by Helene Williams, Fall 2014
The easiest access to many of the UW-restricted online sources is via the Music
LibGuide: http://guides.lib.washington.edu/music
Article Indexes and Abstracts
RILM Abstracts (Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale)
Access via: Music LibGuide (Under “Articles” tab)
Coverage:
 From 1967 to present.
 Includes articles from scholarly journals, book reviews, dissertations, CD-ROMs,
online databases, sound recordings, films, essay volumes (including
Festschriften), and books.
 Abstracts for most articles (not the current year).
 Full text article link to all UW-subscribed databases.
Music Index.
Access via: Music LibGuide (Under “Articles” tab)
Coverage:
 1949 to 1972, print only. 1973-present, online.
 Abstracts of some articles
 Covers journal articles; no reviews, essay volumes, dissertations.
 Full text article link to all UW-subscribed databases.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Advisory editors, Bruno Nettl and Ruth M.
Stone; founding editors, James Porter and Timothy Rice. New York: Garland
Pub., 1998-2003.
- Print and online
- Online interface not very good
The Harvard Dictionary of Music. 5th edition. Edited by Don Michael Randel.
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Print only
- Good for short definitions of terms
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Musik. Edited
by Friedrich Blume; 2d edition edited by Ludwig Finscher. New York:
Barenreiter; Stuttgart: Metzler, c1994-2007.
- Two series, In German: Sachteil (subject) and Personnenteil (People)
- Sachteil: 9 volumes + register (index)
- Personnenteil: 17 volumes
- Issued over 13 years
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Good for German-related topics and people (competition with New Grove
below, but in German)
The New Grove Family:
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie; executive
editor, John Tyrrell. 2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001.
- Print and Online
- Online version is part of Oxford Music Online package; updated periodically.
Thus, it is much more up to date than the print.
- http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/. UW restricted
- Definitive English-language encyclopedia in music (despite its title)
- Signed articles by scholars in the field
- Good bibliography (arranged chronologically)
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Edited by Stanley Sadie; managing editor Christina
Bashford. London: Macmillan Press, 1992.
- Incorporated into Oxford Online
- Periodically updated
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and
Stanley Sadie; editorial coordinator, Susan Feder. London: Macmillan, 1986.
- New version in preparation; will be out this year. Editor is Charles Hiroshi
Garrett. I am a contributing editor.
- Rolling publication: some articles already in Oxford Online.
The New Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers. Edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian
Samuel. London: Macmillan; New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1994.
- Print only
- Some of the articles are in Oxford Music Online
The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Edited by Stanley Sadie. New
York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984.
- Print
- Incorporated into Oxford Music Online
Dictionaries for Nicknames or Popular Names:
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Berkowitz, Freda. Popular Titles and Subtitles of Musical Compositions. 2d ed.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975.
Pallay, Steven G. Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music. NY: Greenwood
Press, 1987.
Pallay, Steven G. Cross Index Title Guide to Opera and Operetta. NY:
Greenwood Press, 1989.
Directories
International Who’s Who in Music and Musicians’ Directory (vol. 1: Classical and Light
Classical; vol. 2, Popular Music). London, England : Europa Publications, 2008.
(annual, but latest at UW is 2008)
Thematic Catalogues
– Brook, Barry and Richard Viano. Thematic Catalogues in Music: An Annotated
Bibliography. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1997.
– Music Library Association. http://bcc.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCCHistorical/BCC2011/Thematic_Indexes.htm
– Designed for catalogers in making new authority records
– RISM web site will have a list very soon as well. http://opac.rism.info
Jazz
Davis, John S. Historical Dictionary of Jazz. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012.
- Terms, short biographies
Feather, Leonard, and Gitler, Ira. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford; New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Edited by Barry Kernfeld. 2nd ed. New York:
Grove/Macmillan, 2002. (3 volumes)
- Part of Oxford Music Online
Musical Theater
Bloom, Ken. American Song: The Complete Companion to Tin Pan Alley Songs. New
York : Schirmer Books, 2001.
- Arranged by musicals chronologically. Indexes, including by song titles. 4
volumes.
Blumenfeld, Robert. Blumenfeld’s Dictionary of Musical Theater: Opera, Operetta,
Musical Comedy. NY: Limelight Editions, 2010.
- Terms, biographies, show titles. Short entries.
Bordman, Gerald, and Richard Norton. American Musical Theater: A Chronology. 4th
ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ganzl, Kurt. The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater. New York: Schirmer Books,
1994.
Stewart, John. Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Co., 2006.
Suskin, Steven. Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway’s Major
Composers. Rev and Exp 4th ed. Oxford: OUP, 2010. Chronological
arrangement (composer, then shows).
Online sources:
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All musicals—Lyrics to musical numbers in musicals.
http://www.allmusicals.com/
– The Broadway Musicals http://www.thebroadwaymusicals.com
– The Broadway Musical Home – Composer, lyricists, cast, performances.
http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com
Other Popular Music
Bloom, Ken. Hollywood Song: The Complete Film & Musical Companion. New York:
Facts on File, 1995.
- Arranged by movie titles chronologically. Index of titles.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Compiled & edited by Colin Larkin. 5th ed. New
York: Muze: Oxford University Press, 2006. Also online:
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/book/omo_epm (UW restricted)
(HW note: get to this via the UW Music LibGuide, using the Reference Sources
tab, under “Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.”)
- People and bands/groups.
- Updates periodically
Encyclopedia of the Blues. Edited by Edward Komara.NY: Routledge, 2006.
- People, institutions, some terms.
Fuld, James. Book of World-Famous Music. 5th ed. New York: Dover Publications,
2000.
- About each song’s history, background. Information taken from first edition
of each song; Fuld owned all the songs in the book. His collection is now at
the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Theme Finders
– Barlow, Harold, and Sam Morgenstern. A Dictionary of Musical Themes. Rev. ed.
Introduction by John Erskine. NY: Crown Publishing, 1975.
o Main part: alphabetical by composer, then composition
o Index: Letter names of themes normalized to C major. E.g. CECGDEG
(Do Mi Do So Do Mi So Do) will lead you to “B918” which is
Beethoven’s 3rd symphony, 1st movement.
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Musipedia – Can input using keyboard; but not very accurate.
http://www.musipedia.org/
Themefinder – Best to input pitches. More accurate. http://www.themefinder.org/
Scores web sites
American Memory Project  Performing Arts, Music
– Based in Library of Congress; mostly popular sheet music.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Performing%20
Arts,%20Music
Classical Scores Library. Alexander Street Press. UW restricted
(HW note: best way to access is to go to the UW Music LibGuide, and under the “Find
Books and Scores Tab,” you’ll see a link to this resource. It’s part of the bigger Music
Online product.
- We only have “volume” 2
- It includes contemporary scores, some of them are by UW composers
- 18th-19th century symphonies
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library (International Music Score Library Project)
- Out of copyright music: Popular music and classical music (more useful).
- Entire pieces.
- http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Indiana University’s Variations Project
- Audio restricted to Indiana students and faculty; some samples of music
scores.
- http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/scores.html
Music Treasures Consortium.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html
- Music manuscripts and rare printed editions
- Project started last year, not many items yet
- Site based in Library of Congress
- Other members: Juilliard, Harvard, NYPL, Pierpont Morgan, British Library
were founders. UW, Princeton, Iowa, and others joined this year.
Sibley Music Library (Eastman School of Music, part of University of Rochester), Digital
Score Collection – Classical music only.
- Out of print music
- Not major works (aim is to digitize lesser known works that others haven’t
digitized).
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewInstitutionalCollection.action?collectionI
d=63
Local Indexes on UW Music Library Page (http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/)
– Popular Songs Index – http://db.lib.washington.edu/popsong/
– Song Translation Index – http://db.lib.washington.edu/songtrans/
– Aria and Song Index (in Collections) – http://db.lib.washington.edu/arias/
Streaming audio and video packages (UW subscriptions) (HW note: get to all of these
via the UW Libraries databases page or from the UW Music LibGuide)
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Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press) – audio.
Naxos Music Library – audio.
Opera in Video (ASP) – Not all have subtitles
If everything else fails, this is a good resource to see if there is a resource that will
help you:
Sampsel, Laurie J. Music Research: A Handbook. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013.
- A guide to research process and tools
- Annotated entries on encyclopedias and dictionaries, indexes, directories,
discographies, bibliographies, iconographies, and online contents.