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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 - 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: – – – 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: – 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. – – 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) – – – 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.