Online Reference Works
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
- Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- Oxford History of Western MusicA survey of the traditions of western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, this book illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.
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Scores
- Classical Scores LibraryPlease login to libraries.ou.edu to access this collection.
Includes classical scores and manuscripts. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. - Digital Scores and Libretti from Harvard UniversityHundreds of digital scores and libretti from the Harvard Library collections, including first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.
- Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized VersionThe digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna. The printed edition has been published by Bärenreiter-Verlag (www.mozart-portal.de and www.baerenreiter.com). Some restrictions apply to the reproduction of images of source materials, particularly in the supplement to the edition.
- Schumann AutographsBonn University Library holds an extensive collection of music autographs and letters from Clara and Robert Schumann. The Schumann autographs are freely accessible, the use is free of charge.
- Sibley Digital Scores from the Eastman School of MusicOver 18,000 public domain scores digitized with the support of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Performances
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- Dance in VideoProvides access to streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
- Opera in VideoProvides access to streaming videos of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Please use Internet Explorer or Safari if you wish to view subtitles.
- Naxos Music LibraryOffers streaming access to over 70,000 classical music CDs and over one million tracks, both standard and rare repertoire. The Libraries is trialing Naxos through August 2013.
- Creating a Student Playlist Account Naxos Music Library
- Building Playlists in the Naxos Music Library
Copyright Information
- Frequently Asked QuestionsAn overview of copyright laws as they apply to music. Published by the Music Library Associaiton
- Public Domain and Creative Commons WorksA discussion of the basics of locating public domain and creative commons works for research and creative activity.
Reference Books
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. ML 105 .B16 2001
Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed. ML 102 .P66 G84 2006
Harvard Dictionary of Music. ML 100 .H37 2003
New Grove Dictionary of American Music. ML 101 .U6 N48 1986
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. ML 102 .J3 N48 2002
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. ML 100 .N48 2001
New Grove Dictionary of Opera. ML 102 .O6 N5 1992
Databases
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- Academic Search PremierMultidisciplinary database covering social sciences, humanities, education, physical and life sciences, and ethnic studies.
- Dissertation AbstractsIndexes U.S. doctoral dissertations completed at accredited institutions since 1861 (abstracts since 1980) and dissertations and theses, most with abstracts, from the U.K. and Ireland since 1716; includes some dissertations from Canada, and Europe, as well as some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. All OU Dissertations are full text; all dissertations 1997 to present are full text.
- JSTORProvides access to materials in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, Statistics. It is a digitized archive of the backfiles of selected scholarly journals. Full text available.
- Music IndexInternational index covering international music periodicals with a broad range of subject matter. Materials indexed include historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data, reviews, tapes and performances.
- RILM Abstracts (1969 - present)International index to vocal and instrumental music materials, including articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, reviews and videos.
- RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950)Provides access to international coverage of the music periodical literature published from the late 18th- to mid-20th-centuries in Europe and the United States.
- WorldCatAn international, multi-disciplinary catalog of books, Internet resources, audio visual materials, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings and other materials held by over 20,000 OCLC libraries. It contains materials representing 400 languages.
Online Journals
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- 19th-Century MusicFull text available from JSTOR Current Collection: 2001 - to present.
- American MusicFull text available from Project Muse - Standard Collection: 2009 - to present.
- Early MusicFull text available from Oxford University Press: 1/1/1996 - to present
- Journal of Popular Music StudiesFull text available from Wiley Online Library Full Collection 2011: 1/1/1997 - to present
- Journal of Music TheoryFull text available from e-Duke Journals Scholarly Expanded Collection: 1/1/2000 - to present
- Journal of Seventeenth-century MusicFull text available from DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals: 1995 - to present
- Journal of the American Musicological SocietyFull text available from JSTOR Current Collection: 2001 - to present.
- Journal of the Royal Musical AssociationFull text available from Taylor & Francis: 1/1/1997 - to present.
- Music & LettersFull text available from Oxford University Press: 1/1/1996 - to present.
E-books
Our e-book collection is constantly growing. What is listed below is intended only as a sample of the types of material available. Please login to libraries.ou.edu to access E-books.
- Absolute music and the construction of meaning. Daniel Chua
- Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra. David Cooper
- Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-century Music. David Kopp
- In Search of the Blues. Marybeth Hamilton
- Modal Subjectivities: Self-fashioning in the Italian Madrigal. Susan McClary
- Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu. Victoria Johnson
- Schoenberg's Musical Imagination. Michael Cherlin
- Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance. Knud Jeppesen
Finding Dissertation Proposals
To help students locate proposals approved of the members of their committee, the names of committee members are included in the notes field of the catalog record. By selecting, "Fine Arts Library" and searching the faculty member’s name and the word “proposal” you’ll get a list of all the proposals they’ve participated in. For example, searching “Wagner proposal” generates the following list of projects Dr. Wagner has approved of.
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