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COURSE RELATED RESEARCH
INSTRUCTION
Course Name: MUS485A -- Senior Seminar
Course
Instructor: Professor Dan Gordon
Session
Librarian: Tim Hartnett
Session Date: February 8, 2006
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
(Subject-specific encyclopedias)
Find subject encyclopedias
in the Reference Room of Feinberg Library by using the Advanced Search
mode of the Library Catalog by title, subject, or keyword using terms
such as "encyclopedia" and "music*", "classical", or "jazz*" and Limit
by collection to "Reference Coll." Most are shelved in the
ML80-ML120 Library of Congress Classification ranges. The most
comprehensive and scholarly of all music encyclopedias is
The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (29 volumes) -- Ref. ML100 .N48 2001
BOOKS
Within Feinberg Library: Feinberg
Library Catalog
Beyond Feinberg Library: WorldCat
(about)
Search Tips:
a. start with specific word or phrase (e.g. Johann Sebastian
Bach)
b. broaden to topic as necessary (e.g. Baroque composers)
PERIODICAL ARTICLES ONLINE
GENERAL:
EBSCO
MasterFILE Select (choose EBSCOhost Web
followed by MasterFILE Select)
Full-text for 765 periodicals covering many subjects including
general reference, business, and health.
InfoTrac
OneFile
Indexes a wide variety of periodicals. Full-text of many articles
available.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive -- Complete archives of 411
core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences
(list of music journals
included)
Project MUSE -- "...online access to over 300 high quality
humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly
publishers."
(list of music
journals included)
ProQuest
Periodical Abstracts Research II
Search Periodical Abstracts II for information from over 1800 newspapers
and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business,
humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.
Wilson
Omnifile Full Text Select
Full-text access to hundreds of magazines and journals. Covers from 1994
to present.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC:
Arts & Humanities Citation Index -- Indexes bibliographies in arts
and humanities journals.
NAXOS Music Library -- "...the most comprehensive collection of
classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and
Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000 tracks, including Classical
music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening,
you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical
information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database."
The following links provide menus of
the many other databases available through Feinberg Library's database
menus.
Alphabetical
Database Menu ( by Database Name)
Subject Database
Menu (by Database Scope)
Full-text
Menu (Databases that include the full-text of articles)
SELECTED WEB SITES
The Classical Music Pages --
"This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical
music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits
and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a
dictionary of musical terminologies."
WEB DIRECTORIES & SEARCH ENGINES
Google --
"Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, is the first
of its kind and represents the most comprehensive collection of the most
useful web pages on the Internet." TIP: Use the
Advanced
Search and/or Google Scholar (under
the More >> link)
options.
Vivisimo
-- "automatically organizes search or database query results into
meaningful hierarchical folders completely on-the-fly,
out-of-the-box."
This page was prepared by librarian Tim
Hartnett and last updated on
02/07/2006. |
