MU227: Emotion & Meaning in Music
Finding Music-Related Sources in the Seay Library (music) and Tutt Library
General Resources
Use this resource to locate background information on specific types of music (search by the name of the composer if you know it, or by the genre of music). Contains good bibliographies and links to other Internet resources. Provides sources on classical music, ethnomusicology, opera, jazz, and much more…
The Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Randel (2003)
Ref. ML100 .H37 2003, Music Library;
ML100 .A64 2003 Tutt Library
A dictionary of music, with both brief and extensive explanation of terms. Some articles have bibliographies.
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, centennial edition, edited by Slonimsky (emeritus) and Kuhn. (2001).
Ref. ML 105 .B16 2001 v.1-6 Music Library and Tutt Library
Short bios of composers, some including short lists of works and writings, including entries for jazz and pop composers.
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Glossary, created by Virginia Tech Music Department/New Media Center.
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/
A multimedia dictionary of music with sound files and musical examples.
Use this resource to gather citations to international journal articles, book reviews, etc, with a broad coverage of music topics. It’s especially strong in the music education field.
TIGER and Prospector
Use this link to find books with scholarly information about the kind of music in which you are interested. Try “keyword” searches first (separated by the word “and” – e.g. “funk and music”) and then click on “Prospector” to automatically repeat your search in all the major libraries in Colorado. You can request these books directly and they will usually come in three or four days.
Albert Seay Library of Music and Art-Music Reference Pages
Use these pages to find print and electronic sources about specific music topics, including popular to classical musics, the business of music, women in music, etc.
Colorado College Tutt Library: Music Databases
Use this page to locate fulltext articles and references to print articles that may or may not be in Tutt Library. Specialized subject indexes like Arts and Humanities Index have many references to scholarly articles.
You can find articles from many scholarly periodicals-music, too! Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
Academic Search Premier or Periodical Abstracts
Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.
Specific Resources
A librarian’s choice of the best of the Web. Lots of annotated links to other sites.
A page of search engines and subject directories developed by Tutt Library Staff
Another useful source: Citation Styles Online
Evaluation of Web Sites
Evaluate Web Sites – prepared by Tutt librarians
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet – Another useful overview, created by a librarian at the Sheridan Libraries at John Hopkins Univeristy.