Subject guide: music

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Find articles

• JSTOR
  Includes the full text of 32 journals dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music.
• Academic Search Premier
  Access to over 8,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines covering all academic subjects. Full-text for about 4,700 titles is available.
• Research Library
  Access to over 2,600 journals, magazines, and newspapers covering all academic subjects. Full-text for over 1,700 journals is available.

Off-campus access to these databases is easy. When prompted, sign in with your SMU network/email user name and password. For problems, call 360.486.8803 or email us.

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Find books

• Use the O'Grady Library catalog to find books.
• Use Summit to find books that the O'Grady Library doesn't own.
• Use ILLiad to request books that neither O'Grady Library or Summit owns.

Browse the O'Grady bookshelves online or for a more detailed overview, see the Indiana University School of Music guide.

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Find printed scores

O’Grady Library has a very small collection of scores and sound recordings. You may use Summit to borrow materials from music libraries at other universities. The following sites will help you find scores and sound recordings in O’Grady, Summit and other libraries:

• San Francisco Conservatory of Music Library Subject Guides
• Sibley Music Library Guitar Guide
• University of Michigan Library Guide to Piano Resources
• University of Oregon Vocal Music Resource Guide

Find digital scores

• Chopin Early Editions
• Choral Public Domain Library
• Digital Mozart Edition
• MuseData: An Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores
• Sheet Music Consortium
• University of Michigan Music Library Score Collection

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Websites

• Classical Music Library
  A searchable database of classical music recordings from forty labels, including EMI, Sanctuary Classics, Hyperion, and the CBC. It includes tens of thousands of online recordings.
• Classical Net
  Contains repertoire guides, information on composers, reviews of sound and video recordings, and buying guides.
• CyberBass
  Free downloadable MIDI files of major choral works; sound files for each work include the work as a whole and individual vocal parts.
• Music Publishers' Association
  Provides a step-by-step guide to researching the copyright holder or publisher of a piece of music. Also provides links to guides on copyright issues.

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Reference

Except for the Oxford Companion to Music, the following titles are located in Reference on the 1st floor of O'Grady Library.

• Find New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• Find Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions
• Find Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography
• The Oxford Companion to Music