Subject guide: music

articles | books | scores | websites | reference

Find articles

• JSTOR
  Contains the articles from over 80 scholarly journals 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, scores, & sound recordings

• Use the O'Grady Library catalog to find books in our collection, in Summit, & beyond.
• Use ILLiad to request books that neither O'Grady Library or Summit owns.

 

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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

Browse the bookshelves without coming into the library with a call number search.

M	Music scores
M4-1480	Instrumental music
M20-39.6	Piano music
M125-129	Guitar music
M145-175.5	Percussion
M1495-2199	Vocal music
ML	Music history, libretti
MT	Music instruction, theory, composition

For a more detailed overview, see the Indiana University School of Music guide on the subject.

Find digital scores

• International Music Score Library Project/Petrucci Music Library
• Harvard University Digital Scores List
• Free Sheet Music Resource List
• Chopin Early Editions
• Choral Public Domain Library
• Chrysander Edition of Handel's Complete Works
• Digital Mozart Edition (in German)
• MuseData: An Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores
• University of Michigan Music Library Score Collection

 

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Reference

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

• New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (REF ML100 .N48 2001)
  The standard & most highly respected encyclopedia for the field of music.
• Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions (REF ML113 .C59 1996)
  Exhaustive list of the works of 132 major composers
• Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography. 5th Ed. (REF ML113 .D83 1997)
• The Oxford Companion to Music
• Bach Bibliography

Websites

• Naxos Music Library (SMU-affiliated individuals only)
  Streaming music from the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogs plus selected titles from other labels. Covers the classical music repertoire plus jazz, world and folk music. Limited to five (5) simultaneous users.
• Classical Music Library (SMU-affiliated individuals only)
  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. Limited to three (3) simultaneous users.
• 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 Copyright Resource Center
  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.