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Music Subject Guide Databases and Journal Indexes The following databases are only available to faculty, staff, and students of Charleston Southern University: Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)  A general, multi-disciplinary database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals EBSCO eBook Collection A collection of over 21,000 electronic books available in full text online. These titles may be searched in the library's catalog or directly in the EBSCO database. Formerly known as NetLibrary, titles in this collection cover all subject areas. Education Full Text Indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Subjects include, but are not limited to: Adult Education, Computers in Education, Continuing Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Literacy Standards, Parent-Teacher Relations, Preschool Education, Religious Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, Teacher Education, and Teaching Methods. Expanded Academic (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals. General OneFile (InfoTrac) A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines ranging from architecture to biology and history to mathematics. Grove Music Online This compendium of music scholarship offers the full texts of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It includes 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world on all aspects of music. Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford Music Online, which also includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. IPA Source An online collection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias, art songs, and Latin sacred texts. Searchable by composer, poet, or title, these phonetic transcripts and translations can be downloaded in pdf files using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Naxos Music Library Always remember to click the red LOGOUT button at the top of the NML screen when you are finished using Naxos Music Library to ensure that you clear your connection. Closing the browser or going to another site without clicking the log-out button will keep your user space occupied and can sometimes prevent you or other users from logging in since this subscription allows only 5 users to be logged in at one time. NML is an online classical music library offering streaming access to more than 17,000 CDs with more than 250,000 tracks. On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month. Additionally, it provides playing times of individual works or movements, detailed music notes, and opera libretti. NML can be searched by composer, work and label, by keyword search, and by a sophisticated advanced search. Naxos Music Library Jazz Always remember to click the red LOGOUT button at the top of the NML screen when you are finished using Naxos Music Library to ensure that you clear your connection. Closing the browser or going to another site without clicking the log-out button will keep your user space occupied and can sometimes prevent you or other users from logging in since this subscription allows only 5 users to be logged in at one time. NML-Jazz is an online collection of Jazz music offering streaming access to 22,600 tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums from 500 jazz artists, with new jazz releases continually added. NML-Jazz can be searched by featured artist(s), disc/song title and catalogue number. Oxford Companion to Music This fulltext resource includes articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles. Including jazz, popular music, and dance, the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Oxford Companion to Music is now part of Oxford Music Online, which also includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music and Grove Music Online. Oxford Dictionary of Music This fulltext resource includes entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, individual works including operas and ballets, musical styles, and much more. Oxford Dictionary of Music is now part of Oxford Music Online, which also includes the Oxford Companion to Music and Grove Music Online. Oxford Journals Online Provides abstract and full text access to journals published by Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered in Oxford Journals are the humanities, law, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, medicine, and social sciences. Oxford Music Online This fulltext resource offers users the ability to access and cross-search the resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. It includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford Reference Online Premium Combines language and subject reference works together to form a large reference library. It contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works. The section for "Performing Arts" is found under Subjects & Books. Print Sources Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Ref. ML 105 .B16) Chronology of American Musical Theater (Ref. ML 1711.8 .N3 N67 2002 v. 1-3 Dictionary of Musical Quotations (Ref. ML 66 .C86 1989) Dictionary of Western Church Music (Ref. ML 102 .C5 P77 1991) Flowers in the dustbin: the rise of rock and roll, 1947-1977 (ML 3534 .M55 1999) Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Ref. ML 100 .G16 1998 v. 1-9) Music Index (Ref. ML 118 .M84 1968-1989 Index Storage) New Grove Dictionary of American Music (Ref. ML 101 .U6 N48 1986 v. 1-4) New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (Ref ML 102 .J3 N48 1988 v. 1-2) New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Ref ML 100 .N48 v.1-20) New Grove Dictionary of Opera (Ref. ML 102 .O6 N5 1998 v. 1-4) Oxford Companion to Jazz (Ref. ML 3507 .O94 2000) Popular Song Index (Ref. ML 128 .S3 H4 Vols. + Supplements) Rolling Stone illustrated history of rock & roll (Ref. ML 3534 .R64 1980) Song index: an index to more than 12,000 songs in 177 song collections comprising 262 volumes and supplement (Ref. ML128 .S3 S31 1966) Internet Resources All-Music Guide
Classical Net
The Cyber Hymnal
8 Notes
Essentials of Music
Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music
The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
Music Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
Music on the Internet (refdesk.com) Music Selection Resources on the WWW Operabase
Public Domain Music
Red Hot Jazz Archive
Journals and Magazines The following journals are available in the CSU library: American Choral Review American Music Teacher American Organist Bulletin - Council for Research in Music Education Church Musician Church Musician Today Clavier Diapason Hymn Instrumentalist Journal of Music Theory Journal of Music Therapy Journal of Research in Music Education Journal of Singing Journal of the American Musicological Society Keyboard Music Educators Journal Music Therapy Perspectives Musical Quarterly Notes - Music Library Association Opera News Perspectives of New Music Popular Music & Society Psychology of Music South Carolina Musician Stereo Reviews Sound & Vision Teaching Music Tempo Voice of Chorus America Find a list of e-journals in music available at CSU |
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