Abstracts, Indexes, and Research Databases

Academic/Scholarly Indexes and Databases

			African American Music
			American Song
			Classical Music Library
			Contemporary World Music
			Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
			Grove Music Online (3 concurrent users only.)
			RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
			International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (4 concurrent users only.)
			Music Index Online
			International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (4 concurrent users only.)

General Databases

			Academic Search Complete
			America: History and Life
			ArticleFirst
			Biography and Genealogy Master Index
			EBSCOhost
			FirstSearch
			JSTOR
			LexisNexis Academic Universe
			Statistical Universe
			WorldCat

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Books

The Library Catalog (LIBROS) provides location information for books, journals, maps, microforms, sound recordings, videos, and similar items owned by the UNM Libraries and other New Mexico member institutions. Materials that are not located in the Library Catalog (LIBROS) can be requested through InterLibrary Loan.

Call Numbers

A Guide to Music Classification Numbers

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General Reference Sources

Handbooks and Manuals

• Citing music sources in your essay and bibliography
• Using Music Uniform Titles

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Journals

Search Journal One Search for holdings. Years of coverage vary per title. Copies of articles in titles that the UL does not own can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. Due to the April 30, 2006 fire in Zimmerman Library, print journals previously located there are currently unavailable. All the surviving periodicals and microforms were shipped out of state for cleaning and further assessment. An opening date for the heavily damaged basement level has not yet been determined. None of the journals or microforms sent for cleaning and restoration will be returned until the basement can be re-opened. Please use Interlibrary Loan to request copies of articles from these publications. ILL is only available to UNM students, faculty and staff.

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Additional Web Resources

Discussion Lists

Directory of Musical E-mail Lists

Societies, Agencies, Associations, and Organizations

• American Musicological Society
• College Music Society
• Music Educators National Conference
• Society for American Music
• Society for Ethnomusicology
• Society for Music Theory

Web Sites

• http://portals.merlot.org/music/

• Classical Net
• WNUR-FM JazzWeb
• Electronic resources in Duckles 5 - Links to online resources cited in Vincent H. Duckles and Ida Reed, Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography, 5th ed. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997).
• Gaylord Music Library Necrology - Death dates of composers, performers, others involved in music; includes obituary citations.
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
• Music Theory Online Dissertation Index
• University of Tennessee Song Index
  Indexes about 50,000 songs in over 1,500 published anthologies. *Please note: UNM may not have all of the anthologies indexed here, and our call numbers may not be the same as University of Tennessee's. When you get your search results, go to LIBROS and search the anthology listed in your citation.
• Collection of Musicals Lyrics and Libretti
• The Lied and Song Texts Page
• OperaGlass Includes librettos, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies.
• Aria database Includes texts, translations, MIDI files.

• Free Printable Music on the Web: A Guide to Internet Resources
• Mutopia another web site for free printable music
• International Music Score Library Project - A wiki whose stated goal is "to gather all public-domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers who wish to release them to the public free of charge." Includes the complete Bach Gesellschaft Edition and the complete Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (New Mozart Complete Edition).
• Free sheet music from Johann Tufvesson - Downloadable performing editions of 17th- and 18th-century music, many of them not otherwise available in modern editions.

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Recommend a Book

Contact Mary Bruesch to recommend or discuss the General Library acquiring materials in the field of Music.

Need Help?

If you need help locating materials or using the library, please contact Mary Bruesch, mbruesch@unm.edu

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