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Resources in the Arts and Social Sciences Library

Most music resources are found on the second floor of the Arts and Social Sciences Library. These include:

  • M - Music scores
  • ML - Literature of music, including :
    • books about individual composers at ML 410
  • MT - Theory of music (instruction and study)
  • journals (print) at Serial ML and Serial MT
  • film (videos and DVDs)
  • microfilm including British Library Collection of polyphonic music before c1640 at Microfilm ML96 BRI
  • resources on sound recording and sound reproduction at TK 7881.4
The Arts and Social Sciences Library classmark scheme shows how the books and journals are arranged. Use the Library catalogue to find the classmark for an item.

Items in heavy demand may be held in the Short Loan Collection (SLC)

Resources in other branches

Other related resources can be found in the following branches:

  • Theatre Collection - material on film, theatre and musicals
  • Continuing Education Library - this library is now closed but music resources there are available on request

You are free to use any of the libraries but please remember to carry your UCard with you. Opening hours and arrangement (including subject classification of materials) of these branches can be found by going to the Branch libraries page.

Thesis collection

Music PhD theses of staff and students of the Music Department, from 1910 to date, are available in the thesis collection in the Arts and Social Sciences Library.

Special collections

The Arts and Social Sciences Library contains a special collection of rare books.

How to find books, journals, and more

Resources for the course of Dr Justin Williams

Electronica, Dance and Club Music

 

Albiez, S. (2005) Post-soul futurama: African American cultural politics and early Detroit techno. European Journal of American Culture, 24(2), pp.131-152. [PDF]

Amico, S. (2001) 'I Want Muscles': housemusic, homosexuality and masculine signification. Popular Music, 20, pp.359-378.

Bradby, B. (1993) Sampling Sexuality: Gender, Technology and the Body in Dance Music. Popular Music, 12(2) 05/01, pp.155-176.

Buckland, F. (2002) Mr Mesa's ticket: memory and dance at the Body Positive T-dance. In: Impossible dance: club culture and queer world-making. Wesleyan University Press.

Cascone, K. (2000) The Aesthetics of Failure: "Post-Digital" Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music. Computer Music Journal, 24(4) 12/01, pp.12-18.

Dyer, R. (1979). In defence of Disco. Gay Left, 8, 20-23.

Lawrence, T. (2006) “I Want to See All My Friends At Once”: Arthur Russell and the Queering of Gay Disco. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 18(2), pp.144-166.

Loza, S. (2001) Sampling (Hetero)Sexuality: Diva-Ness and Discipline in Electronic Dance Music. Popular Music, 20(3) 10/01, pp.349-357.

Madrid, A. L. (2006) Dancing with Desire: Cultural Embodiment in Tijuana's Nor-tec Music and Dance. Popular Music, 25(3), pp.383-399.

Malbon, B. (1999) The dancer from the dance: the musical and dancing crowds of clubbing. In: Clubbing :dancing, ecstasy and vitality. London, Routledge. [HQ799.8.G7 MAL]

McLeod, K. (2001) Genres, Subgenres, Sub-Subgenres and More: Musical and Social Differentiation Within Electronic/Dance Music Communities. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 13(1), pp.59-75.

Pani, M. (1997) Women and the early British rave Scene. In: McRobbie, A. (Ed.): Back to Reality?: Social Experience and Cultural Studies. Manchester University Press.

Race, K. (2003) The death of the dance party. Australian Humanities Review, 30.

Rogers, T. (2003) On the process and aesthetics of sampling in electronic music production. Organised Sound, 8(3), pp.313-320.

Saldanha, A. (2002) Music tourism and factions of bodies in Goa. Tourist Studies, 2(1), pp.43-62.

St John, G. (2006) Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion: An Overview1. Culture and Religion, 7(1) 2006/03/01, pp.1-25.

Tagg, P. (1994) From Refrain to Rave: The Decline of Figure and the Rise of Ground. Popular Music, 13(2) 05/01, pp.209-222.

Thornton, S. (1996) Exploring the Meaning of Mainstream. In: Club Cultures, Music, Media, & Subculture Capital. pp.88-115. [ML3470 THO]

 

Rock Music

Baugh, B. (1993) Prolegomena to Any Aesthetics of Rock Music. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 51(1) 01/01, pp.23-29.

Biamonte, N. (2010) Triadic Modal and Pentatonic Patterns in Rock Music. Music Theory Spectrum, 32(2) 10/01, pp.95-110.

Brackett, J. (2008) Examining rhythmic and metric practices in Led Zeppelin's musical style. Popular Music, 27, pp.53-76.

Brown, J. (2001) Ally McBeal's Postmodern Soundtrack. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 126(2) 01/01, pp.275-303.

Clawson, M. A. (1999) When Women Play the Bass: Instrument Specialization and Gender Interpretation in Alternative Rock Music. Gender and Society, 13(2) 04/01, pp.193-210.

Covach, J. The hippie aesthetic: cultural positioning and musical ambition in early progressive rock. [PDF]

Demers, J. (2006) Dancing Machines: 'Dance Dance Revolution', Cybernetic Dance, and Musical Taste. Popular Music, 25(3) 10/01, pp.401-414.

Doll, C. (2009) Transformation in rock harmony: an explanatory strategy. Gamut, 2(1).

Everett, W. (2000) The learned vs. the vernacular in the songs of Billy Joel. Contemporary Music Review, 18(4), pp.105-129.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (1999) Indie: the institutional politics and aesthetics of a popular music genre. Cultural Studies, 13(1), pp.34-61.

Holm-Hudson, K. (2001) The Future Is Now … and Then: Sonic Historiography in Post-1960s Rock. Genre, 34(3-4), pp.243-264.

Iii, A. J. Z. (2004a) Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix: Juxtaposition and Transformation "All along the Watchtower". Journal of the American Musicological Society, 57(3) 12/01, pp.599-644.

Johnson, V. E. (1993) Polyphony and Cultural Expression: Interpreting Musical Traditions in "Do the Right Thing". Film Quarterly, 47(2) 12/01, pp.18-29.

Kubik, G. (1998) Analogies and Differences in African-American Musical Cultures across the Hemisphere: Interpretive Models and Research Strategies. Black Music Research Journal, 18(1/2) 04/01, pp.203-227.

Lury, K. (2002) Chewing Gum for the Ears: Children's Television and Popular Music. Popular Music, 21(3) 10/01, pp.291-305.

Maus, F. (2006) Intimacy and Distance: On Stipe's Queerness. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 18(2), pp.191-214.

Mazullo, M. (1997) Fans and Critics: Greil Marcus's "Mystery Train" as Rock 'n' Roll History. The Musical Quarterly, 81(2) 07/01, pp.145-169.

Mazullo, M. (2005) Remembering Pop: David Lynch and the Sound of the '60s. American Music, 23(4) 12/01, pp.493-513.

Miller, K. (2007) Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in "Grand Theft Auto". Ethnomusicology, 51(3) 10/01, pp.402-438.

Moore, A. F. (2005). The persona-environment relation in recorded song. Music Theory Online, 11(4).

Pieslak, J. (2008) Sound, text and identity in Korn's Hey Daddy. Popular Music, 27, pp.35-52.

Spicer, M. (2004) (Ac)cumulative form in pop-rock music. Twentieth Century Music, 1, pp.29-64.

Temperley, D. (2007) The Melodic-Harmonic 'Divorce' in Rock. Popular Music, 26(2) 05/01, pp.323-342.

Waksman, S. (1996) Every inch of my love: Led Zeppelin and the problem of cock rock. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 8(1), pp.5-25.

Weinstein, D. (2004) All singers are dicks. Popular Music and Society, 27(3), pp.232-334.

Zimmerman, N. (2006) Consuming Nature: The Grateful Dead's Performance of an Anti-Commercial Counterculture. American Music, 24(2) 07/01, pp.194-216.

 

Popular Music and Multimedia

Brown, J. (2001) Ally McBeal's Postmodern Soundtrack. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 126(2), pp.275-303.

Burns, L. and Watson, J. (2010) Subjective perspectives through word, image and sound: temporality, narrative agency and embodiment in the Dixie Chicks' video Top of the World. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 4(1), pp.3-37.

Collins, K. (2008) Grand Theft Auto? Popular music and intellectual property in video games. Music and the Moving Image, 1(1), pp.35-48.

Coulthard, L. (2009) Torture tunes: Tarantino, popular music and new Hollywood ultraviolence. Music and the Moving Image, 2(2), pp.1-6.

Demers, J. (2006) Dancing Machines: 'Dance Dance Revolution', Cybernetic Dance, and Musical Taste. Popular Music, 25(3), pp.401-414.

Dickinson, K. (2001). Pop, speed and the 'MTV aesthetic' in recent teen films. Scope, Department of Culture, Film and Media, University of Nottingham.

Flinn, C. (2004) The music that Lola ran to. In: Alter, N. M. a. K., Lutz (Ed.): Sound matters :essays on the acoustics of modern German culture. New York ; Oxford, Berghahn Books,

Holmes, S. (2004) "Reality Goes Pop!" Reality TV, Popular Music, and Narratives of Stardom in Pop Idol. Television & New Media, 5(2), pp.147-172.

Johnson, V. E. (1993) Polyphony and Cultural Expression: Interpreting Musical Traditions in "Do the Right Thing". Film Quarterly, 47(2), pp.18-29.

Kerton, S. (2006) Too much, Tatu young: queering politics in the world of Tatu. In: Whiteley, S. a. R., J (Ed.): Queering the Popular Pitch. Routledge.

Klein, B. (2008) In Perfect Harmony: Popular Music and Cola Advertising. Popular Music and Society, 31(1), pp.1-20.

Lury, K. (2002) Chewing Gum for the Ears: Children's Television and Popular Music. Popular Music, 21(3), pp.291-305.

Mazullo, M. (2005) Remembering Pop: David Lynch and the Sound of the '60s. American Music, 23(4), pp.493-513.

Miller, K. (2007) Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in "Grand Theft Auto". Ethnomusicology, 51(3), pp.402-438.

Sanders, D. (2005). From the warehouse to the multiplex: techno and rave culture's reconfiguration of late 1990s sci-fi spectacle as musical performance. Screening the Past. 18: p. 1-15.

Sarrazin, N. (2008) Celluloid love songs: musical modus operandi and the dramatic aesthetics of romantic Hindi film. Popular Music, 27, pp.393-411.

Shaviro, S. (2002). The erotic life of machines. [PDF]

Smith, J. The Edge of Seventeen: Class, Age and Popular Music in Richard Linklater's School of Rock. Screening the Past. 18: p. 165-80.

Stilwell, R. J. (1995) 'In the air tonight': text, intertextuality and the construction of meaning. Popular Music and Society, 19(4).

Stilwell, R. J. (2003) It may look like a living room…: the musical number and the sitcom. ECHO, 5(1).

Vernallis, C. (2001) The kindest cut: functions and meanings of music video editing. Screen, 42(1), pp.21-48.

Woods, F. (2008) Nostalgia, Music and the Television Past Revisited in American Dreams. Music Sound and the Moving Image, 2(1), pp.27-50.

 

Pop Music and Easy Listening

Auner, J. (2003) 'Sing It for Me': Posthuman Ventriloquism in Recent Popular Music. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 128(1), pp.98-122.

Auster, A. (1999) Frank Sinatra. The Television Years -1950-1960. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 26(4), p.166.

Bradby, B. (1992) Like a virgin-mother? Materialism and maternalism in the songs of Madonna. Cultural Studies, 6(1), pp.73-96.

Chapman, D. (2008) 'That ill, tight sound': telepresence and biopolitics in post-Timbaland rap production. Journal of the Society of American Music, 2, pp.155-175.

Clarke, E. F. and Dibben, N. (2000) Sex, pulp and critique. Popular Music, 19, pp.231-241.

Cloonan, M. (1999) Pop and the nation-state: towards a theorisation. Popular Music, 18, 2, pp.193-207.

Danielsen, A. and Maasø, A. (2009) Mediating music: materiality and silence in Madonna's 'Don't Tell Me'. Popular Music, 28(2).

Dickinson, K. (2001) Believe? Vocoders, digitalized female identity and camp. Popular Music, 20, pp.333-347.

Fast, S. and Pegley, K. (2006) Music and Canadian Nationhood Post 9/11: An Analysis of Music Without Borders: Live. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 18(1), pp.18-39.

Fitzgerald, J. (2007) Black pop songwriting 1963–1966: an analysis of US top 40 hits by Cooke, Mayfield, Stevenson, Robinson, and Holland-Dozier-Holland. Black Music Research Journal, 27(2), pp.97-140.

Frith, S. (1986) Art versus technology: the strange case of popular music. Media, Culture & Society, 8(3), pp.263-279.

Frith, S. and Savag, J. (1993) Pearls and Swine: The Intellectuals and the Mass Media. New Left Review, a(198), p.107.

Goodwin, A. (1988) Sample and hold: pop music in the digital age of reproduction. Critical Quarterly, 30(3), pp.34-49. [A&SSL Serial PR1.C7]

Hawkins, S. and Richardson, J. (2007) Remodeling Britney Spears: matters of intoxication and mediation. Popular Music and Society, 30(5), pp.605-629.

Hennion, A. (1983) The Production of Success: An Anti-Musicology of the Pop Song. Popular Music, 3. pp.159-193.

Hustwitt, M. (1983) 'Caught in a whirlpool of aching sound': the production of dance music in Britain in the 1920s. Popular Music, 3, pp.7-31.

Lemish, D. (2003) Spice world: constructing femininity the popular way. Popular Music and Society, 26(1), pp.17-29.

McLeod, K. (2006) 'A fifth of Beethoven': disco, classical music, and the politics of inclusion. American Music, 24(3), pp.347-363.

Meier, L. M. (2008) In excess? Body genres, 'bad' music, and the judgment of audiences. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 20(3), pp.240-260.

Richardson, J. (2005) “The Digital Won't Let Me Go”: Constructions of the Virtual and the Real in Gorillaz' “Clint Eastwood”. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 17(1), pp.1-29.

Sanjek, D. (1999) Navigating the 'channel': recent scholarship on African-American popular music. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 11(1), pp.167-192.

Toft, R. (2010) Hits and misses: crafting a pop single for the top-40 market in the 1960s. Popular Music, 29, pp.267-281.

Walser, R. (1994) Prince as Queer Poststructuralist. Popular Music and Society, 18(2), pp.79-89.

Zbikowski, L. M. (2004) Modelling the groove: conceptual structure and popular music. Journal of the Royal Music Association, 129(2), pp.272-297. [PDF]

 

Roots Music

Aaron, A. F. (1992) The Jukebox of History: Narratives of Loss and Desire in the Discourse of Country Music. Popular Music, 11(1), pp.53-72.

Ancelet, B. J. (1988) Zydeco/Zarico: Beans, Blues and beyond. Black Music Research Journal, 8(1), pp.33-49.

Buchanan, D. A. (1995) Metaphors of Power, Metaphors of Truth: The Politics of Music Professionalism in Bulgarian Folk Orchestras. Ethnomusicology, 39(3), pp.381-416.

Cohen, S. (1995) Sounding out the City: Music and the Sensuous Production of Place. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 20(4), pp.434-446.

Diamond, B. (2002) Native American contemporary music: The women. The World Of Music, 44(1).

Dugaw, D. (1987) The Popular Marketing of "Old Ballads": The Ballad Revival and Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism Reconsidered. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21(1), pp.71-90.

Evans, D. (1974) Techniques of Blues Composition among Black Folksingers. The Journal of American Folklore, 87(345), pp.240-249.

Fairbairn, H. (1994) Changing Contexts for Traditional Dance Music in Ireland: The Rise of Group Performance Practice. Folk Music Journal, 6(5), pp.566-599.

Farmelo, A. (2001) Another history of bluegrass: The segregation of popular music in the United States, 1820–1900. Popular Music and Society, 25(1-2) 2001/03/01, pp.179-203.

Kisliuk, M. (1988) "A Special Kind of Courtesy": Action at a Bluegrass Festival Jam Session. TDR (1988-), 32(3), pp.141-155.

Kubik, G. (1998) Analogies and Differences in African-American Musical Cultures across the Hemisphere: Interpretive Models and Research Strategies. Black Music Research Journal, 18(1/2), pp.203-227.

Lott, E. (1992) Love and Theft: The Racial Unconscious of Blackface Minstrelsy. Representations,(39), pp.23-50.

Manuel, P. (2010) Composition, authorship, and ownership in flamenco, past and present. Ethnomusicology, 54(1), pp.106-135. [A&SSL Serial ML3547.E8]

Marion, S. J. (2007) Searching for Rockordion: The Changing Image of the Accordion in America. American Music, 25(2), pp.216-247.

Pettan, S. (2001) Encounter with “The Others” from Within: The Case of Gypsy Musicians in Former Yugoslavia. The World of Music, 43.

Peña, M. (1985) From Ranchero to Jaiton: ethnicity and class in Texas-Mexican music (two styles in the form of a pair). Ethnomusicology, 29(1), pp.29-55.

Samuels, D. (1999) The Whole and the Sum of the Parts, or, How Cookie and the Cupcakes Told the Story of Apache History in San Carlos. The Journal of American Folklore, 112(445), pp.464-474.

Shank, B. (2002) "That Wild Mercury Sound": Bob Dylan and the Illusion of American Culture. Boundary 2, 29(1), pp.97-123.

Stewart, A. (2000) ‘Funky Drummer’: New Orleans, James Brown and the Rhythmic Transformation of American Popular Music. Popular Music, 19(3), pp.293-318.

Williams-Jones, P. (1975) Afro-American Gospel Music: A Crystallization of the Black Aesthetic. Ethnomusicology, 19(3), pp.373-385.

Wilson, O. (1974) The Significance of the Relationship between Afro-American Music and West African Music. The Black Perspective in Music, 2(1), pp.3-22.

 

Jazz

Ake, D. (2005) Regendering jazz: Ornette Coleman and the New York jazz scene in the late 1950s. Journal of the Americal Musicological Society, 58(2), pp.488-496.

Ballantine, C. (1991) Concert and dance: the foundations of Black jazz in South Africa between the 20s and the early 40s. Popular Music, 10(2), pp.121-145.

Borgo, D. (2007) Free Jazz in the Classroom: An Ecological Approach to Music Education. Jazz Perspectives, 1(1) 2007/05/01, pp.61-88.

Brown, L. B. (2004) Marsalis and Baraka: an essay in comparative cultural discourse. Popular Music, 23, pp.241-255.

DeVeaux, S. (2001-2) Struggling with jazz. Current Musicology, pp.353–374. [A&SSL Serial ML1.C8]

Elsdon, P. (2008) Style and the Improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts. Jazz Perspectives, 2(1), pp.51-67.

Frith, S. (2007) Is jazz popular music? Jazz Research Journal, 1(1).

Horn, D. (2000) The sound world of Art Tatum. Black Music Research Journal, 20(2), pp.237-257.

Jackson, J. H. (2002) Making jazz French: the reception of jazz music in Paris, 1927–1934. French Historical Studies, 25(1), pp.149-170.

Johnson, B. (1993) Hear me talkin' to ya: problems of jazz discourse. Popular Music, 12(1), pp.1-12.

Monson, I. (1994) Doubleness and jazz improvisation: irony, parody, and ethnomusicology. Critical Inquiry, 20(2).

Parsonage, C. (2002) A critical reassessment of the reception of early jazz in Britain. Popular Music, 22(3), pp.315-336.

Priestley, B. (2008) Charlie Parker and popular music. Annual Review of Jazz Studies.

Raeburn, B. B. (2009) Stars of David and Sons of Sicily: Constellations Beyond the Canon in Early New Orleans Jazz. Jazz Perspectives, 3(2) 2009/08/01, pp.123-152.

Stanbridge, A. (2004) A question of standards: My Funny Valentine and musical intertextuality. Popular Music History, 1(1).

Stras, L. (2007) White face, Black voice: race, gender, and region in the music of the Boswell Sisters. Journal of the Society of American Music, 1, pp.207-255.

Taylor Atkins, E. (1999) Jammin' on the jazz frontier: the Japanese jazz community in interwar Shanghai. Japanese Studies, 19(1).

Tomlinson, G. (1991) Cultural dialogics and jazz: a White historian signifies. Black Music Research Journal, 11(2), pp.229-264.

Tucker, S. (2005) Deconstructing the jazz tradition: the 'subjectless subject' of new jazz studies. Jazz Research Journal, 2.

Wall, T. and Long, P. (2009) Jazz Britannia: mediating the story of British jazz on television. Jazz Research Journal, 3(2).

Walser, R. (1993) Out of Notes: Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis. The Musical Quarterly, 77(2), pp.343-365.

Whyton, T. (2007) Four for Trane: jazz and the disembodied voice. Jazz Perspectives, 1(2), pp.115-132.

 

Inter-Library Loans and ILL vouchers

The Inter-Library Loans (ILL) service can be used to obtain Items not held in print in the University's branch libraries or available online. There is a charge for this service, though it may be possible to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this:

  • Music academic staff should be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this from your departmental office.
  • Music research postgraduates may be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this from the departmental office.
  • Music undergraduates and taught postgraduates may be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this from the departmental office(less likely for undergraduates).

Information for academic staff and researchers

  • Our Research support pages cover finding information, managing information, and exploiting your research, together with sources of further help and advice.
  • Each academic department in the university has its own library representative, whose duties are detailed in these guidelines. The Library Representative for Music is Dr Pauline Fairclough.
  • Book purchase recommendations can be made to the Subject Librarian for Music or the Library Representative for Music.
  • New journal / database subscription requests can be made to the Subject Librarian for Music or the Library Representative for Music, though you will need to suggest how we might fund a new subscription.
  • New academic staff are welcome to contact the Subject Librarian to arrange a session on how the Library can help you.

Databases

MetaLib: your resource gateway provides access to a vast range of online resources, including databases, search engines, subject gateways, and selected Internet resources.

Resources include:

  • Oxford Music Online incorporating Grove Music
  • Abstracts and indexing services including RILM (Abstracts of Music Literature), and Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
  • RISM which helps to locate musical manuscripts after 1600 in libraries and collections worldwide
  • Specialist databases eg Bach Bibliography and NMA Online (Digital Mozart Edition)
  • Indexes to historical newspaper and journal articles

Internet links

Gateways to Music Resources

A collection of gateways, giving access to a variety of music Internet resources:

  • Royal Holloway Music Department Golden Pages - a gateway to a variety of 'links for musicians'
  • Intute: Arts and Humanities� - one of four subject groups of the Intute service, providing access to best of the Web resources.�� There are sections on Music and the Performing Arts� and Communications, Media and Culture, and other sections valuable for cross disciplinary work. Each resource is selected by specialists for its academic quality and subject relevance and includes a description of the Web resource's key features
  • Voice of the Shuttle - hosted by the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, this is a vast Internet gateway, and includes links to many sites concerned with Music and related topics
  • Live Music Exchange - a portal for information on live music in the UK. Includes links to academic, industry, government, and media reports and articles etc.
  • Google Directory - Music - over 1000's of selected Internet resources for music which can be searched or browsed.

Learning resources

  • Internet for Music - A free 'teach yourself' tutorial on Internet information skills for Music from Intute. This will help you to find and learn how to use information in Music. Other subjects available also.
  • Internet Detective - a more general guide on using and evaluating Internet resources, and including some advice on plagiarism.� On plagarism see also general Information Services, and departmental, advice.
  • Library Catalogue - for print resources and Metalib - for electronic resources : short videos for learning how to make use of these resources effectively.

Research tools for

  • American Sheet Music - this is a collection of historic 19th and early 20th century sheet music held by Duke University in the United States.� Digital images from over 3000 pieces are available online for education and research purposes.
  • Victorian Popular Music - part of the British Library's Collect Britain series
  • Concert Programmes - a database providing descriptions of concert programme�collections held by leading libraries,�archives and museums in the UK and Ireland
  • Bach Bibliography - an article from Ariadne, 2001 gives background information on the database, and some searching tips
  • British Library - archival sound recordings gives access to downloads for UK higher education
  • Gregorian Chant� - a collection of databases and datafiles made available by Universitat Regensburg for Cantus Planus, a Study Group for the scholarly investigation of the chant traditions of Eastern and Western Christendom.
  • Manuscripts of the Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland - a virtual library of medieval codices
  • Schenkerian Analysis - Tom Pankhurst's Guide is a companion website to his book on the topic published by Routledge in 2008, and available in the Arts and Social Sciences Library.
  • Hymn Tune Index - this is the website for Nicholas Temperley's Hymn Tune Index.� It includes links to sheet music, MIDI and MP3 files, articles, notes on coding and other resources.
  • International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) - this site aims to create a virtual library of public domain scores. There have been copyright problems, so it is not comprehensive, but can be useful as a quick-reference tool, or for printing out just one page/section of a score.� Browsing via Composer can be more effective than searching.
  • Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) - this site provides free access to choral music scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.� Again browsing via Composer can be more effective than searching.

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Online theses

Newsletters

  • Shubert Archive - is an archive of 20th century theatrical documents collected by the Shubert brothers, and made available by the Shubert Organization which owns and operates sixteen Broadway theatres in New York City.� Recent issues of the newsletter, The Passing Show, are available in full text from this link.�

Other useful links

  • Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology - an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines
  • Index to theses - an index to theses, with abstracts, accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland. The coverage goes back to 1716. Further information and search help are available on the database.
  • Cecilia: Music Collections in the UK and Ireland - this is an ongoing project to provide an online guide to music collections in libraries, museums and archives of the UK and Ireland. The database is searchable by Time, People, Place, Subject, Tradition or Institution.

Organisations

Listed below are organisations which have useful information available online:

Quick reference tools

The following quick reference tools can be found in the Arts & Social Sciences Library:

Item Location/ reference number
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd ed. ML100 NEW
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ML100 MUS
Dictionaries of music (general) ML100
New Grove Dictionary of Opera ML102.06 NEW
Dictionaries and Guides to Opera ML102
Bibliographies and Thematic Catalogues ML113

Information skills training for undergraduates

  • The Subject Librarian for Music will provide Information literacy training within the course structure, and to individuals or groups at other times by arrangement. Please email with details of your requirements.
  • A number of general 'Self-learning resources' are available below, including video tutorials, downloadable library guides, and web resources.
  • Find out about referencing in your written work and EndNote referencing software in 'Referencing help'.

Information skills training for postgraduates

  • The Subject Librarian for Music will provide information literacy training within the course structure, and for individuals or groups at other times by arrangement. Please email with details of your requirements.
  • A number of general 'Self-learning resources' are available below, including video tutorials, downloadable library guides, and web resources.
  • Find out about referencing in your written work and EndNote referencing software in 'Referencing help'.

Self-learning resources

  • Video tutorials - topics include the Library Catalogue, understanding references on reading lists, using the MetaLib resource gateway, off-campus access to eResources, etc.
  • Finding and using information pages - covering key aspects of information skills, including researching a topic, effective use of Google, evaluating your search results, avoiding plagiarism, etc. Also includes a Jargon-buster page.
  • Library guides - downloadable guides to each branch library, our main search tools, special library services, etc.
  • External resources for developing your information skills - including online tutorials and downloadable guides.
  • Find out about referencing in your written work and EndNote referencing software in 'Referencing help'.

Referencing guidance

Referencing

  • There is no single way of writing references. The two most common styles are the Harvard system and the Numeric system, details of which can be found in the guides mentioned below. You will need to use the style specified by your department or by the body or journal to which you are submitting your work. If there are no guidelines specified, you should make sure that you write your references in a consistent way.
  • General referencing guidance
    includes Why reference? What is included in a reference? Referencing styles, How to reference, Links to useful sites on referencing, and brief details of EndNote and EndNote Web referencing software (see the EndNote referencing software section below for more details).

Journal title abbreviations

Literature references are often written with abbreviated terms. Probably the most troublesome are abbreviated journal titles which can make finding a journal difficult.

To help in your search for journal abbreviations you may find the following information sources useful:

  • ISI Journals Abbreviations Index - covers all journal titles included in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources - a registry of web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations
  • Periodical title abbreviations / compiled and edited by Leland G. Alkire - in the Arts and Social Sciences Library at Oversize Z6945.A2 PER

If you are unable to find the title of an abbreviation you are looking for please ask a member of the Library staff for assistance. Alternatively, these online resources may help:

Writing for the subject, and how to avoid plagiarism

EndNote referencing software

EndNote is the University of Bristol's recommended bibliographical management software, which can be used to collect, store, organise and manage references, and to output them as reference lists or bibliographies. A particularly useful function is 'Cite While You Write', enabling you to format Word documents, producing bibliographies and adding references within the text.