This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

Main Category:  M, ML & MT: Music and Books on Music

Subcategories:  M5- M1490, Instrumental Music ------- M1497- M1998, Secular Vocal Music ------- M1999- M2199, Secular Vocal Music ------- ML, Literature on Music ------- ML459- ML1380, Literature on Instruments & Instrumental Music ------- ML1400- ML3275, Literature on Vocal Music ------- ML3800- ML3923, Philosophy & Physics of Music ------- MT, Musical Instruction and Study ------- MT170- MT810, Instrumental Techniques ------- MT820- MT915, Singing & Vocal Techniques

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

• RILM: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969-present) is the world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals. There is no better single source for exploring the world of music, from Western and Eastern classical to pop, folk, and jazz.
• The Music Index: A paper index to the serial literature concerning popular, classical, and traditional music styles, coverage from 1966 to the present. Location: Ref.Per.Ind. ML118 .M84.
• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two multi-subject, web-based services are part of the EBSCOhost system. They feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines which WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text. Both databases have a somewhat limited range concerning topics of music, but they do have some full-text journals that are useful to the undergraduate researcher.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
• Art and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch): FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, 1980 to present.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals" (across all subject areas, and in multiple languages).
• Electronic Journal Service: EJS (EBSCOhost): Full-text articles, tables of content, and abstracts from journals across all subject areas.

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
Special resource:  KenCat [A searchable catalog of the collections at the Kentucky Library & Museum. KenCat includes manuscripts, letters, sheet music, photographs, museum exhibits, images, journals, and books.]
Special resource:  Naxos Music Library [Use to access our subscription to streaming audio files of over 85,000 tracks of music produced by the Naxos label, including a vast array of classical music recordings and some international, new age, and other material. The liner notes of each recording and special biographical write-ups on the composers are also searchable, and provide a good reference source in themselves.]

3. Monographic Reference Works in the Helm Library

The following, located in the Reference Collection, are recommended for use:

• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (REF ML105 .B16 2001)
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (REF ML100 .G16 1998)
• The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (REF ML105 .H38 1996)
• Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (REF ML100 .M92 1994x)
• Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Personenteil (REF ML100 .M9732x 1998)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (REF ML100 .N48 2001x)
• The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (REF ML100 .N485 1986)

• Chicago Manual of Style (REF Z253 .U69)

4. Department of Music Faculty

Department of Music Faculty http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/Music/facultyAndStaff.php

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

Education/Teaching

• American Choral Directors Association http://www.acdaonline.org/
• International Society for Music Education (ISME) http://www.isme.org/
• Kentucky Music Educators Assocation (KMEA) http://www.kmea.org/
• Music Teachers National Association http://www.mtna.org/
• National Association for Music Education http://www.menc.org/
• National Association of Teachers of Singing http://www.nats.org/

• American Composers Forum http://www.composersforum.org/
• American Guild of Organists http://www.agohq.org/
• American Musicological Society [includes links to musicology sites] http://www.ams-net.org/
• College Music Society http://www.music.org/
• Galpin Society for the Study of Musical Instruments http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/galpin/
• International Alliance for Women in Music http://www.iawm.org/
• International Association of Music Libraries http://www.iaml.info/
• International Musicological Society http://www.ims-online.ch/
• Music Library Association http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/
• National Association of Performing Arts Managers and Agents http://www.napama.org/
• Percussive Arts Society http://www.pas.org/
• Royal Musical Association http://www.rma.ac.uk/
• Society for American Music http://www.american-music.org/
• Society for Ethnomusicology http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music http://www.arts.uci.edu/sscm/

6. Web Sites Recommended by Department of Music Faculty

Education/Teaching/Jobs       Classical Music: General       Classical Composers       Popular/Traditional Music       Misc. Subjects

Music Education/Teaching/Jobs

• Bridge to Music [directory of music programs] http://www.bridgetomusic.com
• The History of Music Education Site http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/William-Lee/
• K-12 Resources for Music Educators http://k-12music.org/
• Music Jobs USA http://us.music-jobs.com/
• Mymusicjob.com http://www.mymusicjob.com/
• Yahoo! Directory: Music Education http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Education/
• Yahoo! Directory: Music Instruction http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Music/Instruction/

Classical Music: General & Miscellaneous

• See Indiana University ( http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ ) for a thorough list of links for academic and scholarly resources.
• American Ballet Theatre http://www.abt.org/
• The Classical Music Archives [includes much downloadable music] http://www.classicalarchives.com/
• Classical Link [classical music portal] http://www.classicallink.com/
• The Classical Music Navigator (Western KY Univ.) http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
• Classical Net [portal] http://www.classical.net/
• Internet Resources for Music Scholars (Harvard Univ.) http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/online-ir-intro.html
• Medieval Music Database http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/MMDB/index.htm
• Operabase http://www.operabase.com/
• RISM (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales = 'International Inventory of Musical Sources') http://rism.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index1_e.htm
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum [pre-18th century music] http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/

Individual Classical Music Composers (alphabetically arranged):

• J. S. Bach Home Page http://www.jsbach.org/
• Amy Marcy Cheney Beach http://www.ibiblio.org/cheryb/women/abeach.html
• Ludwig van Beethoven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
• The Hector Berlioz Website http://www.hberlioz.com/
• American Brahms Society http://brahms.unh.edu/
• Fryderyk Chopin http://www.chopin.pl/spis_tresci/index_en.html
• Rebecca Clarke Society http://www.rebeccaclarke.org/
• Claude Debussy (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy
• Frederick Delius Society http://www.delius.org.uk/
• gfhandel.org [George Frideric Handel] http://gfhandel.org/
• Joseph Haydn Institute http://www.haydn-institut.de/
• Hildegard von Bingen http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/hildegarde.html
• The Franz Liszt Site http://www.d-vista.com/OTHER/franzliszt.html
• International Machaut Society http://www.loyno.edu/~avclark/Machaut/imshome.htm
• Mozart Society of America http://www.mozartsocietyofamerica.org/
• The Prokofiev Page http://www.prokofiev.org/
• Franz Schubert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchaikovsky
• Ralph Vaughan Williams Society http://www.rvwsociety.com
• Giuseppe Verdi (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi
• Richard Wagner Web Site http://www.trell.org/wagner/
• International Carl Maria von Weber Society http://www.webergesellschaft.de/
• Kurt Weill Foundation http://www.kwf.org

• The 111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American Folk Music Tradition http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/essays/FOLK111.htm
• All About Jazz http://www.allaboutjazz.com/
• All-Music Guide [traditional, popular & classical styles, artists & biographies] http://www.allmusic.com/
• The Blue Highway [the Blues] http://www.thebluehighway.com/
• Blues World http://www.bluesworld.com/
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html
• Folk Music Home Page http://www.jg.org/folk/folkhome.html
• Folk Music Index [index to recorded resources] http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/
• Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html
• Live Music Archive [downloadable concerts from popular groups] http://www.archive.org/details/etree
• Music, Theater & Dance (Library of Congress) [American popular music history] http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/
• A Passion for Jazz [jazz education] http://www.apassion4jazz.net/
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive [jazz before 1930] http://www.redhotjazz.com/
• Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame and Museum http://www.rockhall.com/
• Southern Mosaic ["roots" music recordings/streams, etc.] http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
• World and Traditional Music (British Library) http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/wtmusic/worldmusic.html

• The Brass Band Portal http://www.bandsman.co.uk/
• Center for Black Music Research http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/
• Concert Band Literature http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/knorman/521/bandlit.html
• Historic American Sheet Music http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
• International Alliance for Women in Music [portal for women composers] http://www.iawm.org/
• Music FAQs http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/
• New Sounds Archive [1000s of 60-minute public radio programs of "new music" from WNYC in New York] http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/episodes/2008/02
• The Piano Page http://www.ptg.org/
• Songfile [for licensing music] http://www.harryfox.com/public/songfile.jsp
• Yahoo! Directory: Guitar http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Instruments/Stringed_Instruments/Guitar/