Consult the Blackboard course site (MUS396M) to find the course schedule, term paper assignment, worksheets and other information. To log in, use your Elmhurst College technology account information. If you do not know your E.C. login and password, please see Computer Services, Room 107 CSTC.

NOTE:
Links to many of the library resources listed below will not work when this page is accessed from off campus. To use these resources, please go to the Library Web Page, where you can connect to Articles and Databases, Reference Sources, and Electronic Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst College technology account login and password.

Locating Books, Scores and Sound Recordings in the A.C. Buehler Library

Reference Sources

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians R780.3 N532 2001, older ed. R780.3 N532 1980, also available online at www.grovemusic.com
• Other music reference books are located on the main floor of the library, call numbers R780-R789.

A list of all materials on Reserve for this course is available here.

Use Illinet Online to find books, scores, and sound recordings on your topic. Scores and books are located on the second floor of the library; scores have call numbers of M780-M789, books have call numbers of 780-789. Sound recordings on Reserve for courses are checked out at the Circulation Desk; there are several listening stations available in the library.

Music can be difficult to locate in library catalogs because the titles of musical works may be in different languages. This is especially true of Mozart operas. Libraries make finding musical works easier by using Uniform Titles. See this guide about Using Uniform Titles for further assistance.

In Illinet Online, use Browse Author with a Quick Limit of Music Scores or Music Recordings to find scores and sound recordings. Use Browse Subject to find materials about these works. Examples of some Browse Subject searches that can get you on the right track, for both musical and cultural topics:

• Music performance
• Music 18th century (use the century instead of Classical)
• Performance practice music
• Costume
• Germany history
• Austria civilization
• History modern 18th century
• Paris

Items that are not available at Elmhurst may be available at other academic libraries in Illinois. Click here to search all ILCSO libraries and request these items directly in Illinet Online. Please ask a librarian if you need assistance. Items not available through Illinet may be ordered using our online Interlibrary Loan book request form.

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Locating Articles with Library Resources

The following library databases cover music as well as history and culture. Be sure to evaluate the sources in these databases before using them.

Use the new version Illinet Online (the library's online catalog) to determine if the library owns the journal in print or microfilm. All bound periodicals and microfilm are located on the lower level of the library. Also check Journals and Magazines Available Online for electronic access to journals. If the article you seek is unavailable from these sources, please request it using our online Interlibrary Loan article request form.

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Finding Information about Music and Culture on the Internet

Music Sites

• Classical Net:
  • Classical Music Information Sites
  • Opera Sites
  • Mozart Sites
• DW3: Classical Music Resources - from the Music Library, Duke University
  • Vocal Music
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Electronic Journals in Music and the Arts - from Columbia University
• Internet Resources for Music Scholars - from the Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
• Mozart Project
• Opera Glass - an opera information source with such information as libretti, source texts, performance histories, and discographies
  • Mozart
• Operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - includes biographical info, as well as being another source for libretti
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources - from the Cook Music Library, Indiana University
• WWW sites of interest to Musicologists

History and Culture Sources

• Eighteenth Century Resources - History
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• WWW-Virtual Library History Central Catalogue
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - available to students, faculty and staff only (see note above)

SEARCH ENGINES TO TRY:

1. www.altavista.com
2. www.google.com

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Using the Internet for Research

• The Spider's Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines
• The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly; or, Why it's a good idea to evaluate Web sources
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals

Citing Information

• MLA Style information - collected by E.C. librarians
  • For music, the best guide for MLA is Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format from Purdue University. See "Other Types of Sources" for sound recordings and "Basic Forms for Electronic Sources" for citing online information.
  • See the following sections in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 5th ed.1999 (R 808.042 M685Lp 1999, available at the Reference Desk) for more details on citing music:
    • Published scores are to be cited in the same way as books (section 4.8.5)
    • Sound recordings (section 4.8.2)
    • Video recordings (section 4.8.3)

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Created 3 September 2002 and last updated 12 September 2002
Created by Elaine Fetyko Page, Assistant Librarian
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