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Trial Database: Springer eBooks
The library is hosting a trial of Springer's eBooks...[More]
Posted Fri, September 05 2008

Davey Café Open for Business
The Davey Café has reopened for the 2008-2009 school year. Stop by!..[More]
Posted Tue, August 26 2008

New Lobby Exhibit of Chinese Christian Center Materials
The new library lobby exhibit features photographs, newspaper clippings, and newsletters related to the Center...[More]
Posted Mon, August 11 2008

Book Club to discuss The Golden Compass
The next faculty/staff book club discussion will feature The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman...[More]
Posted Wed, July 23 2008

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Internet Resources for Music

General Music Resources

Music Resources on the Internet (Indiana University) -- Extensive listings - a good place to start a general search
Digital Music and Copyright -- FAQs and more
Career Resources -- Maintained by Berklee College of Music, this offers ideas for what to do after graduation
Musipedia -- A site to help identify music themes and melodies

Composition

American Music Center -- Contemporary music resource and information center; grants and score library
IAWM (International Alliance for Women in Music) -- Resources on women composers, including some bibliographies and discographies
ICMA (International Computer Music Association) -- Software library and excellent collection of links on computer music

Ethnomusicology

Digital Tradition Folk Song Database -- Searchable index (full text search) of folk song lyrics, some with audio and scores
Ethnomusicology Online -- Includes an on-line journal, some reviews and selected links
Latin American Music Center -- Center for Latin American art music, including library and newsletter
Society for Ethnomusicology -- Includes multimedia appendices to articles in the SEM journal Ethnomusicology.

Jazz and Popular Music

AAAMC - Archives of African American Music and Culture -- Includes selected list of Internet resources for African American Music, from Indiana University
IASPM Home Page (International Association for the Study of Popular Music) -- Selected links on popular music, and IASPM membership information
Internet Underground Music Archive -- Large, eclectic site, featuring independent artists, many including soundfiles
Jazz Education Journal -- Online journal of the IAJE (International Association for Jazz Education).
MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music -- Site has "nearly 4,000 entries, most for performers, but also for songwriters, producers and record labels"
Red Hot & Cool Jazz -- Large collection of links, including discographies and soundfiles

Music Education

K-12 Resources for Music Educators - Covers all educational levels
Internet Resources for Music Educators - Sources compiled by our regional chapter of MENC
Music Education Resource Base -- Bibliographic database of resources in music and music education (includes Canadian Music Index)

Music History

American Musicological Society --Home page, including conference announcements
DDM-Online: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online -- A developing on-line version of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Medieval Music Database -- "Covers all of the music of the fourteenth century and all liturgical chant currently electronically indexed"; 70,000 works may be browsed. Features include searching by text and/or melody.
Gregorian Chant Home Page -- Overview and collection of chant-related links

Music Theory

CAIRSS (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System) -- Bibliographic database of music research literature
Journal for New Music Research - Electronic Appendix -- Includes some tables of contents and article abstracts
Music theory introduction at Dolmetsch.com -- Good site for music theory fundamentals. Includes downloadable manuscript papers.
Society for Music Theory -- Includes their online journal Music Theory Online.

Online Audio

"American Memory" collection: Online sound recordings from the Library of Congress -- Diverse collection of online audio recordings, focused on historical and ethnomusicological topics.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project -- Operated by the UC Santa Barbara Department of Special Collections. Online database of early 20th-century cylinder recordings featuring full audio of the collection and 24/7 streaming cylinder "radio."
Classical Music Library -- A streaming online music database, featuring classical music from over 32 labels. Includes a reference section with biographies, a glossary, images, and MIDI files. Use restricted to current Pacific users.

Sheet Music

Sheet Music Collections A list of sheet music collections with online access. Maintained by the Music Library Association.
19th-Century California Sheet Music A virtual library of approximately 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related material such as programs, advertisements, and photographs.
African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 Subject, name, and title access to digitized images (both covers and music) of 1,305 pieces of African American sheet music from Brown University, which has one of the largest library collections of sheet music (approximately 500,000 items) in United States.
Civil War Sheet Music Collection From the Performing Arts Reading Room of the Library of Congress, this collection includes digital images of over 2,500 pieces of sheet music about the Civil War, published during the war.
Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection From the Lewis Music Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The pieces in this online collection (ca. 75) date mostly from ca. 1890 to 1920, and all portray in their lyrics or cover art technologies that were new at that time (automobile, airplane, telephone, etc.).
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music From Johns Hopkins University. An online catalog of over 29,000 pieces of American sheeet music dating from 1780 to 1960. For works from before 1923, an image of the cover and of each page of music is retrievable.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 This online collection currently includes over 47,000 musical compositions that were registered for copyright between 1870 and 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. Both catalog records and digital images of the sheet music are available, allowing users to search or browse by author, title, or subject, and view the complete musical notation.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 Documenting the development of popular music in America and the American music publishing industry, this collection includes over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright between 1820 and 1860.

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