Music
Article Databases
Academic Search Complete- Academic multi-disciplinary database providing full-text articles for nearly 4,600 scholarly journals, including many music journals.
America: History and Life - Comprehensive index for the study of the historical and cultural aspects of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Classical Music Library - Database of classical music recordings available for listening and download. Over 50,000 recordings searchable by composer, genre, period, instrument and category. Broad repertoire of recordings from all periods. Course folders and playlists are available for music classes at Gonzaga.
JSTOR - A full-text retrospective database which includes a number of core scholarly journals in music and music literature and other fields. The full-text of each journal starts with the first issue of the first volume.
Naxos Music Library - the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 52,677 CDs with more than 756,740 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
Music Journals
Books on Music in the Library Catalog
Browse for books about Music Appreciation
Websites on Music
Check this out for the most up to date list of links on Foley Library's Delicious account
The Classical Music Pages
Provides information on classical music, biographical information about composers, explanations of musical forms and is designed to be of use for everyone from 'beginners' to the music professional.
URL: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/Welcome.html
Classical Music Navigator
Organized for the user to find over 400 composers and classical types of music.
URL: http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
Enjoyment of Music Online Tutor
You can listen to more than 250 musical excerpts in a quiz format, review transitions between eras, or learn more about 80 composers. Also includes timelines relating to musical eras (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th century), and links to additional material. From W.W. Norton and Company.
URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/enj9/shorter/
Music History 102: A Guide to Western Composers and their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present
An extensive original collection of text, images, and audio clips of great works of Western classical music. From the Internet Public Library.
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
Additional Resources for Music
Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music REF ML100.B38 2003
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (9 vols.) REF ML 100.G16 1998
Harvard Dictionary of Music REF ML 100.A64 2003
