Creative Arts Librarian
Shirley Lincicum
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lincics@wou.edu
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Books

In our Reference collection:

• Garland encyclopedia of world music ML100 .G16 1998
  A comprehensive encyclopedia that examines music traditions from around the globe.
• New Grove dictionary of music and musicians ML 100 .N48 2001
  A comprehensive music encyclopedia. Emphasis on Western and classical music.
• Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians ML105 .B16 2001
  Provides biographical information for notable musicians.
• Music index ML118 .M84
  Provides citations for articles published in music magazines and journals between 1949 to 1997.
• Encyclopedia of popular music ML102.P66 G84 1998
  An encyclopedia covering topics in popular music.
• New Grove dictionary of jazz ML102.J3 N48 2001
  An encyclopedia covering topics in jazz. Also profiles prominent jazz musicians.

Search the online catalog for scores or sound recordings

• Music search
  To search for works by a particular composer, enter the composer's last name and a keyword or two from the title.

Browse the online catalog by subject to find books on popular topics:
Chamber music
Choral music
Composition (Music)
Concerto
Conducting
Ethnomusicology
Folk music
Harmony
Instrumental music
Instrumentation and orchestration   Jazz
Music
Music appreciation
Music -- History and criticism
Music -- Instruction and study
Music -- Performance
Music -- Theory
Musical analysis
Musicians
Musicology
Opera
Orchestral music   Popular music
Singing
Sound
Symphony
Vocal music

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Journals

Search the Journal Title List by topic Search for journals in JSTOR by topic
Music, Dance, Drama & Film   Music
Performing Arts
Current subscriptions
American music
The beat
Black music research journal
Bulletin -- Council for Research in Music Education
Clavier
Computer music journal
Down beat
Echo: a music centered journal
Electronic musician
Ethnomusicology
The instrumentalist
Journal of music theory
Journal of music therapy
Journal of seventeenth-century music
Journal of singing
Journal of the American Musicological Society
Keyboard
Music & letters
Music theory online
The musical quarterly
Notes
Opera news
The Orff echo
Perspectives of new music
Rolling stone

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Internet sites

• Music bookmarks
  Bookmarks to music-related web sites compiled by Shirley on del.icio.us
• AMG All Music Guide
  A free online reference source providing information about popular and classical music. Provides brief biographical profiles of notable artists, songwriters, and composers, including listings of works written and/or recorded.
• Canadian Music Periodicals Index
  Provides citations for articles published in Canadian music periodicals. Includes nearly 30,000 entries for articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. 500 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented, almost 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed. A free service provided by the National Library of Canada.
• Center for Popular Music
  Devoted to the study of American popular music from the pre-revolutionary era to the present. Provides searchable online databases of its extensive collection of documents, including sheet music, rare books, trade catalogs, and sound recordings. Useful for researching individual works and/or composers/song writers.
• Gramophone: the classical music web site
  The electronic arm of Gramophone magazine, this site includes a daily international classical music news service, unique feature articles, and a section devoted to the annual Gramophone Awards. The site also hosts Gramofile, an online database of CD reviews stretching back to 1983. It also features historical archive material from previous issues of the magazine, extra news channels, audio clips and expanded information on music competitions. Search the entire contents of the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music for free.
• Lied and Art Song Texts Page
  Provides an archive of more than 18,000 texts used in Lieder and other classical Art Songs as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The site has frequent updates.
• Magnatune
  A record label that supports and promotes "open music" distribution.
• Musipedia: The Open Music Encyclopedia
  A searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour. Uses the "Melodyhound" melody search engine, which allows users to find and identify a tune even if the melody is all you know.
• Music School Address Book
  A searchable directory containing contact information for more than 900 college music schools/programs in the United States. Maintained by the University of Alabama School of Music.
• Smithsonian Global Sound
  Leading publisher of world music sound recordings. Database is searchable by geographic region or instrument. Offers reasonably priced downloads and free sample clips.
• Librarians' Internet Index: Music Provides an extensive and well-organized listing of links to music-related web sites and Internet resources.

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Scores and sheet music

• All scores owned by the WOU Library
  An alphabetical listing from WOLF of all scores in our print collection. To refine this list to include only scores for particular instrumentation or by specific composers, click the "modify search" button at the top of the screen and enter your keywords.
• FreeHandMusic.com
  A leading online sheet music retailer. Catalog includes over 85,000 downloadable sheet music titles from the world's leading artists, composers and publishers. Software allows users to print, transpose, and listen to scores after purchase.
• Music-Scores.com
  Maintains an extensive collection of downloadable sheet music by classical composers. Provides free access to a limited number of files per day for non-members. Also provides midi files.
• Musica Viva Free Sheet Music Directory
  Lists web sites that provide free downloads of sheet music.
• UT Song Index
  A searchable database listing individual songs found in more than 1,500 anthologies owned by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Useful for determining which published anthologies contain particular songs. Once identified, you can search WOLF, Summit, or WorldCat to obtain a copy of the anthology itself.
• Sheet Music Consortium
  Provides a large database of sheet music owned by various research libraries, some of which has been digitized, so that it is available in full-text on the web. Search or browse by keyword, song title, composer, etc. Covers primarily American music published in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Mutopia Features an expanding collection of sheet music that you can download, print out, and use for free. Predominantly covers works by classical composers.

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Grants and Foundations

• National Endowment for the Arts
  Provides information about NEA grants and other tools to support grant seekers in arts fields.
• Artslynx Arts Funding list
  A handy list of sites that provide information about arts funding.
• Oregon Arts Commission
  A division of the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department that seeks to foster the arts in Oregon and maintain their excellence. Nine commissioners, appointed by the governor, determine policies, establish long-range plans, and review applications to grants programs to determine funding levels.
• Oregon Cultural Trust
  A statewide cultural plan to raise significant new funds to invest in Oregon's arts, humanities and heritage. Plans to distribute more than $90 million in grant funds throughout the state over the next decade.

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Organizations

• American Federation of Musicians The largest union in the world that represents professional musicians.
• Music Publisher's Association Directory of Music Publishers Extensive listing of publishers of printed music. Includes information on imprints.
• Recording Industry Association of America
  The trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Web site provides useful marketing data, including statistics on sales of music recordings.
• Directory of Musical Organizations, Societies & Clubs on the Web An extensive list compiled by the Music Library at the University of Washington.