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Music Research Guide

Books in Academic Libraries
Search for books at Owens Library, other Missouri academic libraries, and libraries throughout the United States.
Articles
Locate periodical articles for music research.
Oxford Music Online
Locate scholarly essays on music topics and biographical information on musicians and music personalities with this comprehensive reference database.
Streaming Audio & Music Audiovisual in Owens
Use these databases to listen to streaming audio performances of classical music and Jazz.
Music Scores In Owens Library
Identify what music scores are available and where to find them. Plus link to transcriptions and translations of song texts with IPA Source.
World Wide Web
Sources and strategies for searching the web for scholarly music resources.
Related Fine Arts
This is a partial list of resources for other fine arts related to music.
MLA Style
See examples of how to cite various sources, including books and journals.
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Books in Academic Libraries: Online Catalogs and eBooks

Library Catalog

Search the library catalog for books located in Owens Library, in 4 academic libraries
in our Towers region, or in over 50 MOBIUS Missouri academic libraries. REQUEST books Owens Library does not own from MOBIUS libraries.

WorldCat
Use this database to search for books across the United States outside of Missouri and borrow them using Interlibrary Loan Book/Microfilm Request.

eBooks
Search Owens Library's eBook collection of over 52,000 volumes, including over 400 eBooks on music and books on music.

Google Book Search
Use Google Books Search to search entire book contents for keywords or phrases and view the keywords or phrases in context. Use the Find this book in a library link to determine the closest library owning the book (and then use MOBIUS REQUEST or InterLibrary Loan to obtain a copy of the book).

Tips for Using Printed Books
Get the most out of the printed books in our collection by keeping these tips in mind.


 
Search for Articles and Locate Full Text When Available

Full Text Music Periodical Articles

This a link to full text periodical articles available at Owens Library.

Music Periodical Databases
These are the databases recommended by librarians for music research.

Search for Articles
Link to all periodical databases available through Owens Library.

Google Scholar
"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research."
 
icon Locating Periodicals in Owens Library       
     Learn how to find the call number, the format/media type, and the Owens Library location
     of a periodical title, i.e., NOT the title of the journal or magazine article itself.
icon Types of Periodicals
     Determine how to tell the difference between a scholarly journal and a popular magazine.
icon Locating Peer-Reviewed Periodicals 
     Discover how to limit a search to refereed or peer-reviewed articles.
 
Streaming Audio & Music Audiovisual in Owens

Classical Music Library

Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries.
Naxos Music Library 
"Naxos is the world's leading producer of classical music. Naxos produces more new recordings than any other label or corporate entity. The library offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues as well as Jazz and World music, educational products and a growing range of Historical recordings featuring the biggest performers in the history of classical music."
Naxos Music Jazz
"Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online."

Audiovisual resources in Owens Library
To find audiovisual resources in Owens Library follows these instructions for using the Owens Library Catalog:
a) Find music CDs
b) Find videos and DVDs related to music



Music Scores in Owens Library

1)
Search for music scores in the Owens Library catalog


2) Search for orchestral, instrumental, choral, vocal, or opera scores in books in the Owens Library Catalog or MOBIUS catalog:

a) Use the limiter s:scores then add limiter for composer or some other category (orchestral, instrumental, choral, vocal, etc.)
Example:
s:scores and a:beethoven and orchestra
b) To search MOBIUS for music scores in books after searching the Owens Library Catalog click Search MOBIUS

mobius search

c)
REQUEST books Owens Library does not own from MOBIUS libraries

3) IPA Source
"Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 2500 texts!"

 
World Wide Web: Music Resources
Music WWW Resources
These sites are chosen by Owens librarians to complement course assignments in music.

Search the Internet
A list of search engines and search strategies for getting the most out of the Internet for college level assignments.

Google Scholar
Beta test site for Google's search engine for scholarly books, articles, documents, and web sites.




Fine Arts Resources

English Research (for literature sources)

Fine Arts Print Reference Sources

A list of the essential fine arts reference works in Owens Library.

Oxford Music Online

"Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content."

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Revised (January 5, 2012)
Created (October 2006)
Current Author: Frank Baudino
Links Verified (October 2008)
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