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MU 189 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Crawford, Richard. The American Musical Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Negro Spirituals. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Library, 1995.

Raffman, Diana. Language, Music, and Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.

Women and Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Yanow, Scott. Bebop. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 2000.

Yanow, Scott. Swing. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 2000.

 

Periodical Databases
 

EBSCO Database (password required)

  • EBSCO Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database.
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Bernstein, Leonard.
The infinite variety of music.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [c1966]. MT6 .B52

Boatwright, Howard.
Introduction to the theory of music.
New York: W.W. Norton, [1956]. MT6 .B648

Bookspan, Martin.
101 masterpieces of music and their composers.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. MT6 .B695 O5

Hansen, Peter S.
An introduction to twentieth century music.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1967. ML197 .H25 1967

Kamien, Robert.
Music: an appreciation.
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1976. MT6.K22 M9

Machlis, Joseph.
The enjoyment of music; an introduction to perceptive listening.
New York: W.W. Norton, [1970]. MT6 .M134 1970

May, Elizabeth.
Musics of many cultures: an introduction.
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1980. ML3798 .M87

Newman, William S.
Understanding music; an introduction to music's elements, styles, and forms for both the layman and the practitioner.
New York: Harper, [1961]. MT6 .N27 1961.

Ratner, Leonard G.
Music, the listener's art.
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1977. MT6 .R24 1977

Salzman, Eric.
Twentieth-century music: an introduction.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [1967]. ML197 .S17

Ulrich, Homer.
Music: a design for listening.
New York: Harcourt Brace, [1970]. MT6 .U535 1970.

 

Selected Websites

 

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