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About This Guide
The purpose of this guide is to inform students, faculty, and our community of the many types of resources available to facilitate the study of music, be it scholarly research or personal interest.
The Eugene McDermott Library collections and electronic resources include books and articles on biographies, theory, and scholarly analysis of music, sheet music, and video and audio collections of musical performances.
Use the navigation tabs to learn about library materials and how to access them.
The following Library of Congress Call Number ranges can be used to locate physical materials in the Library's collections:
Dance GV1580 - GV1799.4
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Top 5 Resources
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Naxos Music Library OnlineNaxos offers thousands of tracks of jazz, film music, world music, and classic and contemporary rock, with customizable playlists supported. Recordings are searchable by genre, label, instrument, composer, or performer.
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Naxos Video LibraryThis is a performing arts streaming video library with hundreds of videos of operas, ballets, documentaries, classical music performances, and musical tours of historic places.
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Performing Arts POWERSEARCH This link opens in a new window
This searches the following databases simultaneously: Art & Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Communication & Mass Media Complete, and Humanities Full Text.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)Part of the Web of Science Core Collection, A&HCI contains citations and bibliographic information for hundreds of leading journals in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, and more. This index features analysis and sorting of articles by the amount of times they have been used or cited.
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Oxford Journals Online-- access to Music and Letters, the Musical Quarterly, and Music Theory Spectrum and Therapy.