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Subject Guide - Music
Compiled by Paul Jackson, Visual and Performing Arts Librarian Liaison.
Updated 2005.
Selected Reference Books
REF ML 100 .A64 Harvard Dictionary of Music
REF ML 100 .N48 1989 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
REF ML 101 .U6 N48 1986 New Grove Dictionary of American Music
REF ML 102 .F66 S7 1983 Encyclopedia of Folk, Country & Western
Music
REF ML 102 .I5 N48 1984 New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
REF ML 102 .J3 N48 1994 New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
REF ML 102 .O6 N5 1992 New Grove Dictionary of Opera
REF ML 102 .R6 R64 1995 New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
REF ML 105 .B16 2001 Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
REF ML 3507 .O94 2000 Oxford Companion to Jazz
Selected Circulating Books
M 2065 .E416 International Book of Christmas Carols
M 3561 .T3 T5 Jazz: A History
ML 160 .O982 1973 Oxford History of Music
ML 160 .S89 1965 Source Readings in Music History
ML 200 .H58 Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction
ML 1711 .M73 1983 Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American
Musical
ML 1460 .H46 1982 Great Singers on Great Singing
M T6 .E89 Complete Book of Classical Music
M T248 .H537 1998 Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing the Piano
and Electronic Keyboards
M T955 .B213 1985 Complete Singer-Actor: Training for Music Theater
Full-Text Books Online
NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Classical Music and Great Jobs for Music
Majors
Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
Journal of Singing
Sing Out
The Library's subscriptions to magazines that are of interest to
our Music students are primarily in electronic format. Full-text
articles are available in electronic formats through online databases.
(see below)
Magazine, Journal & Newspaper
Article Databases or Online Periodicals
Academic
Search Premier | Off-Campus
Access
Proquest
Research Library | Off-Campus
Access
Amazing Sounds:
The Alternative Music E-Magazine
ASCAP: American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
MuSICA: The Music
and Science Information Computer Archive
Music Theory Online: A
Journal of Criticism, Commentary, Research, and Scholarship
Other Library
Materials
Videos/DVD
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #4-E02a Our
Musical Heritage: Music of the Middle Ages
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #4-E03 EAV History of Music
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #7-D13 Larry Carlton on Guitar
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #6-G13 Career Success Series: Music
VHS E98.D S64 1999 Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums, and Song (New
Age)
CD
CDM CD 1002 1986 Opera Arias [Samuel Ramey et al.] (Classical)
CDM CD 1006 1990 An Old Song Re-Sung: American Concert Songs [Thomas
Hampson & Arem Guzelimian] (Classical)
CDM CD 1016 1992 Love Songs [Arleen Auger & Dalton Baldwin]
(Classical)
CDM CD 1026 1989 Letter from Home [Pat Metheny Group] (Jazz)
CD-Rom
CD 1027 1996 Multimedia History
of Music and Great Composers
CD 1028 1996 Multimedia Musical Instruments
Searching the Library Catalog
The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you.
The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides
access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the
following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in
the library catalog:
Music, musicology, jazz, folk music, popular music, New Age music,
vocal music, instrumental music
Selected Web Resources
The Blue Highway
CMT.com
Guitar Lesson World
International Bluegrass Music Association
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Piano Nanny
Rock + Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Teoría: Music Theory Web
Welcome to Opera World
Welcome to the
Classical Music Pages
World Music Central
Selected Statistical
Resources
Billboard.com (Charts)
Recording
Industry Association of America: Facts & Figures
Selected Online Images and
Other Media
Classroom Clipart
Library of
Congress-- Music, Theater, and Dance: An Illustrated Guide
Music Graphics
Galore
Other Library
Catalogs
Colorado State
University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado
Unified Catalog
University of Northern College
Library Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance
Library Distric
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