Music: By Subject Subject Guide

History and Musicology

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See also Guides to the Field in the Music: General guide for more books on music research and library skills and resources.

Books on Music History and Musicology
General histories, ML 160-161; by time period, ML 162-197; by country, ML 197-350 (General Stacks)
Musicology/Ethnomusicology: ML 3797-3799 (General Stacks)

Guide to Library Research in Music
Ref ML 3797 .B29 2008
A textbook on library and computer-based research for music. Explains the research process, offers instruction in information-searching techniques and library-based organziational systems, and introduces an array of electronic and print music resources.
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Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing About Music
ML 3797 .H537 2009
This is both a textbook and a reference book "about the way we research music and write about it." Of British origin, this edition has been adapted for use in North America. Recommended for graduate students. More info

American Musicological SocietyEstablished in 1934 to advance research in various fields of music. Especially useful is their comprehensive list of "Web sites of interest to musicologists."

Center for Research Libraries Music CollectionsCRL's music collections include source materials related to opera, English church music, jazz, instruments, American music prior to 1830, and many others. WMU faculty and students may borrow CRL materials through interlibrary loan.

Center for the History of Music Theory and LiteratureProvides access to several music history- and theory-related databases: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online; Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography; Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarium and Saggi musicali italiani (databases of theory treatises).

College Music SocietySupporting research and scholarship in music.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
A bibliography and index of in-progress and completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in music history, theory, and ethnomusicology. Also in print (through April 1995) at Ref ML 128 .M8. More info

Renaissance and Baroque Music Chronology: ComposersTimelines of composers and music history, twelfth through eighteenth centuries. Links to other sites.

RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales
Ref ML 113 .I6
An inventory of music manuscripts, secondary sources, librettos, libraries. RISM's goal is to locate and catalog all surviving musical sources from the earliest times to about 1800. In print in the library. More info

RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales: United Kingdom and IrelandThis site offers free access to RISM information about manuscripts in British and Irish libraries. Search or browse. Downloadable incipits are included. More info

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