American Music
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Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
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email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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What websites are out there on Lehigh Valley music?
Bach Choir of Bethlehem (http://www.bach.org/)
Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem (http://www.cmsob.org/)
Allentown Symphony (http://www.allentownsymphony.org/)
Musikfest (http://www.musikfest.org/info/)
Celtic Classic (http://www.celticfest.org/)
How do I find scholarly books on my subject?
Trexler Library Catalog ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.Here are some books that contain relevant material:
Allentown 1762-1987 (level C, call #974.827 A433se)
19th, 20th centuries.Allentown: A Pictorial History (level C, call #974.827 B655a)
19th, 20th centuries.Proceedings of the Lehigh County Historical Society (level C, call #974.827 L522p)
20th century. See especially index in 2004 issue, but also general index.Pennsylvania Dutch, by Klees (level C, call #974.81 K63p)
18th century.Pennsylvania Dutch, by Parsons (level C, call #974.81 P272p)
18th century.Lehigh Valley: An Illustrated History (level C, call #974.82 H177l)
20th century.A History of Bethlehem Pennsylvania (level C, call #974.822 L661h)
18th, 19th centuries.Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans (level C, call #974.81 P4161 v. 17)
18th, 19th centuries.Bethlehem of Pennsylvania (level C, call #974.822 B5621)
18th, 19th centuries.Bethlehem of Pennsylvania: The Golden Years (level C, call #974.822 B5622)
19th, 20th centuries.America's Musical Life: A History (level B, call #780.973 C899a)
18th, 19th centuries.Historical Notes on Music in Bethlehem, PA. (level B, call #780.9748 G847h)
18th, 19th centuries.Music and Musicians of Pennsylvania (level B, call #780.9748 R739m)
18th, 19th centuries.Musical Life in the Pennsylvania Settlements of the Unitas Fratrum (level B, call #780.9748 D249m)
18th, 19th centuries.The Bethlehem Bach Choir (level B, call #780.9 W235b)
19th, 20th centuries.Church Music and Musical Life in Pennsylvania in the XVIII Century (level B, call #783 N277c)
18th century.Northampton Heritage (level C, call #974.822 A361n)
18th, 19th centuries.
How do I find newspaper articles about music in the Lehigh Valley?
Lehigh University Brown & White (http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/brownandwhite/)
Full text of the Lehigh University newspaper from 1890s to 2000.Morning Call ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Includes full text of all articles published 1982 to present. Especially strong in 20th century, but also includes articles on early Lehigh history.
To acquire books not in our collection, use interlibrary loan via:
WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Library catalogs
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
How do I locate peer-reviewed journal articles?
general-interest databases
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
Scholarly articles on many aspects of gender and music.America History and Life ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Databases A to Z
World history database. Good for U.S. history and culture back to 1492.getting to the full text. . .
Once you have found the citation of a journal article, click on the GET IT link from within any database, or visit Trexler Library website and search in the Catalog on the journal title to determine if itl is available full text through our library.
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be requested from within the database, or by following this path: Trexler Library website > Interlibrary Loan.
Can I search all the library databases and catalog together, in one search?
Most of the databases and the library catalog can be searched together in a new library search engine called Search Central found on the Trexler Library website. Most useful when working with narrow topics where you need everything that's available. Several search features are missing from the original databases, like relevance, and language and peer review limiters.
How do I cite sources in a bibliography?
For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/reshelp/citations.html).
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/).
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