Music History II
Need help with your research? Contact:
Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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How do I find ideas for topic narrowing, along with bibliographies of recommended books and journal articles?
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Trexler Library B level call # 780.3 N532n)
Signed entries by experts. Authoritative source of information on composers and their music. Popular music receives less attention here.
How do I find scholarly books on my subject?
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature ***RECOMMENDED***
Includes scholarly books on the history of music.Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.Google Books
Portions or full text are available for some books. Print copies may be obtain through interlibrary loan.
How do I locate peer-reviewed journal articles?
Academic Search Premier
A good starting place for journals, and includes the full text of about 3000 journals. Limit to "peer reviewed" to find only scholarly articles. Back issues of journals begin as early as 1990. Recent issues may not be included yet, due to publisher agreement. Journals held in Trexler Library are marked accordingly.America History and Life
Available by library subscription. Good for U.S. history and culture, including popular culture, back to 1492.Google Scholar
Free resource. Some full text may be available, especially when searching from campus where library-subscribed full text is often linked directly to Google Scholar. The surest way to verify all points of Muhlenberg access to any full text is to run a journal title search in the library catalog for the article in question.Historical Abstracts
Available by library subscription. Good for European history and culture back to 1492.JSTOR
Full text from peer-reviewed scholarly periodicals.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature ***RECOMMENDED***
Scholarly articles on music.
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 search in the Trexler Library Catalog on the journal title to determine if it is available full text through our library.
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
How do I locate primary source material on my topic (letters, diaries, personal websites, early reviews)
The web can be a rich source of primary documentation. Here is an example on Phillip Glass and his opera SatyagrahaTrexler Library Catalog ***RECOMMENDED***
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
How do I cite sources in a bibliography?
For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library'sCitation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero.
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