Music History Seminar: Songs of Schubert & Schumann

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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How do I find scholarly introductions to musical composers and genres, and to literary figures?

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Trexler Library Reference 780.3 N532n)
Signed entries by experts. Authoritative source of information for nearly all peformers or composers listed on class handout.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Ref Collection 810.920 D554)

How do I find scholarly books dealing with music and literature of the period?

Trexler Library Catalog
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.

WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Books, Videos, Music
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Where can I find recent news about an artist published in newspapers and magazines such as Billboard?

Academic Search Premier
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Includes many popular magazines, including music and media publications such as Billboard.

LexisNexis Academic
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Archive of hundreds of newspapers, such as the New York Times. Updated daily.

How do I locate peer-reviewed journal articles?

general-interest databases

Academic Search Premier
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
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.

Omnifile
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Includes extensive full text, from both popular and scholarly periodicals. Limit to "refereed" to find only scholarly articles.

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Not always full text. Check our library's online catalog (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text of a journal.

discipline-specific databases

MLA
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
The standard index for literary criticism. Some links to full text.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Scholarly articles on many aspects of gender and music.

Historical Abstracts
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
World history database. Good for European 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 > ILL.

How do I cite sources in a bibliography?

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, follow the path Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.