Welcome to the Music Research Tools guide. Here you will learn about the various tools available to you through the library to start research for various projects. Music materials are found in a variety of places through Campbell Library and through the library website:
The Performing Arts Collection of Campbell Library is where you will find all of the scores, CDs, and most of the reference books (encyclopedias, special music dictionaries, catalogs, and introductory research books), and some of the books on music education and performance.
Campbell Library contains the majority of our books on music history, music performance, music education, the music industry, and music therapy. Check with a librarian or a library assistant to see where your resources might be located.
This guide, the guides linked below, and many of the library databases provide access to lots of materials that you cannot find for free online.
This is a continuously updated online version of the former historically significant print references: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Articles include biographies, bibliographies, composers’ works lists, and illustrations. It includes numerous “tools and resources,” or indexes, for accessing the textual and musical content as well as links to related sites, sound archives, illustrations.
Indexing and abstracts for many international music periodicals with some coverage from 1874. Subjects include history, education, performance, composition, theory, ethnomusicology, popular music.
Provides streaming audio of music recordings, with genres including classical, jazz, folk, and some non-western world music.