FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

Arts & Humanities Search (via PLU Library home page) Keyword and citation indexing of 1,300 leading international arts and humanities journals, 1980 to present. Some abstracts.

EBSCO (via PLU Library’s  Website) A multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly(peer reviewed) publications. This academic database provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) (via PLU Library’s Website) Provides indexing and abstracts to over 370 currently  published international music periodicals that cover nearly all aspects of the world of music. Also includes retrospective coverage from over 185 periodicals dating back as far as 1874.

Music Index. 1949- (ref.ML118.M84) A dictionary catalog with authors of articles, proper names, and subjects interfiled in one alphabetical list.  Includes information about reviews, discographies, festivals, instruments, etc.

Music Index Online (via PLU Library Website) An index to more than 655 international music                   periodicals that cover musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first      performances, and obituaries.

ProQuest (via Library Website)Provides access to several newspapers including the New York Times back to 1851.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 1969-  (ref.ML118.R4) Indexes journals, books, and dissertations.  Arranged in a classification system similar to library classification systems.
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the         journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound        volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books.  Journals at PLU also identifies any full-text journals we have available.

REFERENCE BOOKS

American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia (ref. ML102.M68H57 1999)

Baker's Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians (ref. ML105.B16 2000)

Baker's Biographical Dictionary Of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians (ref. ML105.S612 1997)

Dictionary Of Musical Technology (ref. ML102.E4C37 1992)

Encyclopedia Of Northwest Music: From Classical Recordings To Classic Rock Performances, Your Guide To The Best Of The Region (ref. ML106.U4N93 1999)

Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music (ref. ML100.G16 1998)

Guinness Encyclopedia Of Popular Music (ref. ML102.P66G84 1998)

Harvard Biographical Dictionary Of Music (ref. ML105.H38 1996)

Harvard Concise Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (ref. ML100.H36 1999)

International Dictionary Of Black Composers (ref. ML105.I5 1999)

Music Reference And Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography (ref. ML113.D83 1997)

Musical Terminology: A Practical Compendium In Four Languages (ref. ML108.B55 1999)

New Grove Dictionary Of American Music (ref. ML101.U6N48 1986)

New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz (ref. ML102.J3N48 1988)

New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (ref. ML100.N48 2001)

New Grove Dictionary Of Musical Instruments (ref. ML102.I5N48 1984)

New Grove Dictionary Of Opera (ref. ML102.O6N5 1992)

Norton/Grove Dictionary Of Women Composers (ref. ML105.N66 1995)

Oxford Companion To Music (ref. ML100.S37 2002)

Oxford Companion To Popular Music (ref. ML102.P66G35 1991)

Rock On Almanac : The First Four Decades Of Rock 'N' Roll : A Chronology (ref. ML3534.N58 1989)

Show Tunes : The Songs, Shows, And Careers Of Broadway's Major Composers (ref. ML128.M78S86 2000)

Women Composers : Music Through The Ages (ref. M2.W88 1996)

World Musicians (ref. ML385.W67 1999)
 
 

INTERNET

Classical Composers’ Database (http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=_phome)

Composers (http://www.schirmer.com/composers.html)

Composers Page (http://www.composers.net/)

Greatest Rock Composers of All Time (http://www.scaruffi.com/music/composer.html)

Music Research And Music Theory:  (http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/theory.html )

Music Research Sites:  (http://www.music.fsu.edu/research.html )

People of Jazz Index (http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/)

PLU Music Link Page: (http://www.plu.edu/~libr/web/music.html )

UW Music Libraries Home Page:  (http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Music/dr/eltxt.html)

Women Composers: A Bibliography of Internet Resources (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7282/women.html)
 
 
 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.

 
 

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