This subject guide covers music resources available at the Johnston Memorial Library, including full-text journals, magazine, and newspaper articles,  music websites, and printed materials in the Reference Collection. This is not a comprehensive subject guide, but rather a selective list of materials that are most useful for locating information in this field. Library location and call  number are provided for print publications. 

• ERIC E*Subscribe 
Provides full-text online access to ERIC documents (ED's only) from 1996 to the present with abstracts available for ERIC documents from 1966 forward. 
 
• Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online 
Full-text version of 29-volume print dictionary with musical examples, family histories, important musical cities, and performing societies. 
 
• InfoTrac OneFile 
Access to scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images from arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. 
 
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe 
Full-text web database of journal and newspaper articles including information on performers, concerts, and performance reviews. 
 
• Oxford University Press Online Journals.                                                                                                               The Oxford University Press is well-known for its excellence in research, scholarship, and education. The publisher is widely recognized as a premier publisher of journals. This database provides online access to 134 periodical titles in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Several full-text music journals are available.

• Arts and Humanities Search 
Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. 
 
• Dissertation Abstracts 
Dissertation Abstracts Online. 
 
• Music Literature (RILM) 
The Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale's citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. 
 
• Periodicals Contents Index 
Electronic index to the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. 

• Project Muse 
Mostly humanities and social sciences journal issues available online from Johns Hopkins University Press. 
 
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 

See Music Literature (RILM)
 
• WorldCat FirstSearch 
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. 

• Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians.  by Eileen Southern
REF ML105.S67 1982 
 
• Biographical dictionary of musicians.  by Theodore Baker
REF ML105.B16 1984 
 
• Book of world-famous music: Classical, popular and folk.  by James J. Fuld
REF ML113.F8 1971 
 
• Complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950.  by Roger D. Kinkle
REF ML102.P66K55 
 
• Composers since 1900: A biographical and critical guide.  by David Ewen
REF ML 390.E833 
 
• Concise encyclopedia of music and musicians.  edited by Martin Cooper
REF ML100.C78 
 
• Dictionary of composers and their music: A listener's companion.  by Eric Gilder
REF ML113.G4 1986 
 
• Dictionary of twentieth-century composers (1911-1971).  by Kenneth Thompson
REF ML118.T5 1973b 
 
• Encyclopedia of pop, rock and soul.  by Irwin Stambler
REF ML102.P66S8 1989 
 
• Great composers through the eyes of their contemporaries.  by Otto Zoff
REF ML390.Z7 
 
• Guide to the pianist's repertoire.  by Maurice Hinson
REF ML128.P3H5 
 
• HarperCollins dictionary of music.  by Christine Ammer
REF ML100.A48 1995 
 
• Music business: Career opportunities and self-defense.  by Dick Weissman
REF ML 3790.W4 1990 
 
• Musical instruments: A comprehensive dictionary.  by Sibyl Marcuse
REF ML102.I5M37 1975 
 
• Musical instruments: An illustrated history: From antiquity to the present.  by Mary Remnant
REF ML460.R36 1989 
 
• New Grove dictionary of jazz.  edited by Barry Kernfield
REF ML102.J3N48 1988 
 
• New Grove dictionary of music and musicians.  edited by Stanley Sadie
REF ML100.N48 (See also online version) 
 
• New Grove dictionary of musical instruments.  edited by Stanley Sadie
REF ML102.I5N48 1984 
 
• New Grove twentieth-century American masters: Ives, Thomson, Sessions, Cowell, Gershwin, Copland, Carte.
REF ML390.N469 1988 
 
• New Harvard dictionary of music.  edited by Don Michael Randel
REF ML100.N485 1986 
 
• New Oxford companion to music.  edited by Denis Arnold
REF ML100.s37 1983 
 
• Opera plot index: A guide to locating plots and descriptions of operas, operettas, and other works of the musical theater, and associated works.  by William E. Studwell and David A. Hamilton
REF ML128.O4S8 1990 
 
• Oxford dictionary of music.  by Michael Kennedy
REF ML100.K35 1985 
 
• Schirmer guide to schools of music and conservatories throughout the world.  by Nancy Uscher
REF ML12.U8 1988 
 
• Singer's Repertoire.  by Berton Coffin
REF ML128.V7C67 
 
• Songs of the American theater: A comprehensive listing.  by Richard Lewine
REF ML128.S3L53 
 
• Songwriter's market.
REF MT67.S657 
 
• Thames and Hudson encyclopedia of 20th-century music.  by Paul Griffiths
REF ML100.G85 1986 
 
• Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice.  by Miriam Stewart-Green
REF ML128.V7S85 

• All Music Guide This site provides access to links on a variety of music types.

• American Music Therapy Association 
The mission of the American Music Therapy Association is to advance public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and increase access to quality music therapy services in a rapidly changing world. 
 
• American Musicological Society 
The American Musicological Society is a non-profit organization that advances research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship. 
 
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) 
ASCAP is a membership association of U.S. composers, songwriters and publishers of  every kind of music worldwide. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers and it protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works. 
 
• Classic Saxophone On-Line 
This site is the global source for quality saxophone literature, recordings, videos, accessories and information. 

• Classical Net
This site features reviews of more than 1800 CDs, as well as 5500 files and over 3800 links to a wide array of classical music sites. 
 
• Cornet Compendium: The History and Development of the Nineteenth Century Cornet
Schwartz has given us a most useful and badly needed addition to the growth of knowledge of the cornet-one that will undoubtedly prompt still more research into the history of this magnificent instrument. 
 
• Cyber Hymnal 
This site contains Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations.  It contains lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, and more. 
 
• Double Bass (Upright Bass) Links Page 
This site links to numerous pages pertaining to the double bass (upright bass).  Where personal pages have been made available, links are included. 

• Experimental Musical Instruments Home Page 
Experimental Musical Instruments is an organization devoted to unusual musical sound sources. 

• Glenn Gould Archives 
This site is one of four created by the National Library of Canada and sponsored by Industry Canada. 

• International Clarinet Association 
This site contains publications and information gathered by people working together, collaborating on the artistry, technique, teaching, and physics of this wonderful instrument, the clarinet. 

• International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians (ICSOM) 
The ICSOM site is dedicated to "the promotion of a better and more rewarding livelihood for the skilled orchestral performer and to the enrichment of the cultural life of our society." 

• International Double Reed Society (IDRS) 
This site is dedicated to the world-wide organization of double reed (oboe and bassoon family) players, instrument manufacturers and enthusiasts. 

• International Trumpet Guild (ITG) 
This site promotes communications among trumpet players around the world and improves the artisitic level of performance, teaching, and literature associated with the trumpet. 
 
• Internet Cello Society (ICS) 
The Internet Cello Society site seeks to advance the knowledge and joy of cello playing around the world. 

• Jazz Online 
Jazz Online is the world’s first commercial interactive network devoted exclusively to jazz. 

• MENC: National Association for Music Education 
The mission of MENC: The National Association for Music Education is to advance music education by 
encouraging the study and making of music by all. 

• Music Education Online 
This site provides information on quality instrumental music instruction to public and private schools throughout the greater Los Angeles area. 

• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. 

• musicjobs.com: Best Sites for Jobs 
This site provides links to online job search pages nation-wide. 

• National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc. (NATS) 
The National Association of Teachers of Singing is the largest association of teachers of singing in the world whose aim is to encourage the highest standards of singing through excellence in teaching and the promotion of vocal education and research. The goals include the professional advancement of the talented and the enrichment of the general public. 

• National Flute Association, Inc. (nfaONLINE) 
This site advances the cause of the flute by encouraging an increasingly higher standard of artistic excellence for the flute, its performers, and its literature; helpfulness and fellowship among members; a constantly greater contribution through the flute to the musical life and culture of all peoples; the creation and/or sponsorship of worthwhile projects relative to the flute and flute playing; and the formulation of guidelines and establishment of criteria for the upgrading of flute teaching. 

• Opera Glass 
This site provides detailed information including libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, and pictures, background information, and more on any of a number of operas plus pointers to many other opera servers. 

• Percussion Information 
Provides links to information on various aspects of percussion. 

• Percussive Arts Society (PAS) 
This valuable resource is designed to help promote percussion education, research, performance, and an appreciation for the percussive arts around the globe. 
 
• Piano Page 
This site provides education for professional piano technicians and to operate an examinations program to qualify technicians as Registered Piano Technicians (RPT). 
 
• Public Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts 
This site links to other music pages where information on libretti and vocal scores can be obtained. 

• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) 
This site provides information about the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and its activities as well as links to other online resources maintained by the SSCM. 

• Societe Internationale des Cornistes (IHS, International Horn Society) 
The purpose of this site is to promote musical education with particular reference to the horn. 

• Society for Music Theory (SMT) 
This site is designed to promote music theory as both a scholarly and a pedagogical discipline. 

• Viola Web Site 
The purpose of this site is to serve as a valuable tool for providing knowledge and practical ideas of how to improve techniques for violinists. 
 
• Violin Society of America (VSA) 
This site was created for the purpose of promoting the art and science of making, repairing and preserving stringed musical instruments and their bows. 

• WNUR-FM Jazz Web 
Provides a wealth of information pertaining to jazz and its performances. 

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources 
Provides information and links to music resources around the world.  This site is offered as a service of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University. 

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