MUSIC HISTORY
LIBRARY GUIDE
BASIC SOURCES FOR MUSIC
HARVARD DICTIONARY OF MUSIC
The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Edited by Don Michael Randel. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.
GROVE
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, Inc., 2001. [NGII]
29 vols.
Also online at: http://www.stetson.edu/library/databases.php
Choose Grove from alphabetic list
FINDING MATERIALS IN THE LOCAL CATALOG
See main library's guide to searching WEBCAT
http://www2.stetson.edu/library/using_webcat.pdf
note: you can limit your search by FORMAT and LOCATION
WEBCAT is located at http://cat.stetson.edu/
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
See main library's web page
http://www.stetson.edu/library
Choose the second link, Library Databases. http://www.stetson.edu/library/databases.php
The following databases are appropriate for searching music history topics:
A&H SEARCH, ARTICLE 1ST INDEX, BIOGRAPHY INDEX, EBSCOHOST
ACADEMIC, GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC, MUSIC INDEX,
PROQUEST RESEARCH LIBRARY, WILSONWEB, WORLDCAT.
for a detailed guide to searching the Music Index, see
http://www.stetson.edu/library/ra25.html
for a list of journals held by Stetson, see
http://www2.stetson.edu/library/
click on Journals button
FINDING MATERIALS NOT OWNED BY THE STETSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
See main library's web page for INTERLIBRARY LOAN instructions.
http://www.stetson.edu/library
Choose the fifth link, Request a book or other material
note: there are different forms to use for books and periodical articles
CITING YOUR RESEARCH MATERIALS
See main library's web page for LIBRARY HANDBOOK section
http://www2.stetson.edu/library/standard_stylemanuals.php
note: links on plagiarism, style manuals, and citing electronic sources
WRITING ABOUT MUSIC
On reserve in the Music Library are books that you may consult on the topic of writing
about music.
RESERVE: ( FINKS) "WRITING RESOURCES"
Brief Holt Handbook.
The Bedford Handbook. Diana Hacker
Irvine's Writing About Music. Demar Irvine.
A Short Guide to Writing About Music. Jonathan Bellman
Studying Music History: Learning, Reasoning, and Writing About Music. David
Poultney.
Writing About Music: an Introductory Guide. Richard Wingell