Bibliographies for Music Research
Not sure where to start? A general music bibliography or a "webliography" will help direct your research.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music This link opens in a new windowOxford Bibliographies Online is a scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, designed to help researchers find reliable sources of information by directing them to chapters, books, websites, archives, or data sets.
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Vifamusik: Virtual Library of MusicologyViFaMusik is a European musicology information service sponsored by Bavarian State Library, State Institute for Musicological Research, German Musicological Society. This central portal for music and musicology allows you to access an extensive digital library containing early digitized scores, the latest scholarly research and online resources and bibliographical data about these resources.
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Music Reference and Research Materials by Though a bit out of date, this text has been the standard guide to source literature on music for generations of undergrad and grad students. Organized by type of source, the critical annotations are exemplary. List 3,500 key sources.Call Number: MUSIC REF ML113 .D83 1997 -
Music Research: A Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 by Call Number: MUSIC ML113.S28 2013 (on reserve) -
Sourcebook for Research in Music, 3rd ed. by Call Number: Print MUSIC REF ML113.S46 2015 and Ebook
Let's Begin Our Research
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Use the tabs on this guide to find
- A scholarly encyclopedia article
- Articles in journals and books using a research database
- Music scores using our library catalog or another online website
- CDs or streaming music
- Books about the composer or the work using our library catalog
- Thematic catalogs
- Dissertations using a research database
- Other primary sources
Johann Sebastian Bach
Elias Gottwald Haussmann, painter
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Artstor Digital Image Library
Composer Bibliographies
Here are websites to bibliographies from scholarly research centers to in-depth study of a particular composer.
