Online Music Sources at Wichita State University
WSU Online Catalog: Search the Wichita State collection for scores, books, videos, and sound recordings
WSU School of
Music
Music Index:
Index of over 640 international music periodicals from 1979-1999. (Use
the "Databases & Other Resources by Subject" link below for access
from an off-campus location.)
New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Online Encyclopedia of Music. (Use the "Databases & Other
Resources by Subject" link below for access from an off-campus location.)
RILM
Abstracts of Music Literature (Music Literature):
Index and abstracts of articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference
proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos,
covering over 500 scholarly journals. (Use the "Databases & Other
Resources by Subject" link below for access from an off-campus location.)
Additional
Databases
& Other Resources by Subject: Find here the database subscriptions maintained by Wichita State
University. Listed under:
Fine Arts and Art find Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, Design and Applied Art Index and Grove Art Online.
Humanities find America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Humanities Index, JSTOR, MLA, and Project Muse. Search these databases to locate material related to music and other areas of the humanities.
Education find a link to the ERIC database to search for material on music and education.
Social Sciences note the link to PsycINFO, used to search for materials on music in psychology and psychiatry.
General are: Book Review Digest, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, Expanded Academic ASAP, JSTOR, Oxford Reference Online, Project Muse, Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, Wilson Select and Readers' Guide Abstracts. Utilize the general databases to investigate a wide coverage of music in scholarly publications and the general press.
E-Journals: Electronic Journals by subject. Under music find Music Analysis.
Music
Materials at the Library, Part I (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint
software)
Music Materials at
the Library, Part II (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint software)
Guide to Using Grove
Music Online (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint software)
Guide to Using Music Index
Online (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint software)
Guide to Using
RILM Abstracts Online (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint software)
Music Sources on the Web
General Music Information:
American Music
Center
American Musicological Society
College Music Society
Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology online: An index to dissertations in progress and bibliography of completed
dissertations reported since mid 1995.
Gramophone: CD Reviews
International Alliance for Women in Music
Meet the Composer
Music Library Association
Guide to Copyright: For guidelines pertaining to copyright issues related to music and
intellectual property.
Music Publishers' Association: Directory information of Music Publishers and their imprints.
National Band Association
Lots of good band links.
National Music Council: Represents the United States to the International Music Council/UNESCO
Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and
Musicians: from WOI Radio, Iowa State University
Society for Music Theory
Washington
University, Gaylord Music Library Necrology
Death notices of musical persons
Music Education:
MENC: Official website of the National Association for Music Education.
MTNA: Official website of the Music Teachers National Association.
Keyboards:
American Guild of
Organists
Keyboard
Companion:
Online publication covering early-level piano study.
Organ Historical Society
Piano Education Page: Pedagogical information, along with artist interviews, software reviews and
competition listings.
Piano Page: The page of the Piano Technician's Guild, covers information for and about
technicians, industry information and additional keyboard related links.
Piano Pedagogy Forum: Online publication about the keyboard disciplines.
Pianopedia: Search the piano repertoire
for works by composer, key, mode, type of work and length.
Woodwinds:
American
Recorder Society
Clarinet
Pages: Links to clarinet related sites.
International
Clarinet Association
International Double Reed Society
International Native American Flute
Association
International Saxophone Home
Page
National Flute Association Online
National Flute Association
Library: A collection of over 15,000 scores, located at the University
of Arizona Fine Arts Library.
North American Saxophone Alliance
Brass:
Historic
Brass Society: Official site of the Historic Brass Society, concerned with brass music from
antiquity to the 20th Century.
International Horn Society Online
International Trombone Association
International Trumpet Guild
Online Brass: Worldwide coverage of links to brass and marching bands, brass ensembles,
orchestras, musicians, industry information, instruments and etc.
Online Trombone Journal: For more information on the trombone.
I.T.E.A. Online: Official site of the International Tuba-Euphonium Association
Percussion:
Percussive Arts
Society
Strings:
American
Federation of Violin and Bow Makers
American Viola Society
American Harp
Society
Guitar Foundation of America
International Society of Bassists
Violin Society of America
Voice:
Aria
Database
Index
to Renaissance Vocal Music in Collections
International
Database of Choral Repertoire
Opera America: Maintains information on 120 North American Operas and a listing of
works in
progress.
Other interesting sites:
Allmusic Guide:
Biographies and discographies for folk, pop and jazz musicians.
American Memory Project: Collections for the National Digital Library
Beethoven Bibliography Database:
Site of the Beethoven Center at San Jose State University
Charles Ives Society
Chopin Early Editions:
Search the Chopin Early Editions collection at the University of Chicago.
With digitized images of the collection.
Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive
for data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S.
CyberHymnal
Folk Music Site
Search: find lyrics, background and sound files of songs from England,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America
Galpin
Society: Site of the Galpin Society, dedicated to the study of musical instruments,
providing online access to journal contents and book reviews.
The Glenn Gould Archive
Indiana
University School of Music William and Gayle Cook Music Library listing of
online music resources
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Louis Armstrong House and
Archives
MASSIVE:
Math and science song database
Mutopia: A collection of nearly 300 classical compositions, in various text formats to
download, printout, perform and distribute for free.
Musipedia (Name that tune): a
searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical
themes.
New
York Foundation for the Arts: An extensive databank of grants, residencies, publications, and sources of
information and assistance for artists of all disciplines, nationwide.
New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts, Research Collections
Sheet Music Information:
from the Music Library Association, maintained by Duke University
Washington University Gaylord Music Library Necrology File: obituary
index of musicians and music personalities
Updated:
March 23, 2007
Contact: Rachel
Crane, Music/Fine Arts Librarian