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Welcome to the Art/Music Library

Welcome to the Art/Music Library. Please ask us for help! Our librarians and student workers at the desk can help you find resources and information.

Visit us here! http://www.library.rochester.edu/artmusic/home

The Art/Music Library is located on the ground floor of Rush Rhees Library. All scores (M call numbers) and music books (ML and MT call numbers) are located on the open shelves within the Art/Music Library, as are current copies of our music magazines and journals.
CDs are kept in the back and may be requested from the desk. LPs are stored in the Art stacks.
Recordings may be listened to in the Art/Music library or checked out for a limited time period.
Reference books are located in the rear left nook.
Finale and Sibelius music-writing programs are available at two of our work stations. Please ask at the desk.

CD and Sound Recording Search
This searches for sound recordings in the Art/Music library. There is also a link to Naxos Classical Music database, with free listening.

Strategies for Research about Music History

Oxford Music Online
Full text encyclopedia of all aspects of classical, contemporary, world, and popular music.
Create a personal profile to save content and annotations.

Library Catalog Search
Try searching by Keyword for names, terms, and subjects about music history.

Music and article databases

Oxford Music Online
Full text encyclopedia of all aspects of classical, contemporary, world, and popular music.
Create a personal profile to save content and annotations.
Naxos Music Library
Streamed access to and information about Naxos recordings.

Classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music are represented. Liner notes, as well as biographical information on composers and artists, are also available.
JSTOR
Full text articles in many disciplines.

Subject areas include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, statistics. The University of Rochester Libraries currently subscribes to the following multidisciplinary JSTOR Collections: Arts and Sciences I through XV. JSTOR also packages their content in disciplinary collections; however, the only ones of these that we have licensed are the Biological Sciences segment and the first of the Business collections. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.

Books that may be useful

Companion to Baroque Music by Julie A. Sadie The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era.
Call Number: ML193 .C56 1998
ISBN: 0520214145
Publication Date: 1998-06-17
Source Readings in Music History by Leo Treitler; W. Oliver Strunk (Editor) Forty-five years after the appearance of the first edition, Oliver Strunk's monumental anthology of writings about music has been thoroughly revised and extended by a team of scholars working under the direction of musicologist Leo Treitler. For this new edition, seven specialists in music history have replaced some selections, added others, contributed new translations, and provided additional notes and introductions. An entire new section, covering the twentieth century, significantly enlarges the book's scope. Readers can now acquire a comprehensive picture of Western musical thought and ideas through the ages.
Call Number: ML160 .S89 1998
ISBN: 0393037525
Publication Date: 1998-04-17
A Guide to the Concerto by Robert Layton (Editor)
Call Number: ML1263 .C64 1996
ISBN: 019288008X
Publication Date: 1996-12-19
A Guide to the Concerto offers a fascinating survey of the growth and development of the concerto form from its origins in the seventeenth century to the present day.
The New Grove Italian Baroque Masters by Denis Arnold; Stanley Sadie (Editor); Tom Walker
Call Number: ML390 .N492 1984
ISBN: 0393300943
Publication Date: 1984-12-01
The Classical Era by Neal Zaslaw
Call Number: ML195 .C595 1989
ISBN: 0131369385
Publication Date: 1989-12-01

If you'd like to find more, you can search the Libraries' online catalog right here.

Subject Guide

Kathy Wu

Email Me

Contact:

585-273-5322
I am available for one-on-one consultation, which will be conducted at Rush Rhees Q&i desk.

I am also the librarian for the English for Academic Purposes Program.

Subjects:Data & Statistics, Debate, Economics, Government Information, Law, Music

Writing about Music

Writing about Music by D. Kern Holoman
ISBN: 9780520958814
Publication Date: 2014-09-05
Irvine's Writing about Music by Demar Irvine; Mark A. Radice
ISBN: 1574670492
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
A Short Guide to Writing about Music by Jonathan D. Bellman
ISBN: 0321187911
Publication Date: 2006-04-20