LibGuides: MUSC 221: History of Western Music to 1600: Home

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.

Useful resources for this class

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

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.

DIAMM Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Contains more than 14,000 digital images of medieval and early modern manuscripts of polyphony, the simultaneous performance of multiple melodies. Combining high-quality images of music manuscripts alongside detailed metadata (including Description, Bibliography, Commentary, and Contributors), DIAMM is an extensive resource for scholars and librarians of medieval music and manuscripts. This vast collection of images not only facilitates musicological research, but digitally preserves the content of parchment manuscripts which are otherwise vulnerable to damage and illegibility over time. To get the most from this resource, visitors will need to register for a free account.
Oxford Bibliographies: Music
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Expands and enhances the global bibliography of writings on music with the addition of a million pages of full-text content from more than 200 key periodicals, many of which are not available anywhere else online.

A sampling of Art/Music Library items about medieval and renaissance music

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music by Mark Everist (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521846196
Publication Date: 2011-03-03
Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music by Tess Knighton (Editor); David Fallows (Editor)
ISBN: 0028712218
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
Medieval Music by Honey Meconi
ISBN: 0754628515
Publication Date: 2011-07-28
Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Iain Fenlon (Editor)
ISBN: 0521233283
Publication Date: 1981-05-29

The flower of chivalry [sound recording] : tranquil medieval music. RCD 3746

Indian ragas & medieval song [sound recording] : modal melodies from east to west: RCD 3164

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. To access JSTOR you may need to login with VPN .

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.

Music Librarian

Kathy Wu

Email Me

Contact:

585-273-5322
I am available for one-on-one virtual consultation through Zoom.

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

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

Use Library Resources and Services

UR Catalog
Use the UR Catalog to search specifically for books, journal titles -- NOT articles -- and other materials available at the University of Rochester Library. Search by Title, Author, Subject Heading, Keyword(s) or Call Number.

WorldCat
Use the WolrdCat to search for books and other materials available at many libraries world wide. Books owned by UR River Campus Libraries are identified and it is easy to place an Interlibrary Loan request from within the WorldCat webpages for a book the UR River Campus Libraries do not own.

Submit an ILL request
Need an item that we don’t have in the stacks? ILL works with libraries all over the world to get U of R students, faculty members, employees, and affiliates the materials they need. Submit your request now!

Recommend a Purchase
The River Campus Libraries welcome suggestions for the purchase of materials for our library collections. Your request will be reviewed by library staff. Preference will be to acquire the eBook format where available. Please indicate in the Notes field if you would prefer that we acquire the print format.

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

Frequently Used Music Links

River Campus Libraries
Your link to the UR Catalog and other information about the UR Libraries
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.
SIbley Music Library homepage

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.

River Campus Music Department

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Expands and enhances the global bibliography of writings on music with the addition of a million pages of full-text content from more than 200 key periodicals, many of which are not available anywhere else online.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project. Over 300,000 online scores in the public domain. Extremely useful!

Eastman School of Music