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The Cambridge companion to the symphony

The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony by Julian Horton (Editor)
Call Number: Art/Music Library -- Music Stacks ; ML1255 .C26 2012
ISBN: 9780521884983
Publication Date: 2013-05-02
Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Full text encyclopedia of all aspects of classical, contemporary, world, and popular music.
Create a personal profile to save content and annotations.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles on music.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library This link opens in a new window
IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project. Over 300,000 online scores in the public domain. Extremely useful!

Encyclopedia of Popular Music (electronic resource)
This encyclopedia's 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. The expanded Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals
The Garland encyclopedia of world music
The largest comprehensive encyclopedia of world music, spanning 10 volumes, each focused on a different continent or region.

Additional Music Databases

Oxford Bibliographies Online--Music This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies in Music combines the best features of a high-level encyclopedia and a traditional bibliography in a style tailored to meet the needs of today’s online researchers. Each article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, is rich with citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways to the most important works for virtually all areas of music.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
Instant access to more than 700 full-length Met performances with the online streaming database.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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.
Naxos Jazz This link opens in a new window
The jazz/R&B/roots music portion of the catalog comprises the Fantasy group of labels (Pablo, Original Jazz Classics, Prestige, Milestone, Stax/Volt, Riverside, Jazzland, Specialty, Takoma, Kicking Mule, Debut, Contemporary/Good Time Jazz, Bluesville, and others).
RIPM Music Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles on music published between the late 1700's and the 1950's. Complements RILM Music Abstracts.
Articles were published in Europe and the U.S. and may be in any of twelve languages.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology: DDM This link opens in a new window
Identifies dissertations-in-progress and completed dissertations reported since 1995, arranged by broad categories.
Music Industry Data This link opens in a new window
Presents over 60 years of data about music charts, popular, jazz, and classical styles.
Includes tools to analyze, compare and contrast artists, songs, trends, and statistics.

Digital Resources for Musicology
This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project This link opens in a new window
Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online. On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) This link opens in a new window
The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a not-for-profit streamed audio resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. DRAM offers on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. DRAM is accessible only at the Eastman School of Music, but does not limit the number of users at any one time.
National Jukebox This link opens in a new window
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925.