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Music: Getting Started

This guide is intended to help researchers in the field of music.

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Getting Started

Oxford Music Online

An online resource containing the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.  Includes over 52,000 articles charting the history and cultures of music around the globe.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Music bibliographical database featuring citations, abstracts, and subject indexing.  On the EBSCOhost platform.

JSTOR (Journal Storage Archive)

E-journal platform that provides complete back runs of journals in multiple disciplines.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

Music reference database that provides articles on world music.  On the Alexander Street Press platform.

Naxos Apps

Streaming audio collections of classical and jazz music recordings with supporting reference information.  For more information, click here.

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UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center. Searches almost everything.

Use this QuickSearch link to search Books, E-Books & Media.

Lastly, use this QuickSearch link to search Course Reserves.

Interlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service! Interlibrary Loan link.

Library Search/Retrieval Options

 

UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center.

 


Prospector: a unified catalog of twenty-three academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. UW students, faculty and staff can borrow materials from Prospector.

 

 

yellow arrow on a sky blue boxInterlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service!