Backgroud Information
- Boulanger Initiative DatabaseCelebrating, Performing, and Supporting Music by Women Composers. Boulanger Initiative advocates for women and all gender-marginalized composers. They foster inclusivity and representation to expand and enrich the collective understanding of what music is, has been, and can be. They promote music composed by women through performance, education, research, consulting, and commissions.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen. The publisher has also added The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music to this online resource.
Academic Journals
To ensure you retrieve scholarly, peer-reviewed articles when you search, limit your search results to "scholarly" and "peer-reviewed"
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowSomething about every subject
* can be searched simultaneously * - Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new windowCovers international humanities research, including philosophy, religion, history, language arts, performing arts (including music), and visual arts
* can be searched simultaneously * - Music Index This link opens in a new windowResearch on both specific musicians and music styles and movements
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- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals and thousands of e-books across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
Why Use Books?
Books are useful for in-depth information, including: historical context, overview, synthesis and analysis of information.
Often a chapter or two, rather then the entire book, are all that may be relevant for your topic.
- Library Catalogsearch for books and some articles here
Peer Review?
