LibGuides: Music: MUS 318

Background Information

Oxford Music Online
A gateway offering access to key music reference resources, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Credo Reference
An online collection of reference books including several works on music.

Books

Book Search
Search for books at Meredith and in other libraries. Try searching for your composer and your piece here ( it's also worth looking for books on more general topics that might include your composer)

You can use the "Libraries Worldwide" box on the left side of the search page to expand your search to other libraries, and request books we don't have by interlibrary loan. We can also look into purchasing ebook versions of books that will be useful-- if you want to suggest a purchase, just email me.

Article Search

Music Periodicals Database
An article database with a focus on music..
JSTOR
A collection of respected scholarly journals going back to the early 20th century, including many music journals. Searching for your composer or piece here may bring back some useful information, whether recent, or from closer to the composer's time period.

Audio Search

Naxos Music Library
Streaming music library with a focus on classical music. Along with finding performances of pieces by your composer, you can also find album liner notes in Naxos (using the "booklet" link to the left of an album page). These are often written by experts and can be useful for information about your composer and your piece.

News Sources

Historical newspaper articles can be helpful primary sources for information on your composers and their works. These are some resources for finding historical newspaper articles through the library.

Search Newspapers with OneSearch

This search box will search for newspaper articles across the library's collections. Try using the date limiter to find articles from your composer's historical era.

Historical Newspaper Collections

Historical New York Times
Provides access to full text and full image articles from the New York Times, including every issue from 1851 until five years ago.
Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Searchable PDF edition of the Chicago Defender newspaper, covering 1909-2010. The Chicago Defender was the most influential African-American newspaper of the 20th century.
Atlanta Daily World (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full-text access to the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010), a major African American community newspaper.
African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998
A collection of 280 newspapers published for or by African Americans, beginning with Freedom’s Journal, the first African American newspaper published in the United States.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and read the pages of hundreds of US newspapers from the 1700s through 1963.

Chicago Style

Chicago Manual of Style Online
This searchable online edition covers manuscript preparation, grammar, usage, documentation and citation guidelines.

Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide
Guidance on both Humanities and Author-Date for the most commonly used types of sources.
Chicago Humanities Style (Williams Coll.)
Examples of citing common types of sources in the Humanities style (Notes and Bibliography).
Chicago Author-Date Style (Williams Coll.)
Examples of citing common types of sources in the Author-Date Style.

Zotero

Zotero is a free tool for managing your references, and creating citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word. It involves two components: the Zotero program itself, and a browser add-on for adding items to your Zotero library.

For more information, see our Zotero 101 guide.