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MUSC 229: Thinking about Music (HC)

Music 229: Thinking about Music: Ideas, History, and Musicology (Freedman) Fall 2021

Recommended Research Tools

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)

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Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.
Oxford Music Online

Covers all topics related to music, including musical instruments, compositional forms and scientific topics.

Biographical entries cover composers, performers and writers. Offers links to related sites including sound archives.

ProQuest Music Database

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This database, formerly known as "International Index to Music Periodicals" provides abstracts to music titles. Offers

articles in full-text for over 80 periodicals. Covers all aspects of music including education, composition, theory and

ethnomusicology. Covers 1874-present. Full-text begins in the mid-1990s-present.