Research Guides: MUSC 221: Music, Ritual, and Representation. 1400-1600 (HC): Books, Scores & Multimedia

Catalogs

Both these catalogs can be used to locate books, scores, and recordings (sound or video):

Tripod
Tripod searches for individual journal articles as well as the Tri-College libraries’ collection of books, journal titles, multimedia materials, databases and more.

WorldCat
A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

These databases search citation information about books (as well as articles):

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
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.
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.

Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is a collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences that consists of 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, and 1.2 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Coverage is from 1861 to the present day.

Facsimiles of pre-1800 scores in Tripod
Early Music Online: Contains more than 300 volumes of 16th-century music from the British Library, digitized from microfilm.
Gallica (score advanced search page): Gallica is a digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothque nationale de France.
DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music): A leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts.
Europeana: Explore millions of items from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings...
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library: International Music Score Library Project. The logo is a capital letter A, taken from the very first press-printed book of polyphonic music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, published in 1501. Its printer, Ottaviano Petrucci, is this library's namesake." --From home page

Use Tripod to find scores held by the Tri-Colleges, and limit the "Collection" to Sound Recordings.

Naxos Music Library
Provides online audio recordings of classical, folk, jazz, and world music from the Naxos, Marco Polo, and Da Capo labels.

Gallica (sound recording advanced search page)
Europeana
Explore millions of items from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings...

If something you need is not available on your campus, then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.