LibGuides: Music 190s: Mozart in Movie, Missive, and Music: Getting Started

Finding Books

Books about composers are located in the ML410 section downstairs in the Music Library, arranged alphabetically by composer.

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Search encyclopedia entries on all aspects of music, including composers, performers, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, and institutions
Oxford Bibliographies: Music This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies, including an entry on Mozart.

The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML410.M9 C257 2006
ISBN: 0521856590
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Guide to Research by Baird Hastings
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML134.M9 H34 1989
ISBN: 0824083474
Publication Date: 1989-03-01

Mozart Letters & Documents
Mozart documents digitized by the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation.
Mozart: New Documents
Project to digitize Mozart documents.

A Life in Letters by Cliff Eisen
Call Number: Music Library ML410.M9 A4 2006
ISBN: 9780141441467
The Letters of Mozart and His Family by Emily Anderson
Call Number: Music Library ML410.M9 A187 1985
ISBN: 9780393022483

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search for articles, books, dissertations, and performance reviews in music from 1800s to present
Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles on a wide variety of musical periods and styles
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Search dissertations and theses from colleges and universities around the world from 1743 to present. Full text theses from 1997-present
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press
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Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
Browse an online collection of classical music, operas and ballets
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to classical music online
Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to musical sound recordings and MIDI files, as well as program notes, composer biographies, and images
Metropolitan Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
View streaming performances from 575 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming videos of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries