LibGuides: Music Resources for Graduate Students: Getting Started

Research Guides

Music Research: A Handbook by Laurie J. Sampsel
Call Number: Music Reference ML113 .S28 2020
ISBN: 9780190644505
Publication Date: 2019-01-30
Includes companion website.
Music Library and Research Skills by Jane Gottlieb
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML3797 .G68 2016
ISBN: 9780190267940
Publication Date: 2016-10-17
Sourcebook for Research in Music by Allen Scott; Phillip D. Crabtree (Original Author); Donald H. Foster (Original Author)
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML113 .S46 2014
ISBN: 9780253014481
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Guide to Library Research in Music by Pauline Shaw Bayne
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML3797 .B29 2008
ISBN: 9780810861480
Publication Date: 2008-09-18
Music Reference and Research Materials by Vincent H. Duckles; Michael A. Keller; Ida Reed
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML113 .D83 1997
ISBN: 0028708210
Publication Date: 1997-07-25

Online Gateways to Music Research

Online Resources for Music Scholars
Comprehensive guide created by Harvard University.
MusRef
Guide to More than 11,000 Print and Internet Resources for music research.
Society for Ethnomusicology Links
Ethnomusicology Research Guide (UCLA Library)
Musiconn
A portal for music and musicology funded by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Finding Libraries

RISM C and the Grove Libraries entry provide comprehensive listings of libraries with important music collections. Worldcat enables you to search most U.S. libraries and many international ones. In addition to this, the following online resources bring together library catalogs you can search:

Libdex
Links to libraries worldwide.
Europeana
Digital resources in European libraries, archives, and museums.
Internet Culturale
Catalogs and digital collections in Italian libraries.
KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
Search libraries and book trade catalogs worldwide. Provides links to many national union catalogs that bring together library catalogs by country.
European Library Catalogs
Resource produced by the European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries