Music Library Resources
The Music Library serves faculty, staff, and students of the Music Department and the campus at large, as well as the community and visiting researchers and scholars.
Elizabeth Parang
Music Liaison
Elizabeth.Parang@pepperdine.edu
(310) 506-4046
PRINT RESOURCES
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
- Baker's dictionary of music, Slonimsky, Nicolas. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 100 .S635 1997
- The concise Oxford dictionary of opera, 3rd ed., Warrack, John Hamilton and West, Ewan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
(Click here for Concise Oxford dictionary of opera online)
- The encyclopedia of popular music. 3rd ed. London: Muze; New York: dist. by Grove's Dictionaries, 1998.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 102 .P66 G84 1998
- The Garland encyclopedia of world music. New York: Garland, 1998-2002.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 102 .P66 G84 1998
- Harvard concise dictionary of music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 100 .H36 1999
- The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians. 2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 100 .N48 2001 (click here for Grove Music online)
- The New Grove dictionary of opera. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1994.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 102 .O6 N5 1994
- The Oxford dictionary of music, Kennedy, Michael. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 100 .K35 1994
(Click here for Concise Oxford dictionary of music online)
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
- Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians. Baker, Theodore. Centennial ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 105 .B16 2001
- Contemporary composers. Chicago: St. James Press, 1992.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 105 .C75 1992
- The Harvard biographical dictionary of music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 105 .H38 1996
- Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians. Slonimsky, Nicolas. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 105 .S612 1997
- The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 105 .N38 1995
INDEXES
- *International Index of Music Periodicals*The International Index of Music Periodicals (IIMP) indexes over 400 international music periodicals from over 20 countries with around 80 full-text titles. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
- Music index. Detroit: Information Coordinators.
Payson Library (Index Area) 1985/86-1998. Print index with coverage similar to IIMP.
- Humanities index.
New York: H.W. Wilson,
Payson Library (Index Area) v.1 (1974/75 to date)
Continues: Social Sciences & Humanities Index (v.19-27; 1965/66-1973/74) which continues International Index ( v. 1-18; 1907/15-Apr. 1964/Mar. 1965.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- A basic music library: essential scores and sound recordings. Chicago: American Library Association, 1997.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 113 .B3 1997
- Music reference and research materials: an annotated bibliography, Duckles, Vincent H.; New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 113 .D83 1997
- Research guide to musicology, Pruett, James W.; Chicago: American Library Association, 1985.
(Payson Library) Ref ML 3797 .P78 1985
SCORES, SOUND, AND VIDEO
Scores, sound recordings, and video recordings are included in the Pepperdine Library catalog.
- Author searches retrieve works by a particular composer and performances by a particular artist. (e.g. mozart wolfgang)
- A Call number search using the first four letters of a composer's last name is a good way to browse compact discs. (e.g. moza for Mozart)
- A Guided keyword search using "videorecording" as one of the search terms is a good way to search for videos. (e.g. mozart and videorecording)
- Guided keyword searches can be used to locate individual pieces contained in collections. (e.g. beethoven and elise)
- Subject searches can be used to find music of a particular genre. (e.g. operas)
ONLINE RESOURCES
GENERAL MUSIC RESEARCH GUIDES
- Acadia Early Music Resources
- Alan Lomax Database
A multimedia archive of documentation and scientific research by folklorist and musical anthropologist, Alan Lomax.
- American Sheet Music - Library of Congress
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
- Archive of Folk Culture
The Library of Congress American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture includes over two million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images.
- Archival Papers in the Music Library at Yale University
- Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums
The Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums online (Bibliography of Music Literature _on-line)_is an international and interactive bibliography of literature on music.
- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
The Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads project makes digitized images of more than 30,000 broadsheets and ballads available to the research community.
- British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
Use this website to search the main catalogs of the British Library's collection of Western manuscripts, covering handwritten documents of all kinds from pre-Christian, Classical, medieval and modern times.
- British Library Sound Archive
One of the largest catalogs of its kind anywhere in the world, covering both published and unpublished recordings in all genres from pop, jazz, classical and world music, to oral history, drama and literature, dialect, language and wildlife sounds.
- CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
CANTUS is a database of Latin ecclesiastical chant, the earliest written musical repertory of any significant size. The texts are almost all in Latin, and the majority of them are drawn from the Bible, very often from the book of Psalms.
- CORSAIR - Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library
- Directory of Open Access Journals (30 music titles)
This is a searchable listing of free, full text, scholarly journals. There are 800+ journals that are full - text searchable, and over 2000+ that are listed.
- Early American Secular Music
- Folk Music Index
- Hymn Tune Index
- International Music Score Library Project
- JSTOR: Music
Includes an extensive archive of journals in 30 subject disciplines, including music.
- Judaic Sound Archives
The Judaica Sound Archives is a major center for the collection, preservation and digitization of Judaica audio recordings.
- Library of Congress Online
The Library of Congress is one of the largest library in the world. You can use its catalog to search their print and online collections.
- London Music Trades: 1750-1800
Provides basic biographical information about music publishers, composers, and instrument makers, much of which is derived by a range of archival material that includes insurance records, wills, and apprenticeship records.
- Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Online
The Neue Mozart - Ausgabe is a comprehensive collection of Mozart's music, both facsimiles of his original scores and newly edited, modern versions. Also included are other writings by Mozart, his musical notebooks, and composition studies by his students.
- Oral History: American Music
Oral History American Music (OHAM) is the only ongoing project in the field of music dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral and video memoirs in the voices of the creative musicians of our century.
- Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Search and browse descriptions of more than 235 music, theater and dance resources by subject, title, or name.
- Sacred Harp Singing
Explains the origination of the style of the sacred harp music, use of shaped notes, calendar of conventions as well as weekly or monthly gatherings as they occur. Searchable by date and location. Interesting graphics, links, and audio clips. Contains very good explanation of Solfege singing, and shape note history. Bibliography.
- Sheldon Harris Sheet Music Collection
This particular digital sheet music collection pays tribute to Sheldon Harris' work, and it was created by The University of Mississippi Department of Archives and Special Collections. Visitors can browse the sheet music at their leisure, and the holdings are particularly strong in the blues and early minstrel numbers.
- Sheet Music Consortium
The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative:Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI:PMH).
- Themefinder
Themefinder is a piece of free software you can use to tie a theme to a specific piece of music by inputting starting pitches, intervals, and general contours.
- Twenty Years of French Modern Songs
MUSICOLOGY
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
This is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
- Necrology Database (Washington University)
- Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale
An international project with the objective of developing methods, means and research centers for the classification, cataloging, and study of iconographical material relating to music.
- Research Center for Music Iconography
RCMI's collections of photo - reproductions of artworks, catalogue entries, and indices are the only such guides assembled in the U.S. where one can easily locate visual representations of any instrument or music - making scene from antiquity to the early 20th century.
MUSIC EDUCATION
- Music Education Resource Base
MERB/CMI is a bibliographic database of more than 31,000 resources in music and music education from 35 Canadian and international journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present.
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