MUS 190: Music and the Movies   Tags: film, movies, music_190_movies  

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Joyce Clinkscales
Music Librarian
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James Steffen
Film Studies and Media Librarian

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Grove Music Online (Part of Oxford Music Online)
The primary English-language reference source for music. Covers music of all styles, periods, and geographic regions.

• Truncation symbol: *. Wildcards: ? for one character; * for one or more characters (c*t finds cat, cut, carat, clout, count . . .)
  
• Take advantage of the bibliography at the end of most articles.
  
• To see all articles listed alphabetically, click on "All Content" at upper left of home page.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
More than 700 articles covering the music of the world's peoples, from the earliest known traditions to current practices.

• To find the primary article on a topic, use the search boxes at top right, and change All to Title. (Gagaku in Title finds the article titled "Gagaku.")
  
• For Advanced Search, click the Search button in the top gray bar.
  
• Use the Browse function for All Volumes to see a list of audio examples online (Click box beside the volume’s title.), a list of articles (Click box beside Body.), and the Guide to Publications in back of volume (Click box next to Back.)

Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed.  Don Michael Randel, ed.  Cambridge, MA:  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003
An authoritative source for definitions and concise articles on musical topics and terms.  No articles on people.  Online access is through Credo Reference Library.
Location of library's printed copy:  MUSICMEDIA REF ML100 .H37 2003

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World.  Ed. by John Shepherd et al. New York:  Continuum, 2003– . 7 vols.
Available online via Credo Reference:  Use "Find a Book" and limit your results to music books.  Then search them all at once or browse contents of the Continuum encyclopedia. 
Location of library's printed copy:  MUSICMEDIA REFERENCE ML102 .P66 2003

Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed.  Don Michael Randel, ed. 
Now available online through Oxford Music Online.  Search this on its own or with other Oxford titles.
Covers popular music, including world music, from 1900 the present, with articles on artists, genres, trends, record labels, venues, and festivals.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India.  Published in 2011.
Covers music of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.  Includes articles on technical terms, dance styles, instruments, and styles of music from classical to film-originated.
Print version:  MUSICMEDIA REFERENCE ML101.I47 O94 2011 (3 vols.)

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, plus Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

• Oxford English Dictionary

• Oxford Reference Online

Contains text of more than 170 reference works in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

• Credo Reference Unlimited

Contains hundreds of reference works in various fields, searchable all at once or individually.

• Click on Find a Book to see what books are included.
• For foreign language dictionaries, click on Find a Book and select General Reference.

• Books in Print