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MUS 3010: Music History and Literature I
These pages provide resources and tips for completing your research assignment for Music 3010. Feel free to contact me for help with this assignment using the information on the bottom of this page.
Finding Secondary Sources
Find Background Information (technically "Tertiary Sources")
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of all articles published in several important music reference resources including Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Find Books
- Brandel Library CatalogFind books and e-books available to you at North Park.
- I-ShareFind books at academic libraries throughout Illinois, and have them delivered to North Park. Books should arrive in about a week, and you will get an email telling you the item has arrived. This service is free to all NPU students.
- WorldCatFind materials at any library and have them delivered to you here at North Park. Because these items are coming from out of state they may take longer to arrive than I-Share items.
Find Articles
- Music Index This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts covering every aspect of classical and popular music. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text and complete back runs of scholarly journals in a variety of academic disciplines. - Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides the full text from a set of journals and e-books in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
Keyword Search Strategies
AND
Combine keywords with AND to narrow your search.
Beethoven AND sonata
OR
Combine keywords with OR to broaden your search. This works well for synonyms.
Moonlight Sonata OR Sonata No. 14
"phrase search"
Put quotes around multiword searches to find only documents that contain those words as a phrase.
"Moonlight Sonata"
* (wildcard)
Use a * with the stem of a word to search for all forms of that word.
sonat* searches for sonatas, sonatinas, sonaten, etc.
