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This is a guide to music research for students in Music 97b: Music History and Repertory: Classical to Contemporary. For research assistance, talk to your course librarian, Kerry Masteller, Research Services, Loeb Music Library, 617-495-2794.
Top Five Eresources
These are some of the Music Library's essential research tools: start here for background information, articles, audio, and digital scores. Looking for something else? Check the rest of this guide for links to many more eresources, or contact Kerry for a personalized suggestion.
- Library Catalogue: HOLLIS+Harvard's main library catalogue: find books, articles, scores, recordings, and more in one search. Sign in with your Harvard Key to get more results. HOLLIS+ Quick Tips
- Encyclopedia: Grove Music OnlineArticles on composers, performers, scholars, genres, cultural groups, area studies, music history, and music theory, with bibliographies and composers' works lists. Part of Oxford Music Online; other titles in this database are The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
- Online Scores: Classical Scores LibraryFull, study, piano, and vocal scores of music from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, available for use online or printed/saved to PDF.
- Streaming Audio: Naxos Music LibraryClassical, world, jazz, and folk recordings, with biographical information, opera synopses and libretti, glossaries and pronunciation guides.
- Journal Articles: RILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureAn international bibliography of music articles, collections, and books covering 10,000+ journals from the 1800s to the present. Especially good for finding book chapters and conference proceedings in addition to journal articles.
Timesavers
- Harvard Library BookmarkNeed access to an online article? Use this bookmarklet to get quick access to subscriptions purchased by Harvard Library.
- Lean LibraryThis browser extension provides quick and simple access to digital content purchased by Harvard Library.
- Citation and Research Management ToolsOrganize your research, keep track of your references, and add citations and bibliographies to your papers. The Harvard Library supports Zotero, EndNote, and OverLeaf Pro+.