Music

Howdy! Welcome to the Music Minors guide of Library Resources.

This is not a guide for research on a particular subject. For specialized assistance please visit a librarian at the Ask Here Desk. This guide gives suggestions on places or types of searches to help you find information regardless of topic. The tabs to the left will get you started.

What to make an appointment for one-on-one help? Please contact your liaison music librarian, Katherine Owens, at kowens@flagler.edu or 904-819-6485.

 

Our thanks are due to Jessica Black who interned with us in fall 2014 and created the first version of this help guide. Elements of her work have been carried over into this, the second, version of the music help guide. We are happy to report that Jessica is working towards her Masters in Library Science!

Title searching in the library's catalog requires you to enclose your title in quotation marks. For example you could search, "Music in the Medieval World" or "Meet the Beetles". When searching for an exact title leave off the 'the,' the 'a' and the 'an' at the beginning of the title.

Author searching is the same, only invert the composer or musician's name: "Beethoven, Ludwig" or "Presley, Elvis". In the library world, we organize people by their last name, not their first name.

Subject searching is a more targeted search than just typing words into a search bar. Subject terms are "official keywords" for a person, place, event, and/or historical time period. To find subject headings on your subject go to the Library of Congress LC Subject Headings search page. Once you find the official keywords to find books on your topic, you are able to use them in our catalog, for example "Church music Greece Russian Influences" or "Hip hop in motion pictures".

Just because we no longer have an advanced search feature does not mean you cannot create your own compound search. For example, you are doing a search on Mozart: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus and classical music"; or Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus not opera. However, a compound search that includes a specific publication date range can now only be conducted from the results page of your search.

This is the alphabetical list of the databases most useful to the history major:

African American Newspapers (1827-1998):
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection:
The premier library documenting the life of America’s people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

American Periodical Series:
American Periodicals Series includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

ArchiveGrid:
Contrary to what you may think, this database does not provide access to articles or papers. It does however tell you which universities, archives, museums own what manuscript collections.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

Chicago Manual of Style:
This has the complete text of the Chicago Manual of Style. Both the Table of Contents and the Index are hyperlinked, allowing you to move from one section to another.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine:
A digital archive of primary source materials that document the history of St. Augustine’s civil rights movement.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

Films on Demand:
Instant 24/7 access to thousands of high-quality television programs, documentaries, and educational films covering all subject areas.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

Flagler College Digital Archives:
The Digital Archives consists of Flagler College yearbooks, college catalogs, the Flagler Review magazine, and a selection of photographs ranging from the late 19th century to the present.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

History Vault:
Primary source collection that includes government, organizational, and personal files covering the history of African-Americans in the United States between 1910 to the early 1980’s. FBI files and NAACP files are included.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

JSTOR:
Our only database dedicated solely to scholarly literature with articles in the fields of history, political science, archaeology, art history, anthropology, literature and languages, music, and more; however, JSTOR usually is unable to provide access to the most recently published articles.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

New York Times 1851 – Present:
Create an account using your Flagler email address and enjoy access to the entirety of the New York Times from 1851 to today. PLEASE NOTE: At this time, access to articles from the date range 1923 to 1980 is limited is limited to 5 articles per day per user.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

Project MUSE:
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

SAGE Premier:
Provides access to over 600 journal titles in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine with backfile to 1999.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

WorldCat:
A powerful database that includes the book collections of over 70,000 libraries in the world. Most useful as pre-research to doing an Inter-Library Loan request.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

Not all websites are equal! This list is not complete, but representative of some websites that provide access to or information on music genres, musicians, or songs.

AllMusic
Resource for exploring information about albums, bands, musicians, and songs.

Billboard
Provides daily music news, charts, music downloads, and artist features for rock, pop, country, rhythm and blues, jazz, world, and hip-hop.

NME
New Musical Express

NPR Music

PD Info: Public Domain Information Project
Any song or musical work published in 1922 or earlier is in the public domain in the US.

Want a quick overview of the sound of different time periods in Western music? Pick the time period you are interested in, or listen to the entire progression!

Part I (Medieval to Renaissance)

Part II (Early Baroque)

Part III (Late Baroque)

Part IV (18th Century Classical)

Part V (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 

Part VI (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Part VII (19th Century Classical into Romanticism)

Part VIII (Early Romanticism)

Part IX (Romanticism)

Part X (Romanticism, cont.)

Part XI (Late Romanticism)

Part XII (Late Romanticism, cont.)

Part XIII (Late 19th Century into 20th Century Romanticism)

Part XIV (unavailable)

Part XV (Early 20th Century)

Part XVI (Early to Mid-20th Century, cont.)

Part XVII (Mid-20th Century)

Part XVIII (Mid-20th Century, cont.)

Part XIX (Mid- to Late-20th Century)

Part XX (Late-2oth Century into the 21st Century)

The Theatre Arts department used MLA as their citation guide of choice. As a part of this department, music minors will also need to abide by the rules of this citation style.

Here is a link to the current (8th edition, 2016) MLA Cheat-Sheet Guide provided by the Proctor Library: MLA Cheat Sheet.