Music


Academic Video Online

Academic Video Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street Press video titles. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage.

Classical Scores Library, Volume II

Volume II  has been added to the Baylor Libraries’ subscription to Classical Scores Library from Alexander Street Press.  The second volume brings together 200,000 pages. It’s the first online score collection for libraries that’s composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers and editions. Many items that are unavailable in print in typical library collections will now be online for viewing and study, including the scores of many composers who self-publish.   Details can be found in the description from Alexander Street Press.

Last year, EBSCO Publishing bought HW Wilson.  EBSCO is in the process of migrating all Wilson databases to the EBSCOhost platform.  The following Wilson databases acquired by the Baylor University Libraries have been moved to the EBSCOhost platform:

The remaining Wilson databases should be migrated to the EBSCOhost platform before the end of February 2012, and include the following resources acquired by the Baylor University Libraries:

  • Children’s Core Collection
  • Fiction Core Collection
  • Middle and Junior High Core Collection
  • Public Library Core Collection Nonfiction
  • Senior High Core Collection

Cambridge Companions to Music

This collection offers comprehensive and accessible essays on composers, instruments or musical topics.

Web of Knowledge — Book Citation Index

The Book Citation Index has been added to our Web of Knowledge subscription for a trial period. To use this feature, click on the “Cited Reference Search” link and complete the search form. Just below the search form you will see “Citation Databases” with a “+” to the left. click on that plus to view the options that allow you to narrow your cited search to books or chapters in books.

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Trial expires: Thursday, December 15, 2011

Index to Printed Music

This resource includes music from ancient Greek times to the present, providing access to music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 425,000 index records of individual music works.

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Trial expires: Saturday, December 31, 2011

RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600

An annotated index and guide to music manuscripts containing more than 657,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and the United States.

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Trial expires: Saturday, December 31, 2011

Oxford Bibliographies Online — Music

This subset of Oxford Bibliographies Online offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on musicology and ethnomusicology.

 

Australasian Digital Theses

This resource has been discontinued.  Trove will provide access to most theses and dissertations from this region.

Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog — Dissertations

Searchable online index of foreign (non-U.S.) doctoral dissertations held by the Center for Research Libraries.

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