LibGuides: MUS 601: Techniques of Music and Bibliography in Music: Books, articles, and scores

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Music magazines from LAPL

With a Los Angeles Public Library card, you can access Libby.

Overdrive offers a number of music magazines such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Mojo.

New York Times
Sign up for a weekly All-Access pass to the NY Times including all digital content, with your LAPL card.
Washington Post
You can sign up (repeatedly) for a 7 day all-access pass to WaPo using LAPL.

Find books on music

American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination by Elizabeth A. Clendinning
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0252043383
Publication Date: 2020
Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi Andre
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780252050619
Publication Date: 2018
Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide by James Michael Floyd; Avery T. Sharp
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0429012640
Publication Date: 2019
Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of Music by Adam Gussow
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1469660350
Publication Date: 2020

WorldCat.org (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and around the world. Includes books, music CDs, videos, digital content, and article citations, available in many languages.

Interlibrary Loan

Find scores

Search by keyword (composer or part of title) and limit to music scores

For example, to find a Beethoven piano sonata, search Beethoven AND piano AND sonata AND limit to SCORES.

Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter
Call Number: M1508.M588 H3 2016
ISBN: 9781495057540
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Symphonies Nos 6-9 for Piano Four Hands by Ludwig van Beethoven
Call Number: M209.B4 S95 2004
ISBN: 0486438058
Publication Date: 2004-12-17
Twenty-Six Italian Songs and Arias, Medium Low by John G. Paton
Call Number: M1619 .A13 1991
ISBN: 0882844903
Publication Date: 1991-03-01

Find music articles (academic, trade, and news)

Financial Times (FT.com) This link opens in a new window FT features world business, politics and economic news, as well as dedicated coverage of company news, climate change, technology, the arts, culture and book reviews. Students, faculty, and staff may create a free personal account that includes FT.com app or desktop access, set up myFT customized news feeds and alerts, access special reports and the ePaper, which is the digital reproduction of todays print edition.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Archive of back issues of core scholarly journals across a wide range of subjects, with an emphasis on arts, humanities, and social sciences. Also includes current content for select journals and a large collection of University Press books.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window Full-page and article images from the Los Angeles Daily Times (1881-1886) and the Los Angeles Times (1886-2014).
Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Formerly known as International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP). Index to more than 440 scholarly and popular periodicals in the areas of classical music, opera, jazz, popular music and pop culture, music education, musicology, music theory, and many others. There is particularly strong coverage of performance, music education, and jazz.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times from 1851-2012.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window Gateway to online music resources: Grove Music Online, comprising the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed.; The Oxford Companion to Music; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 300 peer-reviewed journals published by university presses and scholarly societies with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
ProQuest Global NewsStream This link opens in a new window
Full text access to a large selection of national and international newspapers, news wires and news sources.
Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Complete digital edition of The Times (London, England).
Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com) This link opens in a new window
This provides current access to the Wall Street Journal and all their online content. It requires new users to create a WSJ account. After registering, you will be able to use WSJ apps and log in across all devices.

NY Times review (Berg's Wozzeck)

Download scores, listen to music, and stream videos

Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, it enables the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars.

Contemporary Music Score Collection (UCLA)
The Contemporary Music Score Collection is published by the UCLA Music Library. The collection includes the digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, the first open access edition of new music published by a library, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. Access generously provided by Campus Quality Fee.

Music & Performing Arts on Alexander Street Press
Master classes, performances, and more.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Online music library offering streaming access to more than 99,000 CD-length recordings of classical, jazz, world, folk, classic pop and rock music.
Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, this is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Playbill Classic Arts Resources
Links to streaming performances including the Met Opera and NYC Ballet; links to recommended podcasts.