World Music
Research Guide

Pat Ballard
Catalog Librarian
Winthrop University
September, 2008

Reference Sources

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. 10 vols. + 9 CDs (Ref. ML 100 .G13 1998)
    v.1.   Africa
    v.2.   South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
    v.3.   The United States and Canada
    v.4.   Southeast Asia
    v.5.   South Asia: the Indian Subcontinent
    v.6.   The Middle East
    v.7.   East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea
    v.8.   Europe
    v.9.   Australia and the Pacific Islands
    v.10. The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools

New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2^nd ed. 3 vols. (Ref. ML 102 .J3 .N48 2002)(Included in Oxford Music Online)

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2^nd ed. 29 vols. (Ref. ML100.N48 2001) (Also Music Library Ref.) The classic, basic English language reference source for music. Newly updated, very comprehensive. (Included in Oxford Music Online)

New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 3 vols. (Ref. ML 102 .I5 .N48 1984)

New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 4 vols. (Ref. ML 102 .O6 .N5 1992) (Also Music Library Ref.) (Included in Oxford Music Online)

Online Databases available through Dacus Library

Oxford Music Online (100% Full text)

• Combines the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2^nd ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2^nd ed.), plus The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2^nd ed.)
• Contains more than 3,000 links to related Web sites, including RILM
• Includes more than 500 sound examples
• Searchable full text with advanced capabilities
• Updated regularly

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Citations and abstracts only)

• International bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines 
• 1967 through the present
• Indexing of sources published in 150 languages
• Bibliographies

JSTOR  (100% Full text)

• Scholarly journal archive covering all subject areas
• 53 journals in music
• Choose Advanced Search to select music as discipline
• "Moving wall"

Academic Search Premier (About 55%Full text)

• Provides full text for 4,529 publications
• 3,600 peer-reviewed journals
• Covers virtually every area of academic study
• 1975 to present
• Updated daily

Suggested Web Sites

Dacus Library Online
http://www.winthrop.edu/dacus/

Search engine: Google.com
http://www.google.com (Choose Advanced Search and enter exact phrase)

Eastman School of Music. Sibley Music Library
http://esm.rochester.edu/sibley/

Indiana University Music Library: Worldwide Internet Music Resources/music_resources/ http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

The Juilliard School Music Library
http://www.juilliard.edu/

The Library of Congress. Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/

University of California Music Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/musi/

University of South Carolina Music Library
http://www.sc.edu/library/music/