The University of St. Thomas

Music: Selected Resources

General Resources: Finding Books; Finding Articles; Finding Web Sources; Finding Dissertations
   and Theses

Course Specific Guides: Undergraduate

MUSC 133: Music of the United States
MUSC 130 and 233: Music of the World

MUSC 160: Introduction to Music Business
MUSC 162: Roots of Blues, Country and Rock
MUSC 216: Jazz in America
MUSC 218: Black American Music History
MUSC 411, 412 History and Literature of Music

Course Specific Guides: Graduate Music Education

GMUS 608: Foundations of Music Education
GMUS 875: Introduction to Thesis Writing

General Guides:

Religious Music

Finding Books

Search the Library's catalog,CLICnet, to find books held by the 8 CLIC libraries.
Search MNCat for the University of Minnesota Libraries catalog.
Search WorldCat, a national catalog for a comprehensive search of your subject.

Finding Articles

Use the Library databases and indexes to find journal articles on your topic. 

Primary Choices

Oxford Music Online (Encyclopedic information on music and musicians)
Music Index Online (A great place to start, many full-text articles)
RILM Abstracts (A comprehensive international guide to writings about music)
Academic Search Premiere (The world's largest multidisciplinary database)
JSTOR (Full image coverage of over 300 journals in the arts and social sciences)
Education Full Text (Includes over 700 journals, many peer reviewed, many full-text)
ERIC (Provides information on nearly 1.2 million items--journal articles, conference papers, books, and research reports)

Secondary Choices

America: History and Life (Includes many articles on American culture and its music)
ATLA Religion Database (Includes references to over 400 theology journals)
Catholic Periodical Index (Index to 150 Catholic interest journals and newspapers)
Expanded Academic ASAP (Includes more than 950 scholarly and general interest articles)
Project Muse (Full-text access to over 150 scholarly journals)
PsychINFO (Indexes and abstracts literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health)

Finding Web Sources

National, International and World Music (Websites vetted by the renowned University of Indiana School of Music)
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music & World Music Links (An enormous collection of useful websites, prepared by the University of Washington Music Department)

K-12 Resources for Music Educators (Valuable resource for music educators and students of all levels. Rated highly since 1995)
Music Education Online (Connects music educators with music resources and provides an interactive bulletin board for posting questions and answers)

Finding Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations & Theses @UST (Full-text access to the University's theses)
Dissertations & Theses (a guide to the more than 2 million U.S. and some international theses and dissertations.  For recent ones, the first 24 pages can be viewed freely)
Guidelines for the preparation of Theses/Dissertations/Terminal Project Pages

RefWorks:

:A web-based program to help you create superior bibliographies and manage your citations. 

Sources, etc.

Extra Help:

Contact Susan Price, music liaison librarian, at 651-962-5011 or sdprice@stthomas.edu
or the OSF Reference Desk at 651-962-5001, the MRC (Music Resource Center) 651-962-6815.

Last updated: September 4, 2008.