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This guide provides help locating research materials in the area of music. It links to books about music, musical scores, recordings, periodicals, journal articles, and electronic materials.

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New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians Located online: (http://www.grovemusic.com/)
Also available in print in McHenry Reference, call number ML100 .G8863 2001 (29 volume set)
The searchable source contains: biographies of composers, performers, and writers; articles on instruments; styles, terms, and genres of music.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Located in McHenry Reference, call number ML100 .G16 1998
Each volume covers music from a different region. A series of compact discs located in the Film & Music Center accompanies the encyclopedia.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Located in McHenry Reference, call number ML105 .B16 2001
Compact biographies with short bibliographies and lists of composers' works.

Search for songs by title or author, then find collections and other books that contain the song.

Popular Song Index McHenry Reference ML128.S3H4
Song Index McHenry Reference ML128.S3S31
Song Finder McHenry Reference ML128.S3H4

Search the following online databases for journal articles on composers, styles, instruments, or other music topics.
Note: All online resources are available by connecting to the Library Research Web page (http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html) and searching for the resource by title.

Music Index Online index covers 1979 - 2000. Print index located in McHenry Reference call number ML118.M84, covers 1949 - 2000.

International Index to Music Periodicals Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1874. Some articles are full-text.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Online index covers: 1969 - present. Print index located in McHenry Reference call number ML1.R55, covers 1967-1993.

Lexis Nexis Academic Newspaper articles. Includes biographical articles, music reviews, and music industry information. Covers 1990's - present.

Expanded Academic ASAP from Infotrac Covers: 1980 - present. Some articles are full-text.

International Index to the Performing Arts Coverage varies. Most titles begin coverage in the mid-1990s, though a few titles are indexed back to the early 1900s. Some articles are full-text. Subjects include theater, film, dance, and opera.

The UC-eLinks icon in most online databases will help you find the actual copy of the journal article after you've found the citation for the article in the database. UC-eLinks will provide links to electronic text when available, the call numbers for print copies of journals, and forms for requesting items through interlibrary loan if UCSC does not own the journal. See the UC-eLinks Guide (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/elinks.html) for more information.

The library has hundreds of journals in music. Browse a list in CRUZCAT with the subject "Music Periodicals" or look through the McHenry stacks; most music journals have call numbers that begin with ML 1. and ML 5.

CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu) is UCSC's online library catalog. It includes books, periodicals, videos, CDs, and music scores located in both McHenry and the Science & Engineering Library. CRUZCAT does not include the text of journal articles.

The Melvyl Union Catalog (http://melvyl.cdlib.org) contains the holdings of all UC libraries. You may request items UCSC does not own through interlibrary loan.

Here are just a few examples of the many Library of Congress subject headings for music:

Step 1: Try a KEYWORD search in CRUZCAT. Combine the composer name (if you know it) and some part of the title of the composition (type of piece, opus number, edit or number, key) with the word "and". Examples:
mozart and piano and 9
bach and gottes zeit
schumann and 48

You may click on MODIFY SEARCH to limit your results by material type (recordings, music scores, or video) or to limit by language and date. To limit to CD's, choose the COMPACT DISC limit.

Step 2: Note the location and call number of the item. Use the library call number guide to find the location of your book. Recordings are located in the Film & Music Center on the first floor of McHenry Library. Books with M call numbers of the McHenry Stacks are also located on the first floor.

If your search was not successful, it is still likely that the library has the score or recording you want. Many scores are included in collections of composers' works. Go back to step 1 and broaden the search to find items by the type of work. Examples:
tchaikovsky and concertos
harrison and sonatas
wagner and operas

Note: Some collections of composer works cannot be checked out, but photocopies can be made from them. The library also has a large collection of scores on CD-ROM, housed in the Media and Electronic Resources Center (MERC). They can be viewed and printed from the computers in the MERC. The tables of contents for these CD-ROMs are listed on the publisher's Website. Search for the keyword CD Sheet Music in CRUZCAT for a list of titles. The catalog has links to the tables of contents online.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources from Indiana University School of Music. (http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/)

WWW Sites for Musicologists from the American Musicological Society. (http://www.ams-net.org/musicology_www.html)

Google Directory > Music (http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/)

Not all information on the Web has been evaluated by librarians or scholars. If you are using a Web page as a possible research citation, apply the criteria from the Web Evaluation Guide (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/evaluate.html) to determine the quality of your source.

Citing Music Sources from University of Western Ontario Music Library. (http://www.lib.uwo.ca/music/citemus.html)

Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Style Sheet (http://www.areditions.com/mla/notes/stylesheet.html)