Research Guides: Music Research Guide: Graduate Student Resources

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This page contains information about how to survive your culminating project process as well as some advanced music resources graduate students should use. If you need more information about a resource, hover over the 'i' icon. If you have any questions, contact the Music Librarian!

Culminating Project Information

All-in-One Project Guide
Use this guide to help with formatting your culminating document.

Belmont Digital Repository Submission Guide
by Chuck Hodgin Last Updated Oct 17, 2022 45 views this year

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Citation Management

These guides explain different types of bibliographic management software that can help you manage citations for the resources you find while researching for your thesis. Each one is different, and each has its own pros and cons so play around with them until you find the one that you like best!

EndNote
by Lila Bunch Last Updated Oct 7, 2021 11761 views this year
Mendeley LibGuide
by Jenny Mills Last Updated Dec 20, 2022 54 views this year
Zotero
by Nicole Fox Last Updated Jan 20, 2023 13 views this year

Advanced Music Resources

Find Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (A&I) With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T A&II includes the abstracts (written by the author of) dissertations published from 1980 forward include Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. Full-text of dissertations is available from Dissertations & Theses. Dissertations can also be requested via InterLibrary Loan.

Find Articles

Music Periodicals Database (IIMP) Music Periodicals Database (IIMP) provides indexing, abstracting and selected full-text coverage of the most important scholarly and popular music journals published today.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.

Find Scores

Orchestral Music Online Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists throughout the world. This new online version, based on the critically acclaimed fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook (2005, Scarecrow Press), provides greater and easier access to more information on composers and works.

Interlibrary Loan

WorldCat
WorldCat searches the catalogs of libraries around the world. It can tell you the location of closest library that holds a book or journal you're trying to find.

Interlibrary Loan
by Paige Carter Last Updated Aug 12, 2022 347 views this year

Helpful Websites

Musical America International Dictionary of the Performing Arts Contains listings and directories of aspects of the classical music industry including festivals, competitions, agents, artists, orchestras, schools of music, publishers and daily news items that affect the performing arts. Single user access.

MusRef Bibliographies MusRef Bibliographies is a series of in-depth compilations of research devoted to narrowly defined music topics that are not covered elsewhere. Generally each bibliography consists of about 100 sources, though some are more extensive. They are intended to represent an exhaustive search for secondary literature related to the subject. They are not limited by date or language.
DRM: Digital Resources for Musicology This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.