Dr. Priest's
web site and syllabi may be found at http://faculty.weber.edu/tpriest
Using Catalogs:
- Use Stewart Library's online
catalog to find musical recordings housed in our collection.
- Search by general keyword or alphabetically browse by author/composer,
title or subject
- Be sure to limit by Audio Recordings (musical) under
Limits at the bottom of the screen.
- Use WorldCat
to find music in other libraries, locally and globally
- Select
Sound Recordings. Be aware that sound recordings may
not be available via interlibrary loan
Audio tapes, CDs and
videos are housed on the Lower Level of Stewart Library in the
Media/Reserve collection. Ask at the Circulation Services desk for
assistance.
- Excellent collections of curriculum and music on CD for teachers
can be found on the Lower Level, North. Check the library
catalog for location and availability.
- Spotlight on Music
- Share the Music
- Making Music
- The Music Connection
- Roots and Branches: a legacy of multicultural music
for children
- Changing Directions (music for folk dance)
- Rhytmically Moving (accompanies Teaching Movement
and Dance text)
From the Internet: Many different types of music are available
on the Internet. These can be stored in many different file types.
Use the Web Resources links below and
Search Engines
to search for audio files on the Internet. Try using
AltaVista's
Audio Search.
From Online Stores:
Order music online from Amazon.Com,
Barnes and Noble or many other stores.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular CD, Video or other media needed, we
can try to borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan. Be aware that it is often difficult to borrow media
as many libraries do not lend audio tapes, CD's or videos.
Finding
Books and Scores
Using Catalogs:
Use the WSU Stewart Library's online
catalog to find scores and other books on music. You can search
by keyword or alphabetically browse by author, title or subject. Use
WorldCat
to find books in other libraries.
Scores:
Use the library catalog to find scores in the library. Search by
keyword and limit your search by Format
to Music scores. You can
also do an alphabetical search by author (includes composer), title
or subject; note that the Format limits mentioned above do not work
when doing alphabetical searches. Use WorldCat
to find music in other libraries. Scores are generally found in
the M 1 - M 1490 call number range on the Top Level
of the library.
Music Books: Most music books are found in the General Collection
under the call number "M" on the Top Level of the library.
It is useful to browse the shelves to get an overview of the music
collection.
| Useful call
number areas for music are: |
- M 1 - M 1490 -- instrumental music
- scores -- most scores are located in this area, the
exact call number depends on the musical form and number
of instruments
- ML 1 - 3930 -- literature on music
- ML 100 - ML 158 -- reference works on music
- ML 159 - ML 3739 -- history and criticism
- ML 385 - ML 429 -- biography
- ML 430 - ML 455 -- composition
- ML 3930 -- literature on music for children
- MT 1 -- MT 960 -- musical instruction and study
- MT 1 -- pedagogics
- MT 2 - MT 5 -- history and criticism
- MT 7 -- music theory
- MT 20 - MT 32 -- special methods
- MT 40 - MT 67 -- composition
- MT 170- MT 810 -- instrumental techniques
- MT 220 - 255 -- piano
|
Books on education
are found under the call number L. Books and periodicals
that check out are located in the General Collection on the Top
Level of the library. Reference books are located on the Middle
Level, north side.
The Young Peoples Collection
of children's literature and the Curriculum Library of teaching
resources, including music text/CD sets, are located on the Lower
Level, north end. These are arranged by Dewey Decimal System as
used in most school media centers and school libraries (370 for
Education, 780 for Music). Located here are the curriculum series:
- Share the Music
- Making Music
- The Music Connection
- Teaching Movement & Dance : a sequential approach
to rhythmic movement - General Collection - 2nd Floor, GV1753.5.W45
1998
Subject Headings:
Useful Library of Congress Subject Headings are:
- Music -- Instruction and study -- Juvenile
- School music -- Instruction and study
Also use a general keyword
search in the catalog. Other useful terms may include: music, education,
grades K-6 (or K-8 or K-12), curriculum, study and teaching, High
School teaching.
From Bookstores:
Order books online from Amazon.Com,
Barnes and Noble or one of the other
sources found on our list of Book
and Book Review sources.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will
borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries and
other materials you use to "refer" to. Use these resources
for background information on a topic. For
home or off campus access use your WSU username and password.
ONLINE REFERENCE RESOURCES
- Oxford
Music Online [Now includes Grove Music Online] - Universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed
reference resource on all aspects of music. Be aware, this database
subscription provides access for only 6-8 simultaneous users at
a time from WSU.
- Credo
Reference - A selection of full-text reference resources, including several in music. Be sure to limit your search to Music in the drop-down list next to the search box.
- Oxford
Reference Online - A selection of full text reference resources, including several in music.
Look under Performing Arts to find the music resources.
PRINT REFERENCE RESOURCES
(Encyclopedias and Dictionaries)
Listed below are some
selected examples. Browse the shelves in the reference collection,
Middle Level under the call number M and on Reference
Table 3A to see many more reference books on music:
- Infinite Elvis: An Annotated Bibliography (REF ML 134.5
.P73 H56 2001)
- Music Hound: This series includes Music Hound titles
on Rock, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Country and Folk. All
in the M section of the reference collection, main level
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (REF Index
Table 3A) -- This contains long articles on a wide variety of
subjects. Each article has a bibliography. Online version is listed
above.
- New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and Instrument
Makers (REF Index Table 3A) -- Information on instruments,
their history and evolution.
- New Harvard Dictionary of Music (REF ML 100 .N485 1986)
-- has definitions of musical terms and historical articles. See
"Education in the United States" for a history of music
teaching practices.
- Rap Whoz Who (REF ML400 .S77 1996)
- Rocket Man: The Encyclopedia of Elton John (REF ML410.J64
B4 1995)
- Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (REF ML102
.P66 V57 2002)
- The Library also owns more subject specific dictionaries and
encyclopedias including: The New Grove Dictionary of American
Music, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The Encyclopedia of Popular
Music,The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music in America,
and many others found in the M's in the reference collection
on the main level.
ARTICLE DATABASES
To find articles on your
topic you should begin by using our article databases. Search by subject or keyword
in these databases. Off-campus access requires your WSU username and
password. If the full text of an article is available in a database, there will be a PDF Full-Text or HTML Full-Text link. If not, there will often be a Find Full-Text link that will take you to WSU's Article Access screen which will tell you if we have the full-text in another article database or in print.
- Academic
Search Premier - Covers most topics and includes over 1000
education titles and 100 music journals, many with full text
- Arts
& Humanities Search - Citations from many of the world's
leading arts and humanities journals from
1980 - present
- EbscoHost
Education Databases - Cross-database searching for several education
databases, including ERIC, selected full text
- Education
Full Text - Citations, abstracts and some full-text articles
on all aspects of education, including music educations
- ERIC - Citations, abstracts and some full-text for articles and other documents on all aspects of education, including music education
- RILM -- Répertoire International de Literature Musicale - Citations and abstracts of scholarly literature in music from 1969 - present
- IIPA
-- International Index to Performing Arts - Citations, abstracts
and some full-text articles from journals and magazines on all aspects of the performing arts, including dance
- JSTOR
Archive of full text articles from scholarly journals in many fields, including music - coverage goes from the 1st issue to 5 years ago for most journals
- PsycINFO
- Index to scholarly literature in the broad field of psychology,
including some full-text articles - covers several journals on music education and the psychology of music
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Another resource for finding scholarly articles is Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). When accessing Google Scholar from off-campus for the first time, click on Scholar Preferences to the right of the search box. In the Library Links box, type in Weber State and click on Find Library. Then click on the box next to Weber State University - Full-Text@My Library. Finally, click on the Save Preferences box at the bottom right corner of the screen. Then as you search for articles in Google Scholar, look for articles that include a Full-Text@MyLibrary link. If you click on the link, it will take you to WSU's Article Access page where you will (hopefully) find a link to the full-text of the article or link to our library catalog for journals we only have in print. You will need to enter your WSU user name and password when prompted. This is a good way to find scholarly articles, but be aware that many WSU article databases are NOT linked to Google Scholar. You should NEVER depend only on Google Scholar for finding articles.
BROWSING CURRENT PERIODICALS
Current magazines and
journals on music and music education can be browsed in the Current
Periodicals Area, on the middle level, south endincluding:
- American Music Teacher MT 1 .A512
- Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education
ML 1 .C332
- Journal of Research in Music Education ML 1 .J86
Bound volumes of older
issues are found in the General Collection on the Top Level.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
Here are
some WWW sites to get you started. Most of these will take you to
other links, so explore!
- AMG's All Music Guide -
From the publishers of the standard reference, All Music Guide,
this site contains ratings and reviews of more than 400,000 record
albums. Search by artist, album, song, style, or label.
- The American Folklife
Center at the Library of Congress - created as a repository
for American Folk Music, and all aspects of folklore and folklife
from this country and around the world
- Best Children's
Music - a very select, but exceptional, library of children's
music that's updated regularly
- K-12 Resources
for Music Educators - resources for music educators and students
of all areas and educational levels
- McGraw
Hill Spotlight on Music - support website for McGraw-Hill's
"Spotlight on Music" program
- McGraw
Hill Share the Music - support website for McGraw-Hill's "Share
the Music" program
- Silver Burdett Making Music
- support website for Silver Burdett Ginn's "Making Music"
and "Music Connection" programs
- How
to Find Sheet Music on the Internet
- Google
Directory: Music Education
- The Lester S. Levy
Collection of Sheet Music - of Johns Hopkins University contains
over 29,000 pieces from1780 to 1960 including full images of those
published before 1923 in public domain
- Music
Resources - The Sibelius Academy, a conservatory in Helsinki,
provides a list of music sites on jazz, blues, rock, and pop pages.
It also covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research,
theory, and opera
- Worldwide
Internet Music Resources - from the William and Gayle Cook
Music Library Indiana University School of Music
- Use Google or another search
engine to find more Web sites
- Clearly identify your information need
- Identify key words and search terms
to match your topic
- Develop search statements using advanced search techniques
- Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
- Use the Online Catalog to
find books
- Use Education and Arts & Humanities article databases to
find journal articles
- Go back to the online catalog to see if the journals are in
Stewart Library and where they are located
- Use Interlibrary loan
to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
- Use search
engines to find Web information
- Carefully
evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
- Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your
results, be creative, look in other areas
- Use appropriate style to document and cite research
- Ask for HELP
from Reference staff via phone, chat, or email
