Shasta College Library
Finding Out About Music

 
The Shasta College Library offers a collection of  books, videos, online journals, and Internet sites.  Selecting from so many sources in such varied formats presents many challenges. This web page is a beginner's map to navigating the wealth of resources available on campus and from your home computer.  Please contact the library staff or your instructor for further assistance.
Carolyn Salus Singh,
Reference Librarian		 Elizabeth Waterbury, Ph.D
Richard Fiske, Ph.D
Books and Videos in the Shasta College Library Collection
Books from the Shasta College Library's main collection are available for two week loan. Reserve books, reference books, and videocassettes must be used in the library. Library's web page
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a Shasta College Library card? Every Shasta College student is entitled to a free library card.  You may obtain a card from the Library's circulation desk.
Click here for Library Hours.
How do I know if the Shasta College Library owns the book or video I need? Select WEBCATalog from the Library's web page. If you know the title, click on Quick Search, type words from the title in the textbox, and click on TITLE. 
What search terms do I use to find books on music? Be flexible with your subject search words. Broad ones to begin might include: music, musicology, composers. These terms can be narrowed to individual periods, composers, and media.
How can I find the Reserve Books for my class? 1.  Select WEBCATalog from the Library's web page. 
2.   Click on the dark blue
RESERVE DESK button.
3. Enter instructor's name (in this case, Waterbury) and click on light blue Instructor button.
What is "plagiarism"? 1) To steal and use the ideas or writings of another as one’s own. 2) To appropriate passages or ideas from another and use them as one’s own. 
Sometimes plagiarism is accidental, sometimes it's intentional. Both are considered academic dishonesty (cheating!) and violate the Shasta College student code of conduct. 
Careful note taking and documentation of resources are your best tools for avoiding  plagiarism.
How do I cite materials in MLA format? Select Help from the Library's Web Page. 
Click on How to Cite Resources and then click on Modern Language Association.  The same information can be found in The MLA Handbook 5th ed. at the Library Reference Desk [Ref LB 2369.G53 1999]. Please use the most current MLA as this best covers ever changing electronic resources.
Individual databases, such as EBSCOhost and Encyclopedia Britannica Online include citation instructions on their Help pages.
This is so frustrating!  For research assistance, contact Carolyn Salus Singh, Reference Librarian
Can't somebody help me? For writing assistance, contact The Writing Center, offering workshops and free tutoring by appointment,  ph. 225-4689. 
Favorite Music Reference Books
Biography
Slonimsky, Nociolas, ed.  Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians [Reference ML 105.B16 1991]

Kuhn, Laura, ed.  Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians [Reference ML 105 .S612 1997]

Cohen, Aaron I., ed.  International Encyclopedia of Women Composers [Reference ML 105 .C7 1981]

Dictionaries
New Grove Dictionary of American Music [Reference ML 101 .U6 .N48 1986]

New Harvard Dictionary of Music [Reference ML 100. N485 1986]

Encyclopedias
Grout, Donald J.  History of Western Music [ML160 .G87 1980]

Sadie, Stanley, ed. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd. ed. [Reference ML100 .N48  2001]  (note: 1980 edition available in stacks for check-out).

Program Notes
Downes, Edward.  The New York Philharmonic Guide to the Symphony Guide. [Reference MT 125 .D68]

Harewood, George.  Kobbe's Illustrated Opera Book. [Reference MT95 .H2 1989]

Steinberg, Michael.  The Symphony: A Listener's Guide.
[Reference MT 125 .S79 1995]

Melodies and Themes
Barlow, Harold and Sam Morgenstern, compilers. Dictionary of Musical Themes. [ ML 128 I65 .B3]

Havlice, Patricia Pate, ed.  Popular Song Index. [Reference ML128.S3 H4]
 
Online Research Databases
Shasta College Library Online Research Databases
contain full text articles about a wealth of topics from  popular and academic  journals and newspapers.Encyclopedia Britannica provides an excellent introduction to thousands of topics. Advantages to using the online edition include timeliness, ease of linking to related topics in the Encyclopedia, and ease of linking to related websites on the Internet. 

General Reference Center Gold is a broad database, strong in current events, with some coverage of the arts.  Its music holdings include: 
       Country Music (citation)
       Electronic Musician (full text)
       Guitar Player (full text)
       Music Educators Journal (full text)
       Musical Quarterly (full text)
       Opera News (full text)
       Rolling Stone (abstract)
       Sing-Out (citation)
       Teaching Music (full text)

EBSCOHost  will probably be of greater use to you in social studies courses but it does contain the following music journals:
       Early Music (citation)
       Music Educators Journal (full text)
       Musical America (abstract)
       19th Century Music (citation)
       Teaching Music (full text).
Internet Resources
Librarians' Index to the Internet is a classified list of hundreds of web sites. These sites have been previewed by librarians (and if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?) and are regularly updated.
Scroll down to Music and click on more.  Below are a sampling of the sites found:

Aria Database - http://www.aria-database.com/ 
Close to 1000 arias - searchable by name, opera, language, composer, voice type, range, keyword, and whether there is a sound file (MIDI), translation, or text available. The database includes the complete operatic arias of Verdi, Mozart, and Puccini as  well as selections from more than 40 other composers. The site also includes a database of all characters from operas included in the Aria Database, with a short description, the arias they sing, and the creator of the role (if known). Finally, there is an annotated collection of links to opera related sites and a list of links to opera houses
and companies.

ChoralNet - http://www.choralnet.org/ 
Subtitled The Internet Center for Choral Music, this is a first stop for anyone    directing or singing in choirs. Also available in French, German, and Spanish.

Classical Net - http://www.classical.net/ 
Excellent collection of information on classical music and composers. Updated, indexed, and searchable.

Classical Composers - http://spight.physics.unlv.edu/picgalr2.html
Nationality and alphabetical indexes. Black and white photo. When available, birth and death dates, place, and occupations.

Electronic Resources in Duckles - http://www2.lib.ukans.edu/musiclib/duckles.htm
This site includes links to online sources mentioned in Duckles' Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography.

Essentials of Music - http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ 
This site offers an introduction to classical music built around Sony's Essential Classics music series. It features  Eras, Composers, and a Glossary. Eras covers the six main periods in classical music history, discussing historical themes, musical context, style, and major composers. Composers includes brief biographies and works of nearly 70 composers. Glossary provides 200 terms with examples (recordings or pictures). It also includes  almost 200 excerpts from the series in RealPlayer format. From the W.W. Norton & Company and Sony Classical Music. 

Music Libraries - http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/musiclib.html
This site lists music libraries by state.  The site also includes links to commercial publishers and distributors on the web. Unfortunately, the site has not been updated for over two years.

Music History 102 - http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/mushist/ 
An extensive original collection of text, images, and RealAudio clips of great works of Western classical music.  An exhibit of the Internet Public Library.

OperaGlass - http://rick.stanford.edu/opera/main.html 
Detailed information, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more on more than 250 operas and 100 composers. Also includes information on librettists, opera companies, opera people, other opera Web sites, selected reviews, and more.

San Francisco Classical Voice - http://www.sfcv.org/ 
Developed and edited by San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Emeritus, Robert  Commanday, this attractive new site, with its broad, in-depth coverage of the Bay Area classical music scene, should become an immediate priority with music lovers. It includes five to ten reviews weekly, (by a well selected group of local contributors), extensive calendar listings, and stimulating editorials.
Citing Resources
Online resources are diverse in their scope and format.  This diversity provides for myriad research possibilities and an equal number of documentation challenges.  Uniformity is one of the hallmarks of MLA style, yet how does one cite consistently when online resources don’t adhere to proscribed standards?  Do your best to credit your sources and provide enough information so that you and your reader can locate the materials for future reference. MLA suggests that your Works Cited entries contain as many items from the following list as are relevant and available. 

1.  Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator (if available and relevant), alphabetized by last name and followed by any appropriate abbreviations, such as ed. 
2.  Title of a poem, short story, article, or other short work within a scholarly project, database, or periodical, in quotation marks 
3.  Title of a book, in italics or underlined 
4.  Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of a book (if applicable and if not cited earlier), preceded by any appropriate abbreviation, such as ed. 
5.  Publication information for any print version 
6.  Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site (in italics or underlined), or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as home page
7.Name of the editor of a scholarly project or database (if known) 
8. Version number (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume, issue, or other identifying number 
9.  Date of electronic publication or posting or latest update, whichever is most recent (if known) 
10.Name of any institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the Web site 
11. Date you accessed the source 
12.URL <in angle brackets>
No single entry will contain all of the above but all Works Cited entries for Web sources should contain at least the following basic information: 
Author's name (last name first). Document title. Date of Internet publication. Date of access 
     <URL>

For further assistance, consult:
Books
Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 
                     (Reference DeskLB2369 .G53 1999)

Harnack, Andrew. Online! : A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources 
                  (Reference TK 5105.875 .I57 .H364 2000)

Websites
Frequently Asked Questions About M.L.A. Style
                  http://www.mla.org

MLA Examples from The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center
                   http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/DocMLA.html 

Sample Citations

Book with one author
Jaffe, Andrew.  Jazz Harmony.  2nd. Ed.  New York: Advance Music, 1996. 

Book with two authors
Kostka, Stefan M.  and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to 
       Twentieth Century Music.  New York: Knopf, 1984. 

Edited book
Sullivan, Jack, ed. Words on Music: From Addison to Barzun. Athens: Ohio Univ. 
      Pr., 1990. 

Signed journal or magazine article 
Blackett, Matt. "15 Days to Better Chops."  Guitar Player 33.4  (April 1999): 
       74-78. 

Encyclopedia article
Henderson, Clayton H.  “Minstrelsy, American.”  The New Grove Dictionary of 
         Music and  Musicians.  2nd. ed. 2001. 

Sound recording
Holiday, Billie.  The Essence of Billie Holiday. Rec. 23 Jan. 1943. Columbia, 1991. 

Liner notes
Byron, Don. "Bug Music." Liner notes. Bug Music: Music Of The Raymond Scott 
     Quintette, John Kirby & His Orchestra, And The Duke Ellington Orchestra. 
     Elektra, 1996. 

Videorecording
Bernstein, Leonard, perf. Musical Phonology. Videocassette. Dir. Clark Santee. 
       Kultur, 1973. (MLA) 104 min.

CD-ROM or software
Axelrod, Rise B. and Charles R. Cooper.  The St. Martin's Guide
       to Writing.  5th ed.  CD-ROM.  New York:  St. Martin's, 1997. 

Article from an online encyclopedia
"Minstrel Show."  Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Shasta College Library. 16 Feb. 
       2001  <http://library.shastacollege.edu.databases.htm>

Note: Do not split web address (url) between two lines.

Article from an online subscription service
Okker, Patricia and Jeffrey Williams."Reassuring Sounds: Minstrelsy and the Hidden 
       Hand." ATQ 12 (2) Jun. 1998: 133-45. EbscoHost, Redding, Shasta College Library. 
       16 Feb. 2001  <http://library.shastacollege.edu/databases.htm>

Note: An article's url is an unwieldy string of letter and numbers. Use the url for the Shasta College Library’s Online Research Databases page, as that’s how your reader will most easily link to this database and article.

Scholarly project from the Internet 
Railton, Stephen, ed. Blackface Minstrelsy 1830-1852. 16 Sept. 1999. University of Virginia. 16 Feb. 2001 
      <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/mihp.html>

Note: Unlike printed, published materials, websites often change and sometimes even disappear.  Include date of most recent revision (not always available) and the date you accessed the site.

Article from an online magazine
Sragow, Michael. "Black Like Spike." Salon 26 Oct. 2000. 16 Feb. 2001 
       <www.salon.com>

Note: Include both the date published and date you visited the site.

 
Questions? Comments? Do you have a music site to recommend? Let me know!
Carolyn Salus Singh
http://library.shastacollege.edu/musicapprecweb.htm updated 10/12/01

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