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Note: Listening to music online via streaming audio from these services is free for Temple affiliated library patrons.   Temple users will be asked for a username and password if off-campus, just enter your Accessnet username and password, the same that is used for your Temple email and Blackboard.  Even though the streaming audio services are free to Temple patrons, there is a fee if you wish to download music.

African American Song
Covers the genres gospel, spirituals, folk, jazz, and blues and the time period from the late nineteenth century to the 1970's. Can search and browse the collection as well as make individual playlists.

American Song - over 50,000 songs in every style, period, and genre.  Includes Blues, Tin Pan Alley, Cajun, Cowboy, Ragtime, African-American songs, Bluegrass, sacred, and choral music.  Can browse by historical events such as D-Day, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the first moon landing.  Includes presidential campaign songs from 1789-1996.

Classical Music Library
Covers the gamut of classical music styles, genres, and eras. Ready-made playlists include recordings for Grout as well as themed lists for women composers, various forms of music, era, conductors, instrument, mood, and others. Individuals can compile their own playlists.

Contemporary World Music  - contemporary music from everywhere in the world.  Includes genres such as reggae, world beat, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing as well as more traditional genres such as Indian Classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, gospel, and more!

Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)  -  a non-profit initiative funded by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and other organizations. This database provides streaming audio of American music from New World Records, CRI, Albany, Innova, Cedilla, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable Music labels. A wide array of genres is represented: folk, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic, and more. Searching and browsing by composer, instrument, performer, record labels, and titles of compositions is available.

Naxos Music Library / Naxos Music Library Jazz Comprehensive coverage of repertoire including classical music, jazz, world music, folk, and contemporary music. Search for music by composer, title, performer, instrument, genre, stylistic period, country, and more.

Smithsonian Global Sound
Provides music from all over the world, many from field recordings of ethnomusicologists. Contains the archival recordings of Folkways Records and other labels as well as African Music recorded for the International Library of African Music and music from South Asia from the Archive Research Center for Ethnomusicology. The collection is searchable and browsable by country, instrument, language, genre, cultural group, artist, and album label.

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African American Music Reference
Chronicles the diverse history of African American music, including blues, jazz, slave songs, spirituals, rhythm and blues, gospel, and more. Links are provided from the reference information to streaming audio in the database African American Song.

Classical Scores Library
Contains the digitized scores of over 40 composers including Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Ned Rorem. Links to streaming audio in the Classical Music Library database.

NEW! Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Standard, comprehensive encyclopedia of World Music now online. Each volume covers a geographic region. The last volume includes reference tools and general perspectives on World Music. Browse geographic locations, or search the entire set for specific terms.

Grove Music Online
Includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed., as well as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Provides links to additional resources such as sound files and illustrations. Full-text can be searched by concept, pattern, and boolean methods. Or, the resource can be explored by browsing the articles or the subject classifications. Updated annually.

Index to Printed Music, Collections and Series
Deciphers monumental critical editions. With this resource, you can locate where a specific piece is within the multitudinous volumes of the monumental critical editions. The resource is not complete yet, so if you cannot find what you need in the database, be sure to check:Hill, George R. and Norris L. Stevens. Collected Editions, Historical Sets & Monuments of Music: a bibliography. Berkeley, CA.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1997. Paley Ref Stacks ML113.H55 1997

IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals
Current content from more than 370 international music periodicals, over 60 full-text and full-image titles. Provides access to both popular and scholarly periodicals.

IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts
Content from more than 225 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. Includes 32 Full-Text journal titles.

JSTOR The strength of JSTOR is that it provides full-text coverage of entire runs of important journals, sometimes going all the way back to the nineteenth century. The caveat is that most journals have a 5-year "encumbrance," meaning that the most recent five years are not available in JSTOR. (For the most recent issues, go to other sources such as IIMP, IIPA, or the print periodicals at the library.) To use JSTOR, go to "Advanced Search" and scroll down to choose the Music Collection.

Music Index
Indexes 775 international journals. Coverage is from 1976 to the present with some backfile from 1962 included. Comprehensive in that all styles and genres are represented, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news sources, about every aspect of music.

RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature
Contains over 200,000 citations from books, journals, conferences, and dissertations, on all aspects of music. Covers the period 1969 to the present. Updated quarterly.

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
Indexes complete runs of journals from 17 countries from 1800-1950. In addition to articles, the indexing includes concert reviews, news columns, surveys of the press, iconography, and advertising. Provides a bibliography of English-language translations. Significant additions to the database are made annually.

RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources - Series A/II.
Music Manuscripts after 1600. Locates the manuscripts of over 20,000 composers located in over 750 libraries.

WorldCat
Search thousands of libraries worldwide in this bibliographic utility. Can't find a score, book, sound recording, or DVD? Look here and find out what local libraries have the item, or make an interlibrary loan request from right within the database!

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
From the Web of Science. Small Arts and Humanities coverage but useful for citation searching.

ATLA Religion Database
Contains information on music used for religious purposes in various cultures.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Provides citations from the most important indexes of nineteenth century publications such as books, periodicals, newspapers, archives, and government documents.

EEBO (Early English Books Online)
Contains full-text of English publications before 1700.  Early editions of Blow, Byrd, Dowland, Purcell, and others.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Digitized primary resource collection comprised of the major English and foreign-language publications in the United Kingdom of the 18th century. Music resources include treatises and early printed music.

ERIC
For Music Education. The most comprehensive Education database. Coverage from 1966 to the present.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Carribbean, and Hispanics in the United States.

Project MUSE
Full text of all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Covers 1995 to the present. Music titles include Computer Music Journal, Early Music, Latin American Music Review, Leonardo Music Journal, Music & Letters, Notes, Opera Quarterly, Philosophy of Music Education Review, and Women and Music.

APA Style Resources

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers.  New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.  Copies in Paley Stacks and at Paley Ref Desk LB2369 .G53 2003  

How to write about music : the RILM manual of style.  James R. Cowdery, ed.  New York : Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 2006.  Paley Stacks ML3797 .H69x 2006 

Strunk, William.  The Elements of Style.  New York : Longman, c2000.  Paley Ref Stacks PE1408 .S772 2000b.  1979 edition in Paley Stacks PE1408.S772 1979.  

Temple University Libraries' Citation Help Libguide

Temple University Writing Center Handouts, Tipsheets, and Writing Guides.  Scroll down the page to see Citation Guides. Sources.   Please check with your professor about what citation style to use.

Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers.    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.  Paley Ref Stacks   LB2369 .T8 2007