Music History II: Romantic and Twentieth-Century Music up to 1945

• use a variety of sources: articles should be from more than one journal or essay collection
• start early - we can get you material from other libraries
• know how to combine keywords:
  • Better searching using AND, OR, NOT (video tutorial: 4:04)

• Access is incorporated through Oxford Music Online
• Remember to consult the "Bibliography" at the end of the article

• Cambridge Histories
  • Eighteenth Century Music
  • Nineteenth Century Music
  • Twentieth Century Music
  • Musical Performance
  • Western Music Theory
• Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Oxford)
• Orchestra: A very short introduction (Oxford)
• Romanticism: a very short introduction (Oxford)

• Search Omni to identify books at Laurier
  • limit to "Books and eBooks"
  • Requesting item
    • print, from Laurier and other Omni libraries
    • Mail on Demand (only within Canada)
    • Scan on Demand
• Learn about call numbers for locating books and the Waterloo campus floor plans
• Search through our ebook collections - these let you search across the full text

• Search Omni to identify books at Laurier
  • limit to "Articles"
  • limit to results from Peer-Reviewed Journals

Beyond the articles you might find using Omni, the following databases provide more direct access to scholarly articles.

• RILM abstracts of Music Literature
  • international coverage of music publications. Covers articles, books, etc. Limit to peer reviewed, and perhaps English
• Music Periodicals Database
  • articles from popular music publications. Limit to scholarly (lots of magazine content). Exclude reviews.

For more detailed searching, and/or for more obscure topics, try searching across the full text through these databases:

• JSTOR
  • full text collection of ejournals, searchable across all the full text; you can also limit to music journals
• Periodicals Archive Online
  • another full text collection of ejournals, searchable across all the full text; you can also limit to music journals

Think outside the box, you may find journal literature in other databases. E.g,

• ATLA Religion Database
  • Church music, etc.
• Historical Abstracts
  • musical issues related to historical and political events

Go to Scores to find scores in print and online.

• Listen Online (library subscriptions such as Naxos)
• The Great 78 Project
  • over 3 million recordings of digitized 78rpm records, covering 1898-1950s

The Library subscribes to a number of streaming video services that may contain helpful resources for your term paper

• Medici.tv
  • recorded concerts, live performances, and documentaries
• Films on demand
  • documentataries, search for specific names or events. Some examples include:
    • Eras of Music History: Romantic
    • Eras of Music History: Modernist
    • Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky or Wagner

• Citing Music: Chicago Style (University of Manitoba)
  • includes examples for Naxos and YouTube
• Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, complete manual