Course Number: MU270
Subject: Music
Term paper
"minimum of ten scholarly sources on it, including at least one journal article, one Grove article, and one musical score."
How can I tell if my source is scholarly? (tutorial)
Grove Music Online
- Access is incorporated through Oxford Music Online
- Remember to consult the "Bibliography" at the end of the article
Cambridge Histories
Books
- Search Omni to identify books at Laurier and other Omni libraries
- Use facets at left of results to focus your search
- e.g, books and ebooks
- view more Omni help tutorials
Scholarly Articles
- Search Omni to identify articles
- Use facets at left of results to focus your search
- e.g, Articles, peer-reviewed
Sometimes it is hard to narrow down results in Omni. Consider the following databases that provide direct access to scholarly articles in just music
- RILM abstracts of Music Literature
- international coverage of music publications.
- Music Periodicals Database
- articles from popular music publications.
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
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- includes extremely obscure citations​​​​​​
Theses
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (also a great place to find other sources in the bibliography)
- e.g., Grützmann Januario, L. G. (2020). The roman catholic ordinary mass from circa 1750 to circa 1820: A selected bibliography (Order No. 28187434). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2457329310). Retrieved from
Scores
- Scores in print and online.
Audio
- Listen Online (library subscriptions such as Naxos)
Video
The Library subscribes to a number of streaming video services that may contain helpful resources for your term paper, e.g.,
Citing your sources
- Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, complete manual
- Citing Music: Chicago Style (University of Manitoba)
- includes examples for Naxos and YouTube
- Owl Purdue - Chicago