World Music Resources: Home
A guide to the resources related to world music in the WWU music library.
Helpful Links
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Ethnomusicology - World MusicEthnomusicology - World Music Lib guide by John Gibbs.
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Society for EthnomusicologyThe Society for Ethnomusicology is a professional organization that provides various job resources, hosts conferences, and publishes a peer-reviewed journal.
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Ethnomusicology OnLineEOL is a peer-reviewed, interactive online journal focusing on ethnomusicological topics.
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Folk Music Index to RecordingsThis site provides a searchable database to thousands of recordings of American folk music. Fully indexed by song title, performer, and label, the database provides basic bibliographic information for recordings.
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American Music ResourceIndexed by topic and subject, this website provides extensive bibliographic and discographic information on music of the Americas.
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Society for American MusicThis website serves as a gateway to a selected number of resources for American music.
Call Numbers
- ML3600-ML3800
- ML300-ML360
Journals
Ethnomusicology. 1953-present.
ML1 .E77
Ethnomusicology Online. 1995-present.
ML3797.6 .E84 (online resource)
Core Databases
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Canadian Music Periodical Index [Government of Canada]An index of citations to over 37,000 music-related articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day.
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Classical Music Library [Alexander Street]A repository of classical music recordings ranging from medieval to modern times.
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Music Periodicals Database [ProQuest]A database of indexed abstracts and full-texts for music periodicals, covering both scholarly journals and popular magazines.
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JSTOR [ITHAKA]A multi-disciplinary full-text database of articles from many scholarly journals. Content available is usually 1-5 years behind the most recently published journal article. Also contains some current journals and books.
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Music Index [EBSCO]An index to publications about music and musicians, including performance reviews, obituaries, periodicals, and book reviews.
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Music in Print [emusicquest]An international database of published sheet music.
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Naxos Music Library [Naxos Digital Services]A collection containing almost 2 million tracks of classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Notes and biographical information are included with the music.
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Met Opera on Demand [The Metropolitan Opera]Met Opera on Demand offers users instant access to full-length Metropolitan Opera performances, including HD videos from the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1935.
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Oxford Music Online (Grove Music Online) [Oxford University Press]A reference resource covering all aspects of music, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature [EBSCO]A database providing access to portions of books, international periodical literature, and other music publications.
Tip:The print version is available in the Music Library building reference area (ML 1 I83).
Head of Music Library
Marian Ritter
Contact:
Music Library
PAC 376
360.650.3696
marianr@wwu.edu
WebsitePAC 376
360.650.3696
marianr@wwu.edu
Guide development
Guide developed by Kaleigh Cook, WWU Distinguished Student Employee
cookk9@students.wwu.edu