The study and performance of traditional and contemporary wind band literature, requiring an advance level of performance ability. Public concert given each semester.
For listings of additional music resources, consult the Music Reserach Guide.
Contains all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music without charge.
Musical text and the critical commentary of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.
Over 1.45 million tracks of music from the Naxos and other independent music labels; includes background information.
Streaming access to over classical music recordings. Includes the Music Library Association listing of essential sound recordings.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries are a great place to start when wanting to learn more about a subject. These two resources below will be beneficial to you for this course.
Access to articles and biographies from field of music, includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Reference work on evolution of Western classical music by Richard Taruskin.
Below are more general encyclopedic sources.
Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium: the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over more than 600,000 words.
Every three months updates revise existing entries and add new words
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Articles on all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition.
IIMP covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential, and Rolling Stone. The database currently includes over 770,000 records, the majority of which index the most recent years of publication. More than 200,000 records in IIMP are from the backfile (up to 1995) and much of this coverage commences at the first issue of the journal run, some starting as early as 1874. Over 30 titles are indexed from first issue to last. IIMP is a dynamic database, with records added on a monthly basis.
Archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering the Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings covering fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Library of IPA transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. CMOS includes the full contents of the 18th edition.
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