Research Guides (LibGuides): AM 298/498/698: Double Bass Studio: Where to find resources

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Online Library Catalogs - use to find a vast array of materials, including books, scores, recordings, videos.

WorldCat Discovery This link opens in a new window
Search Butler University Libraries and beyond for articles, books, media, and more.

Find books, articles, media, and more at Butler and beyond

Digital Collections - There are a number of sources for online scores. Most of them feature public domain editions. Perhaps the largest and most useful of these databases is IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project).

International Music Score Library Project

Streaming Audio and Visual Resources - use these to locate recordings and videos that you can view from your home or dorm room. You'll find them under "Music" from the "Databases" link on the Butler Libraries Home Page!

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
This online collection of music includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks. Genres covered include Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. The database also provides access to notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists. [Subscription limits to 15 simultaneous users!]
AVON - Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
AVON: Academic Video Online is a comprehensive multidisciplinary streaming video resource.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand is a state-of-the-art streaming video platform for a variety of educational media content.
medici.tv This link opens in a new window
medici.tv is an online streaming platform for classical music, with videos of concerts, ballets, operas, and more.

Music-related Commercial/Subscription Databases - use to find full-text information or citations to articles about various aspects of music (often the citiations are accompanied by brief summaries or "abstracts' that describe what the article is about.

Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Grove Music Online provides information about the lives of composers and performers; musical styles, periods, terms, and genres; musical instruments; music printing and publishing; world musics; popular music; and other music-related topics.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to full-text academic electronic journals in various disciplines including economics and finance, political science, history, literature, anthropology, mathematics, sociology, statistics, and education.
Music Periodicals Database (ProQuest) [Formerly IIMP-Full Text] This link opens in a new window
A music journal resource with more than half a million indexed articles from over 430 journals, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides article citations and abstracts from 3500 international music journals and other scholarly works including books, dissertations, bibliographies, concert reviews, critical commentaries, videos and films, etc.

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