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Classical music
is such a broad description, you may find it useful to have
more specific terms or particular composers as your search
terms. Terms such as baroque, chamber, romantic, opera and
orchestral can work well in retrieving more useful material
than just the term 'classical'.
Books
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Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven
BOOK STACKS ML195 .R68 1972 |
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Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music
Compositions
BOOK STACKS ML113 .C59 1996 |
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NPR Classical Music Companion:
Terms and Concepts from A to Z
ELECTRONIC RESOURCE, access through library catalog or
the NetLibrary collection in the Research Databases |
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Pelican History of Music (vol 1)
BOOK STACKS ML160 .R665 1960 v.1 |
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Western Classical Music: The Da
Capo Guide History of Western Classical Music
OVERSIZE ML160 .B107 1999 |
Non-Book
CSUSM Media Library has a variety of
sound recordings of classical music. Try a SUBJECT search on Orchestral Music to
retrieve many of our holdings and limit the search to
sound or video recordings by LIMITING the search to
location=>MEDIA.CSUSM Media Library has a variety of videos on classical music and
musicians. Try a SUBJECT search on Orchestral Music to
retrieve many of our holdings and limit the search to
sound or video recordings by LIMITING the search to
location=>MEDIA. If you search under GENRE/FORM for
music, you will note two different listings
for 'music video recordings' and 'music videos'. Music videos are
normally music performances of while the video
recordings can be recorded interviews or instruction on
music.
Journal
of Seventeenth Century Music is available
electronically in full text beginning with vol. 1, issue
1.
19th Century Music is available to
CSUSM users through Academic Search Premier
Internet Sources
British Library Sound Archive:
Classical Music
This site focuses on describing the collections
available at the British Library, but offers sound recordings
for online listening and a list of links to record
companies and organizations.
Classical
Music Archives
Limited free access or full access with membership.
Listen to music and find short attributed biographies.
While not the only source to use for research papers, it
is a good start on the classical composers and their
music as well as current performers.
Classical Music Navigator
Information is arranged in 5 categories: a composers
list of basic data, major works; a list of works sorted
by musical genre; composers listed by geographical area;
an index of forms and styles for each composer; and a
glossary.
Classical
Music on the Web
A web site directory with divisions for type of music,
geographic divisions, instruments and more.
Essentials
of Music
While created to accompany a book and music publisher's
commercial products, this site is used for brief
overviews and explanations.
Sibelius Academy Music Resources
Internationally renowned school of music, this site
offers links to high-quality early music websites. Some
pages are in Finnish, but much of the site is in
English.
Symphony: An Interactive Guide
While geared towards the younger student, this site
offers a starting place for research.
Video On Demand
A collection of performances, lectures, interviews, and
installations recorded at UCSD. These are free to watch
using RealPlayer. Use the video finder subject divisions
to look at the offering (advise using the Arts & Music
collection and then using the "by subject" tab". A
title/keyword search option is available also. Of
interest are the Classical & Symphonic Music, Chamber
Music, Opera, and Artist Profiles sections.
Composers & Performers
A word of
warning here! Many composers have alternate spellings of
their names dependent on the variation in the historical
record and the conversion from non-Roman alphabets.
An example is
the Russian composer
Tchaikovsky Peter Ilich 1840 1893.
Although Tchaikovsky is the authorized form and used in the library catalog,
his name
can also be spelled as Tchaikovski,
Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilitch, Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich, or
Tchaikowsky Peter Iljitch (and more). Ask a librarian for help if you
are not finding what you need.
Africlassical.com
Website devoted to Black history and African composers
and performers of classical music (historical and
modern.) Brief biographies are provided.
American
Musicological Society (AMS)
A huge site, with a focus on American music, but the
Web sites
of interest to musicologists collection has a set of links
to
classical composers.
Baroque Composers and Musicians
While the information provided does not show the
references used, the information appears accurate (as
accurate as it can be when discussing people of an era
that didn't record information well and in some cases,
impartially.)
Classical
Music on the Web
A web site directory with divisions for composers, type
of music, instruments and more, including a large
section on women composers.
Classical Net: Composer Master Index
An alphabetically-arranged list of composers' page with
links to other information. Use with care as not all
content is maintained by the Classical Net group.
Essentials of Music
As noted in the Electronic Resources section, this site
also has information on individual composers and
musicians.
Individual Musicians (All Genres) and Popular Groups
Assembled by Indiana University, this covers a broad
range of musical artists
Rough Guide to Music (Classical)
While the site has commercial intent and does not
provide reference sources for the biographies of
composers provided, it is a source for short overviews
from which to start.
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