Jane Bancroft Cook Library

Music Guide
This Research Guide provides an overview of selected resources available in Jane Bancroft Cook
Library or via USF Libraries. The citations in this Research Guide are arranged in call number
order, which groups together materials on the same topic.

The major Library of Congress (LC) classifications for MUSIC are ML 100 - ML 3850. You can
browse the shelves in these subject classifications, but you should also search more thoroughly
in WebLUIS by subject heading or keyword. Some examples of LC subject headings that might
be helpful are:

LC Subject Call Number Range

Dance Music ML 3400- ML 3451
Jazz M 1366
Music--Dictionaries ML 100 -ML 109
Music--History and Criticism ML 159 - ML 3799
Composition (Music) MT 6
Musical instruments (Instruction) MT 170 -MT 805

Reference

ML 82 .W625
ML 100 .G16 1998
ML 100 .K35 1999
ML 100 .N48 2001
ML 102 F39 1999
ML 102 .M88 G3 1994
ML 102 .06 N5 1992
ML 102 .T58 R66 2000
ML 105 .S612 1997
ML 113 .B3 1997
ML 113 .R34 1999
ML 156.4 .B6 A45
ML 390 .I58 1999
ML 385 .C615
Women and Music in America since 1900. Edited by Kristine Burns,
2002. 9 volumes
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Edited by Adrienne Kaeppler,
1998. 9 volumes
Oxford Dictionary of Music. Edited by Michael Kennedy, 1999.
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie,
2001. 29 volumes
Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, 1999
Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Edited by Kurt Ganzl, 1994. 2
volumes
New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Edited by Stanley Sadie, 1998. 4
volumes
Dictionary of Music Titles. By Adrian Room, 2000.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians.
By Nicolas Slonimsky,1997.
Basic Music Library. Compiled by the Music Library Association, 1997.
Reader's Guide to Music History, Theory, Criticism. Edited by Murray
Steib, 1999.
All Music Guide to the Blues. Edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, 2003.
International Dictionary of Black Composers. Edited by Samuel Floyd,
1999.
Contemporary Musicians. Edited by Luann Brennan, 1999. 23 volumes

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Periodicals

ML 27 .U5 Title Library Has Call Number/

Database name
19th Century Music v.1. 1977 - 2002 JSTOR
Asian Music v.1, 1968 - 2001 JSTOR
Current Musicology no.1, 1965 - 2002 IIMP
Downbeat v. 64, 1997+ ML 1 .D6
Downbeat v.68, 1996+ IIMP
Ethnomusicology n. 1, 1953 - current ML 1 .E77
Journal of Music Theory v.1, 1957-2000 JSTOR
Journal of Musicology v.1, 1982 – 2002 JSTOR
Journal of New Music Research 1999+ OCLC Firstsearch
Journal of the American Musicological v.1,1948 - 2002 JSTOR
Soc.
Music & Letters v.1,1920 - 2000 JSTOR
Music Educators Journal v.87, 2001- current IIMP
Music Opinion 1999+ IIMP
Musical Quarterly v.1, 1915 - 1999 JSTOR
Notes v. 22, 1965 - current ML 27 .U5 M695
Notes ser. 2, 1943 - 2000 JSTOR
Opera News v. 15, 1950 - current ML 1 .O45
Perspectives of New Music v.1, 1962- 1998 JSTOR
Rolling Stone 1994+ IIMP
Sacred Music 1995+ IIMP
Teaching Music v.6, 1999+ IIMP

Databases Online access restricted to NCF and USF students, faculty & staff.

Classical Music Online

GROVEmusic
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
JSTOR Music
RILM Abstracts of music literature 1967+

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