Quick Links to Frequently Used Resources in Kresge Library

Searching for Physical Materials

Kresge Search

Use this search for materials in Kresge Library. Do not use "One Search" on the library homepage.

Remember once you find an item, you can request that it is pulled and left for you to pick up at the Circulation Desk.

Instead click on "Search by title, author..." immediately below the One Search dialog box.

Notice that it allows you to search for "Everything" "Articles" "Course Reserve" - along the top of the page.

Remember that accurate spelling is essential (unlike Google it will not look for alternate spellings).

Also remember that you can search in "Any field" by Title/Title Word, Author/Creator, and Subject.

Subject is useful because it gives you materials restricted to a particular subject area.

On the right gives you the option to select Material Type, but Music Score is not an option here (see below for how to sort Score material).

Once you have completed your search, the window expands and includes more options to refine your selection, in the left hand column.

You can select items by "Type," and this allows you to narrow your search to only Scores, for example.

Notice that further down in the left hand column, there is a very helpful "Subject" column, which produces the LOC Subject headings closest to your original search keyword.

Online Books on Music

Kresge Library does not have a large collection of electronic books on music and musical topics. However, there are two collections published by Cambridge University Press that you do have access to through Kresge.

Cambridge Music Histories

Cambridge Companions to Music

Oxford University Press - there are many OUP electronic books, reference works, and monographs on music topics are available from Ebscohost

Use the Ebscohost resource, then search for "Oxford" and "Music". From there you can narrow your search.

Searching for Online Scores

Kresge Library has a subscription to an Online Score collection of public domain and copyright scores, which you can download as a pdf file, and then print or display on a tablet or computer.

Alexander Street Classical Scores Library

You can browse under a number of different categories. Notice by far the largest part of the collection is in the 20th Century and 21st Century Time Periods.

But buyer beware, this is a small fraction of what is out there in print.

The forScore reader app for iPad is specifically designed for score reading and annotating your scores.

Searching for Online Reference

Your main tool here is Oxford Music History Reference, which incorporates "Grove Encyclopedia of Music" (largest English language reference work on music), and two much shorter but still useful resources, "Oxford Companion to Music," and "Oxford Dictionary of Music." Groves is good for in depth, but the others are better for a quick check.

Oxford Music History Reference

The two single Harvard Dictionaries are great for short biographies, and terms and concepts.

Harvard Dictionary of Music (terms and concepts)

Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (short biographies)

Searching for Online Articles

There are a couple of options here.

The Browzine app, allows you to browse and download articles and journals to read offline on your iPad.

Browzine app (journal reader for iPad and iPhone - allows offline reading)

Download the app from the Android or Apple store as needed (both are free)

Here is a listing of Kresge Subscriptions to Music Journals, with their respective links.

Kresge Subscriptions to Music Journals

The largest collection of archived journals is JSTOR.

JSTOR

Searching for Online Audio Recordings

The Naxos Music Library app is very useful as it allows you to download music and playlists to listen to your music offline on iPhone and iPad.

Naxos Music Library iOS app

The Naxos Music Library is a huge resource of recorded music. Navigating is tricky. Remember spellings matter, and there are many composers with alternate spellings of their names.

Naxos Music Library

Alexander Street Online Listening is especially valuable for American music of many types, and music of World Cultures.

Alexander Street Music Online Listening

Searching for Online Video Resources

The Naxos Video Library and the Alexander Street Video Library both have large collections of videos of music performances, especially opera

Naxos Video Library

Alexander Street Video Library

Metropolitan Opera On Demand