Music (Classical) Subject Guide

Databases

• Academic Search Elite
  Multi-disciplinary database offers full-text, dating from 1985 to present, for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including more than 1,250 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study- EBSCOhost
• AHSearch
  Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals and related social science and science information from over 1300 resources dating from 1980 to present- FirstSearch
• Humanities Full Text
  Full-text articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays, television, and radio programs from Humanities Index- WilsonWeb Omnifile Mega

Books

• The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
  ML410 .B13 M27 1995 EB
  by Michael Marissen
  This book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are best understood, not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of 'pure' instrumental music, but as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set. Bach's concertos challenged existing musical and social hierarchies without, however, calling for progressive political action. This study also underlines the the religious character of the 'secular' concertos, and their relation to Bach's output of vocal music for the Lutheran Liturgy. One important message of Lutheranism, in this interpretation, is that the hierarchies of this world will not be present in the next, and no longer necessary. In light of this philosophy, Bach's music instructs the listener in some of the ways they may cope with this world. Description by publisher.
• Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE : Opera Classics Library Series
  ML50 .M939 C62 2003 EB
  by Burton D. Fisher
  A comprehensive guide to Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.  Description by publisher.
• The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music (The Cambridge History of Music)
  ML196 .C36 2001 EB
  The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. It contains a detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.

Journals

• 19th Century Music
  Articles on historical musicology, analysis, criticism and interdisciplinary studies; book reviews and selected recorded and live performances- EBSCOhost
• Bach Perspectives
  Contains high quality peer-reviewed articles concerning all aspects of Bach Studies.
• Beethoven Forum
  Promotes & sustains the high level of scholarship inspired by Beethoven's extraordinary works- EBSCOhost
• Journal of the American Musicological Society
  Essays, criticism, commentary and reviews on music, the history of music and recordings of musicological significance for members of the society- EBSCOhost
• Journal of Musicology
  Articles addressing aspects of musical style in all periods, from the historical, analytic, and critical points of view, on performance practice and music editing, archival studies and reviews of literature- EBSCOhost
• Journal of Musicological Research
  Publishes original articles on all aspects of the discipline of music: historical musicology, style and repertory studies, music theory, ethnomusicology, music education, organology, and interdisciplinary studies- Publisher

Websites

• Classical Composers' Archive
  Lists over 1,000 composers, providing the birth and death dates, place, occupations, and a biographical sketch. Includes Pulitzer winners, opera and classical masters, and chronologies- Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Classical Music Navigator
  Presents over 400 composers and classical types of music- Librarian's Index to the Internet
• The Classical Music Web Ring
  Chain of many hundreds of classical music web sites.