Librarian - Don Richter
Email: drichter@sfasu.edu
Phone: 936.468.1714
Office: 202a
Appointments Available
Subject Indexes | E-Text | Websites
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.
ASU Song Index is an electronic index of classical songs and arias contained in printed score collections, published after 1987.
Classical Music Library is a streaming recorded music database for listening and study.
EMusic in Print gives information on music that is in print.
Song
Index
Provides access to citations for about 50,000
songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies.
International Index to Music Periodicals covers music in journals from more than 20 countries with some full-text articles provided.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature provides abstracts to over 500 scholarly journals, as well as books, dissertations, bibliographies, conference proceedings, etc. in the field of music.
Encyclopedias
New Grove Music Online (now Oxford Music Online) comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2d ed.
Oxford Music Online The new gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music referencesubscriptions and products.
NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.
Online Books: Music
Classical Music Library a streaming recorded music database for listening and study.
The Library of Congress: Performing Arts Reading Room
Music world wide web resources provided through the Library of Congress.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
Includes all the records previously published in the earlier printed editions: it also indexes dissertations in progress and includes completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, when the printed publications ceased.
Martindale's "The Reference Desk". Calculators On-line Center. (Music)
Music calculators, including many Tutorials.
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Music
A directory of music scholarly societies, with each society site providing links to its own resources and links to other recommended related sites.
American Musicological Society: www sites of interest to musicologists
Includes information about conferences, awards and scholarships, and more.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Produced by Indiana University School of Music Library, this site offers links to musicians, composers, genres, and more.
Classical Net Home Page
Features "reviews of more than 1500 CDs, as well as 5300 files and over 2600 links to other classical music web sites."
T.I.D.E.S.
(Teaching, Images, and Digital Experiences) offers primary resource material from East Texas Libraries and museums.
Boss fiddlers of East Texas (1 image).
Music, Mexico (26 images).
Musical Instruments (6 images).
Washington University in St. Louis - Gaylord Music Library
Homepage of the Gaylord Music Library, includes a comprehensive guide to music links on the web.
Worldwide Web Virtual Library: Classical Music
Resources are divided into seven categories: Biographical Information, Organizations, Periodicals, Reference, Reviews, Computer Software, and Discussion Forums.
Yahoo-Entertainment: Music: Genres: Classical
Yahoo has provided links divided by category.
Flute World
This "site provides access to over 12,000 products including instruments, sheet music, recorded music, and accessories."
INDEX
California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index
Index to more than 135,00 song titles (mostly popular) in about 1300 collections.
Song Index
Provides access to citations for about 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies.
PML
Popular Song Index. More than 100,000 entries of popular songs from about 1100 anthologies.
LYRICS
An archive of Texts to Lieder and other Classical Art Songs.DICTIONARY
Classical Music Pages
A site providing historical and biographical information and dictionaries of musical terms.
Classical Musicians Dictionary
A site providing composers biographies, librettos of some 100 operas, catalogues of about 150 classical composers and text of some 4000 classical songs.
OPERA SITE
Metropolitan Opera
Includes information about the MET's history, the season's schedule, Stories of the Operas, and more.
Opera Glass
An extensive "opera information server."
SHEET MUSIC
Historic American Sheet Music
More than 3000 pieces of printable American sheet music, 1850-1920.
The Lester S Levy Collection of Sheet Music
More than 29,000 pieces of music, focusing on popular American music, spanning the period 1780 to 1960. Images of the music pages are retrievable if the music is in the public domain(published before about 1925).
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860: 1870-1885
More than 20,000 printable pieces of sheet music owned by Library of Congress.
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850 - 1920
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
MUSIC EDUCATORS’ Sites
Internet Resources for Music Teachers
Provides links to musical resources for teachers, especially beneficial for K-12 teachers.
CD RECORDINGS: Retailers
H & B Recordings Direct Home Page
Search for CDs by composer, genre, artist, title, label, country, and sub-styles.
PROFESSIONAL Sites
Classic Web
Gateway to music information, allows you to search by type of instrument or by organization.
Music Network USA
Gateway to music industry resources.
Music Related Classified Ads
Use this source to find or list "services, jobs, buy/sell musical instruments , gigs, clubs, bands, booking agents, Record producers, Music teachers, Stores, etc.."
