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How to find literature about music
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Clemens GresserDeputy Head of MusicCambridge University Library / Pendlebury Library
Karl W. Gehrkens,‘Why Music Camps? Why Music Camps?’, in Music Educators Journal, 21/1 (Sep. 1934), pp. 15-23
Peter Coulson Edwards‘Cheap Music Books’, inThe Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, 24,/
490, 1 Dec. 1883, p. 684
Why should I bother?
• To speed up how and where you find music literature
• To find quality academic sources for your research
• To produce better work more quickly
so that…
Why should I bother? – cont.
• you have more time to play music
Bill Sargent
Why should I bother? – cont.
• you have more time to listen to music
Why should I bother? – cont.
• Or more time for…
…. anything really.
Where do I start?
Depends…..
Where you are starting from?
Start at the very beginning – not knowing anything about the subject
Gamelan?
-> Start with Oxford Music Online -> simple search:
Start at the very beginning – Oxford Music Online/NG
Start at the very beginning – Oxford Music Online/NG
Start at the beginning – MGG (analogue!)
Start at the very beginning – MGG (analogue!)
• Section II. and section II.b. and section II.g.
• Then go to end of entry on “Indonesien”
Start at the very beginning – MGG (analogue!)
One easy step ahead: Oxford Music Online/NG (2)
One easy step ahead: Oxford Music Online/NG (2)
One easy step ahead: Oxford Music Online/NG (2)
One easy step ahead: Oxford Music Online/NG (2)
Overview of citation databases
• Citation databases (via eresources@cambridge)
• Either via
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/eresources/
Or
Overview of citation databases - RILM
RILM: www.rilm.org/
• over 620,000 records in 214 languages (plus abstracts in English)
• from 151 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe
• over 10,000 journals covered / mostly music & scholarly journals
• from 1967 to present
Overview of citation databases - RIPM
RIPM: www.ripm.org/
• 684,000 citations, for journals -> 20 countries
• Annotated index to 189 historic music journals
• New titles added every six months
• Detailed C19 ‘chronicle of music and musical life’
• Covers 1766 to 1962.
Overview of citation databases – Music Index
Music Index: http://www.ebscohost.com/public/music-index
• over 1 million records to mostly indexes to English-language publications
• more than 480 periodicals
• very useful for non-classical music, also for music business-related journals
• from 1970 to present
Overview of citation databases – WoK (A&HCI)
Web of Knowledge: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers more than 2,300 highly-academic journals
• since 2000, author abstracts available with citation
• offers an alerting service and citation mapping.
• from 1975 to present
Overview of citation databases – Scopus
Scopus: http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus
• indexes nearly 19,500 peer-reviewed journals from across all disciplines together (see http://www.info.sciverse.com/documents/files/scopus-training/resourcelibrary/xls/title_list.xlsx)
• useful for ‘music & science’ research
Overview of citation databases – BHI
British Humanities Index
• More than 866,000 records
• More than 400 humanities journals, magazines and newspapers published in the UK & other English-speaking countries
• At least 30 publications deemed useful for music searches (in “narrow sense”); check http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/bhi.php
Overview of citation databases - BMo
Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums online www.musikbibliographie.de/
• free web resource
• despite its name: English interface, international and polyglot
• More than 300,000 records
• since 1950!
Overview of citation databases – Google Scholar
Google Scholar scholar.google.co.uk/
• free web resource
• use Advanced Search for greater control (e.g. search only in Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities).
Further ways of finding literature on music
JSTOR
• On campus via http://www.jstor.org or via eresources@cambridge
• Search full-text via all journals and disciplines
• Search all music journals (out of 86, we have access to 83 -> Advanced Search
• Search only 1, or a secletion of jnls -> advanced Search
Further ways of finding literature on music
Dissertations & Theses
(ProQuest Digital Dissertations)
• On campus via eresources@cambridge
• Under ‘Database’ pick ‘Interdisciplinary – Dissertations & Theses’
• Search!
• Can “Limit results to: “Full text documents only”
Issues to be aware of when searching full-text!
• Modern concepts might not have been known by modern name:
e.g. a text on ‘gender’ and ‘music’ might neither contain the words “gender” nor “gender studies”
-> citation databases have that option of updating and contextualising text
Issues to be aware of when searching full-text!
• Occasionally modern spelling vs. old spelling
• Indexing and abstracting adds layer of interpretation & information
-> citation databases -> keywords and additional information which are not in the text at all
Issues to be aware of when searching full-text!
i.e. concepts which are underlying a text, but are not articulated:
e.g. New German School ("Neudeutsche Schule") only introduced in 1859, but a member of this “movement” might have written a text expressing aesthetics before than
Search Strategies – Boolean parameters 1
• AND, OR and NOT create relationships between keywords
• Use several search strategies and databases and compare results
• First use primary search term/keyword
• Then turn 1 concept/keyword into synonyms or related search terms
Search Strategies – Boolean parameters 2
• So: for gamelan
-> use ‘gamelan’
-> ‘percussion AND Indonesia’
-> ‘percussion AND Bali’
-> ‘instruments AND Indonesia’
Search Strategies – Boolean parameters 3
• Or: instead of ‘requiem’
-> use ‘death AND music’
-> ‘Mass for the dead’
-> ‘Missa pro defunctis’
-> ‘death AND society’
Important:Be aware of the database you are searching!A general database (e.g Web of Science) will result in a lot of “non-music” references for certain search terms!
Search Strategies – other hints
• Some databases and searches allow use of quotation marks;
e.g. ‘Mass for the dead’ returns different results than
Mass for the dead
• Another way is search as phrase
Search Strategies – other hints
• However, be aware of narrowing down too much -> fewer hits
• Replace a letter:
e.g. to find either ‘globalisation’ or ‘globalization’ –
use the question mark: ‘globali?ation’
Search Strategies – other hints
• Replace any number of letters:
e.g. to find ‘pastoral’, ‘pastoralism’, ‘pastoralists’ –
use the asterisk: ‘pastoral*’; e.g. ‘pastoral*’ and ‘Beethoven
Course handouts, slides, etc.
If you log in to
http://training.cam.ac.uk/cul/course/cul-musonline or
http://training.cam.ac.uk/cul/ and find the How to Find Literature about Music session
Course handout
Literature search keyword grid
‘Practicals’
• Explore several search strategies with several databases and online bibliographies.
• If you have any questions or problems please let me know.
• Please check your emails later, and fill out a Surveymonkey survey.
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