Music
Roy Stanley
Office Location: Second Floor, Ussher Library (PDF 26KB)
Telephone: +353 1 8961156
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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Most Useful Databases
- Oxford Music Online
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
- JSTOR (Music Titles) Direct Link
Websites
Music Subject Portals
- BUBL Link Catalogue of internet resources which can be browsed by subject category or searched using music subject terms
- Classical Net Links to composer pages, reviews, articles, news etc.
- Golden Pages Links maintained by the Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Intute: Arts & Humanities Guide to the best internet resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. Subject browsing and keyword searching available
Resource Discovery Tools
- Cecilia: Music Collections in UK and Ireland A searchable database of collection level descriptions of music holdings held in both specialised and general libraries, archives and museums throughout the UK and Ireland
- Concert Programmes Descriptions of concert programme collections held by leading libraries, archives and museums in the UK and Ireland, improving access to a vital source of information about musical life from the eighteenth century to the present day
- RASCAL: Research and Special Collections Available Locally An electronic gateway to research resources in Ireland. Contains comprehensive descriptions of collections available to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences, recording details of content, location, format, and access. Links to institutions' on-line catalogues and other digital resources are provided where appropriate
- RISM: Music Manuscripts (1600-1800) in British and Irish Libraries Database of the 17th- and 18th-century music manuscripts preserved in libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland. It includes manuscripts from national, public and academic libraries, county and city record offices, cathedral and chapel libraries and some private collections
Theses
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology
- SMI Music Thesis Register Lists Irish postgraduate theses and dissertations in musicology at PhD, MLitt and MA levels. Includes theses which have been submitted or are currently in progress at universities and third-level colleges in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; are by members of the Society for Musicology in Ireland; or which have been submitted or are in progress at universities elsewhere but are directly related to music in Ireland. A number of undergraduate dissertations of original research merit are also included
Irish Music Archives
- Contemporary Music Centre Ireland’s national archive and resource centre for new music
- Irish Traditional Music Archive A national reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland
Internet for Music - Tutorial
- Internet for music: Intute tutorial An online tutorial designed to help students to get the most out of Internet resources for music, as well as helping them to develop skills to use the Internet. The four sections of the tutorial provide an interactive, step-by-step guide to using the Internet. Working through the tutorial, learners will be able to develop skills in evaluating web resources for their work, while at the same time learning about some important Internet resources for music
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