Music Research Guide
For help with your research, visit the reference desk (hours) on the second floor of Barnard Library, or contact a Barnard reference librarian:
Phone: 212-854-3953
Request a one-on-one consultation with a Barnard librarian if you have an in-depth research need.
Mandolin, ca. 1900.
Angelo Manello, 1858-1922
© Metropolitan Museum of ArtFinding Books | Select Reference Works | Indexes and Databases | Web Resources
Finding Music & Books on Music
- Use CLIO to find books, journals, links to online journals and, and non-print materials, in the Columbia or Barnard libraries. CLIO does not index journals. Use an online index or database to locate articles on a particular topic.
- The Barnard Library has a large collection of sound recordings, including CDs, audiotapes, records, DVDs, as well as scores and librettos. Use CLIO to locate these items. The non-print music materials are located in Barnard Media Services on the 3rd floor of the Barnard Library. Scores and librettos are located on the 1st floor of the Barnard Library. Materials located at Barnard will have the location "Barnard" included in the CLIO record.
The collection of the Columbia Music & Arts Library (701 Dodge Hall) is also listed in CLIO.- The call number range for books about music is M-MT which is located on the 3rd floor of the Barnard Library.
- Media Services has Academic Subject Lists for their visual materials. There is a subject list for Music as well as for Musicals and copies of these are available on the 3rd floor of the Barnard Library. You may also want to check the Media Services home page. Also see the dance subject guide and the theater subject guide on the Barnard Library home page.
- Some useful subject headings in CLIO:
music india
music social aspects
african american music
mozart wolfgang
opera
symphonies
jazzSelect Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area and Online
Title Call Number Grove Music Online online New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 29 vols. ML1000 .N48 2001 New Grove Dictionary of Opera 4vols. M:102 .O6 N5 1992 New Grove Dictionary of Jazz 3vols. ML102 J3 .N48 2002 Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 10 vols. ML100 .G16 1997 & online Baker's Biographic Dictionary of Musicians 6 vols. ML105 .B16 2001 Encyclopedia of Popular Music 8 vols. ML102 .P66 G84 1992 African American Music Reference online
Indexes and Databases
*for finding articles & essaysClassical Music Library
Enables listening and learning at the library and home computers. It includes around 15,000 recordings along with program notes, composer biographies and images.Humanities Full Text
Includes citations to scholarly articles in the humanities, including music. Includes performance reviews. Full text articles are also included. 1984 to present.International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) Full Text
Current indexing for over 300 scholarly and popular periodicals. Includes full text articles. 1977 to present.Music Index
Provides indexing on a broad range of subjects, classical, popular, non-Western, music, from over 600 periodicals. Covers music topics as well as book reviews, record reviews and more. 1979 to present.RILM: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale
Provides citations and abstracts for scholarly articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, ethnographic recordings and more. 1979 to present.RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
Provides access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music.*for audio music online, from Music and Arts Library at CUL
African American Song
African American Song contains 50,000 tracks of music covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expressionClassical Music Library
Enables listening and learning at the library and home computers. It includes around 15,000 recordings along with program notes, composer biographies and images.Database of Recorded American Music
Collection of sound recordings documenting American music.Naxos Music Library
Music sound recordings.Naxos Music Library: Jazz
Online recordings of Jazz music.Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions documenting the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.● Barnard College Music Program
● Columbia University Department of Music
● Music and Arts Library at Columbia University, 701 Dodge Hall
● Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia
● Jazz at Columbia
● Classical Scores Library, from CUL
● Music in Latin America: guide from LANIC
● Selected Internet Resources in Music & the Arts, from Music & Arts Library at CU
● Theatre and Dance Subject Guide from CULReturn to Subject Guides list
Updated 05/01/08
Karen Dobrusky, Reference Librarian
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