Lyman Beecher Brooks Library: MUS 590: Introduction to Research Methods: Locating Sources 101

Finding what you need

Once you have your topic, you are ready to begin collecting sources and digging into the research.
Types of sources include:

Books

Searching With WorldCat Discovery
A-Z Databases: eBooks

Journals

Finding Scholarly Journals

Newspapers

A-Z Databases: Newspapers

Musical Scores

Audio/Video

Academic Video Online
Naxos Music Library

Archival & Special Collections

The Center for Black Music Research
The Center for Black Music Research Collection contains materials reflecting many areas of black music including composers, ethnomusicologists, music researchers, music journalists, scores, published music, and audiovisual collections across all genres.

Interviews & Oral Histories

Creative Music Foundation Oral History Project
Creative Music Foundation, in partnership with Columbia University, is conducting an Oral History Project to gather directly from participants and Guiding Artists anecdotes and insights from their time at CMS
Jazz Oral History Project
This audio collection consists of 120 oral histories of seminal pre-Swing Era and Swing Era jazz musicians recorded between 1972 and 1983. The JOHP was initiated in 1972 by the Jazz Advisory Panel of the Music Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Musicians sixty years and older (as well as several younger artists in poor health) were interviewed in depth about their lives and careers. The taped interviews range in length from 5 to 35 hours each and are accompanied by typewritten transcripts.
Oral History of American Music
Since its founding in 1969 at Yale University, Oral History of American Music (OHAM) has been dedicated to the collection and preservation of the voices of the major musical figures of our time. The project captures musicians’ narratives and reflections in their own words through in-depth interviews. With an ever-expanding collection, OHAM is a living archive, currently comprising more than 3,000 audio and video recordings. We regularly conduct, catalogue, and transcribe interviews with emerging talents and established artists, producing a wealth of primary and secondary source material accessible to musicians, students, scholars, arts organizations, and the media.

The NSU Library uses the Library of Congress (LOC) organizational system. In the LOC system, M is for Music.

Call Numbers for Music Scores:

M1 - 3.3 Collections

M1 Miscellaneous collections

M2 - 2.3 Musical sources

M3 - 3.3 Collected works of individual composers

M3 Complete editions

M3.1 Selections of collected works

M5 - 1480 Instrumental music

M6 - 175.5 One solo instrument

M177 - 990 Two or more solo instruments

M1000 - 1075 Orchestra

M1001 Symphonies

M1003 Suites. Variation forms

M1004.5 - 1041 Solo instrument(s) with orchestra

M1100 - 1160 String orchestra

M1200 - 1270 Band

M1495 - 2199 Vocal music

M1497 - 1998 Secular vocal music

M1500 - 1527.8 Dramatic music --> Opera, musical theatre

M1530 - 1609 Choruses

M1611 - 1624.8 One solo voice

M1627 - 1853 Folk, national, and ethnic music

M1999 - 2199 Sacred vocal music

M2000 - 2007 Dramatic music --> Oratorio

M2010 - 2017.6 Choral services, etc.

M2020 - 2101.5 Choruses

M2115 - 2146 Hymnals. Hymn collections

M2147 - 2188 Liturgy and ritual