Hello and welcome to Finding Music Articles Online. My name is Dave Wildermuth and I will be your Music Librarian. This Guide is intended to help you find scholarly articles for your Music 344 research paper. Please read the Getting Started section below, then watch the three short videos. If you have any questions, I can be contacted at David.Wildermuth@nau.edu.
Getting Started
Before you start your search, it’s important to take a moment to do a little planning. Specifically, you need to decide what exactly it is you’re searching for, and this depends on the topic that you’ve chosen for your paper. Ask yourself: What are the central concepts that I’m looking for? Divide your topic up into its main ideas. For example, if you want to know about the relationship between Bach’s Cello Suites and dance forms of the time, the main ideas are Bach, the Cello Suites and dance.
Once you have the central concepts listed, come up with synonyms for each. How else can they be expressed? For example, Bach is also known as JS Bach or Johann Sebastian Bach. The Cello Suites are also known as the Suites for Unaccompanied Cello and the Suites for Solo Cello. Keep a list of your main ideas and their synonyms handy as you execute the search.
These videos will show you how to log on, search for articles and obtain them.
Logging On and Searching by Keyword
Searching by Descriptor
Accessing Your Chosen Article
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Hi everyone, Dave here. This is just a quick note to let you know that due to school and other commitments, I will be suspending this blog until further notice. I have to write this as a comment because Google has locked me out of my account, for some reason. I hope to have this blog up and running again at some point, but I'm afraid I cannot say when. Thanks for your patience.
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