Hello and welcome to the Music Subject Guide. What follows is a list of resources to get you started searching for music-related information resources, organized by music discipline.
Music Theory
• The Oxford Dictionary of Music is helpful in understanding music theory terms and concepts. It also has entries for individual pieces, in case the student needs information for an analysis project or ideas for choosing a piece to analyze.
• For additional help with terminology, including English translations of foreign language terms, the Music Dictionary Online is an easy-to-use online resource. A beginning guide to music theory, available here, is a useful reference to refresh one’s knowledge of theory concepts.
• More advanced students can keep up with current trends in music theory through scholarly journals such as Music Theory Spectrum and Journal of Music Theory. Both include full-text journal articles devoted to the advancement of the structural knowledge of music.
Performance
• There exist a number of live, interactive, collaborative performance websites; the most prominent of these is eJamming. It allows performers to interact and record together in real time, and it features a search function to connect students with musicians who have similar interests.
• Students can also use videoconferencing services such as Skype and ooVoo for real-time interaction. Such websites enable performers to practice together even when separated by great distances, though they do lack to the music-specific recording capabilities of eJamming.
• Recordings of prominent works are available through a range of resources such as the Database of Recorded American Music, Naxos Music Library and the British Library Archival Sound Recordings. Using these sites, performance students can hear how masters of their instruments interpret well-known and historically significant pieces of music, and they can use these renderings to improve their own performances.
Music History
• Scholarly journals devoted to nearly every musical era are available to students for research papers and presentations. These include:
o Early Music
o Early Music History
o Eighteenth Century Music
o Journal of Seventeenth Century Music
o 19th Century Music
o Computer Music Journal
o Twentieth Century Music
o Contemporary Music Review
o General Music Today
Composition
• Sites such as eJamming and JamStudio give composition students an opportunity for creative collaboration with others. Both allow students to build compositions by adding parts asynchronously in a manner similar to updating a wiki. In addition, JamStudio offers a full range of digitally-recorded sounds, so that the composer does not need to be an accomplished performer on any instrument.
• Kompoz takes this idea one step further. It is an interactive musical collaboration site that offers students a kind of apprenticeship in composition and recording. The site hosts a range of ongoing musical projects; students can sign up to be a part of one and participate in music creation from start to finish. Creation of new projects is encouraged through easy-to-follow video tutorials.
Music Education
• Students can follow the latest trends and approaches in music education through the scholarly journals listed below. All are helpful and informative resources for research papers and projects.
o Action, criticism, & theory for music education
o Bulletin - Council for Research in Music Education
o Contributions to Music Education
o Journal of Historical Research in Music Education
o Journal of Music Teacher Education
o Journal of Research in Music Education
o Music Education Research
o Music Educators Journal
o Philosophy of Music Education Review
o Research and Issues in Music Education
o Teaching Music
• A wide range of music education publications specific to different areas of the country and parts of the world can be accessed through the RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
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