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MUS 231: Music History 2: 1750-Present  

The stylistic development of Western art music in the Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras. Selected works from each era are the focal point of the study.
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Basic Search for broad searching across a wide range of disciplines. Advanced Search allows you to focus search within Music journals, most of which will be easy to access. Be aware that most JStor journal coverage is 4-6 years back from current date.

  
 

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Ignat Solzhenitsyn - Mozart Pianot Concerto No. 20

Solzhenitsen plays and conducts Mozart with the Mariinsky Orchestra, followed by Andras Schiff playing and conducting the same piece with his "occasional band," Cappella Andrea Barca

 

Recommended Databases

This list of online & print resources can be used as a starting point for your research. Note to librarians: any link and discription can be added. It will take some time, but links will be made available through Serials Solutions. In the meantime, links can be taken from the A-Z List.

  • Oxford Music Online
    Access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. Includes Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
  • Lexis-Nexis Music Reviews
    Search for recent music and opera reviews over the last dozen years in newspapers such as the New York Times and Washington Post.
  • RILM Music Abstracts
    Over 200,000 citations on international music describing books, articles, and dissertations. Produced by the Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale. Covers 1967 to the present.
  • Classical Music Library
    Offers an impressive classical music collection enabling you to listen to a continually growing collection. Possibly a good resource for listening to clarinet tracks, in prep for creating a wonderful composition for my wife!
  • Worldcat
    The accumulation of most academic and public library catalogs. Good place to expand your book research, although you may need to use Interlibrary Loan or E-Z Borrow to obtain materials.
  • Grove Book of Operas
  • Dictionary of Opera Characters
  • Grove Book of Opera Singers
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