Research Guides: Music: Additional Resources

Find and Listen to Music

All Music
Provides useful reviews, discography, listening previews, facts about an album or artist and biographies.
Global Music Archive
The Global Music Archive is a multi-media archive and resource center at Vanderbilt for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and North and South America, with particular emphasis on the African Diaspora.
National Jukebox
Provided by the Library of Congress, Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
Pandora
Pandora is free, personalized radio that plays music you'll love. Discover new music and enjoy old favorites.
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Tune Find
Useful when looking for music used in tv shows, commercials, and films.

VIDEO

Films on Demand
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Films on Demand provides streaming media for academic content in a variety of subject areas. Account creation is available and allows you to save videos for later viewing.

Films in the Library
Browse the videos you can borrow from the Union Library

Images

We recommend using images that are labeled for reuse.

ARTstor
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ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

Google Images
Change the usage rights to "labeled for reuse" under the Tools drop down in an advanced search or search results page.
Creative Commons Images
These images are already labeled for reuse without modification. (options for commercial and modification search filters)
Flickr
Search using the Creative Commons license (follow the creative commons license for how you can use and reuse the photo)

Online Reference Tools

Reference Tools are a great place to start researching because they provide an overview of the topic. Reference tools include encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and almanacs.

Gale eBooks
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A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It includes present day and historical meanings as well as the pronunciation of 600,000 words.
World Book Advanced
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Primary source documents and eBooks fully integrated with encyclopedia content plus timelines, a citation builder, and saved research.

Reference Books

The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel
Call Number: Ref. ML100 .A64 2003
ISBN: 0674011635
This classic reference work combines authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose making the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music.
The Oxford Companion to Music by Alison Latham
Call Number: Ref. ML100 .S37 2002
ISBN: 0198662122
The Oxford Companion to Music includes articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles.