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Recorded Sound - Locate Materials

If you do not find what you need on the MU campus, expand your search to Missouri or U.S. libraries. Books requested online from Missouri Libraries (Mobius) usually arrived in 2 to 3 working days. Books requested online through WorldCat take from 7-10 days on average.

Tips for finding music related materials:
 
To find: Search by: Example
works by a COMPOSER AUTHOR beethoven
works by a PERFORMER AUTHOR perahia
works ABOUT a composer SUBJECT beethoven
a specific piece KEYWORD moonlight sonata, bwv 972
a specific piece KEYWORD mozart and complete (finds complete works)
CDs KEYWORD schubert and compact
Videos, DVDs KEYWORD tosca and vhs, tosca and dvd
Scores KEYWORD beethoven and string trios and scores
Librettos KEYWORD aida and libretto#
     
 
To determine if a score is contained in a large set, check
  • Historicial Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music
    Reference Stacks: ML 113 .H52 1980
  • Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets, & Monuments of Music
    Reference Stacks: ML 113 .H55 1997

 Journal Articles

 Search a database to find articles on your topic. Good databases to search for subjects in COMMUNICATION are:

If the text of the article is not available online, learn how to find a journal article in Ellis.

If Ellis does not own the journal, you can fill out a request form and Interlibrary Loan will get the article for you from another  library. Requests can take 7-10 days or more.

 Electronic Journals

  • The easiest was to find a journal article online is to search one of the databases listed above. Many of the articles will be full text. If you are trying to find out if a particular journal is available full text. Search FindIt@MU

 Dictionaries


 Encyclopedias    
 Further Research
  • Music: A Guide to the Reference Literature
    Ellis Reference Stacks: ML 113 .B85 1987