Call Number Ranges

Every item in the Mary Couts Burnett Library has a unique call number. Most of the items in the Library have a Library of Congress (LC) Classification number. The Government Documents collection uses the Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) Classification System. A call number is simply an address for a book or other material in the library. No two items will have exactly the same call number. For a more detailed explanation go to Call Number Guide. The Library of Congress Classification for music is Class M, divided into three major groups. The shelves can be browsed using the M, ML and MT subdivisions (use the link and scroll down), or selections can be browsed in the online catalog by using a call number search. For instance, you can browse Sacred vocal music by using M 1999.

M Music    "M" is used for music scores. ML Literature of Music    "ML" includes book about music literature, history and musicology. MT Music Instruction and Study    "MT" includes books about teaching music and music theory.

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Library Catalog The TCU Online Catalog is the database that includes all of the Library's book, magazine/journal, music, and video holdings. No matter what type of search you wish to execute, you will most likely follow the steps outlined in the Searchpath tutorial.

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Use them to answer questions on specific topics, define terms, and find biographical information. Print titles are located in the Music Library Reference area (Music Lib Ref). Classical Music Reference Library Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which have never before been available in electronic form. The Baker's titles, edited by the late Nicholas Slonimsky, offer a comprehensive and highly accessible set of musical reference texts that are essential to music study. Number of simultaneous users: three Oxford Music Online Oxford Music Online is a new gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. As part of Grove, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz are available. Also included in this mega-resource are the Oxford Dictionary of Music; the Oxford Companion to Music, and Colin Larkin's landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music. In progress are several offerings within Grove Music Online, most notably Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition; Grove Dictionary of Early Music; and Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, second edition. This resource contains links to sound and score databases for quick and easy reference. Number of simultaneous users: five The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians View catalog record Second edition, 2001. Music Library Reference ML 100 N48 2001 Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians View catalog record Comprehensive dictionary of personages related to music including composers, performers, philanthropists and critics. Six volumes (Centennial Edition). ML105 .B16 2001 The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and Musicians View catalog record Comprehensive dictionary of musical terms, genres, countries, instruments and some composers. Basic starting research tool. ML100 .H37 2003 Garland Encyclopedia of World Music View catalog record Multi-volume encyclopedia encompassing music around the world. Include 10 separate volumes dating from 1998-2002, for Africa, Southern Americas, Northern Americas, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Far East, Europe and Australia. ML 100 G16 1998 Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples, from antiquity to the present time. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia has been the preeminent reference work for research in ethnomusicology. This database permits three simultaneous uses. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz View catalog record Multi-volume dictionary of all aspects of jazz including over 1000 biographies (performers, composers, scholars) and jazz terminology. ML102.J3 N48 2002 (For the online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, see Oxford Music Online, above.) African American Music Reference African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music, from the 19th century to the present. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This resource permits three simultaneous uses. Back to Menu Directories Musical America Worldwide: International Directory of the Performing Arts View catalog record Commonwealth Business Media, 2006. This title continues Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts. Music Library Reference and Main Stacks ML 12 M88 Music Industry Directory View catalog record Marquis Professional Pub[lications], 1983. Music Library Reference ML13 .M505 American Music Handbook View catalog record Free Press, 1974. Music Library Reference ML13 .P39 Songwriter's Market View catalog record Writer's Digest Books, 1995. Music Library Reference MT67 .S657 Texas Music Industry Directory: the Annotated Sourcebook of the Texas Music Industry View catalog record Texas Music Office, 2006-present. Music Library Reference ML 14 T3 T55; available for 2-day loan through Texas Government Documents, G842.5 M973. Available online through the Texas Music Office at http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/music . Available also from that site is Getting Started in the Music Business: a Reference Guide to Basic Legal and Business practices in TX. Back to Menu Guides to the Contents of Sets, Editions and Anthologies Anthologies of Music: An Annotated Index. View catalog record Music Library Reference ML128.A7 M87 1992 A Handbook of Music and Music Literature in Sets and Series View catalog record Music Library Reference ML113 .C43 Historical Sets, Collected Editions and Monuments of Music, a Guide to Their Contents View catalog record Music Library Reference tool by the renowned Anna Harriet Heyer. ML113 .H52 1980 (2 vols.) Restructuring Academic Libraries View catalog record Main Stacks Z674 .A75 no. 49 Back to Menu Guides to the Literature Music Education, a Guide to Information Sources View catalog record Ernest E. Harris, 1978. Music Library Reference ML 19 H37 Music Reference and Research Materials (Duckles) View catalog record Music Library Reference ML113 .D83 1997 Source Book for Research in Music View catalog record Music Library Reference ML113 .C68 1993 Back to Menu Histories History of Western Music (Grout) View catalog record ML 160 G872 2006 History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western and Gospel Music View catalog record Music Library Reference ML200 .G4 Classical Music Reference Library Featured above in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, this online database contains several histories of music, among them A Short History of Opera (Grout/Williams); Music Since 1900 (Slonimsky); and History of Classical Music (Kallen). Back to Menu Online Databases Use to locate books, scores and journal articles related to music including materials not owned by TCU but available elsewhere. When searching the contents of journals and other periodicals it is best to use an index such as Music Index before going to the online catalog. New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, 2nd edition New Grove is available via Grove Music Online, now combined into Oxford Music Online. New Grove encompasses some 29,000 articles covering all types of music styles, terms, genres and concepts. This outstanding database is available from anywhere to the TCU community and within the library for guests. International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) Provides full text and abstracts for articles from over 400 international music journals. Updated quarterly. To search IIMP and IIPA simultaneously, click on the Music and Performing Arts Online Page link on the lower right of the initial IIMP screen. (You may have to scroll down to see it.) International Index to the Performing Arts IIPA Full Text draws its current content from more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. IIPA covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry-including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. To search IIPA and IIMP simultaneously, click on the Music and Performing Arts Online Page link on the lower right of the initial IIPA screen. (You may have to scroll down to see it.) Music Index Contains citations to articles on music, musicology, and music research from music periodicals published in 20 countries. Library also has the paper edition of this resource. This research tool is available from anywhere to the TCU community, and within the library to guests. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, or RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, provides abstracts to scholarly literature on music, in all languages, corresponding to the printed edition of RILM. This resource is available from anywhere to the TCU community and within the library to guests. The print version of RILM is located in off-site storage and is retrievable by request. A form is available from the catalog record. RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals Extending RILM holdings backward in time, Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM) indexes music periodical literature published from the late 18th- to mid-20th- centuries in Europe and the United States (1800 to 1950). Most citations contain extensive editorial commentary dealing with content. Subjects include aesthetics, ballet, bibliographies, criticism, ethnomusicology, fine arts, genres (symphony, chamber music, opera), history of institutions, history of musicology, iconography, instruments and voice, literature, liturgy, music bibliography, music festivals, music theory, pedagogy, performance practice and notation, performers, sociology of music and music theory. This online resource is available from anywhere to the TCU community and within the library to guests. RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 The International Inventory of Musical Sources (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales, or RISM) is an international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. NOTE: Among the different series of RISM only series A/II: "Music manuscripts after 1600" is available online at this time (fall 2008). This RISM Series A/II Database contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600, with the majority of content around 1600-1850. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 780,000 music incipits. This database will support five simultaneous uses. RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales (print) View catalog record The International Inventory of Musical Sources in print, Music Library reference section, call number ML 113 I62 1999. RISM: Database of Musical Manuscripts in US Libraries Repertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales, or International Repertory of Musical Sources, series AII, is here offered via a unique database from Stanford University's Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities. CCARH was empowered to use the data belonging to the Harvard University US RISM Project to make US RISM data searchable with Themefinder, a web-based interface capable of searching music incipits [initial passages of musical works]. The musical search boxes allow for "fuzzy" searching, a flexible search mode which can find material regardless of key, precise meter or rhythm, or placement of rests. DDM Online Brought to you by the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, DDM-Online is an international database of citations for completed dissertations and proposed new dissertations in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Containing more than 13,600 records, including the corrected and updated contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology and supplements contributed from musicological centers throughout the world. DDM-Online is browsable, just as was possible in the earlier printed editions, but it is also fully searchable by author and or by as many as three simultaneous keywords in any part of the record. DDM-Online is updated several times a year. Please note that DDM-Online does not include the dissertations themselves, but many of them may be available for purchase from University Microfilms, Inc. Dissertations written at British institutions may be available for purchase from the British Library Document Supply Center. Dissertation Abstracts Dissertation Abstracts provides citations for selected theses and abstracts since 1861. Abstracting is included for dissertations accepted for doctoral degrees (since 1980) and masters' theses (since 1988) by accredited North American educational institutions and some international institutions from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. Restrictions on use: due to vendor pricing structure, this resource is limited to graduate students, faculty and staff, via login. IPA Source A fabuous diction aid for singer, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Opera libretti are also present. WorldCat Catalog records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Searches can be limited to the type of material desired (e.g. musical scores; dissertations and theses; archival materials), by date, and many other criteria. Search results can be sorted by multiple criteria. Wilson Select Plus Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, with full text online, from the Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Academic Search Premier Provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info. LookSmart (Findarticles.com) While magazine/journal titles should be searched first among TCU's holdings, Findarticles.com may open an additional path to find needed articles. Article searches in this web resource can be limited to free/premium articles. Free "Arts" titles include American Music Teacher; Musical Times; Popular Music and Society; Sing Out! The Folksong Magazine; Journal of Popular Film and Television; Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television; Dance Magazine; Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Back to Menu Online Music Journals In addition to the titles below, please see the Selected Music Web Sites section at the end of this guide (TCU Library Best of the Web/Music), for some freely-accessible online music periodicals. Journal of new music research Leonardo music journal Music analysis Notes (Music Library Association) The official publication of the Music Library Association. Good resource for book reviews and music library related issues. Opera quarterly Performing arts journal Revista de mâusica latinoamericana Latin American Music Review Back to Menu Scores Online Classical Scores Library Classical Scores Library will ultimately contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from the Renaissance to the twentieth-century, including copyrighted and public domain editions. The major composers' output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Content in the database includes in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. The database has been indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period; as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher. This database permits three simulaneous uses. Sibley Music Library Scores Public domain scores from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; composer listing at https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/292/browse-author. WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive Hosted by the Department of Computer Science - Daimi, University of Aarhus. Offers free scores, conveniently listed by composer at http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer.php, plus links to other online sheet music archives (http://icking-music-archive.org/oth_mus_archives.php). Midi sound files are available for scores. International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library IMSLP is a growing virtual library aiming to collect all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. IMSLP also encourages the exchange of musical ideas, both in the form of musical works, and in the analysis of existing ones. Mutopia Free Sheet Music The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. A team of volunteers are involved in typesetting the music by computer using the LilyPond software. Mutopia's Composer list is currently at http://www.mutopiaproject.org/browse.html#byComposer. Free Sheetmusic Library The plethora of scores on this site are said to be in the public domain. Divisions as of June 2008: Orchestra Works Ludwig van Beethoven(1770-1827); Johannes Brahms(1833-1897); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791); Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky(1840-1893) Chamber Music Wolfang Amadues Mozart(1756-1791) Piano Works for 2 and 4 hands Johannes Brahms(1833-1897); Franz Schubert(1797-1828); Robert Schumann(1810-1856) Organ Works Johann Sebastian Bach(1685-1750); Dietrich Buxtehude(1637-1707); Johann Jacob Froberger(1616-1667); George Frideric Handel(1685-1759); Johann Pachelbel(1653-1706) J. S. Bach's Church Cantatas (vocal/piano scores) Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1885 Music for the Nation emanates from the Library of Congress, dividing into two sites covering over 62,000 pieces of American and European sheet music published in the United States from 1820-1885. Included are downloadable scores for popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and band and orchestra music. The collection documents the attitudes and tastes of a bygone era with music of many varieties and sources. The 1820-1860 division also reflects the growing fame of performers such as the singing Hutchinson family and the first American tour (arranged by P. T. Barnum) of soprano Jenny Lind, the "Swedish nightingale." Lester S. Levy Collection, Johns Hopkins University Arranged in (to date) 38 topical categories, the Lester S. Levy Collection of sheet music consists of (as of spring 2009) over 29,000 pieces of American popular and patriotic music from 1780 to 1980, with the 19th century best represented. The collection is especially strong in music spawned by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I, and minstrel music is also well represented. Other topics include music about the circus; dance; drinking, temperance, and smoking; fraternal orders; presidents; romantic and sentimental songs; schools and colleges; transportation. University of Illinois Music Library Open Access Project Nearly 100 musical scores from UIUC's Music Library were digitized recently at the Open Content Alliance/Internet Archive scanning center on campus. Represented in this new online collection are Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, Jerome Kern, and Gilbert & Sullivan. Within the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org). The search string for these scores is (musicals OR operas) AND contributor:(University of Illinois) with "All media Types" selected. Illinois offers this direct link to the search: http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/music. African American Music Reference African American Music Reference is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression, from the 19th century to the present. Music scores are already present in the database. To browse offerings, select "Score" under Material Types. Back to Menu Sound Recordings Online (Streaming Audio) Below are sources of sound recordings available via internet connection. In addition, the Music/Media Library has a fine sound recording collection on compact disc (CD), long-playing albums or LPs, and standard audiocassettes. For sound recording catalog searches at http://lib.tcu.edu it is often wise to use the "Words Anywhere" search selection, since such details as composer names and composition titles often do not appear in the title and author areas within catalog records, but instead are included as content notes. In catalog searches, the appropriate format should be selected from the Format drop-down box. If you are only able to use CDs, select "Music CDs" from the Format box; otherwise use "Music Recordings (any format)." Audiovisual media are arranged by call number, so please bring that number with you to assist us in finding your selection. Classical Music Library Licensed for use by the TCU community (3 simultaneous listeners), Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries, with over 50,000 tracks and 1800 composers. Repertoire coverage includes vocal and choral music, chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. Recordings are supplemented by biographical information and links including a direct link to Grove Music Online. Accessing and listening to works through the database is free. Users may register to build individualized playlists and, for a small fee, to download favorites. Users may search via categories including composer, genre, time period, artist, etc. This resource must be used in accordance with the vendor's Terms of Use policy. A thorough user guide ("service guide") is available under the "Help" tab. Naxos Music Library Licensed for use by the TCU community (5 simultaneous users), Naxos Music Library streams CD quality sound for classical, jazz, blues, folk, world and Chinese music. New releases are added monthly. Notes on the works being played are available, as well as biographical information on composers or artists. Works can be searched and selected by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre. Playlists can be created. There are Users Guide, User Instruction, and FAQ tabs on the main page. This resource must be used in accordance with the vendor's Terms of Use policy. Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) Available from anywhere to an unlimited number of listeners within the TCU community, and to guests within the library building. Offering classical, sacred, traditional, folk, opera, band, jazz, country, early rhythm and blues, musical theater, experimental, electronic, early rock, popular and Native American music, DRAM provides on-demand, high-quality streaming access to thousands of essential recordings, liner notes, album art, essays and other related material. A detailed user guide is available under the "Help" tab. DRAM began as a project of New World Records, Inc. to actively document and disseminate the work of American composers neglected by the commercial recording industry, selected solely on artistic merit. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records, but DRAM also includes music from other contributing sources, including the Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Albany, Innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music labels. In the future, alliances with other major and independent labels and archival sources will enhance DRAM's offerings. The parent company of New World Records was once "Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.," and is now "Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc." Though New World Records remains exclusively dedicated to the American composer, the ARM corporate mission has been expanded to permit the acquisition of online content from foreign sources and composers, so long as it satisfies the curatorial requirements of the collection. Within DRAM, a News and Features section gives updates on the project and relevant topics. Links: http://www.dramonline.org; http://www.newworldrecords.org. American Song Available from anywhere to the TCU community, American Song is a streaming audio database that presents American music from the 18th century to the present with, as of fall 2009, 58,837 tracks. This developing database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. Genres include blues, folk song, country and historical song. Folded into American Song, in addition, is the content of African American Song. A highlight: included is a 1924 recording of George Gershwin himself playing `Rhapsody in Blue' along with many other of his famous compositions on rare piano rolls, released on Biograph Records. Use is limited to 3 simultaneous users. Grove Music Online Available on or off campus for the TCU community and within the library for guests, Grove Music Online (now part of Oxford Music Online) has offered listening capability for numerous musical examples by downloading the program Sibelius Scorch. Examples have been drawn from a restricted but expanding number of areas of the dictionary: mainly those dealing with technical articles, genres and definitions. Sibelius-enabled examples are accessible through the Sibelius Guide, the articles themselves, or by clicking on the 'Illustrations' or 'Sounds' tabs in the top frame of the page or a 'Sibelius enabled' icon. Increasingly, further sound examples are being provided through links to databases such as Classical Music Library or the Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM). If the link above does not function, please choose Grove off the library's database list at http://lib.tcu.edu/www/online/TitleList.asp or, for guests within the library building, the Guest database list at http://lib.tcu.edu/www/OPAC_other.asp (both are options from the main left-hand menu at http://lib.tcu.edu). Essentials of Music Essentials of Music (http://www.essentialsofmusic.com), from W. W. Norton and Co., features basic information designed to introduce users to classical music of every period. By downloading the Real Audio player, users can listen to musical examples from the Sony Classical catalog, via listings in the composer (http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/composers.html) and glossary (http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/glossary/glossary.html) sections of the site. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia has been the preeminent reference work for research in ethnomusicology, covering antiquity to the present. Sound examples require an extension to the Windows Media Player. British Library Archival Sound Recordings online As of fall 2009, some 23,700 archival sound recordings in the British Library are available to all comers for online listening. Categories include Arts, literature and performance, Classical music, Environment and Nature, Jazz and popular music, Oral history, Sound recording history, and most spectacularly, World and traditional music. Back to Menu Video Online (Streaming Video) As technology changes and spaces shrink, on-demand video is increasingly an option, wherever an internet connection exists. Watch for these options to expand! Opera in Video Opera in Video, available from anywhere to the TCU community and within the library for guests, will ultimately contain 250 of the most important opera performances from the Baroque era through the twentieth century, captured on video through staged productions, interviews and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors. This database permits three simultaneous uses. Theatre in Video with BBC Content Theatre in Video, available from anywhere to the TCU community and within the library for guests, contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, covering 1936-2005. As of summer 2008 this database contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. This database permits three simultaneous uses. Dance in Video Dance in Video, available from anywhere to the TCU community and within the library for guests, will ultimately contain 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the twentieth century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th century dance styles. This database permits three simultaneous uses. American History in Video American History in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of American history from the 16th century to the 1990s. Selections can be found by era, date, topic, and more. Contents include documentaries, films and newsreels. A recent addition to this excellent database is the Ken Burns PBS series, Jazz. To find the American History in Video database use the title link above, or go to the library's Journal Articles & Databases page, choose "A" from the alphabetical list, then choose "American History in Video." Counseling and Therapy in Video Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling--400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The videos in this collection, drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry, have been created by a variety of organizations and individuals dedicated to the advancement of education and training in counseling and therapy. Several types of videos have been chosen to provide a well-rounded collection that will be of interest to students, academics, and professionals alike: Counseling Sessions and Demonstrations include filmed footage of actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios that arise during courses of therapy. These videos often include narration and frameworks that put the sessions into theoretical context. Consultations feature experts in particular courses of therapy advising other therapists on the application of their methods. These videos often include scenes of counseling sessions interspersed with analysis and discussions between the consultant, the practicing therapists, and the clients. Lectures, presentations, and interviews feature well-known therapists discussing their own work and issues affecting the larger fields of mental health and wellness. Taken together, these materials provide a rich resource for the study of counseling theory and its applications. Users can compare, for example, how different therapeutic methods address common issues such as substance abuse or domestic violence; or how individual counselors differ in their applications of the same theory. The materials are also indexed by client and therapist details, enabling users to find materials dealing specifically with counseling African-Americans or Latinos, for example, or with counseling children or the elderly. FMG On Demand The Library is acquiring streaming video titles via Films Media Group (FMG), a growing repository of on-demand video for multiple subject disciplines. Notably, Films for the Humanities and Sciences are increasingly available by this route. Several Films for the Humanities titles are available on DVD; in addition, FMG On Demand titles are available to the TCU Community via internet connection. Linked above is FMG's search page, which will retrieve titles currently purchasable in the form of online video ("streaming video" must be entered in the "media type" selection box). Titles may be requested through the Library's web page at http://lib.tcu.edu. To ascertain which titles the TCU Library has already purchased for online access, perform a title or keyword ("words anywhere") search of the Library's catalog using "FMG On Demand" (use quotes). Other publishers of streaming video titles will be identified as time goes on. An additional search avenue is the phrase "streaming videos" (use quotes; note the plural). This can be entered as a keyword or "words anywhere" search. Annenberg Media Courtesy of the Annenberg Foundation, Annenberg Media offers a growing wealth of free video-on-demand via the internet, in order to advance excellent teaching in American schools. Registration is required for use, and is free. Annenberg Media is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. In addition, the Annenberg channel is available free to educational institutions with a Ku-band satellite dish and a DigiCipher II satellite receiver. More information is available at http://learner.org. Find the video catalog via the above link. PBS Online PBS offers an increasing array of free programming via the internet. The Watch Video tab at pbs.org allows you to choose the series you wish to view (Frontline, Wide Angle, etc.). Separate program sites also offer video--in some cases a different array of programs--and associated material: the young music-makers series, "From the Top;" Moyers on America; Wide Angle (for titles not on this page, use a title search); Frontline; Frontline World; Nova; Scientific American Frontiers (Alan Alda, host; click "watch online now," then select subject area for more titles); The American Experience; The American Experience archives. Complete programs for American Experience are more likely be be found via http://video.pbs.org (the "Watch Video" link). For kids, hours of video programming are available at http://pbskids.org/go/video/. Title and keyword searches from pbs.org can also be useful in locating content. Note: searches conducted from series sub-pages pull results only from those series; to search widely, use the search box on the main page. Forum Network The Forum Network is a PBS and NPR public media service in collaboration with public stations and community partners across the United States. Through an expanding network of local public stations producing content with their community partners, lectures are made available online reflecting a diverse range of perspectives on local and global issues. The Forum Network online library features thousands of lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders. Lectures are organized by Topics and Series that are aligned with public station local and national programs, when possible. Lectures are also contextualized with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio, when possible. Viewers are invited to share ideas and opinions through onsite media tools. The Research Channel An excellent source for online video produced by Universities and other institutions, with offerings ranging from the Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Computer Science and Engineering, Health and Medicine, K-12 and Education, Sciences, Social Sciences. Selections can be browsed by title, series, institution and subject discipline. To gain an idea of available titles, search Arts and Humanities with the word "music," using your browser's "Find" tool (under the Edit menu in Internet Explorer), or use genre terms such as "jazz," composer or musician names. Some sample offerings include Blues Biology, Piano Power: McCabe Times Two, and Elmer Bernstein: a Musical Tribute. Great Performances (PBS) Learn what music, opera and musical theater productions have been produced for this outstanding series, and access detailed teaching and other materials. Click Dialog for interview footage; select the Multimedia Presentations link for production information and more (within this area don't miss the Multimedia Archive section at the bottom of the page). The Educational Resources area includes lesson plans geared to the various titles. Some footage offerings require RealPlayer. BlackPublicMedia.org From the National Black Programming Consortium, an organization dedicated to developing black digital authorship and distributing unique stories of the black experience in the new media age, this resource offers hours of video and sound recordings on a wide array of topics. http://NBPC.tv offers a "Media Center" with webcasts on various topics. NBPC's BlackPublicMedia.org site offers much, much more video that is viewable online, including the excellent three-part series Free to Dance and series featuring HipHop and Blues (search the archive for "music"). Folkstreams Though only excepts can be viewed online, this web resource offers a catalog of unique films on "folk" topics, including music, dance and numerous other subject areas. To view those possibilities, select the "subject" link from the left-hand menu. Some sample possibilities include Jazz Parades, Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old, and Catching the Music. The Internet Archive Founded in 1996, The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded to build an Internet library, offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. The Archive offers "sub-collections" -- categories including Arts & Music, Cultural and Academic Films, News & Public Affairs, Movies, and much more. The Cultural and Academic Films category is rich with material suitable for research and teaching. The Movies section includes classic TV shows and commercials. The Prelinger Archives comprises a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" films not collected elsewhere (including advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films). FedFlix, a joint effort of the US government and PublicResource.org, has placed in the Internet Archive the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, available for reuse without any restrictions. In FedFlix, searching by "creator" allows you to select various governmental departments--e.g. NASA. The Academic Film Archive, based at http://www.afana.org, offers several films through the Internet Archive (listings in several categories are at www.afana.org). An example of the many gems in the Internet Archive is Jose Iturbi, 1941. YouTube Though most famous for its "viral" videos, YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) offers wonderful opportunities to study performers and performing arts works. For example, performances and interviews with sopranos Kathleen Battle (linked above), Kiri Te Kanawa, and Sumi Jo can be found; segments of the opera, "Cosi fan Tutte," and much, much more. (Use quotation marks for more focused searches.) In addition, educational films can be sometimes be found in YouTube; for instance, "Films for the Humanities and Sciences" (try searching for films by this publisher with and without quotation marks--quotation marks probably work better). Moving Image Collections MIC is a collaboration of organizations and individuals in moving image archives, information technology, and digital education, sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the National Science Foundation. Moving image archives - some available online - can be found using MIC's "Archive Explore" facility, then selecting relevant country, genre, and subject terms (e.g. Performing Arts). Examples of footage sources include AV Geeks Stock Footage, http://avgeeks.com (stock footage is at http://footage.avgeeks.com/). Back to Menu Film and Video Collections (DVD, VHS, Laserdisc) The audiovisual media stacks are closed stacks areas; however, you can browse catalog records describing titles by using the instructions in Browsing and Selecting Popular Films and Videos below, or by selecting "Video (any format)" option from the Format drop-down box and entering the subject terms "feature films" and "motion pictures" (use both phrases in order to see the full array of choices, and be sure to use the quotation marks). Searching according to the flyer's instructions might prove more satisfactory, however, since call number searches yield alphabetical lists of titles, exactly as they appear on the shelves. If you have something particular in mind, you can search by placing director, actor, genre, language or subject terminology into a "Words Anywhere" search and select "video (any format)." For educational film/video follow this same procedure, typing in topic words for a "Words Anywhere" search with "video (any format)" selected. Browsing and Selecting Popular Films and Videos The Reel World @ TCU: New Media Arrivals and Recommendations Courtesy of the Music/Media Library's Karen Weber, The Reel World @ TCU gives you a selection of each week's film and video acquisitions, complete with synopses and recommendations. The Reel World is available in print in the Music/Media Library and virtually via Facebook. View editions via the link above or, if desired, set up a profile in Facebook, then join Facebook's TCU Network using the "Account" tab. Click on "Groups" in the upper left, near the search box, and find "Reel World @ TCU." Enjoy! Internet Movie Database An excellent online source of information about films and videos of all kinds. Gwendolyn P. Tandy Memorial Film Library Films can be watched within this Library of (as of spring 2009) 15,000+ titles, housed in the Moudy Building. The Tandy Film Library sponsors free film screenings on Thursday nights through the Spring and Fall semesters. Back to Menu Selected Music Web Sites TCU School of Music Homepage AMG Music Guide (AllMusic.com) The allmusic website was created in 1995. Originally known as All Music Guide, AMG was founded in 1991 to help consumers navigate the increasingly complex world of recorded music and discover the very best recordings. Other strengths: artist and composer information; articles; criticism/reviews; genre studies; a glossary; music maps; style descriptions, composition descriptions, and AMG ratings and picks. Worldwide Internet Music Resources William and Gayle Cook Music Library (Indiana University) AMS Sites of Interest to Musicologists This handy page from the American Musicological Society features links to pages of resources, from musicological reference to academic jobs to musical jokes. Some of the headings: Composers and Compositions; Music Education; Music in Films; Music Libraries, Archives and Online Catalogs; Music Publishing; Music Therapy; Musicology Blogs; Sacred Music; Women in Music. The "Catalog of Music Resources" heading is a sleeper--it may be the best of the lot. Internet Links for Music Research University of North Texas Music Library Library of Congress Music Site - I Hear America Singing New LoC website that integrates the collections, commissions and live concerts of the Library of Congress, allowing users to discover the Library's music and performing-arts collections. The site brings together thousands of materials digitized from the Library's vast collections of sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories, along with essays by Library staff and other leading researchers in the performing arts. Includes a link to LOC's Civil War Sheet Music collection. The International Piano Archive From the University of Maryland, College Park, the International Piano Archive is a unique resource for the study, appreciation, and preservation of the classical piano repertoire and its performance. IPAM's collections comprise the world's most extensive concentration of piano recordings, books, scores, programs and related materials, including the archival papers of many great keyboard artists, and has earned acclaim for its reissues of historic piano performances. Internet Broadway Database IBDB provides a comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production, from the beginnings of New York theatre through the present. IBDB also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway. Information found in IBDB is derived primarily from theatre programs (in most cases from a production's opening night). Supplemental information was taken from newspaper and magazine reports, theatrical text books, interviews with theatre professionals, and League archives. TCU Library Best of the Web (Music section) An ever growing and changing resource, Best of the Web/Music contains links both to licensed databases available to the TCU community and resources available to anyone. Offerings as of October 2008 include links to Essentials of Music, http://www.essentialsofmusic.com, from W. W. Norton and Co., featuring basic information about classical music of every period, utilizing almost 200 excerpts from the Sony Classical catalog; overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century; biographies of some 70 composers; a glossary with numerous musical examples. An Essential Classics section helps users build their own listening libraries. Music Theory Online: a Journal of Criticism, Commentary, Research, Scholarship, http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto. Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, Inc. offering articles, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of international correspondents. In addition, MTO publishes announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for papers, a list of job opportunities, abstracts of recently completed and in-progress dissertations, and summaries of recently published books. The sites contains links to other online scholarly music journals. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu, published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century. This resource includes historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, critical reviews and summary listings of recently published books, scores, and electronic media. Voice and Keyboard Audio Search,, http://www.midomi.com/, by which users can "sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find [their] favorite music." Second Hand Songs: a Cover Songs Database, http://www.secondhandsongs.com/ - find any song title or word from a title and see how many performers have performed their own renditions of it. Research old record labels and recording catalogs; very complete information on popular songs and more. A good adjunct to Colin Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music, in Oxford Music Online from the Encyclopedia section above. Musical Heritage Network: Instrument Encyclopedia from the University of Michigan School of Music, http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument. Back to Menu