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Online Catalog: Holdings for the George Mason University Libraries.

Aladin Catalog: Holdings for WR LC libraries.

Doctoral Dissertations in Music : Listings of doctoral dissertations in musicology.

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RILM: Citations for international music publications.

Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians : Features full-text searching of over 29,000 articles on all aspects of music.

Dissertations Abstracts : Dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.

International Index to Music Periodicals : Indexes 375 international music periodicals. Some full-text articles.

International Index to the Performing Arts : Indexes 200 performing artis periodicals.

WorldCat : Holdings records for OCLC member libraries.

International Index to the Performing Arts: Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry. Selected full-text coverage.

Dow Jones Interactive: Covers today's top newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and more) with full-text articles and exhibition reviews.

Expanded Academic ASAP: Full-text journal articles in the humanities.

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Library Resources

Woodwinds, Strings, Percussion, Brass, Keyboard, Guitars

The Symphony-An Interactive Guide

How to find information about, music for, and recordings of or featuring a particular instrument or family of instruments.

These guides include print as well as electronic and internet resources. Call numbers refer to the JCL Music Reference Section; items marked with an * can be found in Fenwick Reference as well.

To find general information about instruments, consult

  1. *The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
    REF. ML102. I5 N48 1984

  2. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments
    REF. ML102. I5 I5 1996

 

Web Sites

Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Instruments
The EUCHMI site has a catalog and electronic picture gallery of the instruments in the gallery. This resource also has audio demonstrations of different instruments being played.
UVA Music Library
Links about instruments.