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Music Research Guide  

This is a guide to finding the best resources for research in Music.
Last Updated: May 22, 2013 URL: http://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/music Print Guide RSS UpdatesEmail AlertsShareThis

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This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

Click on any of the tabs above to find information about how to locate Music resources

      
     

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    Tips & Tricks

    Find your music resources in the City Campus Library

    Searching for song titles and short musical compositions?           Songs & short compositions are often compiled in an anthology, cd or score. To search contents lists of scores & cds, keyword search the catalogue for the song /work title, and limit by material type e.g compact disc or music score.

    Music is catalogued using the language it is written in.                To search the catalogue for music, enter the word root followed by an asterix  e.g. sonat* finds: sonata, sonate, sonaten, sonatina, sonatas...  This is called truncation.

     

    Books of Interest

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    Hearing in Time - Justin London
    ISBN: 9780199744374
    Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical experience from a psychological point of view.

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    Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte - Charles Ford
    ISBN: 9780754668893
    Offers a compelling account of how and why Mozart's 3 operas - Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni & Cosigrave; fan tutte - composed to libretti by Lorenzo Da Ponte, still hold such powerful sway for contemporary audiences & critics. It challenges us to interpret Mozart's genius in the light of the sexual ideology of his own times, and also to understand these comic yet troubling works as expressions of our own era's sexual ideology.

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    Popular Music - Tara Brabazon
    ISBN: 9781847874368
    The first textbook on Pop Music to be written after the start of the iPod era. The book is organized in accessible sections which cover the main themes of research and teaching. It examines the key approaches to understanding popular music, the main settings of exchange and consumption, the role of technology in the production of popular music, the main genres of popular music, and the key debates of the present day.

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    The Complete Musician - Steven G. Laitz
    ISBN: 9780199742783
    Beginning with music fundamentals, this text covers all the topics necessary for a thorough understanding of undergraduate music theory by focusing on music in context. The text links each of the tasks that comprise a tonal theory curriculum, explicitly connecting written theory (writing & analysis), skills (singing, playing & dictation) & music-making...

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    Theory & Analysis - Clendinning & Marvin
    ISBN: 9780393930818
    Gives students the hands-on tools they need to learn how music works. Theoretically current & pedagogically innovative, the Musician's Guide series uses the phrase model approach to show students how music works in context.

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    Women of Note - Rosalind Appleby
    ISBN: 9781921888762
    In the early 20th century, being a female composer was a dangerous game, yet the allure of writing music enticed women from all walks of life. A fresh and comprehensive chronicle, this account makes some startling discoveries about the female contributions to Australian classical music from Margaret Sutherland's pioneering modernism in the 1950s to Peggy Glanville-Hicks's globally acclaimed operas.

     

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