Macdonald-Kelce Library: Music, Music Education, and Performance: Best Bets

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Use Spartan Search to search the library's collection of music literature, scores, sound recordings and DVDs.

Please note that streaming media content is not indexed in Spartan Search and users should search those interfaces directly to find and access audio-video files.

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new window
Listen to instrumentalist music from forgotten markets. Includes liner notes and independent artists' recordings. Search and sort by album, composer, and performer.
Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in the fields of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Music & Dance Online This link opens in a new window
Music and Dance Online currently includes over 11 million audio tracks, 2,500 hours of video, 1.3 million pages of scores, and 500,000+ pages of reference, archival primary sources, and periodicals, comprising the largest and most comprehensive online offering of in-copyright audio and video performances and scores available anywhere.
Music Online : Reference This link opens in a new window
Brings together a variety of essential music reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database.
Included are the authoritative reference titles The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Bibliographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music. Also includes African American Music Reference and Classical Music Reference Library.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
A database for a vast selection of streaming music, offering primarily classical and jazz music but also contains other genres as well.
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
A continuously updated performing arts video library containing operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, and EuroArts, and more.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
An encyclopedia covering music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Provides access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journals and ebooks covering the humanities and social sciences broadly, and more specifically topical areas such as ...
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Books and journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. Offers Online Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching & Content Alerts, content for Courses & Research. Also contains The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose. The fully searchable, integrative edition includes all of Eliot's collected essays, reviews, lectures, commentaries from The Criterion, and letters to editors, including more than 700 uncollected and 150 unpublished pieces from 1905 to 1965 and much more.

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Call Numbers for Music Materials

The University of Tampa's Macdonald-Kelce Library has a wide selection of materials pertaining to many aspects of music and musicianship. Below are the relevant Library of Congress classification areas to explore. All items in the library (other than Government Documents) are assigned a Library of Congress call number and are arranged on the shelves accordingly.

M: Music Compositions

ML: Literature on Music

MT: Instruction and Study

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M1-5000 Compositions

M1.A5-3.3 Collections

M5-1480 Instrumental Music

M6-175.5 Solo Instrument

M176 Motion Picture Music

M177-990 Two or More Solo Instruments

M1000-1075 Orchestra

M1100-1160 String Orchestra

M1200-1270 Band

M1350-1366 Other Ensembles

M1375-1420 Instrumental Music for Children

M1470-1480 Aleatory Music/Electronic Music/Mixed Media

M1495-2199 Vocal Music

M1495 Collections

M1497-1998 Secular Vocal Music

M1999-2199 Sacred Vocal Music

M5000 Unidentified Compositions

ML1-3930 Literature on Music

ML 25-28 Societies and Other Organizations

ML159-3785 History and Criticism

ML3795 Music as a Profession: Vocational Guidance

ML3797-3799.5 Musical Research

ML3800-3923 Philosophical and Societal Aspects of Music/Physics and acoustics of

music/Physiological Aspects of Music

ML3928-3930 Literature for Children

MT1-960 Instruction and Study

MT3-5 History

MT5.5-7 Music Theory

M68-MT87 Method

MT170-810 Instrumental Techniques

MT820-915 Singing and Vocal Technique

MT918-948 School Music

MT955-956 Musical Theater

MT960 Music in the Theater