Washington and Lee University
Academic Search Complete (Info)
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| Producer: | Ebsco | |
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| Description: | Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 9,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 8,500 peer-reviewed journals, as well as over 5,500 full-text periodicals. Also includes selected report, monographs, conference proceedings, and more. Updated daily and includes some coverage back to 19th-century articles. | |
| Usage Tips: | Here is help with searching, navigating, printing, and more.
Here is additional assistance on setting up automatic alert searches in this database. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music Theater .General (any topic) | |
| Producer: | JSTOR | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | A digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.
August 2009 update: JSTOR is developing Data for Research, a tool for analysis of the content of the database. | |
| Usage Tips: | Searching The opening Advanced Search page presents 4 options for searching through the full text of all articles. You can change one or more these options to search through authors' names, words in article titles, words in article abstracts, or words in captions.
To search for forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for missing letters. Example: modern* finds modern, modernism, moderns, modernistic, etc. To find articles containing two or more words, connect the search terms with AND. Example: terror* AND nationalis* To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose search terms in quotation marks. Example: "vernacular architecture" Results and Printing The list of articles resulting from a search is displayed in order of relevance (the number of appearances and prominence of your search terms), but can be re-sorted by publication date. To print an article, click on the "PDF" option. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music Economics and Business - General History -- United States Humanities - General Anthropology and Archaeology Sociology Journalism and Mass Communications Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Elections and Voting Politics -- Legal and Constitutional Politics -- Foreign and International Politics -- Congressional Research Politics -- General Economics Theater .General (any topic) Women's and Gender Studies History -- Outside U.S. Islamic Studies Politics -- Political Philosophy | |
| Producer: | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | |
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| Description: | ARTstor is a continually growing library of art images, including data. Currently, ARTstor contains over a million art images. | |
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To learn how to use ARTStor to its fullest advantage, go to ARTStor's Help menu. YouTube has various short instructional videos that are excellent. You must REGISTER first if you want to save image groups or use ARTstor off-campus. Downloading the Offline Image Viewer(OIV) is necessary to create presentations.
Saving images For Technical Help, contact the Instructional Technology Services at x8098 or contact Yolanda Merrill in the library at x8662. | |
| Librarian: | Yolanda Merrill | |
| Descriptors: | Music Art and Architecture Classics History -- United States Humanities - General Literature and Language Religion Theater Medieval and Renaissance Studies History -- Outside U.S. Islamic Studies East Asian Studies | |
American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia (Info)
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| Producer: | Greenwood | |
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| Description: | Two-volume set (2008) provides regional and state-by-state discussions of folk songs about the lives and times of each state. "For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context." | |
| Usage Tips: | For help with browsing, searching, navigating, and printing, see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music History -- United States | |
Cambridge Histories Online (Info)
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| Producer: | Cambridge University Press | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Contains the complete texts of over 250 volumes published since the 1960's in this prestigious series of authoritative works on major historical topics. Several series are still active and new volumes will be added to the database as published, as will any new series when they begin. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may browse among individual volumes or search for content within a certain subject or across the entire collection.
Browse When you click on "Browse," you will see a list of 15 subject categories. You can open any of these categories, such as "Political and Social Theory," by clicking on its title. You then can see a list of volumes in the series, any of which can be opened by clicking on the title of the individual volume. The subsequent page displays the volume's table of contents (lower right). When you click on a broad "part" or section, you will see a list of chapters within that part. When you click on the chapter you want, you will see an overview of that chapter, with an option to "view full chapter" (above the chapter title), which will open a PDF file. Search The search box on the home page (upper right) provides the ability to search through the entire database. The search boxes on all other pages offer the choice of searching the "all content" or an individual category or volume. You can search the content of any subject category or volume by browsing to that level (as above) and then using the "Search" box (upper right). The "Advanced search" option (under the "Search" box) allows you to perform more complex or focused searches. Note: To search for a multi-word phrase, enclose the words within quotation marks. Example: "manifest destiny" | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music History -- United States Literature and Language Philosophy Religion Theater History -- Outside U.S. | |
Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Music (Info)
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| Producer: | Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online | |
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| Description: | Written by critic Michael Kennedy, this work contains 14,000 entries on musical terms, works, instruments, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras, as well as comprehensive works lists for major composers. Fifth edition (2004), abridged from the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the 2nd edition of which is available in printed form in the library's collection. | |
| Usage Tips: | The initial screen ("Quick Search") is set up for a search of the complete text of the database. If you want to browse through an alphabetical list of all entries, choose the "Browse this book" option. The results of searches are arranged by relevance, with those articles containing search words in the title or other prominent location. Quick Search To find articles containing a multi-word phrase, enter the words within quotation marks. Example: "sturm und drang". To search for various forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) as a wild-card term. Example: symphon* will find symphony, symphonic, symphonies, etc. Advanced Search This option, located within the blue bar near the top of the screen, enables you to search through this reference source, plus some or all of the other Oxford Reference Online sources in this same broad subject area ("Performing Arts"). | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music | |
Connect to: Oxford Music Online
| Producer: | Oxford University Press | |
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| Description: | The preeminent music reference source at W&L. One-stop searching of the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the encyclopedic Grove Music Online, and the Oxford Companion to Music. | |
| Usage Tips: | To learn how to best search Oxford Music Online, please consult the Help menu at the top right of the database's pages. | |
| Librarian: | Yolanda Merrill | |
| Descriptors: | Music | |
Routledge Companion To Philosophy And Music (Info)
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| Producer: | Routledge / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | 2011 volume is a "guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music," with over fifty signed entries in six categories: general issues; emotion; history; figures; kinds of music; music, philosophy and related disciplines. You may preview the contents. | |
| Usage Tips: | You can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music Philosophy | |
Classical Music Library (CML) (Info)
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| Producer: | Alexander Street Press | |
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| Description: | Online Listening tool. Our license to CLM allows 3 simultaneous users. If you cannot login, please try again later. Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Its focus is on content that meets the needs of educators and students.
Coverage: 50,000+ recordings; >30 labels; >1800 composers; >900 conductors; >5,000 artists; >1,200 ensembles. | |
| Usage Tips: | By setting up a personal account on CML you can create your own playlists, in addition to the many that are already available on the service. Any playlist you create is saved in "My Playlists". You can access them whenever you login to your personal account from any location. All the features in CLM are indexed under the Service Guide in the HELP menu. New feature: download selected works to your iPhone. | |
| Librarian: | Yolanda Merrill | |
| Descriptors: | Music | |
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| Description: | SingingFish maintains the largest compilation of audio and video streams on the Web (over 30 million), including MP3, Real, Quicktime, and other formats. Over 100,000 listings are added each week. | |
| Usage Tips: | To search for a phrase, enclose the words in parentheses. Example: barn owl | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Music | |