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MUSC 09A : Music and Mathematics (SC)
Exploring:
"Numbers and Music" entry in Grove Music Online
By Ruth Tatlow and Paul Griffiths from the premier online music dictionary. Includes a detailed article and good bibliography.
"Music and Mathematics" entry in Wikipedia
A good overview. Check out the references and external links.
"Music" entry in the Math Forum, Internet Mathematics Library
From Drexel University. Lists and describes websites on the topic.
"Music and Mathematics" Search in Google Scholar
Retrieves books and articles from Google. Use the "Find it at Swarthmore" or "Check Tripod" link to access the resource.
Finding Books, Scores, and Recordings:
Tripod, Tri-College Library Catalog
Use Tripod (shared with Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) to find books (such as those listed below), essays, scores, recordings, and journals. Here are some searching hints:
- Keyword Searches: Start with words used to describe your topic. Try a variety of words and include the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to explore many possibilities, e.g. music AND mathematics.
- Subject Headings Searches: Tripod uses Library of Congress subject headings. They are not always intuitive. Instead of starting with a subject heading search you may want to start with a keyword search. Browse through the list of results until you find something that looks relevant to your research. Look through the description of the item to find "official" library terminology for the topic. You can then click on the links in Tripod labeled, "Subject".
- Uniform Titles: Library catalogs have a way to group titles together no matter what words or languages are printed on the title page. To catch all performances of a work you will want to search by the uniform title. Start with a keyword search such as "beethoven piano concertos". Browse through the list of results until you find the work you are interested in. Click on the link and look through the description of the item to find "official" title for the work, for example, "Concertos, violin, violoncello, piano, orchestra, op. 56, c major" is the uniform title for Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
- Limiting Searches: You can limit searches in two ways. Before you begin searching you can choose a specialized area such as "Sound Recordings". Also, after getting search results you can click on the "limit/sort search" button or the "modify search" button to refine your results.
Emblems of mind : the inner life of music and mathematics
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Finding Journal Articles:
RILM abstracts of music literature
Provider: CSA
Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.
MathSciNet
Provider: AMS
Provides citations to the world's mathematical literature including journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Topics covered include all aspects of mathematics, statistics, and related areas. Cover 1940-present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.
Evaluating Sources:
Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazine Articles (USTA Library)
This page compares the two types of publications on several levels, including language, structure of articles, editorial procedures, and credits.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins University Library)
Discusses the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.
Getting Materials not at Swarthmore:
If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.
Citing Sources:
Guidelines for style and the documentation of sources for scholarly papers in music and dance follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. The manual is not available online but thorough explanations can be found in the Chicago/Turabian Documentation section of the UW-Madison Writing Center website. Citing the notes that accompany sound recordings and scores can be tricky. Williams College has a good citation guide for non-book formats.