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Michelle Oswell, Humanities Librarian for Music and Literature (HC)
Donna Fournier, Music & Dance Librarian (SC)

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MUSC 022 : Nineteenth-Century Europe (SC)

Finding Background Information:

"Romantic" entry from The Harvard Dictionary of Music

A brief overview article with a good bibliography.

"Romanticism" entry from Grove Music Online

An extensive article organized into three section: 1. History of usage, 2. Meaning, 3. Styles. Includes a great bibliography.

The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century music

Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2001, c2002.

The Oxford history of western music

Author: Taruskin, Richard.

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

The romantic generation

Author: Rosen, Charles, 1927- Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.

The New Grove early romantic masters 1

Author: Temperley, Nicholas. Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988.

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1985.

The New Grove early romantic masters 2

Author: Warrack, John Hamilton, 1928- Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1985.

The New Grove late romantic masters

Publisher: New York : Norton, c1985.

Finding Books:

Use Tripod keyword searches or thy the following subject heading searches:

Shelf Browsing

Finding Scores and Recordings:

Using the Tripod Music Search, try keyword searches comprised of the composers last name and an important word from the title of the work. The list can be limited by campus and format. We also have large collections of complete works of major composers shelved in the call number area M3. These are indexed in the works lists in Grove Music Online under the composers' names.

Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Publisher: Madison, Wis. : A-R Editions, c1979-

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.

International index to music periodicals

Provider: Chadwyck

Provides abstracts to music titles. Offers articles in full-text for over 80 periodicals. Covers all aspects of music including education, composition, theory and ethnomusicology. Covers 1874-present. Full-text begins in the mid-1990s-present.

Arts & humanities citation index

Provider: ISI

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. References to and from journal articles can also be searched. Swarthmore has access to the AHCI from 1975 to the present through Web of Science.

ProQuest Research Library

Provider: ProQuest

Provides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology. User interface available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. 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.

19th century masterfile

Provider: Paratext

Offers millions of citations to periodicals, newspapers, books, patents and government documents published prior to 1925.

Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)

Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.

Finding Letters and Other Primary Sources:

Source readings in music history

Publisher: New York : Norton, c1998.

Section 6 of this work is on the 19th century. A note for each reading places the selection in broader musical and historical context.

"Source Writings" from the "Romanticism" entry in Grove Music Online

The collected musical criticism of Eduard Hanslick.

Author: Hanslick, Eduard, 1825-1904.

Publisher: [Franborough, Hants, Eng.] : Gregg International Publishers, 1971.

Influential 19th-century Austrian music critic who wrote countless reviews for over fifty years.

Primary Source Readings in Music

A webpage created by former Swarthmore Music Librarian, George Huber.

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 recordings and scores can be tricky. Williams College has a good citation guide for non-book formats.