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MUSC 103 : Mahler and Britten (SC)
Exploring:
Mahler Article in Grove Music Online
The Mahler Archives
from the Chicago Mahlerites; includes lists of and links to articles, essays, and interviews related to Mahler and his works.
Mahler Time Line
from the International Gustav Mahler Society
Britten Article in Grove Music Online
Benjamin Britten
from the Boosey & Hawkes website, Britten's publisher.
Benjamin Britten: A Timeline
from the Britten-Pears Foundation.
Bibliographies:
Mahler Bibliography in Grove Music Online
Britten & Mahler Entries in Reader's Guide to Music
An overview of scholarship in Mahler and Britten studies.
Britten Bibliography in Grove Music Online
Benjamin Britten: a bio-bibliography
Greenwood Press, 2002
Primary Source Materials:
Mahler family letters
Oxford University Press, 2006
Mahler : a documentary study
Oxford University Press, 1976
Britten on Music
Oxford University Press, 2003
Letters from a life : the selected letters and diaries of Benjamin Britten
edited by Donald Mitchell, University of California Press, 1991-
Books, Videos, Sound Recordings, and Scores:
Mahler's Complete Works
Universal Editions, 1960-; Shelved with call number M3 M157, see list of published volumes.
Tripod (Tri-College Library Catalog)
Use Tripod (shared with Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) to find recorded performances and scores of the works you want to explore and to find books and essays on your topic. 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. britten AND (letters OR correspondence).
- 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. Click on the link and 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 "mahler songs". 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, "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" is the uniform title for Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer.
- Limiting Searches: You can limit searches in two ways. Before you begin searching you can choose a specialized search such as "Videos/DVDs" or "Music". Also, after getting search results you can click on the "limit/sort search" button or the "modify search" button to refine your results.
WorldCat
This is a gigantic catalog of materials owned by libraries all over the world listing books, journals, scores, sound recordings, videos, websites, and manuscript collections.
Journal Indexes:
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.
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.
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.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: ISI
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Covers 1975- present.
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.
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.
Interlibrary Loan:
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.
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