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- Michelle Oswell, Humanities Librarian for Music and Literature (HC)
- Donna Fournier, Music & Dance Librarian (SC)
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MUSC 104 : Chopin (SC)
Exploring:
Chopin Article from Grove Music Online
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Chopin Information Centre
From the Fryderek Chopin Institute, includes biography, bibliography, filmography, and links to other Chopin websites. Swarthmore owns a number of the Institute's publications.
Chopin's Funeral
by Anita Eisler, New York : Vintage Books, 2004
The Parisian worlds of Frédéric Chopin
Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c1999.
Finding Scores, Recordings, and Videos:
The Chopin Collection [recordings]
Artur Rubinstein, piano; available through the Tri-College's Variations Digital Music Library.
The Chopin Collection [scores]
Digitized scores rom the University of Chicago Library that consists primarily of first and other early individual editions of works by Frédéric Chopin. The Collection includes only items published before 1881.
Tri-College Chopin Scores
A customized Tripod search for scores at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore. The list can be limited by campus and keywords.
Naxos Music Library
Search for Chopin recordings in the author index under Chopin, Fryderyk.
Tri-College Chopin Recordings
A customized Tripod search for sound recordings at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore. The list can be limited by campus, keywords, and format.
Tri-College Chopin Videos
A customized Tripod search for video recordings at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore. The list can be limited by campus, keywords, and format.
Finding Letters and Other Primary Sources:
Primary Source Readings in Music
A webpage created by trico librarians.
Finding Secondary Sources:
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.
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. 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.
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:
Chicago manual of style
Chicago/Turabian Documentation
from the University of Wisconsin Writing Center
Guidelines for Citing Scores and Recordings
from Williams College