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Music Collection Highlights
Music materials are located on the 4th floor of Hunt Library. There are about 10,000 books, 14,000 scores, 16,000 LPs, and 6,700 CDs.

Research Your Topic

Listen to Music Online
You need to download the Cisco Client to listen to these databases from off campus (do not use the WebVPN).

  • American Song
  • Classical Music Library
  • Naxos Music Library
  • Naxos Fantasy Jazz

    • View Scores Online
    Classical Scores Library works off campus using the WebVPN or Cisco Client.

  • Classical Scores Library (CMU users only)
  • IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
  • Indiana University VARIATIONS prototype
  • Julliard Manuscript Collection
  • Mutopia
  • NMA Online: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
  • Sheet Music Collections (compiled by Duke University Libraries)

    • Watch Performances Online
    You need to download the Cisco Client to watch these databases from off campus (do not use the WebVPN).

  • Dance in Video
  • Opera in Video
  • Theatre in Video

    Other Collections & Databases

  • Audio collection
  • CD Sheet Music & Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library
  • Jamey Aebersold series
  • Musical America
  • Music-in-Print
  • Special Collections
    • Research Your Topic
    Background Information

  • African American Music Reference Library
  • Classical Music Reference Library: contains Baker's
  • Oxford Music Online: contains Grove Music Online
  • more dictionaries...

    Books

  • Cameo: Carnegie Mellon online library catalog
  • Worldcat: worldwide catalog
  • more catalogs: CLP, Pitt

    • Journal Articles

  • JSTOR: fulltext articles online (only 53 music titles, be sure to search Music Index and RILM Music Abstracts as well)
  • Music Index: citations for scholarly and popular music titles
  • RILM Music Abstracts: citations and abstracts for scholarly articles, book chapters, dissertations...

    • Meta Search

  • Music Online: cross search multiple music databases for reference materials, books, scores, recordings, and videos

    Writing & Citing Your Sources

  • The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (online companion to the handbook)
  • The Chicago Manual Of Style Online
  • Chicago Notes-Bibliography Style Examples (OSU Libraries)
  • Citing Music Sources using Turabian (Western Libraries)
    • Instrument Guides
    Browse a list of resources for your instrument. This is only a starting point - search the library catalog to see what's new!
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    Music & Catalog Librarian
    Kristin Kristin Heath
    Hunt Library
    4th Floor
    (412) 268-7267
    kheath@andrew.cmu.edu
    IM & Twitter: MusLibCM
    Blog: Finding your Rhythm
    CFA Great Hall: Wednesdays, 1-3pm

    Carnegie Mellon School of Music

    Guidelines for donating music.

    Suggest a music related book, score, or recording.

    How Do I?
    Music Databases
    The following databases do not work with our WebVPN:

  • American Song
  • Classical Music Library
  • Naxos Music Library
  • Naxos Fantasy Jazz
  • Dance in Video
  • Opera in Video
  • Theatre in Video

    You need to download the Cisco Client to use these databases from off campus.

    The one exception to this is Naxos Music Library. I've gotten it to work with the WebVPN when using Windows XP, IE8, and Flash or Windows Media Player.

    A-Z list of music databases to which we subscribe (with brief descriptions).

    Current database updates: read about new content and enhancements available with each new release.

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    Classification Systems: Arts
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