LibGuides: Music: Home

Where to get help

You can get help for research in several ways.

Contact the subject librarian,
Taylor Greene, at (714) 532-7782 or
tgreene@chapman.edu

Room 115 in the Leatherby Libraries

Face-to-face during Reference Desk hours

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Performing Arts Librarian

Taylor Greene

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Contact:

Leatherby Libraries, room 115
tgreene@chapman.edu

(714) 532 - 7782

Subjects: Dance, Music, Theatre

Welcome to the Music Guide. Here you will find information about finding scores, books, articles, and other sources of information related to music.

Commonly used resources:

Art Song Transpositions This link opens in a new window Offers professionally crafted scores of art songs and arias as well as vocal repertoire from operas, choral works, and musical theatre in any key. Users may also request new transpositions if a song they desire is not already available. Terms of Use.
Classical Scores Library (Volumes I-IV) This link opens in a new window The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. The output of major composers is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Terms of Use.
Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window A compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, as well as all subsequent updates and emendations. Including 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world, Grove Music Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. Terms of Use. Restricted to 3 users at a time.
IPA Source This link opens in a new window A large library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of music, including opera arias and art song texts. IPA Source offers texts to works for the solo voice in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English.Terms of Use.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window More than 500 Metropolitan Opera performances in streaming audio and video. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1936-present.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window Offers streaming access to more than 43,900 CDs with more than 629,400 tracks and the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month. Subscribers can also create personalized playlists. Terms of Use.
ProQuest Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Delivers complete information from popular and scholarly performing arts journals, as well as access to the IIPA thesaurus (controlled indexing with the added depth of full-text searching), ProQuest Performing Arts Periodicals Database (Formerly known as International Index to Performing Arts) Terms of Use. Coverage: 1864-present. Restricted to 4 users at a time.

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