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Music Appreciation
Welcome to the research guide for Music in Life. This guide contains research materials and links to help you make this class a success.
On this page, find a quick list of resources to get you started.
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The following can help you start your research.
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Databases
- Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
- Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies.
- Project MUSE Open Access
Project MUSE offers complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies.
- Music & Letters
Articles, commentary and reviews of books and music embracing all fields of musical enquiry, from the earliest times to the present day aimed at an international audience.
- Musical Quarterly
Articles on a wide range of contemporary subjects including world music, jazz, popular music, commercial music, music in society, musical aesthetics, music and the other arts, American music past and present, local reports, and book reviews.
Foundations of Music History by
Call Number: 780.9 D138fISBN: 9780521232814Publication Date:Drawing on competing philosophies of history throughout the ages, from the Enlightenment to the French structuralists, from the German idealist tradition to Russian formalism, the late Carl Dahlhaus applies the thoughts of these various schools to the specialist requirements of music history and assesses their advantages and shortcomings.
A History of Western Music by
Call Number: 780.9 B9187h7ISBN: 9780393979916Publication Date:Maintaining the authority and breadth of coverage that have always defined this classic text, J. Peter Burkholder has meticulously revised and restructured the text to make it more accessible for today’s students.
Humanities & Music at Northwestern
These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.
- School of Arts & Sciences
The departments within the school offer a total of fifteen majors and twenty minors at the undergraduate level and a master of arts in American studies at the graduate level.
- English, Foreign Language & Humanities
The Department of English, Foreign Language & Humanities offers a broad range of courses leading to the bachelor of arts degree in English or English education. Students may also pursue a minor in English, writing, or Spanish.
- Fine Arts
The Department of Fine Arts prepares students for a career as an educator or artist through quality instruction and individualized attention while enriching the campus and community.
- Bands & Instrumental Music
Northwestern Oklahoma State University offers all the opportunities that can be found at any large university, combined with the friendliness and warmth of a small college. The bands are open to all students regardless of major, and participation scholarships are available.
- Choral & Vocal Studies
Each year, choir members and vocalists participate in many performances including concerts by the University Chorale, Concert Choir, and the University Singers. Northwestern choirs tour regionally and nationally.