Introduction to Music Studies
Finding Information About Recordings
Step 1: Find a CD Booklet (Liner notes)
- In Naxos World Music Library: under image of CD
- In Music Online: Listening: look for Related Documents tab
- Not in one database? Try the other!
- Not in either? Folkways Label liner notes can be downloaded at Smithsonian Folkways
- Other options; Google the recording label and/or performer
Step 2. Learn basics about music & genre
- Wikipedia is a great starting place to learn about:
- terms & genres
- time periods
- cultures/geography
- Oxford Music Online is a music encyclopedia
- search for countries, cultures, or instruments
Step 3. Dig a little deeper
Come to the library to use the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music to look up more info about the cultural context of the music
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Music Reference ML100 .G16 1998
A ten-volume collection, organized geographically by continent to represent the musics of the world. More than 9,000 pages, with musical illustrations, photographs and drawings, it is accompanied by 300+ audio examples.
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