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M401 History and Literature of Music I

This guide will assist M401 students with locating resources for their research assignment in History and Literature of Music I.

Argument Sources

  • Argument sources advance a point of view using a combination of evidence and responses to other scholars' argument publications.
  • These are mostly journal articles and dissertations, but also include book chapters and essays
  • Summarizing and responding to argument sources is what will make your research paper interesting.

Find Argument Sources

JSTOR
Provides access to articles in journals from a wide range of disciplines, including music. 

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Comprehensive discovery of music articles, book chapters, dissertations, and more. Covers nearly one and a half million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects. Also includes full text of over 260 periodicals. 

Proquest Dissertations
Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.

Google Scholar
Special version of Google's index to scholarly content on the web. Connects to full-text resources available to IU users.

Music Periodicals Database
Provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals.