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Piano Pedagogy: Articles/Databases
Music-specific articles & encyclopedias
Find information about the music you're playing with the databases below, using the Search Tips for Finding Articles.
- Oxford Music OnlineGrove and New Grove Dictionaries, articles on music, musicians, instruments, genres, and composers.
- Music Periodicals DatabaseMusic Periodicals Database covers all aspects of music, including genre, music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition in both scholarly and popular music journals.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literaturescholarly material in many languages on all aspects of music & related fields.
Search tips
- use "quotation marks" around phrases
- truncate - with an asterisk * - truncat* finds truncate, truncated, truncation
- use AND to combine unlike ideas: dance AND promotion
- use OR to connect synonyms: advertisements OR campaigns
Put it all together:
- "hip hop dance" in one box
- AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns) in the next box
- use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
- "hip hop dance" AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns)
Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.
- Databases have a citation and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
- Databases also often cite multiple types of resources - books, essays or chapters, government documents, etc.
- Some databases will also have the complete item (called the full text): you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. Or click on - this will check other library databases for the full text.
- Last Updated: Jan 17, 2025 10:53 AM
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