Music 557

Fall 2007

Keyboard Literature

Getting Started
Music Library website: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mux/

• Library catalog: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/resource/librarycatalogs.html
• Article databases and online resources: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/
• WorldCat catalog (linked from “Library Catalogs” page)

Some search tactics to consider

• (keyboard or piano) and “performance practice”
• Beethoven and tempo
• finding composers’ complete works editions
• catalog search
• using Grove and Heyer

Some LC subject headings to consider in the catalog

• [composer name]—criticism and interpretation
• keyboard instruments [or pianos or harpsichords]—history
• musical analysis
• music--interpretation (phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
• performance practice (music)—[geographical or temporal subdivision]
• piano music [or keyboard instrument music]—analysis, appreciation
• piano music [or keyboard instrument music]—history and criticism
• piano [or harpsichord] makers—[geographical or temporal subdivision]

Some Print Resources (in addition to the ones on reserve for this course)

Artikulation auf den Tasteninstrumenten des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts / Ludger Lohmann.
Music Call Number: ML459L64 A77

Classical form : a theory of formal functions for the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven / William E. Caplin. Music Call Number: MT58 C36C5

Performance practice, medieval to contemporary : a bibliographic guide / Roland Jackson.
Music Reference [non-circulating] Call Number: ML128.P235 J22

Some Online Resources
(all available from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/ )

Music Index
Identifies articles on music. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. 1979-present

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
An encyclopedia covering all aspects of classical, contemporary, world, and popular music.  Also incorporates Grove Jazz and Grove Opera Dictionaries.
See particularly the following articles—“Fingering, I. Keyboard fingering” “Ornaments,” “Performing practice,” “Piano,” etc.

RILM
Over 5,000 music-related journals are indexed. All areas of music are covered including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music.  1967-present

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