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Use BorrowDirect and EZBorrow to get books from our partner libraries delivered in 3 to 4 business days.
Also search WorldCat. Catalog of non-US dissertations held by Center for Research Libraries. Still in progress, and may be frozen as CRL begins cataloging its 750,000-dissertation backlog in WorldCat.
Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries.
RISM (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales/International Inventory of Musical Sources) provides online access to RISM series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600.
Online music listening service presenting audio history of African American music, including jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, and other forms of African-American musical expression. The collection will eventually include 50,000 music tracks, many of them rare or never-before-published.
When complete, the collection will contain recordings by more than 2,300 performers spanning more than a hundred years including Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, and Memphis Minnie, and more.
This first release offers access to over 16,000 track from Document Records--the worlds largest collection of rare and vintage blues, jazz, gospel, spiritual, boogie-woogie, and country recordings. From the earliest recordings of Afro-American music made in the late 19th century (including the Fisk Jubilee Singers, recorded at the turn of the century for Victor Records) to performances of the mid-1970s, in most instances the full recorded works of each artist are presented.
Eventually, African American Song will also deliver online access to the Alan Lomax Collection, a set of international field recordings by folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the Jelly Roll Morton series (complete Library of Congress recordings), the Lead Belly series, and great artists and ensembles such as Son House, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Irma Thomas, Bessie Jones, Etta Baker, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.
Enhanced online version of the 29-volume print edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, also comprising the complete New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Contains scholarly articles on all aspects of music and includes links to images, digital sound, and related sites. Updated quarterly.
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.
Penn's subscription currently includes all the available collections:
- the Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, III, IV and the complement
- the Business Collection
- the Ecology & Botany Collection
- the General Science Collection
- the Language and Literature Collection
- the Music Collection
Access to journals from JSTOR is restricted to current Penn faculty, staff and students.
Printing from the JSTOR database requires downloading a helper application called JPrint.
Holdings: active
RIPM (Repertoire international de la presse musicale) provides access to the contents of European and American music periodicals published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Topics covered include contemporary writings about composers, performers, compositions, and musical life. 200 volumes are planned. RIPM is published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, the International Association of Music Librairies, Archives and Documentation Centres, and UNESCOs International Council for Philosophy and Humanitic Studies.
NOTE: On July 21, 2007, ProQuest Digital Dissertations will change search interfaces! Access will be via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) on the ProQuest platform. Indexing (since 1861 and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Dissertations from selected European universities are also listed. Selected master's theses are included since 1988.
One can search the database by: author, keyword in title and/or abstract, adviser, university code, date, degree. Boolean operators allow for combinations of fields.
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, full-text PDF for most Penn dissertations from 1997 to the present.
A list of dissertations in music theory with abstracts.
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for possible inclusion. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are carefully categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. (from Music Index website)
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics are included.
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Updated monthly.
IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIMP Full Text ranges from 1874 to the most recent issues.
Holdings: Dates vary.
A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other labels. DRAM offers on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. Currently, there are over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) in DRAM. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
ACCESSING DRAM: To access DRAM, either select "Log In" from the main page or go directly to an album or track. You'll be presented with a "Where Are You From" page. You should see "University of Pennsylvania". If you don't, contact us.
You'll see a gray button at the top of the page. Select this and then several white "Shibboleth" pages may float by or you may need to click them (depending on what browser or type of computer you are using). You should then be able to stream.
USING DRAM: You must have QuickTime 6.5.2 or higher in order to access DRAM smoothly - although some users report it works best with QuickTime 7.0 (particularly if you're on a PC). If QuickTime is associated with iTunes, you may run into difficulty and may need to disassociate the two. Additional troubleshooting instructions for QuickTime are at: http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/_html/about/troubleshooting.html
RIGHTS: You will see also for some items that the rights have not been cleared (for example, http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/Identifier/80249). In some cases, it looks like you can play the track but then it will skip through. The "play" button is supposed to be grayed out. The is working to clear all rights. If you need any of these tracks, please contact the Electronic Acquisitions Department and we'll work with to get the tracks for you.