history of music basic library and bibliography skills

History of Music

Basic Library and Bibliography skills

RIAM Library catalogue

•http://library.riam.ie

•or just Google riam library catalogue – will appear as first result

Oxford Music Online

•http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com

•or just Google grove music online – will appear as first result

•or: use “Electronic Resources” link from RIAM catalogue

Overview of Searching: Google vs. Catalogues

Google

• Search engine does most of the work

• Suggests other spellings

• Brings most likely relevant material to the top

• Access to full document

Traditional catalogues / databases

• Searcher needs to formulate searches carefully

• May not offer help on spelling

• Often relevant material way down the list

• Usually access to citation only

Overview of Searching: Google vs. Catalogues• Google search e.g. as you like it

Wikipedia often first result in search

Overview of Searching: Google vs. Catalogues• Catalogue search e.g. as you like it

Note: in many library catalogues and databases, typing in keywords without qualifiers can lead to

unsatisfactory results. Here, for example, the words as you like it are found anywhere in the record, not necessarily side-by-side or in the

same order.

Overview of Searching: Google vs. Catalogues• Catalogue search e.g. ‘as you like it’ – using single quotes to search exact phrase

Using a phrase search improves the results dramatically – all words must be adjacent and in the same order.

In the RIAM catalogue, enclose the phrase in single quotes.

Assignment 11. The New GroveFind an article of interest to you in the New Grove Encyclopaedia. Create a reference to the article (a) as a bibliography and (b) as a footnote using RIAM house style

2. Recording Find a recording of interest and obtain publication details from the catalogue and details of recording dates and liners from the physical copy

3. Journal articleTranscribe footnote and bibliography citations from a journal into the RIAM citation style.

4 & 5. Monograph and scoresLocate details of monographs and scores from the catalogue and physical copy.

Assignment 1.1 – New Grove• Article on Sviatoslav Richter – online version (www.oxfordmusiconline.com)

Note: this covers OxfordDictionary of Music, OxfordCompanion to Music as wellAs Grove

Assignment 1.1 – New Grove• Article on Sviatoslav Richter – online version

Author

Grove online – generated citation (might need some editing to fit in with RIAM style)

Assignment 1.1 – New Grove• Article on Sviatoslav Richter – print & online versions – footnote citation:

David Fanning, ‘Richter, Sviatoslav’, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (eds.), 2nd end, vol. 8 (London: Macmillan, 2001), p. 343-344

David Fanning, ‘Richter, Sviatoslav’, in Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/23408 (Accessed October 1, 2012)

Assignment 1.2 – Recording

e.g. Find a CD of Richter playing anything by Prokofiev

Assignment 1.2 – Recording

e.g. Richter playing Prokofiev – Item display & Full display

Assignment 1.3 – Footnote & end references ` Journal of the American Musicological Society – locate online via catalogue

Link to journal online

Assignment 1.3: Journal of the AMS – contents listing

Assignment 1.3: Journal of the AMS – article – footnote and related bibliography entry – in the original article

Assignment 1.3: Footnotes & bibliography in RIAM Style

Footnote in RIAM style:

1. Meri Herrala, ‘Socialist Realism instead of Formalism: The Formation and Development of the Soviet Music Control System 1932–1950’, (Ph.D. Diss., University of Helsinki, 2009)

Bibliography citation in RIAM style:

Herrala, Meri, ‘Socialist Realism instead of Formalism: The Formation and Development of the Soviet Music Control System 1932–1950’, (Ph.D. Diss., University of Helsinki, 2009).

Assignment 1.4 – Monograph (book)

e.g. Neil Minturn - Prokofiev

Exercise 1.4: Find a biography of Prokofiev by Neil Minturn – find other books on subject by using any subject

headings listed in the catalogue record.

Assignment 1.4 – Monograph (book) e.g. Neil Minturn – Prokofiev – books on related subject – found via “Personal subject heading” entry in previous screen

Assignment 1.5 – Full score

Beethoven – Symphony no 5

Limit search to Full scores

Assignment 1.5 – Full score No results found? – try reformulating search, e.g. use “Words or Phrase” rather than title – or else remove “Full score” limit

“Words or Phrase” search catches search terms anywhere in the record, not just the main

title

Assignment 1.5 – Miniature score

Bach – Brandenburg concerto no 2

$ character – “wildcard” or truncationconcerto$ will find …

concertosconcerto

etc.

Limit search to Miniature scores

Use “words or Phrase” rather than title – in case work appears in

collection of works and is listed in the contents

field rather than title

Assignment 1.5 – Miniature score

Bach – Brandenburg concerto no 2

Assignment 1.5 – Miniature score

Bach – Brandenburg concerto no 2: “Urtext” edition -

Accessing Electronic Resources from Home

Athens Username and Password

Personalised account for each user allowing you access RIAM-licensed electronic resources from home.

Athens username is same as your user ID on your library card preceded by letters “RIA”.

e.g. Person with User ID ST809 on library card has Athens username RIAST809

Accessing Grove Online from Home

Accessing Grove Music Online using Athens

Don’t use this login!

Use “Eduserv Athens Login”. Then enter name of institution, i.e. Royal Irish Academy of Music, and

put in your Athens username & password

Accessing JSTOR (Electronic Journals) from Home

Accessing JSTOR (Electronic Journals) from Home (2)

Search for royal irish academy of music

Accessing JSTOR (Electronic Journals) from Home (2)

Click on Login link and enter Athens User ID

and password.