Composers—Their Lives, Times, and Music
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This resource guide will assist you as you search IMC resources for information about composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
You will be able to access information about their lives, their music, and the historical background which influenced their work.
Book Sources
Click here to use Destiny to conduct a Power search for book sources on individual composers and time periods, musical instruments, and CD's.
eBooks:
Search Collection of
Gale eBooks
Conduct a “Power search” for your composer by typing in the composer's name.
This will search the IMC's collection of eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library, in addition to the Discovering Collection and Custom Newspapers.
More eBooks:
American Decades
(10 volumes)
Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America
(5 volumes)
Salem History (5 volumes about America in the 1940's to the 1990's)
U*X*L American Decades (11 volumes)
Databases: Click on the links to search for information about the composer and his or her times.
Biographies
American National Biography Online
from Oxford University Press
Biography Collection Complete
from Ebsco
Discovering Biography, which is part of the Discovering Collection from Gale
Gale
Biography in Context
from
Gale
Oxford Music Online
from Oxford
University Press
Periodicals - all of the databases provide magazine and newspaper articles, but this databases has complete and current full-text articles and are archived from 1987.
Academic Search Premier from Ebsco
MasterFile Premier from Ebsco
Cultural and Historical Information
ABC-CLIO eBook Collection from ABC-CLIO
African
American History Online from Facts on
File
American History
from ABC-CLIO
American History Online from Facts on
File
American Women's History
Online from Facts on File
Daily
Life Through History
from
ABC-CLIO
Daily
Life Through History
from Greenwood
Discovering Collection
- History from Gale
Gale U.S. History in Context from Gale
Gale World History in Context from Gale
Gale Virtual Reference Library from Gale
History Reference Center
from Ebsco
Modern World History
Online from Facts on File
Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas from ABC-CLIO
SIRS Decades from Proquest
Women's Studies Encyclopedia
from Greenwood
World
History:
The Modern Era
from ABC-CLIO
Multimedia Databases--See library staff for
passwords
American History in Video
AP Images from AccuNet
Discovery Education
Music
Soundzabound.com - new database - royalty free music;
perfect for your multimedia projects
The IMC has an extensive CD
collection including all genres.
Websites
History of the Violin --this site is sponsored by Switzerland violin makers Christoph and Raffael Sprenger
Classic vs. Modern Violins--article from The New York Times
History of the Piano--this site is sponsored by the Piano Technician's Guild
In the 70s- Pop culture site devoted to the music, movies, television, fashion/fads and world events of the 70's
In the80 s - Pop culture site devoted to the music, movies, television, fashion/fads and world events of the 80's
In the 90s - Pop culture site devoted to the music, movies, television, fashion/fads and world events of the 90's
