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MUSICOLOGICAL JOURNALS IN THE ASU MUSIC LIBRARY

• American Music
• American Musicological Society. Journal (JAMS)
• Current Musicology
• Music and Letters
• Musical Quarterly
• Nineteenth-Century Music
• Opera Quarterly

Sources

• The British Union Catalogue of Early Music before the Year 1801. Mus Ref ML 116 .B7
• International Inventory of Musical Sources = Repertoire International des Sources Musicales = RISM. Mus Ref ML 113 .I6: Ser. A: Single pieces, arranged by composer. Ser B: Individual catalogues of groups of self-contained sources.

Guides to and handbooks of the discipline

• Harrison, Hood, Palisca. Musicology. Mus Stacks ML 3797 .H27 M9
• Stevens. Musicology, A Practical Guide. Mus Stacks ML 3797 .S8

Specialized tools

Historical notation

• Apel. Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600. Mus Stacks ML 431 .A6 1949
• Parrish. Notation of Medieval Music. Mus Stacks ML 431 .P37

Performance practice

• Jackson. Performance Practice, Medieval to Contemporary: A Bibliographic Guide. Mus Ref ML 128 .P235 J3 1988
• Also consult the books listed in WNCLN's Library Catalog under the subject headings:
  • "Music--Performance," "Music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.),"
  • "Embellishment (Music)" for musical ornamentation

Translations of primary sources of music history

• Rowen. Music through Sources and Documents. Mus Stacks ML 160 .R88
• Slonimsky. Lexicon of Musical Invective, 2nd ed. Mus Stacks ML 3785 .S5 2000
• Strunk. Source Readings in Music History. Mus Stacks ML 160 .S89 1965
• Weiss and Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. Mus Stacks ML 160 .M865 1984

Histories of music

• Taruskin. Oxford History of Western Music. Mus Ref ML 160 .T18 2005
• Burkholder.  A History of Western Music, 8th ed..  Music Reserve.
• Burkholder/Palisca. Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6th ed. Music Reserve.

Electronic Journals

The App State Only option in Library Search, which you can access via the following search box, provides access to the library holdings of Appalachian State University (books, movies, music scores, music CDs, government documents, audiobooks, and more).