This guide is designed for MU 312, History of Music II. It focuses on music as an art in western civilization from 1750 to the present. This course covers the representative musical works and style and promotes an understanding of musical concepts in view of historical background and cultural context.
Suggested books and databases to help you get started with your research.
Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition by 
Music in Western Civilization by 
Music in the Classic Period by 
Music in the Classical World by 
Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by 
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music by 
Music in the Nineteenth Century by 
Music of the Twentieth Century Anthology by 
Exploring Twentieth-Century Music by 
Music since 1900 by 
Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde by 
Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz by 
Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music by 
The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste by 
The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music by Some music databases to help you get started with your research.
Featuring digitized content from 1970 to the present, the Music Index contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians and the music industry for more than 480 periodicals. It also provides selective coverage for more than 200 periodicals.
The Naxos Music Library is an on-line library of more than 75,000 tracks of music from the catalog of Naxos, a leading classical music label, and selected additional labels. Although Naxos is best known for its classical recordings (with more than 200 released each year), the Naxos Music Library also includes world music, jazz, and national anthems. All of the Naxos repertoire may be searched in standard/advanced modes or browsed in a large number of categories and genres. In addition, Naxos offers a number of text resources including overviews of music history, program notes for recordings, and the complete libretti of operas available in the Naxos Music Library.
WorldCat is the OCLC union catalog, containing more than 43 million records describing books and other items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. WorldCat covers thousands of subjects and includes records for items as far back as 1000 B.C. Materials covered in the catalog include: books, internet resources, computer data files, computer programs, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. WorldCat does not include individual article titles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.
Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more.