Happy Pride Month!This June is the 50th celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride month. In many of our library’s collections we can find resources that focus on the contributions of queer individuals in different disciplines—perhaps most especially throughout all forms of the arts. My delightful colleague Jenna Dufour (Visual Arts librarian) and I created an online display/exhibit, titled “Love is Love: Celebrating Pride & the Arts,” to celebrate and shine the spotlight onto some of these contributions, particularly in Art, Dance, Drama, Film, and Music. While not comprehensive by any means, we wanted to highlight aspects of the library’s collection for UCI community members. Take a moment to explore!
FACTS & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Oxford Music Online * contains several important resources including New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Use this site to find biographies of composers and performers. Also important for the complete works listings of each composer providing essential information for program notes.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature * is a great tool to find scholarly journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, reviews, and more primarily related to musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Almost 3/4 million records from over 10,000 journal titles since 1967 are included in this standard database.
LISTEN
Naxos Music Library * allows you to listen to almost 115,000 streaming albums. Many different record labels, including the prestigious Sony Classical, reside here. While mainly focused on Western art music, a decent selection of world music can be found here as well.
WATCH
Medici.tv * has thousands of recorded concerts, operas, music documenatries, and masterclasses from all over the world. Of particular interest are the regularly changing recorded concerts from prestigious festivals and competitions.
CONNECT
VPN If you're researching off campus then you will need to login to the UCI VPN for authentication through the campus network. There are three different methods: Software, Web, and Mobile. Software takes a little more time to setup the first time, but it works with all resources. Web is known to not work well with many of the streaming media resources.
