MHST 255: Music of the Romantic Era

1. Grove Music

• entry on your composer
• Works list to determine if the piece is in the complete works

• Discussion about contemporary musical life in the city where the composition was premiered

2. OBIS searching  -- Summon Searching

• subject to find a biography of your composer
• author to see if your composer has written anything
• keyword search to find correspondence (example Brahms correspondence)

3. Score of the composition (IMSLP, sheet music collections)

4. Scholarly articles

• RIPM for contemporary articles
• Music Index & RILM for more recent scholarly articles

5. Newspapers for contemporary accounts

• America's Historical Newspapers
• Historical New York Times

6. Music Citation help