Library Resources for FSU Musicologists

Identify specific terms in your question. For a course on American music, those terms might include:

• experimental
• women
• American women
• composers
• American composers
• moternism
• post-modernism
• conceptual music
• electronic music
• women in music
• social aspects
• United States
• minimalism (or other "isms")
• specific names
• specific professional organizations (e.g. College Music Society, National Association for Music Education and its former names, League of American Orchestras)

Next, see what others have written about these terms. 

• Oxford Music Online (home of Grove Music Online)
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Both of these authoritative resources provide excellent bibliographical references. While Oxford Bibliographies Online has a limited number of articles at present, here are a couple worth noting:
• Nationalism in Western Art Music
• Women in Music
• Oxford Music Online's Tools and Resources 

Be sure to note which citations (books, articles, journals, etc.) sound relevant to your topic.

These resources will provide links to the library catalog (where you can see if FSU owns the item and get the call number if we do have it) or links to electronic full-text when available.