Research Guides: Old Time Music Resources: K-12 teaching resources

Head, Warren D. Allen Music Library

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College of Music, FSU
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Subjects: Music

Frequently Used Resources

Academic Search Complete
A general periodical index that includes music and interdisciplinary topics among many others.
Chicago Manual of Style ONLINE
Dissertations and Theses
Google Scholar with FSU full-text links
Google Scholar can be a useful searching tool, particularly when it checks against the electronic full text holdings at FSU. This link requires you to log in with your FSU e-mail information-- but it's worth it!
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service where a student, faculty, or staff of Florida State University may obtain books or obtain photocopies of articles from other institutions.
JStor
Main Campus printing plus print drivers
Download drivers to your computer; you can then send a print job to a campus printer and release it/print it on campus!
Music Index Online
Indexes major music periodicals from 1970 to the present.
Oxford Bibliographies
Great resource to target the top readings and resources on specific topics.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Choose "Music"
Oxford Music Online
Great first stop for composer, genre, period, instrument information and more. Article bibliographies get you to the next step in your research. Includes Grove Music and other relevant titles.
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Contains Grove Music and more.
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Chicago Manual Style
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
The main scholarly index to articles about music.

Sites for lessons or lesson plans incorporating Old-Time/Appalachian and/or Bluegrass music in the curriculum.

ABC notation
You'll see a reference to ABC notation on a number of sites such as The Session. It's yet another way to share and present musical notation.
Black Stringband Resources - Jake Blount
Great resource to explore old time and black stringband musicians. More research is needed to feature this musical tradition!
Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM)
Low cost songbook available for purchase. Great videos (although some are no longer available).
New Hampshire OT Fiddle Site
Old-Time here includes a number of styles and influences -- New England, Acadian and more. A bit overwhelming because of the wealth of information.
Old Time Fiddle Tunes compiled by John Lamancusa
Tunes include chords (YAY!), clear transcriptions and links to a variety of resources. Regularly updated!
Pete Showman's Old Time Tunes
Tunes, notation, regularly updated. Transcriptions include background info as well.
The Session
Says it's devoted to Irish Trad, but
Tater Joe's Old-Time Musical Mercantile
Awesome site with notation (usually with CHORDS!) and tabs.

Please see the Audio and video resources tab for more links!