Research Guides: Hey, I didn't know you could: Software and Mobile Apps

Music Quick Links

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.

Want to browse new issues of professional journals? This app allows you to create a virtual bookshelf of journals through the FSU Libraries subscriptions.

Own an iPad (or iPhone) and a MacBook? You can turn your iPad or iPhone into a second screen for your MacBook using Duet and your lightning connector. Cost: $15 (for the iOS app; free for the Mac download).

If you are creating serious timelines for your thesis/dissertation, take a look at Aeon Timeline software.
Windows or Mac and $40 (trial versions available).

iOS and Android, $10.
Markup and share PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files
Annotation, not editing software. Great way to make notes/suggestions on article, shared documents.
Connects with various cloud storage options.

Just in case you haven’t used it yet. Free and relatively easy audio editing tool
Download the LAME encoder to export your audio files to MP3s.

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Contact:

Allen Music Library
College of Music, FSU
122 N. Copeland St.
Tallahassee, FL 32306

850-644-3999

Subjects: Music