UCC Library: Music: Getting Started

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Special Collections in UCC Library

Important collections of rare & older material. Music collections include:
•   Arnold Bax Collection
•   Manuscript music scores
•   18th Century Music Scores
•   Henebry/O'Neill Wax Cylinder Collection

• Material relating to UCC’s Music Dept including material on lecturers such as Annie Patterson and theses from the 1930s. Some theses are uncatalogued so please use the card catalogue!

For further information on Music holdings in Special Collections see here.

See also the Guide for Special Collections.

Some Key Resources for Music

Oxford Music Online / Grove Music Online
This resource provides access to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Dictionary of Opera, Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford Companion of Music and includes full text articles, sibelius-enabled musical examples and links to musical sites.
RILM
Abstracts of Music Literature, published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), is the premier international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines from 1967 through the present. Entries include full bibliographic information, original-language titles and abstracts.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides a comprehensive digital archive of important schorlarly journals. It offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings.

Access is available to the following collections: Ireland Collection, Arts and Sciences I to XI, and the Life Sciences Collection.