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The document provides guidance to students on locating resources and source materials for a chosen topic, composer, or key work. It lists various categories of sources that may be relevant, including biographical studies, historical studies, analytical studies, scores, recordings, and journal articles. Students are instructed to search library catalogs, databases like Grove Music Online and JSTOR, and other online resources to find potential sources within each category relating to their topic. The goal is for students to compile lists of at least one source in each category as part of their research process.

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Finding Sources Worksheet

The document provides guidance to students on locating resources and source materials for a chosen topic, composer, or key work. It lists various categories of sources that may be relevant, including biographical studies, historical studies, analytical studies, scores, recordings, and journal articles. Students are instructed to search library catalogs, databases like Grove Music Online and JSTOR, and other online resources to find potential sources within each category relating to their topic. The goal is for students to compile lists of at least one source in each category as part of their research process.

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Locating Resources and Source Materials around a Chosen Topic

Study Skills Tutorial Week 2 (2015-16)

Topic/Composer/Key Work: ______________________________________________


Key Topics: __________________________________
__________________________________
__________________________________
__________________________________

How many of the following can you locate by accessing the RNCM library catalogue, Grove Music Online
(oxfordmusiconline.com), JSTOR, and so forth, that might be relevant to a discussion of your chosen
composer/work/topic?
 Can you find at least one item for each category below? Or more perhaps….? 
 Books, articles, scores, recordings, etc….

Biographical studies?
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

General historical/contextual studies relevant to the time period?


1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Analytical studies? (or discussion of musical style for your chosen work/composer)
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Different scores and editions?


1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Facsimiles or manuscripts?
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________
Different recordings? (what about a period instrument recording of your chosen work?)
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Grove Music Online (oxfordmusiconline.com)


1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Journal articles?
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Other online resources?


1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Books from Manchester University Library?


1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Books from Manchester Central Library?


1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

Books from other libraries?


1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________________________

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