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The Music Collection
The music collections & services are housed primarily on the first floor of the J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library and make up the principal collection of music materials at Loyola University New Orleans. In addition to traditional music curricula, we support multi-disciplinary programs such as Music Therapy, Music Education and Music Industry Studies. Music books, scores, CDs, LPs, current periodicals, and listening equipment are located together on the Monroe Library's first floor. Past issues of our periodicals (bound periodicals) are integrated in the bound periodicals section of the Monroe Library's second floor. Music reference is integrated into our reference section, behind the Reference Desk on the first floor.
Online Resources
Music-specific Resources | Additional Databases | Music Resources on the Web | Our Music Liaison Page
The online services listed below give access to citations and some full-text for journal articles, reviews, and other resources. Please check our online catalog for availability of individual periodical titles or issues. If Loyola doesn't own the material, currently enrolled Loyola students, faculty and staff may use the library's Interlibrary Loan & Article Delivery services to obtain it.
All are welcome to use these online services when visiting Loyola's campus. However, with the exception of our online catalog, only currently enrolled students, faculty and staff are able to access these services from remote locations.
Music-specific resources
(Music Literature) is especially good for coverage of scholarly music materials, indexes and abstracts, music articles, dissertations and more.
indexes and abstracts music articles, reviews and other types of materials. Especially good for coverage of popular music and jazz.
allows you to listen to streamed music online. Mostly classical but also jazz, folk, and world music.
The contains biographies, works lists and articles about music terms and genres.
, which is completely full text, now includes a music category with journals on music theory, ethnomusicology, American music and more.
Additional databases
Our online catalog provides access to Loyola's Monroe and Music Libraries' collections of books, scores, CDs, LPs, videos and periodicals.
provides access to major newspapers, including the New York Times. Especially helpful for classical and popular music reviews, and obituaries of musicians.
ERIC, MEDLINE, and psycINFO provide access to research on music education and music therapy.
provides access to the books, scores, recordings, etc., cataloged in most of the major public and academic music library collections. WorldCat helps verify the existence of various editions. It also helps in locating libraries that own the item and may loan it via Interlibrary Loan.
Music Resources on the Web
If you are searching for a web site for a particular organization, search engines such as Google are generally the most effective search tools. The sites below, however, are great for searching through a wide variety of music sites, and provide direct links to the individual sites.
The Loyola Music Library has an impressive reference section; these are resources that are current but not available on the Internet. Our music library staff will be able to help you with both print and online resources, so don't hesitate to approach us for assistance. The following list, however, introduces you to free, non-Loyola websites that are useful for music study.
Suggested list of Web-based music resources:
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DW3 Classical Music Resources
Duke University's Music Library site is a top pick for classical music, organizations, non-commercial sites in general.
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WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
The American Musicological Society's directory of sites, with extremely useful links to libraries, musical organizations, journal and publishers sites, and much more.
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Music Resources
Sibelius Academy, Finland (well-organized site, international in scope).
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Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Indiana University (classical and popular music, well-organized but may have many outdated links).
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Internet Resources for Music Scholars
Maintained by the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.
Services
For instruction or help with research, please contact Alicia Hansen at ahansen@loyno.edu or 864-7118.
For placing items on reserve, contact Rosario Barrios at barrios@loyno.edu or 864-7258.
Additionally, we have carrels, group study rooms, laptops and headphones available for checkout at the Circulation Desk (864-7111). We offer workshops on Blackboard, Excel, Powerpoint, and other software: the schedule for workshops can be found on the library's Instruction Services Workshops page. Also on our home page is a list of our hours.
Equipment
The listening carrels at the back of the first floor hold CD players, cassette players, and turntables. Headphones for these may be checked out at Circulation. VHS tapes and DVDs can be found at Circulation as well, and viewing machines are located between the Reference Desk and Media Services. We offer group listening in our group study rooms on the third floor; these rooms can be checked out at Circulation as well.
Adjacent to the current music collections is the Multimedia Training Lab, a lab designed for graphics, media, and music production, as well as a set of eMac computers loaded with graphics software and music notation software. For more information contact Jay Crutti at jacrutti@loyno.edu or 864-7025.
