Home - Ethnomusicology and World Music - Research Guides at Bowdoin College

Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916

"Blackfoot Chief, Mountain Chief making phonographic record at Smithsonian, 2/9/1916." from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division, digital ID npcc.20061

Quick Links

Grove Music Online--The online bio-biographical encyclopedia of music; one of three reference sources available through Oxford Music Online.

Smithsonian Global Sound--Recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and other archival audio collections.

Music Index Online--The most extensive index of resources in scholarly journals, dissertations, theses, and newspapers.

Other Journal and Research Indexes and Databases

Locations of Music Materials

Books:     Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, 3rd floor
      ML: Books about music and musicians
      MT: Music instruction and study, including analyses of compositions and method books

Scores: Beckwith Music Library, Gibson Hall
M: Scores and performance editions

Sound and Video Recordings: Beckwith Music Library, Gibson Hall

Journals and Magazines: Beckwith Music Library, Gibson Hall (current issues)
Hawthorne-Longfellow, Library, Basement (past issues)

Reference Collections: Search catalog for location