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Cultural Bias in Picture Books: IB Music

IB Music Research Paper

IB Music Research

As an IB Music student you will need to write a research paper comparing and contrasting two distinct musical cultures.  Musically - this could span space AND time.  For instance… Berlioz’s Synphonie Fantastique and Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime album.  Or a piano sonata by Mozart and Australian Aboriginal Goat Herder music.  

This Libguide is intended to help guide you to resources you can use to help complete this paper. 

Destiny Library Catalog

Use Destiny to simultaneously search Badgerlink and many of our subscription databases.  Save your research and come back to it later.  Login using the MPSD Destiny SSO on your Chromebook.

Specific Subscription Resources to Use

Below is a list of databases we subscribe to that may be helpful for your essay.    To use databases at home you will be required to use login id's and passwords found on the Database Password Sheet.

  • Naxos Classical Music Online - A database of over 2 million soundtracks.
  • Oxford Music Online - An authoritative resource for music research that contains over 60,000 articles written by over 6,000 music scholars.
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - Ref 780.3 New, older paper version of Oxford Music Online
  • Questia - A highly full text academic database that contains over 91,000 books, 731 academic journals, 267 magazines, 47 newspapers, and 434 peer-reviewed periodicals.  See login instructions on
  • Discovery Education - educational videos, articles, and lessons on all subjects studied in K-12 schools. Login using your school Google account.
  • Google Scholar - Search Google Scholar for open source materials that are free to use.  If it's not full text on Google Scholar try searching for the title you found on Questia or Destiny!
  • Worldbook Online - Comprehensive online encyclopedia offering audio and  video clips of musicians and musical compostions. Includes links to other online resources.

Noodletools

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Use Noodletools to create a works cited page as you find you resources!

Remember to use the DOI (Digital Object Identifier), the Permalink, or the Persistent Link when copying the link location. These can be found in the article itself (on the side of the article, top of the article, or at the bottom of the article.)  Do no use the web address located in the address bar.

 

 

 

Free Online Resources to Use

Free Musical Research

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