LibGuides: HMW9: Music and Literature

Music Sites

Classical Net - News & Information
Excellent collection of information on classical music and composers. Updated, indexed, and searchable.

Example: On September 14, 1814, U.S. soldiers at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry raised a huge American flag to celebrate a crucial victory over British forces during the War of 1812. This flag inspired ,,,, http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/

Classical Music Navigator
Check out the "geographic feature."
Juilliard Manuscript Collection
A small collection of digitized images of 138 autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs, and first editions. Includes works by Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Copland, Liszt, Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky, and others.
National Anthems
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Portal
Portal to music scores.

Lit Sites

ipl2 Literary Criticism
The ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

The "Closed Reserve" books are useful for Literature & Revolution