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Researching a Topic in Four Easy Steps:
Step 3k: Consider using alternate types of material - Sound Recordings
You
might want to use sound recordings (music or spoken word)
The Music Library
in Sterling Memorial Library (120 High Street) is the primary location on campus
for sound recordings, with two collections. The Recordings Library is a
collection of about 25,000 LPs and CDs designed to support the curriculum and
is especially strong in western art music, with holdings in jazz and world music.
The Historical Sound
Recordings Collection, an archival collection of more than 160,000 recordings
from the beginning of recorded sound to the present, also features classical music
as well as jazz, musical theatre, spoken word (e.g., poetry, plays, and
speeches) and recordings that relate to archival collections belonging to the
Beinecke Library, the Music
Library, and the Manuscripts
and Archives Department in Sterling Memorial Library. The Oral
History, American Music project in Stoeckel Hall (96 Wall Street) contains
recorded interviews with composers and musicians. A list of interviewees
is available on the web site.
How to find sound recordings at Yale and beyond: Recordings Library
The Recordings Library has material cataloged as follows:
- Recordings cataloged since 1981 are in Orbis.
- Recordings cataloged prior to 1981 are in two card catalogs, housed in
the Music Library:
- Catalog 1, 1952 to 1972, split into two files:
- Authors, titles, and subject headings
- Performers
- Catalog 2, from 1973 to 1980, also split into two files:
- Authors, titles, and subject headings
- Performers
- Several in-house lists are maintained to provide access to uncataloged
recordings in the following areas:
- Ethnic and World Music
- Guitar Music
- Jazz Recordings
- Music by Charles Ives
- Music by Virgil Thomson
To retrieve only sound recordings in Orbis, click the More Limits button
before entering your search terms and select "Sound Recording"
from the Medium category.
Alternatively, the word sound is a fairly precise keyword term for
finding recordings:
- Example: beethoven and op and 101 and sound
The term discography is used in subject headings for bibliographies of
recordings.
- Example: "popular music" and discography
In OCLC's WorldCat
, choose "Advanced Search" and in the "Document Type" field choose "Sound Recordings."
In the RLG
Union Catalog (RLIN) via Eureka: perform a search, limit to "Material Type"
and choose "Sound Recordings" or "Recordings".
The Historical Sound Recordings Collection The holdings of the Historical
Sound Recordings Collection are listed in discographies and lists maintained
by the Curator of Historical Sound Recordings.
Partial holdings may be found in the Rigler & Deutsch Index of Pre-LP
Commercial Discs held by the Associated Audio Archives which forms part
of the RLG
Union Catalog (RLIN), accessible via Eureka. The Rigler & Deutsch
Index contains ca. 615,000 sound recordings of music, speech, instructional
materials and sound effects, from ca. 1895-mid-1950s, held in the archives of
the New York Public Library, Stanford University, Yale University, the Library
of Congress, and Syracuse University. Records for Yale's Historical Sound
Recordings Collection can be identified by the following information in the
bibliographic record:
- Version: Rigler-Deutsch (Resource File)
- Record ID: RDIXCY... (Note that RDIX stands for Rigler-Deutsch
Index and that CY stands for Connecticut - Yale)
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