Music Research & Resources

While choosing music topics to research consider

  • Techniques and practices of Music:
    • Music analysis, music therapy, music and the brain, music theory
  • Specific subtopics in Music:
    • Composers, singers, instrumental music, choral music
  • Styles and Periods in Music:
    • Bluegrass, country music, folk songs, soul, motion picture music, 20th-century music, classical music

While completing your music assignments, check out our music database:

This research database that contains:

Music in Whatcom County

And don’t sleep on The Music Library @WWU which contains more than 117,000 items, including books, bound periodicals, musical scores, records, DVD’s and compact discs. Listening stations are located throughout the library. Worth a visit!

RSS feeds are great way to syndicate the content you want to keep up with news in your area of study. Here are some curated feeds for music.

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All Songs Considered (NPR)

AllMusic. A website that “is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love”. 

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For current research on music topics, browse our music journals, including:

A collection of music journal