Welcome to The Music Index Database Information Screen! Browse the topics listed below to find what you are looking for: --------------------------------------------------------------------- About the DatabaseThe Music Index ..PP.The The Music Index, by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature. Published since 1949, The Music Index contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List, which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry. The thoroughness of indexing and subject heading research, along with comprehensive coverage of the music field, makes The Music Index an invaluable resource for both the novice scholar and the experienced academician. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Searching TipsThere are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link search terms together; and/or limit the search to a specific title. Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words together. These operators will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly. USING THE "AND" OPERATOR: If you have a search term that is too general, you can append several terms together using "AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation or full display. • For example, type sax AND horn to find results that refer to both sax and horn. USING THE "OR" OPERATOR: In order to broaden a search, you can link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using "OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched simultaneously and independently of each other. • As an example, search sax OR horn OR jazz to find results that reference the terms "horn" and "sax", or the term "jazz". USING THE "NOT" OPERATOR: In order to narrow a search, you can link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as part of your search.
Parentheses also may be used to control a search query. Without parentheses, a search is executed from left to right. Words that you enclose in parentheses are searched first. Why is this important? Parentheses allow you to control and define the way the search will be executed. The left phrase in parentheses is searched first; then based upon those results the second phrase in parentheses is searched. Generalized Search: horn or sax and jazz or blues Focused Search:(horn or sax) and (jazz or blues) In the first example, the search will retrieve everything on horn or saxaphone jazz AS WELL AS everything on blues whether or not the articles refer to horn or saxaphone. In the second example, we have used the parentheses to control our query to only find articles about jazz or blues that reference horn or saxaphone. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The default fields for unqualified searches consist of the following: all authors, all subjects, all keywords, all title info (including source title) and all abstracts. The following list will help you locate detailed information referenced in this database as a field. Searchable tag Description Example
AN Accession Number AN MAH0001401964
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for an article's
identification (accession) number.
AR Author Phrase AR "Adilman, Sid"
[Phrase Indexed] AR "Adilman, S."
Performs an exact search for an article's
author, in the format of last name, first
name, and middle initial if available.
(In order to find articles where the
author's full first name was not given in
the byline, perform a second search using
the author's first initial.)
AU Author AU Adilman
[Word Indexed]
Performs a keyword search for an article's
author, in the format of last name, first
name, and middle initial if available.
CY Country of Publication CY Austria
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for the name of
the country the article was published in.
A complete list of available countries is
available in the list-box limiter on the
Advanced Search screen.
DE Subject Terms DE "Bach Choir (London)"
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for subject
terms describing an article. This can be
a topical subject("Oboe - History"), a
person ("Bernstein, Leonard - Works"), the
name of a company ("Apple House Music") or
a musical group ("Pink Floyd").
DT Date of Publication DT 20020301
[Date Indexed]
Performs an exact search for articles
published on a specific date, in the
format of CCYYMMDD.
ED Entry Date ED 20051117
[Number Indexed]
The date the record was entered into the
system, in CCYYMMDD format.
FT Full Text Available FT Y
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for the value
"Y" indicating that a record has full
text available.
IP Issue IP 4
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for the issue
in which the article appears. This will
generally be a numeric value.
IS ISSN IS 0035791X
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for a
publication's International Standard
Serial Number.
JN Publication Name JN "Blues Access"
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for the title
of the publication or journal in which
an article appears.
LA Language LA German
[Word Indexed]
Performs a keyword search for the
language in which an article was
published. (Some records have more than
one language field.) A complete list of
available languages is available in the
list-box limiter on the Advanced Search
screen.
PD Physical Description PD Discography
[Word Indexed]
Performs a keyword search on special
features that are included in the article.
Possible choices include:
Abstract
Appendix
Bibliography
Biography
Chart
Diagram
Discography
Facsimile
Graph
Illustration
Map
Music
Notes
Photo Essay
Portrait
Score
Specifications
Table
An up-to-date list of all available
choices can be seen in the appropriate
Index Browse list.
PG Number of Pages PG 19
[Number Indexed] PG > 5
Performs an exact numeric search for
an article's page length. This index
can also be used with a greater-than (>)
or less-than (<) symbol to indicate an
article longer or shorter than a given
page count.
PT Publication Type PT Performance
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for the type
of publication or type of article.
Examples of publication type include:
Article
Conference Report
Dissertation
Non-Printed Materials
Obituary
Performance
Printed Material Review
A complete list of Publication Types can
be seen in the appropriate
Index Browse list.
PY Publication Year PY 1992
[Number Indexed]
Performs an exact numeric search for the
year that the article was published, in
CCYY format.
SO Publication Name SO Blues
[Word Indexed]
Performs a keyword search for the title
of the publication in which an article
appears.
SP Start Page SP 61
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for an article's
start page.
SU Subject Term or Journal Subset SU Harp
[Word Indexed]
Performs a keyword search on both the
subject terms and the journal subset.
For more information on journal subsets,
see the TS tag below.
TI Title TI Retrospective
[Word Indexed]
Performs a keyword search for the title
of an article.
TS Journal Subset TS Piano
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search on the journal
subset. The journal subsets are groupings
of publications based on their usual
content; examples include "Dance",
"Opera", and "Ethnomusicology." A full
list of Journal Subsets can be found in
the appropriate Index Browse list.
TX All Text TX "Gothic Rock"
[Word Indexed]
Performs a keyword search of all
the database's searchable fields.
UI Unique Identifier UI MAH0001401964
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for an article's
identification (accession) number.
VI Volume VI 2
[Phrase Indexed]
Performs an exact search for a
publication's volume number.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- The following table explains the contents of each field in a Music Index record's detailed display. Field name Description
Title Title of the article.
Publication Publication information related to the record. For
Information instance, this field might contain bibliographical
information for a book being reviewed by the cited
article.
Language Language(s) in which the article was published.
Authors Author(s) name in last name, first name format.
Authors Additional information about the authorship. For instance,
Information an alternate form of the author's name, or the reviewer of
a dissertation.
Source The source in which the article was published, its
volume number, the number of pages in the article,
and a description and number of illustrations found
in this article.
Publication Type Indicates a record's document type, such as article,
conference reports, dissertation, non-printed material,
obituary, performance, or printed material review.
All Publication Types are displayed in the appropriate
Index Browse list.
Country of The country in which an article was originally published.
Publication
Journal Subset Journal Subsets are groupings of publications based on
their usual content; examples include "Dance", "Opera",
and "Ethnomusicology." A full list of Journal Subsets
can be found in the appropriate Index Browse list.
Physical This section refers to special features the article has,
Description such as a bibliography, charts, or illustrations. A
complete list of possible values can be seen in the
appropriate Browse list.
Notes Miscellaneous information about the work. For example, it
may contain a subtitle that was too long for the Title
field.
Subject Terms The specific article’s subject heading or headings
describing the record's content.
ISSN International Standard Serial Number.
Accession Number Unique number to identify the record.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Index Browsing Index browsing allows the user to view all values that occur in specified fields in a database, along with corresponding hit counts. Access the index browse feature by clicking the green “Indexes” button on the upper portion of the “Advanced” search screen. Use the drop-down menu to choose an index to browse. Indexes can also be searched using tags. Since browsable indexes are phrase indexed, the exact form and spelling of terms as they appear in the database must be used in conjunction with the tags when entering a search manually. Indexes available for browsing in The Music Index database are listed below. Tags for all fields included in the index browse feature begin with “Z” (e.g. “ZA” for Author). ZA Author ZP Country of Publication ZI ISSN (without the dash) ZS Journal Subset ZL Language ZJ Publication Name ZT Publication Type ZZ Physical Description ZU Subject Terms ZR Year of Publication [back to top][Searchable Fields] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Music Index database is made up of indexing, abstracts, and full text. The copyright of the abstracts and indexing is owned by EBSCO Publishing. This database is intended solely for the use of the individual patron of the licensing party. Copyright of the full text is the property of the publisher of the original publication. Text may not be copied without express written permission except for the print or download capabilities of the retrieval software used to access it. This text is intended solely for the use of the individual user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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