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About the Guide

This guide provides a starting point to finding resources from the CCC Library and beyond for research on many music-related topics.

  • Find Books & Ebooks: Books in print as well as eBooks that you can read anywhere you have Internet access, and how to search for them
  • Research Databases: Trustworthy, free online information sources from the library's databases, including journal articles, eBooks, and streaming media
  • Websites: Trustworthy sites to further explore your music topics

Biographies

First Time Ever book cover
Dolly Parton, Songteller book cover
The Beautiful Ones book cover
Schumann book cover
The Storyteller audiobook cover
Bob Marley and the Wailers
The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger
Go Ahead in the Rain Tribe Called Quest book cover
Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century book cover
Otis Redding book cover
Redbone book cover
Beastie Boys Book cover
Me by Elton John
Music Innovators
Acid for the Children book cover
Debussy: A Painter in Sound book cover
Lou Reed book cover
Year of the Monkey book cover
Indian Sun - Ravi Shankar
Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls book cover
Fryderyk Chopin

Films on Demand

Films on Demand is a comprehensive streaming video database of closed-captioned educational videos covering a wide range of topics. Find categories relevant to music here, including notable musicians under "Biography," and a large "Music and Dance" area with several subcategories. Below is a small preview of the many music-related films available from the database.

War on Disco

The War on Disco
Play It Again

Play It Again! The Art of Musical Composition
Max Roach documentary

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Picture Books

Herman and Rosie book cover
Music Is for Everyone book cover
If You're Happy and You Know It book cover
The Petes Go Marching book cover
Swing Sisters book cover
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz book cover
Before John Was a Jazz Giant book cover
Puff the Magic Dragon book cover
Hana Hashimoto Sixth Violin book cover
Because book cover
Drum Dream Girl book cover
Cool Daddy Rat book cover
This Jazz Man book cover
Dancing Hands book cover
We Will Rock Our Classmates book cover
The Django book cover
Pokko and the Drum book cover
Let It Shine spirituals book cover
Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed book cover

Ebooks from the Catalog

The library's ebooks are just like the print books you'd find on the library shelves, except they are available completely online for our students, faculty, and staff to read. Explore the eBook collections using the library's database page, or find eBooks using the OneSearch catalog. Most of the ebooks found using OneSearch have no due date, and don't need to be downloaded; simply read these ebooks in a browser window, anywhere you have Internet access. Learn more about ebooks from our OneSearch research guide.






New Books

Nothin' but a Good Time
Music Composition for Dummies
Alien Listening book cover
Classical Music - Expect the Unexpected
The Music Advantage - children and music
Rez Metal book cover
How to Write One Song
A Sound Mind book cover
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls book cover
Greek and Latin Music Theory
The Beatles in Context book cover
Ten Masterpieces of Music book cover
Glitter up the Dark
Women in Jamaican Music
We Will Rock Our Classmates book cover
God Save the Queens
Larger Than Life book cover

More Music - Jazz

Check out our guide specifically on everything jazz! Links below--


jazz guide