A message of support
The USU Libraries is here to support your transition to teaching and learning online. This guide is a collection of resources to help you get started, and your Music Librarian can help you find and integrate materials into your specific courses.
This Musicology Now blog post may be helpful: So You Need To Teach Online: Music History and Music Theory Edition (Emily H. Green and Megan Lavengood, 3/16/2020).
This guide contains several types of resources:
- A selected list (below) of normally-subscription-only databases and music teaching and research tools that are currently offering free institutional access. This may be an exciting opportunity for instructors and students to explore resources we don't typically have access to.
- USU Libraries tutorials that can easily be shared with students to help them learn how to use the Libraries' resources.
- USU Libraries' streaming A/V, plus tips about how to navigate our platforms.
- A list of free and open streaming A/V, suitable for use in history, education, theory, and performance courses.
- A list of other free and open music resources that can be used in a range of courses as teaching or research material.
Resources with options for free institutional access
Many resources that normally require an institutional subscription are offering extended free trial access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact Rachel if you are interested in any of these or other resources for your research or teaching needs.
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Medici.tvA library of streaming concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, and masterclasses. Medici.tv is offering ll academic institutions free access to our content until April 30, 2020.
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RILM’s Full-Text ResourcesRILM is offering temporary access for non-subscribing institutions to the following full-text resources until 31 May 2020: RILM Music Encyclopedias (a virtual reference shelf of 57 encyclopedias), MGG Online (the digital music encyclopedia), RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text.
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Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM) with Full TextRare, primary source music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern Period with more than 1,000,000 full–text pages. RIPM is offering free institutional access through at least May 31, 2020.
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RIPM JazzOver 100 jazz journals, covering the period from 1914 to 2006. RIPM Jazz is offering free institutional access through at least May 31, 2020.
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Recent Researches in Music Online (RRIMO)RRIMO is offering 60-day free access to their collection of critical performing editions. Contact Rachel if you are interested in accessing this for your teaching or research.
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BabelScoresScores and audio of contemporary music, free for the next 30-days. Just browse or search the catalog to view. No need to "request a trial," and ignore the prices listed.
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Musition and AuraliaMusic theory and ear training software. Complimentary access through June 30th 2020.
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SmartMusicA web-based suite of music education tools. Complimentary access through June 30, 2020.
