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Music: Finding Resources

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Finding music

“The problem with finding music: music is not a book”*
The inherent characteristics of printed music and sound recordings are different to a book in terms of how it is published, organized, and retrieved.

*​Amanda Myers, Yusuke Ishimura, “Finding Sound and Score: A Music Library Skills Module for Undergraduate Students.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 42, no. 3 (2016): 215-221, ISSN 0099-1333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2016.02.011.

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Music notation software and tutorials

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