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WH Bell Music library
University of Cape Town


  
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The WH Bell Music Library supports the teaching and research undertaken by the South African College of Music and the School of Dance at UCT.
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In-house databases


PR Kirby Collection
 ... consists of correspondence, photos, slides, illustrations, and notes on African tribal music and musical instruments ... materials accumulated over decades by Percival Robson Kirby (1887-1970)--musician, musicologist, and historian.
 

Erik Chisholm
 Composer, Conductor, Musician
 Snapshots
Compositions available at UCT
Papers available at UCT
 
Arie Antiche Index
 WH Bell Music Library's in-house index by title

Bach 2000 CD set
 WH Bell Music Library's in-house index
 By Title
By BWV

Songs and Arias
 WH Bell Music Library's in-house index to
songs and arias in anthologies

Real / Fake Books (Jazz)
 WH Bell Music Library's in-house index

Orchestral Collection
 A quick list to orchestral sets in the
WH Bell Music Library.
 

 

 


 

Electronic Resources

Library Research

Library Portal

Find books or journals (ALEPH)

Find journal articles (Databases)

Find e-Journals

Library Help & Tutorials

Accredited Journals List
 

Referencing & citation

     Refworks

     UCT Humanities Handbook of citation and related matters
 

Off-campus login (EZProxy)

Library Access / Borrowing

Access & Membership

Borrowing information

Contact us:

Tel. 021-650-2624
music@uctlib.uct.ac.za
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Music/Dance specific databases

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

 International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)

International Index to the Performing Arts

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
Index to Printed Music

(Index to collected / critical editions

JSTOR (includes 32 music journals)

RILM (includes dissertations)

Dissertations
 Nexus (South African Research) Requires a password. Ask a Librarian

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology

 Proquest Dissertations and Theses

 RILM (includes dissertations)