LibGuides: MUSP 790AA: Cultivating Excellent Performances: Books and Articles

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1845 Fairmount
122A Ablah Library
Wichita, Kansas 67260-0068
Rachel.Crane@wichita.edu
(316) 978-5078
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Office Hours: Tuesdays in MALIC 9-11 Wednesdays in Ablah Library 10-11
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Subjects: Arts (Music - Fine Arts - Performing Arts), Languages

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Log in HERE or through the link below, with your myWSU ID and password to request a book, article, score or sound recording. Materials take 3-5 days on average and are sent to Ablah Library for you to pick up. It's free!

The WSU Online Catalog

WSU Online Catalog
Search for books, ebooks, videos, and other materials held by WSU Libraries.

To reserve materials in advance of your library visit, place a hold using the Libraries’ online catalog at https://libcat.wichita.edu/.

Instruction for Placing a Hold through the Library Catalog

A few helpful subject headings to consider:

Auditions--Psychological Aspects
Mental Discipline
Music--Performance--Physiological Aspects
Music--Performance--Psychological Aspects
Performance Anxiety
Stage Fright
Stress Management

Finding books (scores-sound recordings-videos) from other collections

WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
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World's most comprehensive bibliography with over 40 million records of all types of materials (e.g. books, dissertations, manuscripts, serials, sound recordings, videos and more) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Coverage:1200-present. Selecting WSU custom page provides localized content from Wichita State University Libraries' collection.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations on traditional, popular, and classical music and in disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, etc. Includes Web resources and audiovisual recordings.
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Music Index This link opens in a new window
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Citations to periodical articles, book reviews, and dissertations in music. Coverage: 1979-present.
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ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts and some full-text articles from scholarly journals and trade publications in business and economics worldwide. Includes industry information, regional and national newspapers, and full-text access to the Wall Street Journal. Coverage: 1971-current.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online access to core scholarly journals in business, education, health, arts & humanities, life sciences, literature, physical sciences, and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal.
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Includes: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business 2-4, & Life Sciences
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of articles in thousands of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers in over 150 academic disciplines. Includes full-text access to over half of the journals. Coverage: 1971-present.
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PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
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From the American Psychological Association (APA), this is a source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
This full-text database is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers, and students, providing extensive coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences, and related disciplines. Content includes nearly 500 full-text journals with more than 300 full-text journals with citations, linking to PsycInfo. Subjects include Anthropology, emotional and behavioral characteristics, mental processes, observational and experimental methods, psychiatry and psychology. You may need to login with your Kansas Library e-card to access the database.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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The American Psychological Association's (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
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