Research Guides: MUSC 491: Seminar in Music Education: Books and Music

E-Books

The EBL Library is a platform for e-books offering titles in a wide variety of subjects featuring content from hundreds of publishers.

The library now has over 15,000 e-books as part of the Orbis Cascade Alliance's Demand Driven Acquisitions Project. Access to EBL is limited to current students, staff, and faculty of Willamette

EBSCOhost eBooks is a collection of over 4,700 online books with subject strengths in reference, computer science and the Northwest.

It also includes books from regional university presses and Choice Outstanding Academic Titles.

Note: At this time the only way to read the EBSCOhost E-books is in their viewer.

Streaming Music Databases

American Song
Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
Classical Music Library
the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Contemporary World Music
Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Jazz Music Library
The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Some Inspiration for you

Mr. Holland's Opus
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.D7 M834 1999

A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.