This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 6916 at the University of Central Florida. Posted here are various information pages, assignments, study guides, and links to useful web sites. Students in this course are free to print any of these pages for their own use.

Syllabus (Fall 2019) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc.

Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Fall 2019

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 6916 out-of-class projects

• Bibliography
• Research Paper
• Program Annotation
• Book Review
• Wikipedia Paper

Course Readings

A list of all items (Books, Articles, Scores & Recordings) used in class and now in the UCF Library for use in your studying.

Music Library and Research Skills, 2d ed. (Web Resources)

The Companion Website for Jane Gottlieb's's Music Library and Research Skills, 2^nd ed., where you will find supplemental links and updates to the textbook.

Home page of the UCF Library, with full access to the online catalog. On-campus users and those with a UCF ISP may also have access to the online versions of the following (and other) electronic databases:

• "Oxford Music Online": (Gateway to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II)
• Classical Music Library - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles "C")
• The Music Index Online - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles "M")
• Music Literature Abstracts (RILM) - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles "R")
• WorldCat - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles "W")

A public website maintained by a division of the U.S. General Service Adminstration that provides directoires to numerous local, state, and national U.S.libraries.

An extensive online directory of Ameircan public libraries (without links).

Home page of the largest library and largest music library in the world. Search its catalog via the link near the top of the page.

"Founded in 1904, it is the largest academic music library in North America."

Home page of one of the leading Music Libraries in the United States. Note the

A searchable index of doctoral dissertations written in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Although primarily an index of American dissertations, it also includes many of the more recent European dissertations.

Two online guides for "Chicago" and "APA" styles and references.

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online
• APA Style

An extensive, incredibly useful website, created and maintained by a retired professor of English, devoted to explaining errors in "Standard English" and how they might be corrected.

The Punctuation Guide shows the current style of American punctuation and was created by Jordan Penn, a longtime enthusiast of American language, usage, and style.

A guide to the issues surrounding gender identity and recommendations for writing in a gender-appropriate adn gender-neutral manner.

As Central Florida's local professional symphony orchestra, the OPO performs a variety of concert series in and around Orlando. Follow the “Events” link on the home page to view the various concert series they present.

The Winter Park Bach Festival is internationally known as the fourth oldest Bach Festival in the United States, having been founded in 1935 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This organization hosts a series of classical concerts throughout the year, as well as an extended Bach Festival in the early spring, on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park.

The web site of the University of Central Florida's own non-commercial radio station. Its programming is primariliy jazz, but WUCF also carries some NPR programming, a Sunday evening show on Bluegrass, and Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.

The University of Florida's public radio station in Gainesville broadcasts a mix of classical, jazz, folk, and world music, as well as news and NPR programming 24-hours a day. WUFT-FM can be heard through the web link on their home page.

• Open Office is an "open source" application that is compatible with Microsoft applications.

Web site of "Real Player," one of the standard plug-ins that you might need to listen to web broadcasts and streaming audio, or to play CDs through your computer. The basic player can be downloaded at now cost from this site.

Web site of "Windows Media Player," another plug-in the is used for listening to web broadcasts, streaming audio and CDs.

Web site of one of the most widely used software packages for writing and printing music with computers. Various demo versions and upgrades are available for downloading, as is a help center for users.

The Web site of Coda Music, makers of the widely used Finale program for writing and printing music. A basic form of the program is available as a free download.