It is that time of year! If you are a senior applying to graduate programs in music, you are starting to hear about auditions, interviews, and entrance examinations for those universities. The Maxwell Music Library has several resources that will help you in your preparation.
If you have more than a week, you should flip back through the texts of your textbook, but also take a look at what if fondly just known as “Grout.” This is the text most music schools traditionally use. The music librarian just might have a copy of the 8th edition in her office that can also be borrowed.
- Grout, Donald Jay. A history of western music.
Call #: ML160 .G872 2006
Two additional books are intended for a quicker overview of music history. Please note that these have not been updated in ten years or more, but they are still a good tool for a review of the majority of the Western music history canon.
- Poultney, David. Studying Music History: Learning, Reasoning, and Writing about Music History and Literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
Call #: ML161.P8 1995 - Wold, Milo, Gary Martin, James Miller, and Edmund Cykler. An Outline History of Western Music, 9th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Call #: ML161.O97 1997
If these are checked out (and at the time of this posting, they were), DO NOT PANIC! All these titles can be requested from PASCAL Delivers and will come in from other schools.
I… I think I may actually have a copy of Grout at home that I found at a flea market.