Research guides:
What they are:
Research guides can give you overall information about the Collected Works editions for a specific composer including:
a) The history of specific collected works editions, key people and organizations involved in their establishment and development.
b) The impact of non-musical events upon the publication of the collected works edition.
c) Critical apparatus chosen for the collected works edition.
d) Special problems encountered in creating the collected works edition.
e) Letters and manuscripts
f) Important books and articles
Each research guide is organized differently. Information on Gesamtaugabe can be found under “Gesamtausgabe" or "Works" or "Editions" in the Table of Contents or in the index. Watch the use of numbers which may refer to page numbers or listing numbers.
See Example: "CPE Bach Research Guide Example"
How to find them:
What they are:
"A thematic catalogue is an index to a group of musical compositions that incorporates citations of their opening notes (incipits), or principal melodic features (themes), or both." Thematic Catalogues, Grove Music Online
Generally they contain the following for each composition:
How to find them:
Thematic catalogs are assigned the subject heading: "Composer's Last name, First name";--
Thematic catalogs.
You can find a composer's thematic catalog efficiently using a subject
keyword search in our online catalog:
An article regarding the edition (particularly a review) may also give you a great deal of the information you need for this assignment.
How to Find articles about editions:
Music Periodicals database (formerly: International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text)
This resource indexes, abstracts and/or provides selected full text for many scholarly and popular music journals.
For example do a KEYWORD search: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach "The complete works" review
This link will take you to Ebsco databases. Do a "find " command using your browser to find "RILM".
Clear, verified bibliographic information, fully cited, abstracted, and indexed. RILM Abstracts turns up citations for both print and electronic sources. Covers scholarly periodicals, dissertations and chapters of books in a variety of languages.
For example do a KEYWORD search: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach "The complete works"
Full-text databases of journal issues are often thought of as indexes:
Both of the following databases of articles are not indexes, but they include selected music journals and allow searching by keyword only. This means that you can not search by subject and you may miss materials if you do not select a word used in the article entry. Also their coverage is not as extensive as the indexes mentioned above.
Example: KEYWORD: Review Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach The complete works