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 2009) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc.

Schedule - Tentative list of reading & listening assignments

Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Fall 2009

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

• Program Annotation
• Book Review
• Bibliography
• PowerPoint Presentation
• Research 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 Research : A Handbook (Web Resources)

The Companion Website for Laurie J. Sampsel's Music Research : A Handbook, 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 electronic databases:

• "Oxford Music Online": (Gateway to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II)
• Classical Music Library
• 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'")

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.

A somewhat dated, but still useful listing of numerous websites, online journals, and information for many music periodicals and related items.

A selective list of online guides, reference web sites, and samples of style sheets, chiefly for "Chicago" and "APA" styles and references.

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online
• APA Style
• APA (Style) Lite for College Papers
• APA Style Sheet for Humanities (University of California at Davis
• APA Style (College of Notre Dame and Loyola Univesity, MD)
• MLA & APA Style (Springfield Township High School, PA)
• Chicago Style Citation Sheet (15th ed.)
• Dr. Able Scribe's Guide to Chicago-Turabin Style and Documentation

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 Festival of Orchestras is a permanent concert series in Orlando’s Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, featuring five internationally acclaimed symphony orchestras each season.

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.

Orlando's public radio station broadcasts primarily classical music, news, and other NPR programming 24-hours a day. Use the "pull-down" menu under "90.7" on the tool bar at the top of the home page to reach the web link for listening to WMFE's broadcast.

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, including PowerPoint ("Impress" is the Open Office equivalent).

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.