IDS 101 Beethoven, Romanticism, & the Concept of the Hero
Jean-David Coen, Professor

1. Library Catalogs

Willamette University Libraries Catalog

Orbis Cascade Alliance Summit catalog of academic libraries in Oregon and Washington

2. Major Research Databases

Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. (Full-text)

Oxford Reference Online: 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. (Full-text)

Academic Search Premier: Provides full text for more than 3,600 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. (Mixed)

Project Muse: Provides online access to the full text of over 300 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, and more. (Full-text)

JSTOR: Provides access to the complete back files of more than 624 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s. (Full-text)

Historical Abstracts: Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

America History and Life: Provides access to scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.

Grove Music : New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is a monumental work of 29 volumes and the definitive music reference source. The online version is GROVE MUSIC.

3. Primary Sources

Beethoven-Haus in Bonn: Links to digital archive and online exhibits in the Beethoven-Haus Museum

E.T.A. Hoffman's Kreisleriana article

Original Sources Provides searchable full-text of an eclectic collection of primary resources

Evans Digital Edition: The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.

Classical Music Library: Includes recordings of music written from the earliest times to the present

ArtStor: Provides a broad and deep general collection of images of world art and architecture.

Image of Painting of Ludwig van Beethoven (1820) by Joseph Karl Stieler.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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