Hello and Welcome to the MU 1000 Guide!
This guide is designed to help you with your research for MU 1000: Music and Its Makers. Use the tabs on the top to navigate, or peek through this table of contents. This guide contains information on how to research like a pro, highlights from our library collection, and everything you need to know about citation and bibliographies.
Home (this page): welcome, related guides, links to Music Research labs, and Research & Instruction Librarian contact info.
Begin Your Research: refreshers and tutorials in crafting keywords, evaluating sources, and using the library tools for research.
Resources: Annotated lists of databases, journals, and books, with special highlights on audiovisual databases and repositories, plus quicklinks to faculty research. Most of these are secondary sources, hence...
Primary & Secondary Sources: Defining primary and secondary sources, and resources dedicated to finding primary sources in particular.
Citations & Bibliographies: Everything you need to know about the Chicago citation style, and why it matters.
Citation Management: How to use Zotero solo or in a group, offline or online.
Looking for a wearable heartrate sensor to control the BPM of your drum machine? Or a unique controller to play chords or sounds? The Interactive Music Systems Lab (IMSLab) at WPI explores opportunities for research, innovation, and education through the development of new technology used to facilitate music composition, performance, and education. In addition to our own research trajectory, we work with musicians and companies to develop prototypes, explore proof-of-concept ideas, and much more! The lab is part of the research of V.J. Manzo, Associate Professor of Music at WPI and Principal Investigator (PI). The efforts of the IMSLab, therein, include collaborations with faculty, research affiliates, students and Lab RATs, and other key personnel as well as external professional musicians and innovators from industry.
