SMHB is an annual bibliography and database of Swedish literature on music, produced by
the Archives, Special Collections and Documentation Department at the Music Library of Sweden. It covers books, articles in all
Swedish music periodicals (except fanzines), articles on music in other periodicals,
contributions to collective volumes, record liner notes (when substantial), selected
documents on the Internet, reviews, etc.: a more detailed listing is found below. The
bibliography is not limited to scholarly literature: it includes music literature of all
kinds on all subjects.
The online version includes all material from 1990 onwards and many
earlier titles
Svensk musikhistorisk bibliografi has been published annually since 1926.
Until 1989 it appeared in Svensk
tidskrift för musikforskning (Swedish Journal of Musicology), 1990-1993 (see
below) it was a separate publication (ISSN 0281-2983).
Starting with the year 1990, the bibliography is part of the LIBRIS database (the union
catalogue of the Swedish research libraries). Books and other monographic publications are catalogued
as they appear. Articles are done periodical by periodical after the end of the
year. In December
2007 the bibliography
included some 4,378 books and academic theses, 20,336 articles and 777 reviews
in 332 periodicals. See the Swedish page for an annually updatedlist
of fully indexed periodicals.
SMHB can be accessed online (free of charge) in two ways:
(1) As an integral part of the main
Libris
database: this will also find monographs that have not yet been indexed for the
bibliography, and is the preferred means of access. (2) To limit
the search to articles or reviews, use Extended search,
choose Subdatabases in the menu, go to The humanities, the social sciences ...
,
click on show more
and find Bibliography of Swedish Music Literature as number six from the
top
The printed bibliography was discontinued with the 1993 volume, published in September,
1998. Back numbers are available from Statens musikbibliotek.
Some 10-15% of SMHB's contents are forwarded (with English abstracts) to the
international bibliography, RILM. RILM is available on
CD-ROM, and online free of charge from a public
computer in the library.
SMHB covers
literature on music published in Sweden or by Swedish authors regardless of subject
matter or audience (scholarly as well as popular)
a selection of foreign literature on Swedish music ("suecana")
all genres and types of music
all musicological sub-disciplines (history, acoustics, philosophy, psychology, gender
studies, popular music studies, etc.)
There are three exceptions to the inclusive coverage of popular literature: reviews,
liner notes and Internet documents are limited to scholarly or documentary contributions
SMHB indexes
books by individual authors (monographs)
articles in periodical and collective volumes
A search on the periodical title will bring up all articles indexed from the periodical.
There is also a link from the record for the periodical itself to the indexed articles.
sections on music in monographs on other subjects. Individual chapters in a book on
music by one author are not indexed (but may be covered by subject terms)
unpublished theses and undergraduate papers. (Swedish doctoral dissertations are always
published and are treated as any other book.)
This page updated 20 april 2009. The database is
updated at least once a week
