1. Music Query Analysis Or: Don’t get the Blues when you’re asked about the Blues…

2. “I’m looking for resources for my music assignment…”

6. DA DA DA DAAAH

8. But I’m not a music librarian

9. Good News!!

11. Why are we here?

12. Demystification

13. I’m looking for information on the use of dominant extensions in Lydian based Jazz harmony

14. At least he knows what he wants! Is he familiar with databases and journals? Opportunity to teach advanced search techniques: proximity searches, phrase searches etc What has he done so far? Most importantly: You do not need to understand!

15. More likely though… I have to find out everything about a blues song

16. ‘Smokestack Lightning’: Howlin’ Wolf

17. What is it? A specific performance At a specific time By a specific person In a specific setting Using specific resources

18. Where do we go from here? Historical Ideological Technical Cultural Aesthetic Sexual

19. Not all information can be music All music can be information