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eResources/Databases for Music
Looking for articles on a topic related to Music? Search in the recommended eResources listed below.
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- Oxford Music Online
Allows one user at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. [Details]
- Classical Music Library
Allows six users access at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. CML includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. [Details]
- Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly databases offering many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. [Details]
- Music Index Online
A subject-author index to music periodical literature. [Details]
- JSTOR
Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences. [Details]
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. [Details]
- Jazz Discography Online (TJD Online)
Allows two users access at a time.
The Jazz Discography covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde>, Fusion, Third Stream, etc. It covers leaders from A to Z and contains 149,350 sessions, 26,856 leaders and almost 1.7 million musician and tune entries. [Details]
- IIPA Full Text [Details]
Access to this resource ended October 31, 2012. As an alternate, try the Film and Television Literature Index.
- IPA Source
IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and solo art songs.
29 simultaneous users - Please log out when finished [Details] - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Allows four users access at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 600,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
- ERIC (via EbscoHost)
Citations to articles and reports in education. [Details]
- PBS Video Collection
You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line. [Details]
- Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. [Details]
- Oxford Journals
Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields. [Details]
- Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. [Details]
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. [Details]
- LexisNexis Academic
News, business, legal and reference information. [Details]
Tutorial:
LexisNexis YouTube Channel - Readers' Guide Retrospective
Allows one user access at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users. [Details]
- Wiley Online Library
A multidiscipinary collection of academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business. [Details]
- WorldCat
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. [Details]
- Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals. [Details]
- MasterFILE Complete
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922. [Details]
- Oxford Music Online
Allows one user at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. [Details]
- Classical Music Library
Allows six users access at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. CML includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. [Details]
- Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly databases offering many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. [Details]
- Music Index Online
A subject-author index to music periodical literature. [Details]
- JSTOR
Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences. [Details]
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. [Details]
- Jazz Discography Online (TJD Online)
Allows two users access at a time.
The Jazz Discography covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde>, Fusion, Third Stream, etc. It covers leaders from A to Z and contains 149,350 sessions, 26,856 leaders and almost 1.7 million musician and tune entries. [Details]
- IIPA Full Text [Details]
Access to this resource ended October 31, 2012. As an alternate, try the Film and Television Literature Index.
- IPA Source
IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and solo art songs.
29 simultaneous users - Please log out when finished [Details] - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Allows four users access at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 600,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
- ERIC (via EbscoHost)
Citations to articles and reports in education. [Details]
- PBS Video Collection
You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line. [Details]
- Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. [Details]
- Oxford Journals
Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields. [Details]
- Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. [Details]
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. [Details]
- LexisNexis Academic
News, business, legal and reference information. [Details]
Tutorial:
LexisNexis YouTube Channel - Readers' Guide Retrospective
Allows one user access at a time. Please try again later if you are not able to access this resource.
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users. [Details]
- Wiley Online Library
A multidiscipinary collection of academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business. [Details]
- WorldCat
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. [Details]
- Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals. [Details]
- MasterFILE Complete
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922. [Details]
- ARTstor Digital Library
To access ARTstor Digital Library, click on the "Enter Here" link on the upper-right corner of the ARTstor homepage linked above. Registered users can download individual images from the ARTstor Digital Library so remember to register for a free user account.
The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. [Details]
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. [Details]
Guides and Tutorials
Helpful Websites
- Online tool for writing about music.
- For printing out blank single stave manuscript paper.
- History on 20th century musicians
Selected Books
- Books to help with writing about music.
- Books about the history of music, composers and musicians.
- Volume 1 of a 10 volume set on world music, each volume focusing on a different area of the world.
- A ten volume set that is very comprehensive and also viewable online too.



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