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ACLS Humanities E-Book     [E-Book Collection]

A collection of scholarly e-books in the Humanities. Strongest in history, the collection also includes works in Art History, Folklore, Literature, Musicology, Philosophy, and Religion.

American Song (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

American Song is a history database that includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index  1975   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Institute for Scientific Information. Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the arts and humanities. Coverage from 1975. Part of Web of Science.

Bielefelder Katalog Klassik     [Database]

The Bielefelder Katalog Klassik is the most comprehensive reference work in German-speaking countries for classical music. Sophisticated and extensive search options make it possible to search for and find artists, composers and works down to track level.

Cambridge Core     [Database]

Cambridge Core, the platform for Cambridge University Press's academic content, contains over 1 million journal articles and 30,000+ books in Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Science.

Dance Online: Dance in Video (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

Dance as an art form is ephemeral-there are rarely scripts to study, no commonly used notation to analyze-making a live performance vital for study and research. Dance in Video provides the visual element necessary for appreciation and analysis with online streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Students and researchers can discover and revisit great performances and learn from the dancers, choreographers, and directors who have perfected the craft.

Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

A scholarly resource of recordings by American composers and artists including audio, liner notes, and essays. QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is the preferred player for DRAM streaming media.

Digital Mozart Edition [DME]     [Web Sites]

Offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (formerly Music Magazine Archive)     [Database]

Digitized backfiles of small press magazines dedicated to rock.

Frescobaldi Thematic Catalogue Online     [Database]

An open access online thematic catalogue of all compositions attributed to Girolamo Frescobaldi (Ferrara, 1583-Rome, 1643), and a database of the early sources, modern and facsimile editions, and literature.

Index to Printed Music, Collections & Series     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The only electronic database for finding individual pieces of music printed in the standard scholarly editions of monumental sets, collections, and the complete works of composers, this important resource is comprised of a Bibliography Database (of over 9,000 citations), a Names Database (of around 20,000 names of composers, librettists, poets, and editors), and an Index Database (of 135,000 records, detailing not only composers and titles, but also opus and thematic catalog numbers, performing forces, formats, genres, and more).

International Medieval Bibliography Online  1967 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Brepols, 1967- An international index to medieval topics (400-1500) in literature, language, history, archaeology, art, music, theater, Arabic and Islamic studies, and religion and philosophy. IMB covers 4,500 journals and over 5,000 miscellany volumes in 30 languages.

Jazz Discography Online (TJD Online)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

General discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today. Covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc.

JSTOR     [Electronic Journals Collection]

JSTOR includes scholarship published in more than 1,400 of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

MGG Online     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) is a general encyclopedia of music. MGG is encyclopedic in the true sense of that term: it offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts. MGG Online contains the second print edition of MGG, published from 1994 to 2008, as well as current, continuous online updates and additions.

Music Catalog  1960   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Bibliographic citations taken from the vast database catalog of the Library of Congress that pertain to music materials acquired by the Library of Congress since the 1960s. Includes scores and sound recordings.

Music Index Online  1973 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

The online version of the venerable index to English-language and international periodical articles begun in 1949. The online version includes coverage since 1979. The Music Index provides citations only for popular and scholarly periodical articles, and some interdisciplinary journals (e.g. folklore, aesthetics, etc.).

Music Online: African American Music Reference (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

African American Music Reference, a resource under development, brings together reference texts, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Coverage includes blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Music Online: Classical Music Library (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label, fully searchable database of classical music recordings, with a particular focus on contemporary music and women composers. Included are tens of thousands of licensed recordings, cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library     [Primary Sources]

Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. The database has been indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period; as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher. We hope that this will enable users to search, analyze, and research scores in a simple but powerful manner.

Music Online: Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

Includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat.

Music Online: Jazz Music Library (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online - with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Music Online: Opera in Video (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

Opera in Video presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. The collection contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, and then delivered online through streaming video.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (Alexander Street)     [Primary Sources]

Smithsonian Global Sound is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. The database includes an array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.

Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street)     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. It contains more than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world.

MusicID ARP     [Primary Sources]

Measures the impact of music across countries and cultures. It enables evidence based research across all genres from pop to classical, jazz and world music.

Naxos     [Primary Sources]

The online streaming audio collection of the Naxos recording label -- the current leading producer of classical music. The equivalent of more than 5,500 compact discs representing over 2,500 composers, the Naxos Library offers streams of not only Classical music, but also selected works in Jazz, Folk, and World music, as well as useful educational content, such as recording liner notes, biographical and historical essays, opera synopses and libretti, a glossary and pronunciation guide.

Naxos Music Library Jazz     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz music available online, comprising Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz along with Prophone and Proprius.

Naxos Music Library World     [Database]

Naxos Music Library World offers a wide range of World music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world music. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented.

Oxford History of Western Music     [e-book]

An historical account (NOT a survey) of the evolution of western classical music by Richard Taruskin - one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time.

Oxford Music Online     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Oxford Music Online (OMO) is the access-point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online (includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Colin Larkin's comprehensive reference work, 4th edition, devoted to rock, pop, and jazz). With OMO patrons can cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location.

Project MUSE     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Provides electronic access to the full text of Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly publications in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Readers' Guide Full Text Mega     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including citations in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals.

RILM Music Encyclopedias     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

RILM Music Encyclopedias is a full-text compilation of 41 seminal titles published from 1775 to 2015 comprising nearly 80,000 pages, the majority of which are not available anywhere else online. This is an extensive global resource designed to meet the teaching, learning and research needs of the international music community.

RIPM Online Archive     [Indexes and Abstracts]

RIPM publications offer access online for the first time to extensive collections of rare, primary source music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern Period. Collectively this unique archive offers both an almost daily chronicle of musical activities extending over a period of more than 200 years (1760-1966), and immense possibilities for original research. RIPM’s collections are not available in any library or online resource, and contain more than 1,000,000 full–text pages of rare music periodicals.

RIPM with full text (EBSCOhost)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text is a unique collection of primary source periodicals for the study of music and musical life from 1760 to 1966. This product combines RIPM’s Retrospective Index and Online Archive of Music Periodicals, and includes over 260 rare journals, 170 of which are available in full text. The content magnifies its global reach with music periodicals from over twenty countries and spans a period of more than two centuries of musical life in Europe and the Americas.

RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600, with more than 370,000 works by over 18,000 composers found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries.

Rock's Backpages     [Indexes and Abstracts]

An online database of primary source information from the 1960s to the present day covering all aspects of popular music. Includes articles from the music and mainstream press, reviews (albums and concerts), feature essays and audio interviews.

WhoSampled Academic Pro     [Database]

Comprehensive, detailed and accurate data on sample-based music, cover songs and remixes; nearly 400,000 songs from over 134,000 artists analyzed and linked with granular metadata from a crowd-sourcing community of over 14,000.