Music Library: Music Databases

Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

This database includes citations on international music corresponding to the printed Repertoire International de Literature Musicale Abstracts of Music Literature, including citations in 202 languages and all formats of scholarly works. Also provides concert review, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest. Coverage is 1969 to the present, and the database is updated monthly. Abstracts Only.

This resource provides online access to 379 current periodicals in music from more that 20 nations, with retrospective citations available back to 1874. A title list of
journals covered is provided. All records entered since 1996 contain an abstract. Abstracts Only.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music—represents the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material and 300 audio recordings, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music--the study of music, musicology, is a relatively new discipline in academe, beginning in late nineteenth-century Germany. In the second half of the twentieth century, ethnomusicology became a viable academic discipline spawning a scholarly literature for the study of all music not treated by traditional (historical) musicology. Oxford Bibliographies in Music takes a pragmatic approach, based on the past and emerging literature about music: if authors have found something they define as music worthy of serious study, it is music.

An online, full-text archive of complete backfiles of scholarly periodical literature since 1872. Journals are intended to be archival, not current; most are 2-5 years behind the current issues, depending on the journal. Full Text.

The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

EBSCOhost--represents a composite collection of more than thirty subject specific databases subscribed to via the EBSCO platform. All of the databases can be searched simultaneously, yet individual databases can also be selected. The former mode of searching is highly interdisciplinary. In addition, EBSCOhost offers a mobile app.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations-- Provides bibliographic citations, and full-text access for doctoral dissertations and master's thesis completed at over 1,000 accredited colleges and universities worldwide.

With over 1.8 million journal articles, official reports, and other educational research resources, ERIC is the most popular database for Education research. A free version of ERIC is available at https://eric.ed.gov/

This new edition of the venerable guide to the preparation of manuscripts, articles, and papers has been thoroughly overhauled and updated to reflect the new realities of digital texts and electronic publishing.

Is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 170,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos’s extensive database.

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

Is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. This ever growing collection includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

Alexander Street Streaming Video - this is an alternative site for Academic Video Online which features a single, fully integrated platform, offering access to tens of thousands of full-length streaming video titles. Virtually every video in the collection is fully transcribed in addition to being indexed for subjects, people, places, release date, language, publisher, and video type. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. Users can also select to view a single video collection by using the dropdown menu at the top of the homepage.

Will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

The online version of this standard publication of the American Musicological Society, this resource lists dissertations in progress and bibliography of completed dissertations since 1995. Contents are divided into general, antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century with an author index available.

An invaluable tool for locating and accessing images of musicians, musical objects, places of musical significance, and other music-related subjects. In addition to providing access, this database provides descriptive cataloging of these images.