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Databases

Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online)(Full Text)
Online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music including New Grove Dictionary of Opera. NOTE: Only one user at a time can access this database.

Classical Music Library (Full Text)
Over 30,000 classical music tracks with 2,000 more added each month. This service also includes thousands of program notes and hundreds of playlists. Please exit database when finished. Our license is for three users at a time.

Naxos Music Library (Full Text)
An online collection of recorded music in streaming audio-- primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz. Naxos contains 85,000 tracks from over 5,500 CDs.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text)  Discus

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

JSTOR (Full Text) Full-text archive of scholarly journal literature from the mid-1800s to the late-1990s. Includes over 30 quality music journals.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index - Full Text)(Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 140 journals.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Please log out when you are finished.

The African American Experience
A collection of resources on African American life covering such topics as history, biography, literature, arts, education, civil rights, politics, folklore, etc.

ITER
A bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for articles; bibliographies; catalogues; abstracts; and discographies are included.

ERIC (EBSCO version) (Full Text)
Education journals from 1965. Monthly updates. Useful for topics in music education. Some links to full text as well as "eric documents."

Project Muse (Full Text)
General purpose database that includes six music journals.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

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Print and Electronic Resources

Historical Anthology of Music (HAM)
M2 D25 H6

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
REF ML100 N48

The Oxford Companion to Music
REF ML 100 .S37 2002

The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre
REF ML 102 .M88 G3 2001 3v.

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

REF ML102 P66 G84 1998

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
REF ML 105 .B16 2001 6v.

Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography

REF ML113 D83 1997

New Oxford History of Music, 10v.
REF ML 160 N44

Source Readings in Music History from Classical Antiquity through the Romantic Era

ML160 S89

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Internet Resources

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Click on "collection finder" then link to performing arts for a wealth of primary source material.

Classical Music Pages
Covers music history, biography, musical form and terminology.

DW3 Classical Music Resources
from Duke University Music Library. Sites are classified and assigned subject headings. A basic and advanced search interface is available.

Indiana University’s List of Journals and Magazines
E-journals, subscription information, and tables of contents.

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
This project (wiki) aims to create a virtual library that contains all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.

Lied and Art Song Texts Page
Searchable database of lieder and art song texts.

Spoleto Festival USA
Charleston’s international and comprehensive arts festival.

USC's Music Library
Well conceived and useful site.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Comprehensive site at Indiana University William and Gayle Cook Music Library .

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Resources at the College

Current Print Periodicals

Acta Musicologica
American Liszt Society Inc Membership
American Liszt Society Inc Newsletter c/w American Liszt society Inc membership
American Music
American Musicological Society. Journal
American Record Guide
AMS Newsletter c/w Journal of American Musicological Society
Annual Review of Jazz Studies
Antique Phonograph Monthly
Black Perspective in Music
Clavier
Collegium Musicum: Yale University
Current Musicology
Directory :American Musicological Society
Doctoral Dissertations In Musicology
Early Music
Early Music History
Fanfare
Journal of Music Theory
Journal of Musicology-(California)
Journal of The American Institute for Conservation
Journal of The American Liszt Society c/w American Liszt Society Inc Membership
Journal of the Royal Music Association
Journal of Voice
Leonardo Music Journal
Membership Directory
Music and Letters
Music Library Association Membership Directory
Music Library Association. Membership
Music Review
Musical Quarterly
Nineteenth Century Music
Notes (Music Library Association)
Opera (film)
Opera News. without Index
Opera Quarterly
Piano & Keyboard (formerly Piano Quarterly)
Popular Music
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone (film)
Soundboard
Symphony
World of Music

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