Electronic Databases for Music

Academic Search Premier - Type: Full Text

Description: The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. It offers critical information from many sources found in no other database.

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Dissertations & Theses: Full Text - Type: Full Text

Description: With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download, and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week.

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Emporia State Institutional Repository Collection (ESIRC) - Type: Full Text

Description: The purpose of ESIRC is to collect, preserve and share a range of artifacts related to teaching, scholarship and cultural events at Emporia State University with the wider scholarly community and public.

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Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Type: Full Text

Description: Humanities Full Text covers both scholarly journals and general magazines in all aspects of the humanities, including art, communications, film, folklore, history, literary criticism, music, religion, philosophy, and related fields. Indexing and abstracts are from 1984 to present, with selected full text from 1994 to present.

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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text - Type: Full Text

Description: This database provides full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals plus indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries. The database currently includes over 770,000 records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874.

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JSTOR - Type: Full Text

Description: Archive and fulltext of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. Each journal begins with the first issue. Has a moving wall of 3-5 years.

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Music Index - Type: Article Index

Description: Indexes 670 international music periodicals and review new journals on topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. From 1979 to the current date.

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Naxos Music Library - Type: Full Text

Description: Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 248,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

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New Mozart Edition Online - Type: Full Text

Description: The purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use. The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna.

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Oxford Music Online - Type: Full Text

Description: 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.

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Project Muse - Type: Full Text

Description: Project MUSE contains many of the most widely held journals in the humanities and social sciences. It is a full-text database with content available in HTML, PDF, or both. Additionally, once it is available on Project MUSE, it is always available on Project MUSE. Researchers will find Project MUSE easy to search and an invaluable resource.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - Type: Article Index

Description: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, published by R_pertoire International de Litt_rature Musicale, New York, contains records on music and various other fields as they relate to music from 1969 to the present.

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RIPM Music Periodicals (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) - Type: Article Index

Description: Index of music periodical literature published from approximately 1850 to 1950.

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