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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Late 18th century - to date RILM contains an extensive collection of abstracts and bibliographic records focused on music and music related subjects. International coverage of relevant articles from 10,000+ journals, many of ... View RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Online

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is an extensive resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of it... View Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Online
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... View JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Online
Music Index 1972 - present Indexes articles from 850 music periodicals from over 40 countries, primarily in North America and Europe. While the articles themselves are not included, there are links to the fulltext when avail... View Music Index Online
Music Periodicals Database 1874 - 1990 limited, 1990 - present full text This research database includes detailed abstracts and full text of articles from more than 425 scholarly and popular music journals, from around the globe. It also indexes feature music articles a... View Music Periodicals Database Online
Oxford Music Online Oxford Music Online is the gateway to Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. Database currently supports 11 simultaneous users. View Oxford Music Online Online
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Late 18th century - to date RILM contains an extensive collection of abstracts and bibliographic records focused on music and music related subjects. International coverage of relevant articles from 10,000+ journals, many of ... View RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Online
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory... View RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 Online

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Canadian Music Periodical Index 1890 - present The Canadian Music Periodical Index is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. Texts of articles are not available from this site; use Find It to locate the complete article. The CMPI... View Canadian Music Periodical Index Online
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive late 1800s - 2000 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 2000. ... View Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Online
Performing Arts Periodicals Database 1864 - present This article database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performa... View Performing Arts Periodicals Database Online
Project Muse Project Muse provides full text access to more than 300 humanities and social science journals from various publishers. Disciplines covered include art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, his... View Project Muse Online
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals approx. 1800 - 1950 RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries betw... View RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals Online

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DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) 19th century - present DRAM is an online music database offering on-demand, streaming access to an extensive and ever-growing catalog. A primary focus of the collection is the preservation and dissemination of hard-to-fi... View DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) Online
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is an extensive resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of it... View Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Online
medici.tv Medici.tv specializes in high definition video of classical music, available on the internet, mobile, tablets and connected tvs. Over 1,400 programs – concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, mast... View medici.tv Online
Naxos Music Library Naxos Music Library is the world's largest classical music listening service. The collection provides online streaming access to over 500,000 tracks (over 37,00 CDs) from more than 50 labels, consi... View Naxos Music Library Online
Naxos Music Library: Jazz Naxos Music Library Jazz offers thousands of tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums. Hundreds of jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fant... View Naxos Music Library: Jazz Online
Naxos Video Library Streaming video library of opera, ballet, classical music concerts and documentaries. Contains over 1,215 full-length videos, including 190 operas, with subtitles in 5 languages. New content is add... View Naxos Video Library Online
Smithsonian Global Sound Smithsonian Global Sound is a database offering streaming music over the internet on demand. It is produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and includes the published recording... View Smithsonian Global Sound Online
Soundzabound, Royalty Free Music for Schools Royalty free music, with a variety of audio themes and sound effects. Browse by type of music, mood, time (15 Seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, full length) and volume. Preview audio online and down... View Soundzabound, Royalty Free Music for Schools Online

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African American Music Reference From early slave spirituals to modern movements in jazz, blues, and gospel, African American music has influenced the development of music worldwide. African American Music Reference brings togethe... View African American Music Reference Online
Cambridge Companions Online This Collection offers more than 450 of the Cambridge Companions for searching and browsing. These are detailed guides to authors, composers, philosophers, genres, various literatures and other fie... View Cambridge Companions Online Online
Cantigas Medievais Galego-Portuguesas This database offers all the 'cantigas' (songs) contained in the medieval Galician-Portuguese 'Cancioneiros' (songbooks), the manuscripts' images and also the music (either medieval or the contempo... View Cantigas Medievais Galego-Portuguesas Online
IPA Source (Music) The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Includes over 6,300 Art Songs, 1,300 arias and 60 Latin... View IPA Source (Music) Online
Musical America Current This business source for the performing arts provides breaking news reports and an electronic version of the respected Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts. Press releases... View Musical America Online
Popular Culture in Britain and America 1950-1975 Original primary sources on society, music, politics, fashion and youth culture from 1950 to 1975. Photos, video, music, fanzines, magazines, press kits, ads and other archival material from the ti... View Popular Culture in Britain and America Online
RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale) The only international, cross-genre index of visual sources of music, dance, and theatre, designed to assist performers, historians, librarians, instrument makers, record manufacturers, and book pu... View RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale) Online
WorldCat via FirstSearch Before 1000 BC to the present WorldCat is a catalog of millions of books, serials, audiovisual media, maps, archives, manuscripts, scores, computer files, and web sites owned by OCLC member libraries around the world, including... View WorldCat via FirstSearch Online
Yiddish and Hebrew Texts 1000 - present A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly) View Yiddish and Hebrew Texts Online

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