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Music Periodicals Database 1874 - 1990 limited, 1990 - present full text This music journal resource has more than 1.3 million articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular. It provides indexing and abstracts... Access Database Music Periodicals Database

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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... Access Database Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
JSTOR Dates Vary JSTOR is a portal to academic journal article, ebooks and primary sources. Particular focus is in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological scien... Access Database JSTOR
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... Access Database Music Index
Music Periodicals Database 1874 - 1990 limited, 1990 - present full text This music journal resource has more than 1.3 million articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular. It provides indexing and abstracts... Access Database Music Periodicals Database
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. Access Database Oxford Music 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 ... Access Database RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
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... Access Database RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

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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... Access Database Canadian Music Periodical Index
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive late 1800s - 2000; 19th and 20th centuries 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. ... Access Database Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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... Access Database Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Project Muse Project Muse provides full text access to hundreds of scholarly journals and thousands of ebooks in the humanities and social science from various publishers. Disciplines covered include art, anthr... Access Database Project Muse

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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... Access Database DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings 1930 - 2013 Access to hundreds of audio field recordings, with videos, photographs and field notes from 60 ethnomusicological collections. Materials document musical traditions worldwide, from the Yoruba in Af... Access Database Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
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... Access Database Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 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... Access Database medici.tv
Music Online: American Music Streaming audio of over 56,000 albums of American roots music and pre-20th century American popular music. Designed as an audio history of America’s past, songs are indexed by major events such as ... Access Database Music Online: American Music
Music Online: Classical Music Library Streaming audio of over 76,000 albums of Western classical music. All major genres and time periods are represented, from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the ... Access Database Music Online: Classical Music Library
Music Online: Contemporary World Music Streaming audio of over 268,000 albums of music from all the regions of the world, including more than 1,000 cultural groups. Important genres covered are reggae, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, wo... Access Database Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Music Online: Jazz Music Library Streaming audio of over 65,700 jazz albums. Covers all major genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, post-bop, big band and modern jazz, with major and secondary artists, ensembles and label... Access Database Music Online: Jazz Music Library
Music Online: Popular Music Library Streaming audio of over 739,500 albums, with a wide sampling of popular music from around the world. Performers represent a broad range of genres such as house, hip-hop, ambient, metal, punk, Riot ... Access Database Music Online: Popular Music Library
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries 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... Access Database Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
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... Access Database Naxos Music Library
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... Access Database Naxos Music Library: Jazz
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... Access Database Naxos Video Library
Young Performers Initiative 2012 - present Music and dance videos featuring Wisconsin's talented young performers. From Wisconsin Public Television, these videos include choirs, marching bands, jazz bands, musical theater, orchestras and da... Access Database Young Performers Initiative

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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... Access Database African American Music Reference
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... Access Database Cambridge Companions 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... Access Database Cantigas Medievais Galego-Portuguesas
Daniels' Orchestral Music Online Information on more than 11,500 orchestral works by over 1,700 composers. This online and updated version of David Daniels' Orchestral Music: A Handbook, may be searched by author, title, duration,... Access Database Daniels' Orchestral Music 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... Access Database IPA Source (Music)
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... Access Database Musical America
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... Access Database Popular Culture in Britain and America
Recent Researches in Music Online The RRIMO database provides online access to all scores published in the seven Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American (including... Access Database Recent Researches in Music 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... Access Database RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale)
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... Access Database RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
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... Access Database WorldCat via FirstSearch
Yiddish and Hebrew Texts 1000 - present A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly) Access Database Yiddish and Hebrew Texts

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