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Music Research Databases

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Google Scholar

This search narrows the Google web to a more manageable, more reliable set of information--determined "scholarly" and thus more appropriate for research projects. Though not all results will be available for free, Google Scholar is an excellent identification tool, from which you can search library databases or request articles and book chapters through Zondervan's Interlibrary Loan service. This advanced search screen allows you to specify phrases to search, words to exclude, author last names, and even subject categories.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text

IIMP Full Text is a music journal resource with more than half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 430 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. The majority of the records for music periodicals index the most recent eight years of publication.

IIMP includes a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Indexed articles cover the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. You can find articles on a diverse array of musical genres, from the liturgical chants of medieval monks to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.

-- Taken from About - International Index to Music Periodicals (http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/iimp_ft.shtml)

JSTOR

JSTOR (Journal STORage) presents the searchable full text of the complete back files for over 100 important scholarly journals. Coverage generally includes the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent 3-5 years (current issues are not available in JSTOR). Includes journals for the following disciplines: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

Naxos Music Library

The Naxos Music Library provides on-demand audio streaming to over 75,000 tracks drawn from more than 5,000 CDs. The Naxos label had more Grammy nominations in 2004 than any other classical label and also more releases. While the Naxos Library consists mainly of classical music, it also provides a growing range of world/folk music, contemporary jazz, and Chinese music. You can explore the "library" by musical genre from the "Standard Search" screen. The "Advanced Search" allows you to search by composer, genre, instrument, country, etc. (The default in "Advanced Search" is a boolean "and" search; in other words both terms you enter must be present. For example, to search for Mozart operas put enter "Mozart" as composer and "opera" as genre.) Clicking on the "magnifying glass" by each category will prompt you for a list of search names or terms from which you can select. Click on a track that you want to hear, which then takes you to the album on which the track is found. There you select a specific track(s) or all of them on the album. Then click on "Play Selections." The Naxos Library streams at 64K using Windows Media Player. It's not quite CD quality but is quite good. The site also provides aids for further information on the use of this resource. To visit the Naxos USA site go to: http://www.naxos.com/naxos/usa/naxos_usa.htm . To peruse new Naxos releases, see this link .

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online offers access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location for Grove Music Online; The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006); Colin Larkin's landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music, a reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, covering rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present; and The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres.

Oxford Music Online includes a sophisticated search that allows you to refine your search or browse results by source, and by specific era or subject category. You can also choose to view biographies or subject entries when searching or browsing. Advanced search capabilities, including biography and bibliography searching, provide you with powerful tools for content navigation. Product-specific timelines and topical guides provide you with pathways into the content. Context-sensitive Help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 journal titles.These journals cover topics predominantly in the humanities and social sciences, specifically including subject areas like Latin American studies, International Relations, Religion, Politics, Philosophy, Literature, Film and Theater, as well as History and many more. Highlights of this collection include: 100% full-text article access with no black-out dates for coverage; decades of back files; scholarly, peer-reviewed journals; and a choice of HTML (web page) or PDF formats to read, print, and download.

Last revised August 04, 2009 - 10:54 PM