Databases
- Journal Articles
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Streaming Music
- Catalogs of Scores, Recordings, etc.
- Dissertations
- Related Resources: History, Humanities, Education, Psychology
Journal Articles
RILM Music Abstracts (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)
- International coverage with abstracts of over 3500 titles including articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, and all scholarly writings on music.
- Dates of coverage: 1969 to present
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- Includes musicological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries from about 640 international music periodicals.
- Dates of coverage: 1979 to present
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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMPFT)
- Includes indexing and abstracting of over 375 international music periodicals, plus indexing of music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
- Includes full text from about 26 music journals
- Dates of coverage: indexing and abstracting 1874 to present; full text 1996 to present
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RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals)
- An index of specialized music journals, daily newspapers, articles in literary periodicals, theatrical journals and magazines, as well as engravings and lithographs in the illustrated press, published between 1800 and 1950 in Europe and the United States.
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- Business and news source for the performing arts including artists, competitions and awards, reviews, press releases and other arts information. Updated daily.
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International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
- Includes indexing and abstracting of more than 150 international performing arts periodicals. Also indexes feature performing arts articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Selected retrospective citations dating back to 1864.
- Dates of coverage: 1998 to the present. Selected citations back to 1864.
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Provides fulltext articles covering virtually all aspects of music and related topics.
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Oxford Reference: Performing Arts
- Provides the fulltext of entries and articles from the Oxford dictionaries and companions.
- Covers music and opera among other performing arts.
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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
- Provides fulltext articles covering virtually all aspects of music history and world music
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- Covers primarily classical music terms.
- Includes illustrations of musical symbols.
- Readers can add comments.
- Provides full-text articles from Encyclopedia Britannica and Britannica Book of the Year (world events).
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More Music Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Streaming Music
- Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys.
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- Provides streaming audio files of classical music from many labels.
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- Provides streaming audio files world music including traditional and other genres such as neo-traditional, worldbeat, world fusion, Arab swing and jazz.
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- Provides streaming audio of jazz, and some blues and soul.
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- Provides streaming audio files of classical, jazz, folk and world music.
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- Provides streaming audio files from the Smithsonian Folkways catalog.
- Also includes folk and enthnographic music from other labels and recording projects.
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- Provides streaming audio of African American music from the 20th century.
- Covers jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk, spoken word, and sounds.
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Database of Recorded American Music
- Provides streaming music of U.S. composers and musicians from New World Records, Composers Recordings, and other labels.
- Also provides liner notes, scholarly essays, bibliographies, and discographies.
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Catalogs of Scores, Recordings, etc.
RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources After 1600)
- Documents the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.
- Covers mainly 1600-1850.
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- Will eventually provide 8,000 classical scores.
- Includes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
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- Combines the Index Database, Bibliography Database,and Names Database into the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions
- Online version of Music-In-Print.
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- A searchable index to archives and manuscript holdings in more than 4,400 U.S. repositories and 100,000 special collections in libraries and private holdings
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- Union catalog of materials held in 18,000+ libraries world-wide
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Dissertations
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
- Indexes doctoral dissertations in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and related fields.
- 1920 - present (the oldest dissertations are from 1920, but don't assume all music-related dissertations are covered since then.)
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Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
- An alphabetical listing of abstracts in musicology.
- 1980 - present
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- Indexes doctoral dissertations from nearly every university in the United States
- 1861 - present, abstracts are included since 1980
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Related Resources: History, Humanities, Education, Psychology
America: History and Life- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on North American history and culture. The best source for finding journal articles on United States and Canadian history. Also useful for architectural history, cultural history including music and art, and history of ethnic groups. Includes book reviews.
- 1964 - present
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- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on modern history (1450 - present) from all regions of the world except North America. The best source for finding journal articles on non-North American history and also useful for architectural history, cultural history and ethnic groups. Does not include book reviews.
- 1973 - present
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- Indexes major journals in the arts and humanities. Especially useful for tracing where publications have been cited. Includes book reviews.
- 1980 - present
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- Indexing and abstracting of 400 education journals. Includes some full text for approximately 185 education journals.
- Covers 1984 to present. Abstracts are covered since 1994.
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- Abstracts for more than 850,000 references to 750 education journals (EJ) as well as published and unpublished ducational materials such as school system reports, conference papers, research reports, and dissertations (ED). Largely English-language. Most journals (EJ) available in Jackson Library. Most ERIC Documents (ED) on microfiche in Documents/Microforms area on 2nd Floor Main.
- Dates of coverage: 1966 to present
- More info on ERIC via EBSCO
- More info on ERIC via Institute of Education Sciences
- Contains descriptions and reviews of commercially available, standardized educational, personality, aptitude, intelligence, and achievement tests
- Dates of coverage: 1985 to present
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- Provides abstracts for over 1,300 periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry and sociology. Large number of foreign language titles. UNCG library owns only many of the core, English-language titles.
- Dates of coverage: 1872 to present.
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Music Resources
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