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Research Guide:  Music -- Databases

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Databases with a related Music focus:
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets  (Library of Congress)  from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress
ERIC   --  the premier national bibliographic database of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
JSTOR   -- full text access to scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines

Naxos Music Library  -- streamed recordings of primarily classical music. Also includes world/folk music, Chinese orchestral, folk, and traditional music
Naxos Music Library Jazz   -- streamed recordings of classic jazz, blues and R&B from some (but not all) of the most important record labels of the 1950s, 60s, and beyond
Oxford Music Online -- Grove Music Online is now part of this collection!
**new**  Oxford Western Music -- Richard Taruskin’s unmatched narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music.
Project Muse   -- access to scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences
ATLA Religion Database -- useful for church music topics -- index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews
WorldCat.org --- world's largest network of library content.  search for music scores and sound recordings!
 
Databases with a Cross-Disciplinary focus:
Academic Search Premier  -- scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online  --  includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year
Oxford Reference Online Database --  full text of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated  -- access to biographies, obituaries and photographs of notable subjects  
 

Updated:  08/25/10
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