Music - Databases

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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!

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