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Suggested Resources for Music

 

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Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...


Info Database Name Access Database Description
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information Academic OneFile  Access  options  Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota. Find It full text retrieval enabled 
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information Academic Search Premier  Access  options  Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota. Find It full text retrieval enabled 
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information Grove Music Online  Access  options  Full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 
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information International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text  Access  options  A music journal index with detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular. Find It full text retrieval enabled 
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information Music Article Guide (paper index)  Access  options  Covers all areas of music, with a special emphasis on the needs of school and college music educators. Also includes practical "how-to" articles for orechestra, choral, and band directors not indexed elsewhere. Excludes book, concert and record reviews 
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information Naxos Music Library  Access  options  Streaming audio of primarily classical music, but some world music, folk music, and jazz are also included. 
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information Naxos Video Library  Access  options  A streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand. 
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information Song Index  Access  options  This database provides access to many of the songs that the UMD Library has in various song anthologies. You will not find the music or the words here, just the call number and book title. 


Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info Database Name Access Database Description
more  information Dissertations & Theses access  options Master and doctoral dissertations, including full-text of any CIC university from 1997 to present. Click here for a list of CIC schools.
more  information Early English Books Online (EEBO) access  options Provides digital access to more than one hundred thousand literary and historical classics.
more  information JSTOR access  options Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information New York Times (Historical Online Archive) access  options Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2000. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
more  information Web of Science access  options Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Find It full text retrieval enabled This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome).

 

 

Web Sites

 

American Music Center

AMG: All Music Guide

Bach: Well Tempered Clavier (requires Shockwave; this includes sound and score analysis)

BBC Audio Interviews:Musicians

Beethoven Bibliography Database

Berlioz: Memoires (complete and in French)

Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia

Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature

Chopin Early Editions

Classic Themes

Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection

Digitized Sheet Music

Early American Secular Music and its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index

Hector Berlioz Website

Mozart - all his music digitized by the Mozart Institute

Music & Dance from Voice of the Shuttle

Music Dictionary Online (polyglot)

Musica

Musipedia

National Library of Canada - Music - Digital Resources

Operabase

Renaissance Masses (downloadable)

 

Research Help

 

  

For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:


Pam Enrici, Reference Librarian
Email:penrici@d.umn.edu
Phone:218-726-8586
L278
University of Minnesota Duluth Library
416 Library Drive
Duluth MN 55812-2495 

 

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