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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. 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. Find It full text retrieval enabled 
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information Grove Music Online  Access  options  Scholarly encyclopedia of over 29,000 articles about music and musicians 
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information IIMP  Access  options  IIMP is a music journal resource with more than half a million indexed articles, plus 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  Over 5000 cds are available. By using Windows Media Player, you can access any of the recordings. Mostly classical music is available but there is a substantial collection of jazz and world music as well. 
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information Naxos Music Library Jazz  Access  options  The recordings of the Fantasy (Jazz) label. 


Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info Database Name Access Database Description
more  information Dissertations & Theses access  options Doctoral dissertations, including limited full-text of University of Minnesota dissertations from 1997 to present
more  information Early English Books Online (EEBO) access  options Early English Books Online provides digital access to more than one hundred thousand literary and historical classics.
more  information JSTOR access  options Full text of over 100 periodicals from first issue. A tutorial is available
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 Despite it's name, this covers the arts and humanities! This is the online continuation of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

 

 

Web Sites

 

American Music Center

AMG: All Music Guide

Arnold Schoenberg Webradio

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)

CAIRSS

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

International Music Resources

Mozart - all his music digitized by the Mozart Institute

Music & Dance from Voice of the Shuttle

Music Dictionary Online (polyglot)

Music Information Retrieval Research Bibliography

Music Resources on the Internet

Musica

Musipedia

National Library of Canada - Music - Digital Resources

Operabase

Renaissance Masses (downloadable)

Song Index

 

Research Help

 

  

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


Pam Enrici, 
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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