Find Articles in Music Databases
Databases bring together resources, often on a specific topic. They are an especially great way to find peer-reviewed and scholarly articles and to locate sources for research papers and other assignments.
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International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) This link opens in a new windowThe Music Periodicals Database – formerly International Index to Music Periodicals supports music scholarship, theory, and practice with access to about 220 full-text titles and citations sourced from more than 600 music periodicals. IIMP Help Guide
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IPA Source This link opens in a new windowIPA Source is a library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. It benefits singers, teachers, and all those interested in the correct and knowledgeable performance of vocal literature. It promotes the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.
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Music Index Online This link opens in a new window
Index to international music and dance periodicals. Includes references to journal articles; reviews of books, recordings, and performances; also obituaries. Covers classical, popular, and world music and musicians; also dance.
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Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowCovers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for 395+ international periodicals, and full text for 160+ of the indexed journals and includes scholarly articles, commentary, reviews, and more.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
This resource covers musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, instruments, pedagogy, performance, dance, and all disciplines related to music from 1835 to present.
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with full text This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
Find Music Articles in General Databases
These databases contain articles about music, along with a large number of other topics. Databases like JSTOR or Project Muse are particularly useful for researching questions that combine music with cultural history.
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JSTOR Journals and Books This link opens in a new window
The journals archive consists of older (at least 2-5 years) issues of core scholarly journals across a wide range of subjects including the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The eBook collections are DRM-free and allow for unlimited concurrent use and unlimited chapter downloads and printing.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly articles in literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, social science, mathematics.
More Databases
The library has over 450 databases on a tremendous variety of topics, and many of them can be useful for music research.Try the examples below or see all of our databases.
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Arts & Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowExplore the areas of art and design, Archaeology, anthropology and classical studies, architecture, urban planning, philosophy, geography and religion, modern languages and literatures, music, theatre, film and cultural studies. and more. Titles include both scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies
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Gale OneFile Fine Arts This link opens in a new windowProvides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in the fields of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. 250 journals+ covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.
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Gale OneFile Pop Culture Studies This link opens in a new windowAccess to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 This link opens in a new window
Indexing a wide range of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences content for nearly 1,200 periodicals, 1,300,000+ citations and over 240,000 book reviews.
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Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Encompasses all key fields of the humanities, covering topics including art, classical studies, dance, film, journalism, philosophy, religion and more. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and more.
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Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This resource is for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly, and creative thought. This subscription is supported by an NEH Challenge Grant: "Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this database do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities."
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with full text This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Also see MLA Directory of Periodicals
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Pop Culture Universe This link opens in a new windowIncludes more than 250 volumes of reviewed material, images, lesson plans, overviews and more about American and world pop culture and history.