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Provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals plus full text for over 100 of the indexed journals. The journal articles cover all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

RILM is a comprehensive database of citations, abstracts and subject indexing of content from the early 1800s through to the present.

Bloomsbury music and sound provides scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day. From books on soundtracks and music for video games, there is also the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, and over 200 scholarly books in the 33 1/3 and Global 33 1/3 series.

Helpful for historical topics related to literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. Access to ProQuest's edition of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals enables you to search for instances of a word or phrase in a given author's contributions to newspapers and journals, even where these originally appeared unsigned or over a pseudonym.

Since Ebscohost Includes the key music databases RILM (Repertory of International Music Literature), Music Index and RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals), searching across all 50 databases on Ebscohost is good for interdisciplinary topics where music is related to other fields such as art, literature, film, history and many more.

Use this database to find audio recordings, videos, field notebooks, slides, correspondence, interviews, ephemera and photographs of instruments and journals which document musical traditions from societies and cultures all over the world. lobe. Recordings include religious music, secular music, celebrations and funerals. It enables interdisciplinary study whether the focus is on music, anthropology, dance, religion or spirituality.

Google Scholar uses the familiar Google search engine to search peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. It aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.

In addition to Proquest's "Music Periodicals Database" this search interface covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.

JSTOR is a comprehensive library of important scholarly literature including thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources from a wide range of academic publishers and university presses. It has excellent coverage for music and interdisciplinary research.

Archival access to the complete 62 year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published 1929-1991. Contributors included musicologist and broadcaster, Hans Keller, and writers E. Bates, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, Julian Huxley, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, G. K. Chesterton and in more recent years, Stephen Fry. The archive records the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century during the "golden years of radio and television".

Music Index contains indexing and abstracts, since 1970, for articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for nearly 500 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage from other periodicals. It includes more pedagogical sources than the other indexes and claims to include 22 languages from 40 countries.

Indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals plus full text for over 100 of the indexed journals. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. There is coverage of the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

A collection of American music journals which show music in a larger cultural context, as music was also an important leisure activity for families and communities. Representative titles include the Family Minstrel, the Musical Journal, Trumpet Notes, Aeolian Piano Forte Journal, the Musical Miscellany, the Vox Humana, and the New Yorker Musik Zeitung. Useful for contemporary accounts of music by late 18th and early 19th century composers.

A wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the long nineteenth century, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, are sourced from the British Library and other institutions. There are also personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes and financial records.

Peer reviewed annotated bibliographies with a global viewpoint, offering literature on an extensive range of music research. Subjects include Baroque music, Jazz, Medieval music, Romanticism as well as Rap/Hip Hop, Salsa, Sonata, Symphony and Video Game Music.

RIPM specifically covers the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Therefore the indexing for the 19th century is more extensive than most other databases. It does not, include abstracts, but has the occasional editor’s annotations.

RIPM Jazz Journals is a primary source reference, a unique collection of American Jazz Journals published 1918-2006. Although many articles are brief there are some longer 'interviews' in Cadence (1976-2000). Contributions that announced and reviewed contemporary performances may help researchers to reconstruct the career paths of musicians and also the writers. It offers jazz researchers a collection of historical material, which, until now, has been unavailable electronically. Writers include Hentoff, Morgenstern, Feather, Ulanov, Eugene Williams, Martin Williams, Ralph Gleason, Bob Thiele and Bob Rusch. More details are available at: ripmjazz.org/

The Australian Jazz Real Book is a collection of the best Australian jazz tunes. Features over 400 sheets of Australian jazz tunes from Australian composers, artist biographies and some streaming audio clips. The 450+ tunes which are included are categorised into 17 styles. The lead sheets contain the melody in regular musical notation, chords and, where they exist, lyrics. There are also some more involved transcriptions where appropriate, and a few full score reductions where each instrumental part is important, and harmony parts and voicings are included.

Provides access to specialised databases across a wide range of subjects, including Australasian political, economic, legal, social, aboriginal, health, family, technical and cultural studies. ... Content sources include authoritative publishers and peak research institutes from across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Provides integrated access to over 45 million items from a range of the National Library's collaborative services including The Australian National Bibliographic Database - containing location information from more than 1,200 Australian libraries, The Picture Australia program, The Australian Research Online program, The Music Australia program, The Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, and The People Australia program, and some overseas sources.

The Digital Concert Hall is the virtual concert venue of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the Internet. Here you can experience the orchestra performing live at the Philharmonie in Berlin in more than 30 broadcasts every year. Database includes live streams, concerts, movies and interviews.

Searchable database containing streaming video files covering the full scope of 20th and 21st century dance. The collection includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from the most influential performers and companies. The diverse content supports a wide range of courses, from dance history and dance appreciation to choreography, dance composition, and improvisation.

This database is is intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. It contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. It includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures. Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, etc.

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Music Online: Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.

This is an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances - operas, ballets, concerts, dances, documentaries and many more. Watch fine productions from the world's greatest opera houses, ballet and dance companies, orchestras, artists, festivals and concert halls on demand. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others, and is continuously updated. Search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival.

Music Online: American Music is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

Classical Music Library (CML) is a comprehensive online database of classical music recordings. CML features performers from more than 32 major and independent labels, including BMG and EMI Classics. Classical Music Library provides musical sound recordings, program notes, reference texts (composer biographies, history, and glossary), and images. The music includes vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages through to the present. Users navigate through browse lists, a search engine and music track playlists.

Music Online: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. It contains the entire set of 10 print volumes (over 9,200 pages) as well as complete indexing for genre, subject, instrument, place, person, ensemble, and cultural group, as well as links to the associated audio examples for each volume.

This database includes the published recordings owned by the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label, and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music, as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE). It constitutes a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Naxos Music Library comprises a vast collection of classical music available in streaming audio format. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from hundreds of other record labels, including EMI, Warner Classics and Sony Classical. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented, with over 600 new titles are added each month. Additional resources include music notes, cover artwork, track listings, instrumentation and publisher information, libretti and opera synopses, composer and artist biographies, pronunciation guide for composer and artist names, glossary, guide to musical terms and work analyses.

Naxos Music Library Jazz, offers many thousands of tracks of jazz in streaming audio format. Over 12,000 jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises the catalogues of Blue Notes Records, Fantasy Jazz and hundreds of other labels. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B. Blue Note offers albums featuring the legendary artist John Coltrane and iconic artists such as Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter and many others.

The most comprehensive documentation available for music manuscripts and printed music for the time between 1600 and 1800. It contains more than 650,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives worldwide. It is is published by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicale - RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources), an international, non-profit joint venture, which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.

Online access to the listings of the London edition of the TVTimes - the television listings magazine for the regional independent television companies that made up ITV from September 1955 to March 1985. It provides search options for programmes, production staff, and performers, and contains approximately 250,000 records.