Research Guides: Music: Get Started

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Library Home Page
Textbook Checkout
Check to see if your course has textbooks for checkout in the library.

Music Database

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
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Background information, artist biographies, and definitions from the world of music. Includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Oxford Music Online offers helpful subject guides from Grove Music Online, which you can find here.

General Reference Databases

eBooks from Gale This link opens in a new window
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Alexander Street Video (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Online streaming of academic related videos.

Other Databases

JSTOR Full Collection This link opens in a new window
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Peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutions, and primary sources. For the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOHost) This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals, professional journals, reports and magazines in the social sciences, the humanities, and general sciences.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across many subject areas, from business and the sciences to literature and politics.

Websites

AllMusic
All genres and styles of music are covered here, ranging from the most commercially popular to the most obscure. They critique albums and artists within the context of their own genres - from opera to garage rock to traditional country.
NPR Music
NPR's music coverage. Includes interviews, news, concerts, blogs and more.
Composer Diversity Database
A database of music by composers other than white males, searchable by a wide variety of fields.
Music Theory Examples by Women
A database of excerpts and complete musical compositions by women composers. The music is categorized by theoretical concept for use in music education.
NAMM Foundation Music Research
Scientific knowledge about the effects of music and music making is constantly expanding, and the NAMM Foundation has taken a global leadership role in supporting music research.

Music Journals (Open Access)

Popular Musicology Online
Popular Musicology Online is a refereed academic journal with an international advisory panel of leading popular musicologists.
ECHO
Echo: A Music-Centered Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal created and edited by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Music: Get Started

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