LibGuides: Music: Online Resources

Music Resource Tips for Academic Search Complete

Go to Academic Search Complete online resource to search EBSCO databases. From there you can select 'Choose Databases' near the top and select from any or all of the following:

Biography Index Past & Present
Education Research Complete
Humanities Full Text
Humanities International Complete
International Biography of Theatre & Dance
Music Index
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
SocIndex with full text

These databases have been found to contain the most useful articles for researchers in music and music education.

Online Resources - most recent acquisitions at the top

Library Music Source - CD SheetMusic™ Online This link opens in a new window
Available only on campusl. Click ‘Find Music’ to start your search. LibraryMusicSource offers an expansive selection of music resources for musicians, students, teachers and music lovers around the world. This comprehensive collection of digital sheet music includes obscure and hard-to-find pieces along with all the beloved classics. In addition to this vast catalog includes an extensive range of vocal solos, opera scores, orchestral parts and so much more! Home page.

The online resources below provide an excellent place to start researching topics in music. With detailed information in hand from the electronic resources, you can also search the library catalog for specific resources related to your research.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,800 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,700 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 13,600 journals, and searchable cited references for more than 1,400 journals.
Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet
Content: Abstracts; Full TextThe database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,460 journals.

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education
The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education provides a forum where contemporary research is made accessible to all with interest in music education. The Bulletin contains current research and reviews of interest to the international music education profession, provides an outlet for scholarly publication, and is one of music education's leading publications.

Cambridge Core with Histories This link opens in a new window
These nine Histories on Music are in our Subscription plus hundreds more. To access Full Text content, select "Only search content I have access to", type a subject in the search bar and click the search icon to the right.
1. The Cambridge History of World Music
2. The Cambridge History of American Music
3. The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
4. The Cambridge History of Musical Performance
5. German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940
6. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music
7. The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
8. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
9. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

Careers in the Arts: Fine, Performing & Visual
Whether it be music, dance, cinematography, costume design, or many other choices, students interested in a career in theatre and the performing arts have an incredibly wide variety of options to choose from when selecting a career path. Careers in the Arts is designed to provide need-to-know information on the various careers in this popular field. Careers in the Arts provides detailed information on 25 different career paths, including: actor, dancer, camera operator, costume designer, makeup artist, art director, stage manager & music director. Information-packed chapters provide real-world information about these in-demand professions, including: A Day in the Life, Work Environment, Education & Training, Earnings & Advancement, Employment Outlook, Networking Contacts, Areas with the Highest Employment Levels, and Conversations with Real Professionals. Includes a look towards the future of each field with an informative employment outlook.
College Music Symposium
Coverage: 1961-2020 (Vol. 1 - Vol. 60, No. 1)
Published by: College Music Society College Music Symposium, the interdisciplinary journal of The College Music Society, serves as a vehicle for the dissemination of information and ideas on music in higher education. The content of the publication highlights concerns of general interest and reflects the work of the music and higher education community in all areas of music.
CultureGrams
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Since its beginnings in 1974, the aim of CultureGrams has been to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples by creating and publishing excellent content. Today the CultureGrams series is one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas. In 2004, the CultureGrams product line was acquired by ProQuest, a global leader in collecting, organizing, and distributing value-added information to researchers, faculty, and students in over 160 countries.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Over 8179 scientific and scholarly journals (various subjects and languages) are available through this site. Almost 4039 of the journals are searchable at the article level. You may browse by title, subject, or keyword (click on "search articles" in the column to the left).

Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
For professional educators and students in the field of education with resources covering multiple levels from preschool to college
- More than 1,100 full-text periodicals covering a variety of disciplines
- 200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education
- Resources on educational specialties and issues related to administration, funding and policies
Grove Music Online - see Oxford Music Online
IPA Source This link opens in a new window
Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with nearly 7500 texts including 1311 opera-aria texts!
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Arts & Science Collections I - XV and Life Sciences Collections are available for your research needs.
Library Music Source - CD SheetMusic™ Online This link opens in a new window
Available only on campusl. Click ‘Find Music’ to start your search. LibraryMusicSource offers an expansive selection of music resources for musicians, students, teachers and music lovers around the world. This comprehensive collection of digital sheet music includes obscure and hard-to-find pieces along with all the beloved classics. In addition to this vast catalog includes an extensive range of vocal solos, opera scores, orchestral parts and so much more! Home page.
Orchestral Music Online This link opens in a new window
Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists throughout the world. This new online version, based on the critically acclaimed fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook (2005, Scarecrow Press), provides greater and easier access to more information on composers and works. Orchestral Music Online provides: • Access to information on more than 7,000 works by nearly 1,000 composers • Quick search by composer, title, or keyword • Browsing by composer • Advanced search by duration, instrumentation, chorus type, and soloists • Ability to cut and paste data into rehearsal schedules and other documents to save time and to eliminate transcription errors • Monthly updates with new composers, new works, additional information, and corrections • More than 1,000 changes since publication of the 4th print edition • Links from individual works to music publishers and other sources. - Publisher

Music Innovators - A Biographical Encyclopedia
Keeping in mind the long history of music and its powerful effect on the human social and cultural psyche, this brand-new volume in the Innovators series profiles the most innovative and important individuals in music history. Each of these extended biographies offers concise and informative top matter that includes an introductory summary of the persons significance; birth and death dates and places; and specialty fields. Biographies represent a strong, global, cross-gender focus, and each biography offers a sidebar focusing on the group(s)/achievement(s) for which the subject is best known. Innovators in Music spans three large volumes, examining over 350 individuals and personalities who had an influential impact on the music industry, including: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Ani DiFranco, Peter Gabriel, Arlo Guthrie, Janis Joplin, Patti LaBelle, John Lennon, Annie Lennox, Little Richard, Nicki Minaj, Willie Nelson, Itzhak Perlman, Lou Reed, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Kanye West, Hank Williams, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and many more.
The Orchestra: A User’s Manual
Andrew Hugill’s mobile-friendly version of The Orchestra: A User’s Manual is a research project into instrumental techniques, the history and repertoire of the orchestra and, most importantly, into the minds and attitudes of musicians. The research takes the form of structured and unstructured interviews, instrumental and orchestral recordings, historical discussion and musical analysis. It has a specific relevance to composers, orchestrators, and music students. Of particular interest to composition students is the information on orchestration by section, orchestration by instrument, and links to open a printer-friendly page giving all the ranges and transpositions of the standard orchestral instruments.
Our (American) History Through Music
Working Americans 1880-2011: Volume XII: Our History through Music examines America’s history through music, from the Civil War to the present time. Profiles range from professional musicians and singers, composers, record executives and talent agents, theater performers, composers, instrument salesmen, radio personalities, record producers, along with the musical hobbyist, to offer a thought-provoking and interesting look at how music helped shape this country.

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
8 concurrent users are allowed on this database. From the search box, researchers will access integrated data from the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2e, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz 2e, The Grove Dictionary of American Music 2e, and The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments 2e, as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations. Grove Music Online also includes access to The Oxford Companion to Music (2011), The Oxford Dictionary of Music 2e (revised 2006), and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4e. Grove Music Online includes more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world with sophisticated search and browse capabilities, and audio musical examples.

VRME
Visions of Research in Music Education is a fully refereed critical journal appearing exclusively on the Internet.

IMSLP

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

"Welcome to the portal page of the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)! We at the IMSLP believe that music should be something that is easily accessible for everyone. For this purpose we have created a music library to provide music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access, with several other projects in planning. IMSLP is also entirely collaborative, and all contributions are greatly welcome." Home page