Music: Research Databases

Multi-disciplinary full-text database that offers indexing and abstracts for journals monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back to 1887.

An online collection for the study of classical music in video format that contains classical music performances and master classes captured on video. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with master classes and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

Offers more than 10,000 classical music recordings covering the Baroque, Classical, and Romance periods.

Full-text coverage for many dissertations and theses after 1997 plus online abstracts since July 1980. Includes citations for over 2 million dissertations and theses in all subject areas from around the world, including doctoral dissertations from 1861-present, and masters theses from 1988 to the present. Also provides twenty-four page previews, where available.

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals, and includes full text for more than 81 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers

Full-text version of 29-volume print dictionary with musical examples, family histories, important musical cities, and performing societies.

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

Supporting comprehensive literature reviews, this resource combines cross-searchable, seminal bibliographies in music and performing arts, with full-text from hundreds of journals. Both source bibliographies, International Index to Music periodicals and International Index to Performing Arts, take a global approach to their inclusion criteria. Topics range from musicology to the blues, and from theatre to broadcast arts. With approximately two million records, this resource is continuously updated to reflect news scholarship.

Coverage: 1864 - current

Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles.

This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

Coverage: 1874 - current

Offers a comprehensive online classical music library, with streaming access to more than 120,000 CDs of both the standard and rare repertoire in all genres.

Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz music available online. It offers over 248,366 tracks of jazz from more than 23,081 albums. Over 12,000* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises the catalogues of 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz, Warner Jazz and over 520 other labels. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office.

Complete catalogues or selected recordings of over 940 labels such as BIS, Capriccio, Chandos, CPO, CSO Resound, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, Dynamic, Finlandia, Grand Piano, Hänssler Classic, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton, LSO Live, Marco Polo, Naïve, Naxos, New York Philharmonic, Nimbus, Nonesuch, Ondine, Orfeo, PentaTone, RCA Records, Sony Classical, Supraphon, Teldec, Universal Classics, Vanguard Classics, Warner Classics, Warner Classics - Parlophone (former EMI Classics) and many more.

Wide range of standard and specialist repertoire

Hundreds of albums added each month

Music notes, cover artwork, tracklist, instrumentation and publisher information

Libretti of over 65 and synopses of close to 1000 operas

More than 40,000 composer and artist biographies

Spanning over 150,000 works and growing every day, find works from different combinations of periods, countries, composers, publishers, and instrumentations, just to name a few.

Mostly humanities and social sciences journal issues available online from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Indexes classical music, pop, folk, and jazz, as well as interdisciplinary studies on music with selected full-text. Abstracts and citations are drawn from articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, and much more.