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Music
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American Song from
Alexander Street Press
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American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music: genres including country, slave spirituals, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. Collection contains over 3,000 albums totaling more than 57,000 recordings. |
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Music recordings. |
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Recording dates are from 1911 to 2008. |
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index from
Institute of Scientific Information
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Archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, radio, television, film, religion, and theater. |
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Some linked full text articles. |
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1975 to present |
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Classical Music Library from
Alexander Street Press
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Includes over 50,000 licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. Choral works, symphonies, operas, & the avant-garde. Browse by album, composer, ensemble, genre, instruments, labels, recording date and more. |
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Audio recordings. Full text supplementary information. |
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Medieval to contemporary. |
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Contemporary World Music from
Alexander Street Press
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Over 23,000 tracks delivering contemporary genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, ska, etc. |
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Music recordings. |
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International. |
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Dissertations & Theses from
ProQuest
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Citations for dissertations & theses from 1861 to the present. Titles published since 1997 are available for download in PDF format. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include abstracts. |
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Many full text dissertations. |
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1861 to present |
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DRAM from
Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc.
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American music recordings by New World Records and other independent labels. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, and electronic music. |
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CD-quality music Recordings, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. |
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1975 to present |
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music from
Oxford University Press
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Covers all genres of popular music, trends, styles, record labels, venues, music festivals, and biographies including discographies. The online version of the 10-volume The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition. |
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Full-text online encyclopedia. |
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All genres and periods from 1900 to the present day. |
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Essay & General Literature Index Retrospective from
HW Wilson
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Indexes more than 249,000 essays in literature and humanities related journals and book chapters. Items indexed are limited to English language publications from the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. |
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Citations to journals and books. |
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1900 - 1984. |
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective from
HW Wilson
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Indexes articles from English-language periodicals from a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Includes content from H.W. Wilson’s International Index in print. |
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Citations to journals. |
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1907-1984 |
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Index to Printed Music from
Ebsco
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Over 307,000 index records of individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. Searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation and/or number of instruments. |
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Citations to musical works. |
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Ancient Greek times to present. |
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Infotrac Fine Arts and Music Collection from
Thomson Gale
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Different types of art & expression. Includes coverage of the arts from music and music theory to drama and the performing arts. Subset of Academic OneFile. |
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Many full text articles and book reviews. |
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Dates vary. Some journals, 1980 - present. |
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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text from
ProQuest
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All aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. Indexes both scholarly and popular music journals. |
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Many full text articles. |
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Over 530,000 entries, the majority of which index the most recent eight years of publication. More than 200,000 entries in IIMP are from the backfile (up to 1995) & much of this coverage begins with the first issue of the journal run, some start as early as 1874. Some complete journal runs are included, which cover the first published issue right up to the present. |
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International Medieval Bibliography from
Brepols Publishers N.V.
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European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500) consisting of 300,000 records for articles, review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies. |
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Citations to articles. |
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1967 to present. |
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) from
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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A virtual library containing public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. |
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Scores |
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From ancient to modern. |
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JSTOR from
JSTOR
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Multi-Subject. |
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Full text articles. |
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First volume until fairly recent. Usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal. |
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Oxford Music Online from
Oxford University Press
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Online equivalent of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), & The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, (2002). Includes access to the Oxford Companion to Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. |
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Full text. Audio files. |
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Dates vary. |
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To play back musical examples, a small software plug-in called Scorch is required. Scorch is available as a free download. The Sibelius enabled examples currently available on Oxford Music Online are listed in the Sibelius Guide. |
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Project Muse (Premier) from
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Includes African Studies, Asian Studies, Economics, Education, Film, Theater, Performing Arts, History, Judaic Studies, Language, Latin American Studies, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Politics & Policy Studies, Religion, and Women's Studies. |
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Full text. |
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Dates vary. |
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RILM from
OCLC
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Music resources in approximately 202 languages. International. |
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Some linked full text articles & reviews.. Citations to audio visual material, books, & dissertations. |
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1969 to present |
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RISM Series A/II : Music Manuscripts after 1600 from
Ebsco
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An international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. RISM is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600 containing over 620,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries . |
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Annotated index and guide to music manuscripts. |
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1600-1800. |
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