Music Research Guide

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
You can use library electronic resources from any computer on or off campus. See a complete listing of electronic resources by name, provider, or subject. Databases covering music are listed below.

MUSIC SPECIFIC DATABASES

• African American Music Reference  - essays and images covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression
• Choral Public Domain Library – Find and download free scores, texts, translations, and information about composers. This site specializes in choral music.
• Classical Music Library – streaming classical music
• Classical Music Reference Library - authoritative reference titles covering Western classical music: Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music
• Classical Scores Library - classical music scores and manuscripts online
• Fine Arts and Music Collection (Gale/Infotrac) - search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals covering the fine arts such as drama, music, art history and filmmaking.
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online  - essays, images, and audio covering music research of all the world’s peoples
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library – Free public domain sheet music library
• Music Online: Reference  - cross search African American Music Reference, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and Classical Scores Library
• Oxford Reference Online: Music – Find facts, definitions, works lists, and more from Oxford reference titles.
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OTHER DATABASES COVERING MUSIC

• Academic OneFile (Gale/Infotrac) – scholarly database containing journals, podcasts, and transcripts
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) – scholarly database containing peer–reviewed journals
• Biography in Context (Gale/Infotrac) – biographies, related full–text articles from periodicals, as well as images and links to web sites
• Lexis–Nexis Academic – news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Also covers music journals.
• MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) – bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations with links to many full text articles. Also covers music journals.
• Religious and Theological Abstracts – indexes religion and theology, including religious music.

More electronic resources are available through the Boston Public Library. However, you must first take a minute to sign up for a BPL eCard.

• Boston Public Library Music Resources

JOURNALS

• Gordon's Periodical List is a complete list of all journals available through Jenks Library (full text in databases, online, and print).
• • You can search for a journal title in PeriodicalList.
  • You can also see subjects under the category of music in Periodical List. Click on a subject to view the journals available.
• Print journals are located in the periodicals area on the 4th floor of Jenks. Please note that journals are arranged alphabetically by title, not by subject area.

 BOOKS, DVDs, VIDEOS, CDs, SCORES

• Search the online catalog to find materials on topics in music.
• If you want to browse the shelves, some related call numbers are:

M	Music
ML	Literature of Music
MT	Music Instruction & Study

• Location Guide

WEB SITES

• Choral Public Domain Library – Contains scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
• Digital Scores Collection – Scanned images of rare and unique musical scores
• Eastman School of Music – Sibley Music Library – Musical Scores – Scores in the public domain
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library – Free public domain sheet music library
• Mutopia – Public-domain music scores in several formats; includes some audio.
• National Jukebox - historical sound recordings from the collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

Recommenda Website – Do you know of a good music Web site to add to our list?

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