Music

Largely peer-reviewed resources on music scholarship. Also includes content in foreign languages, as well as obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, news items, and more.

This is a very detailed reference database on Music that focuses on composers, periods, pieces, and notable people in music. Contains very detailed bibliographies of resources retailed to the entries.

Oxford Handbooks Online in Music form a network of reference articles on current scholarship in all areas of music research including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, pedagogy, dance, and technology.

This is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals extensively in the humanities (including music) and social sciences.

Articles, essays and book chapters mined from internationally selected publications in drama, dance, media, mime, mixed entertainment, storytelling, music-drama, and puppetry.

Dissertations are good resources for music research because they often focus very intensely on a specific piece, composer, or musician.

Provides detailed citations and abstracts for the top scholarly periodicals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers both domestic and international journals, open access resources, books, patents, proceedings, and Web sites. Indexes a number of Music-focused databases.

Another film database with useful music content is Kanopy, which has wonderful content on the Arts, including dance, music, and performing arts. The fine arts films hosted in this database feature filmed performances of plays, musicals, operas, and symphonies, documentaries on music history and performance, and Great Courses on a wide variety of subjects in fine arts.

Now with an updated interface! NAXOS Music Library is a vast online classical music library, offering streaming access to tens of thousands of CDs. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs plus the complete catalogs or selected titles from over 378 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Classic pop and rock music as well as Chinese orchestral music are also represented.

Contains over 51,000 titles and 1.3 million printable pages of the most important scores in classical music, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. More than 4,600 composers are included, from traditionally studied composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky to contemporary artists including Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell Davies, and John Tavener.

The database includes over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present. Through an alliance with The Bridgeman Art Library, the database offers access to over 130,000 searchable images.

This is the largest full-text art research database covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.